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Barbed wire

Internet censorship: making the hidden visible

14 Oct 2016

Despite being founded on ideals of freedom and openness, censorship on the internet is rampant, with more than 60 countries engaging in some form of...

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'Syrian Hero Boy'

The Whistle: verifying digital evidence of human rights violations

12 Oct 2016

Smartphones and social media have made it easy for accidental witnesses “in the wrong place at the wrong time” to capture and share violations and...

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Image from a body-worn camera

Use of body-worn cameras sees complaints against police ‘virtually vanish’, study finds

29 Sep 2016

Year-long study of almost 2,000 officers across UK and US forces shows introduction of wearable cameras led to a 93% drop in complaints made against...

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Sumo Wrestlers Wrestling on the Ring 1

Opinion: As ARM enjoys a Japanese embrace, the lessons it can teach UK tech firms

19 Jul 2016

Peter Williamson (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the sale of Cambridge-based technology firm ARM Holdings to Japan's Softbank for £24...

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Screenshot of footage from a police body-worn camera

Body-worn cameras associated with increased assaults against police, and increase in use-of-force if officers choose when to activate cameras

17 May 2016

Preliminary results from eight UK and US police forces reveal rates of assault against officers are 15% higher when they use body-worn cameras. The...

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Internet domains

Overcrowded Internet domain space is stifling demand, suggesting a future ‘not-com’ boom

01 Mar 2016

New research suggests that a lack of remaining domain names with easy to remember – and consequently valuable – word combinations is restricting...

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Popcorn

That’s entertainment: what – and how – will we be watching in 2020?

18 May 2015

Take unlimited creativity, add multiple platforms, throw in faster and smarter tech and you’ve got the ingredients for the biggest entertainment...

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Silicon city

Quick-change materials break the silicon speed limit for computers

19 Sep 2014

Faster, smaller, greener computers, capable of processing information up to 1,000 times faster than currently available models, could be made...

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Storica allows users to revisit any aspect of their lives in extreme detail, producing digital stories and an array of graphs and data which may help people to find out more about what is influencing their feelings and behaviour.

Dear digital diary…

12 Aug 2013

A powerful life-logging tool which captures and stores memorable moments in people’s lives is being developed by two researchers who argue that it...

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Fryderyk Chopin's manuscript of the Nocturne Op. 62 No. 1

The un-Limited Edition

21 May 2013

Emerging new digital editions at Cambridge are effecting a sea-change in the nature of the scholarly edition, radicalising access to vital source...

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Pitoti engraving, Valcamonica valley

Major motion pictures from our prehistoric past

17 May 2013

Cambridge archaeologists are illuminating some of the oldest graphic art of the past, by applying some of the most advanced graphic technology of the...

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Creativity that counts

14 May 2013

In a digital world, literature, art and music are often the result of collaborative efforts. But who owns what, and can copyright law cope? New...

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