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There’s no magic fix in sight for the amount of energy gobbled by cryptocurrency miners – but at least the method used is relatively secure.

January is a time when many of us seek to better ourselves. We want to learn a new skill or improve an existing one. A network designed especially for robots, RoboEarth, is being tested in the Netherlands…

Changes to student assessment can help to reduce the potential for academic misconduct.

The influence of private interests in English schools is on the up.

How could a software box have a subjective viewpoint of, and in, the physical world that humans inhabit?

Halls full of 18-year-old freshers running riot? Bragging tales of gap year misadventure? Older students starting a university course can sometimes find it hard to fit in. But a growing number of mature…

Artificial intelligence programmers are burning the midnight oil to make computers better at processing complex problems. Here’s a progress report.

James Dyson’s decision to fund a robotics laboratory at Imperial College London may not lead to the super advanced robot friends of our dreams, but what he has planned could make robotic domestic appliances…

A better understanding of how crowds work is vital as more of the world’s population move to cities.

Robots, and autonomous systems in general, can cause anxiety and uncertainty, particularly as their use in everyday tasks becomes a more immediate possibility. In order to lessen at least some of that…