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"Music has the ability to move us and to transform our mood, depending on the individual and the context in which it is listened." Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Music still sounds better with you

"Communicating and connecting with others through face-to-face discussion is valuable because it is not something that can be edited, paused or replayed."

Has technology killed our ability to talk face-to-face?

VAR says no

How technology like VAR is changing sport

All of the lights: "it seems that people aren't asking whether or not social network use actually makes us any happier - and that is the point of socialising, isn't it?"

Why social media is depressing the rich

Social Media / 17 Oct

Facing the cameras: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg in Dublin in 2019

Can we trust Facebook to behave responsibly with our privacy?

Privacy / 12 Sep

Players at the 2019 Fortnite World Cup in New York. Photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

More than a game: the unstoppable growth of esports

Esports / 11 Sep

TV show the Big Bang Theory devoted an episode to Bitcoin in November 2017

Can anyone predict if Bitcoin mania is going to happen again?

Finance / 05 Sep

A self-driving car can deliver you in your pyjamas to your desk and then roll onto some other job

Here's one way a blockchain could deliver a smarter city

Cities / 02 Sep

"To what extent are influencers signalling the existence and nature of sponsored content in social media posts?"

Social media influencers and the issue of full disclosure

Social Media / 23 Aug

'Today's state-of-the-art is simply not powerful and effective enough"

How AI could unlock super-fast broadband speeds

Artificial Intelligence / 22 Aug

The robots are coming - and that may not necessarily be a bad thing. Photo: Getty Images

Why AI is an opportunity rather than a danger

Artificial Intelligence / 01 Aug

Do you have a reservation? The robot check-in at the Henn-na Hotel in Japan

Are you being served? The rise of robots in the services sector

Business / 25 Jul

Can you get 4G on the moon? Apollo 15 commander David R. Scott on the moon in 1971. Photo: NASA

Is your mobile phone powerful enough to get you to the moon?

Moon landing / 18 Jul

"New forms of spirituality might appear to be untethered to established religious traditions, but these beliefs never go away, but simply change form"

The surprising ways spirituality informs how we think about work

Work & careers / 11 Jul

"The same computer model can not only mimic brain activity observed in humans and some animals, but also replicate change-of-mind and error correction behaviour"

Could machines become self-aware?

Artificial Intelligence / 04 Jul

AI research has been mostly focused on imitating human behaviour and playing games like Go

How AI can now do more than just copy what humans do

Artificial Intelligence / 27 Jun

"Cyborgs are perhaps the clearest example of how technology can challenge traditional ideas of what it means to be human"

'Where exactly does the human begin and the machine end?'

Science Fiction / 31 May

"Our attempts to our professional network are most effective when we supplement online activities with face-to-face interactions"

How to use LinkedIn more effectively

Networking / 21 May

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg

How can Facebook fix its live-streaming problem? Spend more money

Facebook / 02 Apr

Russian Doll

How Netflix changed what we watch on our screens

Culture / 22 Mar

"5G signals are less capable of traveling large distances so they require strengthening in the form of increased infrastructure such as booster antennas"

Should we be worried about radiation from 5G networks?

Health / 13 Mar

"Hawking devoted a great deal of time to science outreach, unusual for a scientist at this level"

Stephen Hawking: "a successful scientist never truly dies"

Science / 13 Mar

A Facebook Like: "Pro-Trump bots contributed at least five times more online messages than pro-Clinton ones during the last US general election"

The toxic world of online comments and social media posts

$"Implantable biomaterials are plastics that can be placed into the human body for medicinal or physiological benefit" Photo: Valery Sharifulin\TASS via Getty Images$

Is there such a thing as good plastics?

Plastics / 08 Mar

"One of the most urgent issues to tackle for children's mental health is not scapegoating particular memes but better comprehension and regulation of mainstream addictive games and platforms that are in far more common usage"

Just what is the Momo challenge?

Social Media / 26 Feb

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