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Money & Business
Why is the iPhone X a thousand-dollar gamble?
As it launches a new model, Apple is hoping that its brand will persuade enough people to dig deep into their pockets. Loizos Heracleous explores Apple's thinking.
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Languages
Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
An introduction to using a corpus to get answers in linguistics.
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Languages
Using digital tools to save languages
Subhashish Panigrahi explains what he learned while documenting the language of his own community.
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Science, Maths & Technology
How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates
In new research which studies the social relationships of organized crime in Chicago in the 1920s, Chris M. Smith and Andrew V. Papachristos were able to take advantage ofthe availability of thousands of notes and documents on Al Capone’s criminal network. By applying network analysis to the criminal relationships in Capone’s gangs they find ...
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Science, Maths & Technology
What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
The race to contactless transactions and virtual currency puts those with least at the most risk, warns Dana Kornberg
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Languages
What can emoji teach us about human civilization?
Is emoji another example of the dumbing-down of our language and culture or is there a more educational purpose to the little pictures used to communicate?
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Society, Politics & Law
Thoroughly Modern Millennials
How do Millennials want to learn? Does their use of new technologies require a more contemporary educational system?
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Digital & Computing
Natural intelligence
One goal of artificial intelligence is to build machines that can operate in the real world, with all its noise and uncertainty. Much of what we want machines to do (see, recognise, navigate, move, coordinate) is already done very well by simple creatures. In this free course, Natural intelligence, we look at how such creatures achieve these ...
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Digital & Computing
OpenMinds-Talk: Virtual Worlds for real experiences
Join us at The Open University, in the Berrill Theatre and online as we host an enlightening talk exploring virtual worlds.
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Digital & Computing
After Manchester: The strength of the city
Even as it coped with the shock, Manchester and its people displayed their strength of character. Caroline Cheetham tells how a Northern city rallied in the streets, and on social media.
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Digital & Computing
If Wannacry caused so much disruption, how come it raised so little money?
Hundreds of thousands of computers locked across the globe - but Wannacry raised less than other ransomware attacks. Bill Buchanan explains why.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media
Learn psychological self-defence and start resisting the dark arts of political communication, in Volker Patent’s second article on Brexit and the General Election