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Digital & Computing
Why would you want your own web domain?
New services are making it easier to have your own home, under its own address, on the internet. But why would you want to do that? Tony Hirst explains.
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History & The Arts
Virtual murder: Just a game?
Can playing violent video games be perceived as a bad thing even if the game player does not show aggressive behaviour in reality?
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Digital & Computing
My digital life
Everything is becoming digital - what does this mean for your life?
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Digital & Computing
Coding and Algorithms
Ever wanted to code your very own programme? What is Python? Do algorithms boggle you? Look no further!
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Digital & Computing
Digital data
What is digital data? Should we be interested in information security and what are the laws for the internet age?
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Digital & Computing
The Digital World
How has the digital world changed?
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Digital & Computing
Make it Digital
To celebrate the BBC's Make It Digital season, which includes three co-productions with The Open University, we have collated together a wide array of digital delights for you to get stuck into!
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Digital & Computing
Telegram brief history. Stop
What can the history of the telegram tell us about our own hopes and fears of modern technologies?
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Digital & Computing
Password checker
How solid is your password? Use our password checker to test how strong yours is.
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Digital & Computing
Secret or sharing? Play our Privacy Game
What information are you happy to share - and what will you keep to yourself? Our privacy game gives you the chance to gamble with data - safely...
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Digital & Computing
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Do you need to change the way you think when faced with a complex situation? This free course, Managing complexity: A systems approach introduction, examines how systemic thinking and practice enables you to cope with the connections between things, events and ideas. By taking a broader perspective complexity becomes manageable and it is easier...
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Digital & Computing
Artificial intelligence
In 2005, we asked researchers whether computers could think in a human fashion. Here's what they thought then...