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The granddaughter of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini says criminals have stolen part of his brain and blood to sell on the internet. (Read More)
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It is one of the most watched video ever on YouTube with over 45 million hits. Creator Simon Tofield talks to us about the inspiration behind his quirky cartoon cat. (Read More)
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A grand dinner in a glamorous location, a ceremony presided over by a former star of Strictly Come Dancing and a clutch of winners who are stars in their field. No, it wasn't the BAFTAs but the inaugural iAwards event held last night at the Science Museum, with John Sergeant as master of ceremonies.These awards, which aim t (Read More)
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Emails from BBC readers on Egypt's decision to establish the world's first internet domain name written in Arabic, '.masr' - meaning '.Egypt'. (Read More)
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Microsoft's Bing now relies on Wolfram Alpha to answer some of its users questions. This is not a full integration of Wolfram Alpha into Bing. Instead, Bing only relies on Alpha to answer queries about nutrition. A query for "french fries" will still results in the standard search results page with a list of links, but a ne (Read More)
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Rory Cellan-Jones reports on a new system aimed at making it easier for older people to do key things such as emailing and web browsing on a computer. (Read More)
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What connects Italian vegans, Valerie Singleton, and Linux Mint? Well they're all involved in a firm whose business is bringing computing to the elderly.Whether or not Simplicity Computing succeeds will be a big test of two things - the appetite of older people to get online and the attractiveness of open source software as (Read More)
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Can Europe compete with Silicon Valley when it comes to smart young web start-ups? When so much of the venture capital money is still based in Palo Alto and Mountain View, it's hard to start a business in Shoreditch or Stuttgart which can take on the world. But in the last week I've met two - Huddle and Soundcloud - which s (Read More)