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Robot in park

Technology

DeepMind AI is learning to understand the ‘thoughts’ of others

The firm’s new artificial intelligence has developed a theory of mind, passing an important psychological assessment that most children only develop around age 4

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Playing Atari games

Technology

AI cheats at old Atari games by finding unknown bugs in the code

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Advertising campaign for monkeys uses sex to sell brands

Life

Advertising campaign for monkeys uses sex to sell brands

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Baidu app on smartphone screen

Technology

Baidu can clone your voice after hearing just a minute of audio

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Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the world

Humans

Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the world

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Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

Humans

Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

Features

crowd of people

Life

Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future

Features

artwork

Humans

The tamed ape: were humans the first animal to be domesticated?

Features

An X chromosome from someone with fragile X syndrome

Health

CRISPR has fixed the genetic cause of a learning disability

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Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean

Life

Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean

If a Matabele ant loses a limb in a battle with termites, its nestmates will tend its injuries - a behaviour never before seen in any non-human animal

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Life

Birds 'dream sing' by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep

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Technology

App guesses your emotions to target you with adverts

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Technology

Chinese police use face recognition glasses to catch criminals

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Humans

Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

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