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Cockpits (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 2 TWEETS
Put yourself in control of five of the world's most complex vehicles. Just don't touch the wrong button
'Fake' World Press Photo isn't fake, is lesson in need for forensic restraint (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 44 TWEETS
Analysis of the controversial, touched-up winner of this year's World Press Photo of the Year Award has shown that it isn't a composite of other images, but the debate about "touching-up" photojournalism continues
www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/16/photo-faking-controversy
First passenger plane drone takes flight in British airspace (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 2 TWEETS
A British Aerospace Jetstream -- which, despite the name, is actually a dual-propeller craft -- flew an 800km route from Warton in Lancashire to Inverness, controlled the whole way by an operator at a remote location
www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/15/uk-drone?goback=.gde_941207_member_241272718
Dulling the sparkle: the diamond market's transparency challenge (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 1 TWEETS
With demand for diamonds predicted to outpace supply, some investors are looking to capitalise on this trend through the creation of diamond-backed investment funds. But a lack of transparency and high barriers to market entry are hindering progress
www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/30/diamond-trade?buffer_share=d1cbe
Star Trek crew to Hangout with ISS astronauts (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 1 TWEETS
The crew of the SS Enterprise and the astronauts aboard the International Space Station will be meeting up via Google Hangouts to chat about how work on the ISS translates sci-fi concepts into reality
www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/16/nasa-star-trek-google-hangout
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/17/australia-internet-block www.wired.co.uk 1 TWEETS
www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/17/australia-internet-block
Printable A3-sized solar cells new milestone in green energy (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 2 TWEETS
Imagine a future where solar panels speed off the presses, like newspaper. Australian scientists have brought us one step closer to that reality
www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/17/a3-printed-solar-cells
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/18/tumblr-yahoo-talks www.wired.co.uk 2 TWEETS
App turns drawings into music, emphasises playful aspect of coding (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 66 TWEETS
Electronic engineers at Queen Mary, University of London have developed an app called Tunetrace that converts drawings into music following a few simple rules
Holo-baby: Japanese company prints hologram of your unborn foetus (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 27 TWEETS
A Japanese company, Pioneer, has unveiled a service that creates 3D holograms of babies in the womb
First passenger plane drone takes flight in British airspace (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 26 TWEETS
A British Aerospace Jetstream -- which, despite the name, is actually a dual-propeller craft -- flew an 800km route from Warton in Lancashire to Inverness, controlled the whole way by an operator at a remote location
Study: cheap electromagnetic headset remotely diagnoses brain trauma (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 17 TWEETS
A headset that sends and receives electromagnetic signals has been used to accurately identify oedemas and haematomas in brain trauma patients, possibly paving the way for fast and cheap diagnosis in rural areas
www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/15/remote-brain-trauma-detection
Hate Map plots homophobia and racism across the US (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 2 TWEETS
A team of geographers from Humboldt State University has developed a map of the United States which plots the intensity of discriminatory speech in social media, including racism, homophobia and ableism
www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/14/hate-map/viewgallery/304101
Pirate Bay co-founder sets sail for European Parliament (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 20 TWEETS
Peter Sunde -- co-founder of The Pirate Bay -- will run in the 2014 European Parliament elections as a candidate for the Finnish Pirate Party
www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/15/peter-sunde-european-parliament
A meeting of minds in Cambridge: key figures from Silicon Fen's tech economy (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 1 TWEETS
Wired gathered key figures from Silicon Fen's tech economy for an historic group portrait
Five uses for Franken-fauna (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 1 TWEETS
Enter a world where scientists upgrade the animal kingdom in labs
www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/04/start/five-uses-for-franken-fauna
Follow the money: AngelList has blown open early-stage investments (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 1 TWEETS
There used to be a wall of secrecy around early-stage 'angel' investing. And then along came AngelList to blow the sector wide open
www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/05/features/follow-the-money
Human stem cells successfully cloned for the first time (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 2 TWEETS
It's the first key step in developing medical procedures for replacing dying or injured cells with new ones to stave off disease and age
MP to Google: 'you do do evil' when it comes to tax (Wired UK) www.wired.co.uk 1 TWEETS
Google does 'evil' says Chair of Public Accounts Committee, as Amazon faces pressure over tax
