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Rebooting your memory

Drew Turney After millions of years of remembering what matters, is the way memory works changing?

Concerns as UK supermarket 'spies' on customers

Steve Hawkes 8:03am British supermarket chain Tesco installs hi-tech screens that scan faces to detect age and sex for advertisers.

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US military wants to create 'Iron Man suit'

David S. Cloud The US military wants to produce a prototype of a protective "Iron Man suit" packed with the latest communications gear.

This artist's rendering provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013 shows the planet Kepler-78b, foreground, orbiting less than one million miles from its sun. Astrophysicists reported Wednesday in the journal Nature that the exoplanet appears to be made of rock and iron just like Earth. (AP Photo/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, David A. Aguilar)

Space

Planet Kepler-78b is just like Earth, but 2000 degrees hotter

An Earth-sized planet far beyond our Solar System has been found to have a similar mass to our planet, say researchers engaged in the hunt for other habitable worlds.

A woman attends the Stop Watching Us rally in Washington, DC.

Surveillance

Australia's spy network exposed

Philip Dorling Australia's spy agency is using embassies to intercept calls and data in neighbouring countries.

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A passenger check her cell phone before a flight, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, in Boston. The Federal Aviation Administration issued new guidelines Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, under which passengers will be able to use devices to read, work, play games, watch movies and listen to music, from the time they board to the time they leave the plane. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Tech

Australia mulls lifting of electronics restrictions on flights

Kerry Sheridan Airline passengers in the US will soon be allowed to use a range of mobile electronic devices in flight with very few restrictions.

Surveillance

Everyone's dirty little secrets exposed in high-tech neighbourhood watch

Damien Murphy Somewhere between the cyber espionage that outed the US as Big Brother Inc and the phone-hacking scandal that sank Rupert Murdoch's British form of journalism, the real news of the world may be Spies 'R' Us.

Sci-tech

Solar eclipse darkens sky over Africa

4:14am Despite rain and overcast skies residents of southern Gabon got a glimpse of a total eclipse of the sun, a rare phenomenon also visible in eastern Africa.

Security

Finland government's data network hit by severe hacking

Finland's foreign minister said on Thursday foreign intelligence agents had carried out large-scale hacking into government communications, and a Finnish TV station said China and Russia were suspected.

Security

Ex-NSA leaker Edward Snowden gets job reportedly protecting data in Moscow

Carol J. Williams In what might be regarded as having the fox guard the henhouse, a leading Russian website has hired fugitive secrets-leaker Edward Snowden to oversee its data protection.

e-currency

Chip designers see dollar signs in Bitcoin miners

Noel Randewich 7:50am Tucked away in an air conditioned data centre in Silicon Valley is a hodgepodge of black boxes, circuit boards and cooling fans owned by 27-year-old Aaron Jackson-Wilde, a modern-day prospector looking for Bitcoins.

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