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Piquet Jr wins Formula E title

28-06-2015 18:50 via bbc.co.uk

Nelson Piquet Jr wins the first Formula E Championship after a thrilling end to the season at London's Battersea Park.

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Google's self-driving cars are accident-prone – but it may not be their fault

28-06-2015 16:58

Human drivers may be the real cause of the vehicles’ recent fender benders: the cars keep getting rear-ended, perhaps because they distract usGoogle’s self-driving cars are having a rough time on the streets of Mountain View, California. But a look at the evidence suggests it’s human error and not robots that are to blame.In recent months, Google’s fleet of experimental self-driving cars have suffered five minor accidents while driving 200,000 miles around this sleepy Silicon Valley subu

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And the Pulitzer goes to… a computer

28-06-2015 11:30

Computer-generated copy is already used in sports and business reporting – will machines soon master great storytelling?Nobody wants to confront the idea of their own obsolescence. Still, sitting across a desk from Kris Hammond, in his office overlooking the lake shore in Chicago, it is hard not to at least have a sense of the inevitable. Hammond is the co-founder and chief scientist of a company called Narrative Science, which, among other things, has worked out a way of teaching machines how

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The best small cars of 2015: reviews | Martin Love

28-06-2015 07:00

Half the size, twice as smart… Here’s the pick of today’s hottest superminisThere has never been a better time to buy a small car. The current crop of compact, ingenious, well-designed and super-economic vehicles are the best there has ever been. Manufacturers know that emerging electric and hybrid technology will dramatically change the cars we drive in the future, but this Class of 2015 proves that, until then, the dinky car can be frisky, frugal and a lot of fun to drive. Continue readi

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