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A terminally ill teenager is being preserved in hope of a future cure – what happens next?

The ruling of a High Court judge to allow the body of a 14-year-old girl to be cryogenically preserved is another glance at a potential scientific utopia. Or is it?

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    The Investigatory Powers Bill is likely to become law later this year, but barely anyone is resisting the dystopian surveillance it will bring.

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    24 October
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    Advances in artifical intelligence are at risk of being held back by human ignorance. 

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    The government's reluctance to implement electronic voting will affect our future, and in – the case of Brexit – may have already dramatically affected our past. 

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    14 October
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    We look behind sensationalist headlines to figure out whether Great British Jobs™ are being robbed by robots or taken over by immigrants.

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