'Transformer' robot made at MIT

4 December 2012 Last updated at 08:25 ET It may not look like a character from the Transformer franchise, but a tiny robot made in the US is able to change shape. Built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), it uses magnets to...

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Berners-Lee warns of net threat

4 December 2012 Last updated at 12:28 ET By Leo Kelion Technology reporter Sir Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of the world wide web - is the latest voice to raise concerns about a meeting of communication tech regulators in Dubai. He spoke of...

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Huawei denies US 'threat' claims

4 December 2012 Last updated at 17:04 ET By Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones travelled to China to find out more about the company and...

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Netflix gets Disney film rights

5 December 2012 Last updated at 06:32 ET Netflix users in America will be able to view new Disney films first after their cinema run, the firm has announced. The deal, which begins in 2016, will include new movies from Marvel and Pixar Animations,...

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New EU-US crackdown on child porn

5 December 2012 Last updated at 07:20 ET The EU and US authorities have launched a "global alliance" to combat child sexual abuse online. The launch in Brussels drew in 48 countries pledging to unite their efforts against paedophile networks....

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Record EU fine for TV makers

5 December 2012 Last updated at 07:36 ET The European Commission has imposed a record 1.47bn-euro ($1.92bn; £1.19bn) fine on a number of TV makers for price-fixing. EU regulators fined the firms for fixing prices of TV and computer monitor cathode-ray...

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Nexus and Kindle clinch new deals

5 December 2012 Last updated at 07:59 ET Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle tablets are involved in new deals that highlight how content, rather than tech specs, are helping drive device sales. The UK's Times newspaper is subsidising the...

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Microsoft expands social network

5 December 2012 Last updated at 08:35 ET Microsoft has opened up to the wider public its version of a social network, which allows users to share content in an online gallery similar to Pinterest. Socl - pronounced "social" - allows users to...

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Chancellor announces fibre cities

5 December 2012 Last updated at 09:25 ET Chancellor George Osborne has named a new raft of cities that will benefit from government-funded super-fast fibre networks. In his Autumn Statement he revealed that 12 smaller cities will benefit from...

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Swimming robot reaches Australia

5 December 2012 Last updated at 10:27 ET A self-controlled swimming robot has completed a journey from San Francisco to Australia. The record-breaking 9,000 nautical mile (16,668km) trip took the PacX Wave Glider just over a year to achieve....

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