BBC Technology News
The latest stories from the Technology section of the BBC News web site.
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Dark web drug site hit by hacker
A mysterious hacking attack knocked notorious 'underground' website famed for illegal activity offline for two days.
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World's smallest flying robot built
Scientists design a flying robot the size of a fly that is able to perform the agile manoeuvres of the insect that inspired its design.
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City turns to lasers for fast trades
Stock exchanges around the world are finding new technologies to help make trades milliseconds faster.
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Dutch police may get hacking powers
The Dutch government has announced plans to give police much greater powers to fight cybercrime including the right to hack computers abroad.
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AUDIO: 'Grey area for social media'
Stephen Balkam of the Family Online Safety Institute (Fosi) discusses the difficulties social media organisations face in moderating content
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Bitcoins illegally mined on network
An employee of US games network ESEA has been caught using the network to mine Bitcoins.
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Facebook U-turn over beheading clips
Facebook changes its earlier stance on videos of people being decapitated which had been spread on its site, now saying it will remove them.
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Ukraine 'worst abuser of patents'
The US names Ukraine as the country with the worst record on protecting intellectual property and calls on its government to reverse the situation.
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Scientists make 'bug-eye' camera
A digital camera that functions like an insect's compound eye is developed by US scientists.
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Spyware 'hiding' under Firefox brand
The Mozilla Foundation has accused the makers of Finfisher surveillance software of falsely using the Firefox name
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US scientists develop smart paper
US scientists have developed RFID-enabled paper that could be used to create banknotes that are easy to authenticate.
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Online universities target teachers
Online universities, known as Moocs, are targeting teacher training, with the announcement of partnerships with schools of education.
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Nevada opens first online poker site
Nevada has become the first US state to allow residents to play poker online for money.
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Atoms star in world's smallest movie
IBM scientists use a few dozen atoms as stars in their film A Boy and his Atom, which has garnered the title of world's smallest movie.
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Fifty Shades boosts UK book sales
The UK's Publishers Association reveals that spending on digital books rose by 66% in 2012.
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Apple taps markets for record $17bn
Apple raises $17bn (£10.9bn) via a bond sale, the biggest ever by a non-banking company, to help fund its plan for extra payouts to shareholders.
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Mobile phone data redraws bus routes
A competition which released billions of mobile call records in Africa has been used by IBM to redraw bus routes in Ivory Coast.
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