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Our guide to the key facts about the latest tech
  • Oculus Rift headset

    10 things you need to know about 3D displays

    3D TV hasn’t caught viewers’ imagination yet, but other 3D ideas are taking off, from gaming to advertising to saving lives
  • Old telephone exchange

    10 things you need to know about voice calls

    As how we communicate constantly expands companies are creating new systems for old. (But you could still be talking to a robot)
  • Pingit

    10 things you need to know about e-finance

    From paying with your mobile number to calculating what you earn and how your spare change can be invested. All this and more is out there
  • Biometric Security Trialed At Heathrow

    10 things you need to know about biometrics technology

    From using facial detection to target adverts to spotting an online fraudster, the art of identification is getting ever more sophisticated
  • dictionaries

    10 things you need to know about translation technology

    Understanding a foreign language is getting easier with the range of translation apps for your smartphone and computer
  • Traffic on M25

    10 things you need to know about the future of maps

    Kadhim Shubber: New apps can provide real-time traffic data or help you find a parking space and navigate shopping centres and airports
  • Man's hands on keyboard of laptop computer

    10 things you need to know about e-learning

    Internet-based education offers everything from a free maths lecture to a full course on ancient Roman history. But it has its critics
  • Apple's CarPlay

    Ten things you need to know about the Internet of Things

    Televisions, cars, washing machines, smartphones, smoke alarms, the fridge … everything you can think of is getting connected
  • galaxy zoo

    You too could find a planet: citizen science explained

    From classifying galaxies to mapping deforestation in the Congo, volunteers around the world can get involved in serious science
  • autographer camera

    10 things you need to know about – lifelogging

    New apps for smartphones, fitness trackers and wearable cameras make up your own digital autobiography

  • square-digital-payments

    10 things you need to know about digital wallets

    Google, Apple and Square are vying to take the lead in persuading us to lose our metal and plastic

  • aibotix aibot consumer drone

    From Amazon to kebabs: 10 things you need to know about consumer drones

    Amazon wants to use drones for parcel delivery, but UAVs are making their way into our lives in other ways too

  • Toyota Prius Google driverless car

    Robot cars: 10 things you need to know

    Fed up with all the boring bits of driving: parking, avoiding collisions, slowing down? Do not worry – car makers are on the road to the future

  • 5c iPhones

    iPhone 5S and 5C: 10 things you need to know

    New software, new hardware and new
    colours, what we know so far about the new iPhones

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