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If women had played more of a role in building the internet as it is today, would it have looked any different? (Credit: Jonathan Knowles/Getty Images)

How would women change the internet?

By Sandy Ong

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The nation where your face is recorded

By Jessica Mudditt

There's mounting concern that misogyny towards AI voice assistants might spill over to affect real humans in the metaverse (Credit: Alamy)

Is your voice assistant sexist?

By Chris Baraniuk

Glowee grows the marine bacterium Aliivibrio fischeri in salt water and a mix of nutrients – the bacteria glow when they are given oxygen (Credit: Glowee)

The French town where lights are alive

By Peter Yeung

Although we can experience most things through our television sets, smell remains elusive (Credit: Ferrantraite/Getty Images)

The people who want to televise smell

By Mark Ellwood

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How China is changing social media

By Chris Stokel-Walker

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How tech could transform ageing

By Frank Swain

The durian fruit, famous for its repugnant odour, could provide the material to make a new generation of supercapacitors (Credit: Alamy)

How a stinky fruit can power your phone

By Celia Jones

Russian radio mast (Credit: iStock)

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The Soviet station no one can decode

By Zaria Gorvett

Although not always successful, online sleuths can play an important role in helping to track down missing persons (Credit: Alamy)

The people solving mysteries from home

By Frank Swain

For further clarity, the dots here are annotated. So what does the shape mean? (Credit: Electronic Frontier Foundation/CC BY 3.0)

Lockdown Longreads

Why printers add secret tracking dots

By Chris Baraniuk

Some public health experts are concerned about how new technology in our homes can be used for domestic abuse (Credit: Getty Images)

Alexa, is my partner spying on me?

By Alex Riley

High quality CDs can last for up to 100 years but they have largely been replaced by digital formats that can be streamed over the internet (Credit: Getty Images)

Why we might want to go back to CDs

By Sharon George and Deirdre McKay

An energy-saving bulb production line at a lighting factory in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province (Credit: Getty Images)

Deep Civilisation

A very, very long view of technology

By Tom Chatfield

The Zenith Space Command used ultrasound - tiny hammers generated a frequency when they hit aluminium bars inside the remote (Credit: Alamy)

The surprising origins of the TV remote

By Stephen Dowling

Light Phone (Credit: Light)

The new phones that aren't so smart

By Peter Rubinstein