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The sweet sound of synthetic speech

After Alex experienced a serious deterioration in his sight, he came to rely on artificial voices to help him with everyday tasks. Find out how synthetic speech came to be developed.

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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life

Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.

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Dress and the magic of touch

Fashion, of course, is largely about appearance, but the feeling of clothes on your skin is a complex sensory experience. Shahidha Bari contemplates the human connections in the business of creating and wearing clothes.

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Surviving fatness

It took time for LMM to discover that being fat and poor are mutually exclusive. Here she describes resisting fatphobia by being visible and leaning in to the stereotype.

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  • Computer generated fractal pattern
  • Computer simulated pyramidal neurons
  • Old osteoporotic bone, computer-coloured SEM
  • 3D modelling of proteins on computer
  • 3D modelling of proteins on computer
  • SEM section through kidney tubule, computer-coloured red.
  • SEM section through kidney tubule, computer-coloured red.
  • SEM section through kidney tubule, computer-coloured red.
  • A woman working at a computer in an office-block with pot-plants around her. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Operating theatre reception: one of the assistants sitting at a computer, with a chart of operations behind. Drawing by Virginia Powell, 1995.
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