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Smart toilet checks your health by analysing your wees and poos

Aleks Krotoski What happens to your data when you die © Getty Images

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Soy protein 'scaffold' gives cultured meat 'taste, aroma and texture of real meat' © Getty Images

Soy protein ‘scaffold’ gives cultured meat ‘taste, aroma and texture of real meat’

'World-first' socially assistive robot under development in Scotland © Heriot-Watt University/PA

‘World-first’ socially assistive robot under development in Scotland

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Big tech and coronavirus: How Google and Facebook could take on the pandemic © Getty Images

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5G and the Huawei controversy: is it about more than just security? © Getty Images

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Out of this world: Recreating space on Earth © Neil Scheibelhut/HI-SEAS/University of Hawaii

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20 new technology trends we will see in the 2020s © Getty Images

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Aleks Krotoski: What happens to your data when you die? (transcript)

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