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Every week Iain Simons gives you something to while away the hours. This week it's Powder Game. Enjoy responsibly and don't let the management catch you

In scitech

Naturally Firefox...

  • By Iain Simons
  • 01 September

A way of joining up different uses of the web so when you want to invite someone out to dinner, say, a browser finds a restaurant, finds a review and then emails it all over with a map. Iain Simons reports

Fantastical contraptions

  • By Iain Simons
  • 29 August

Newstatesman.com picks out another diverting desktop distraction to ease you into the weekend

Artificial warfare

  • By Phil Chamberlain
  • 28 August

Robots take over a mock-German town on Salisbury Plain

Another way to fight Big Brother

  • By Becky Hogge
  • 28 August

Sousveillance is turning the lens - and the tables - on the watchers

Lost in maps

  • By Iain Simons
  • 21 August

Newstatesman.com picks out another desktop distraction to help you waste time over the long weekend

It's easy to be image-conscious

  • By Becky Hogge
  • 21 August

Photo-editing software has made albums of perfect pictures a pushover

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Pioneer spirits

A compendium of hacker anecdotes recalls a more innocent age,

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