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New website for missing children set up by CEOP Centre

Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre launches website and freephone service for missing kids and their families

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Retailers face jail and fines for ignoring game age ratings

Government to clamp down on people selling inappropriate video games to children

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New website shows public how the brain works and affects our bodies

Brain Facts.org busts myths about how the brain functions, and examines the way it drives thought and behaviour, with blogs, discussions and more

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Computer conservation award launched in memory of Tony Sale

Award set up in memory of leading British computer engineer

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Launch of Raspberry Pi computer generates huge interest

Distributors' websites crash as thousands try to buy a Raspberry Pi

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Kindle cover to help people with dyslexia

New cover has coloured overlays to help people with dyslexia or visual impairments use ebook reader

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Parentport website links with Mumsnet and Netmums

Website to let people report inappropriate online content

This useful planning tool is now on sale from Amazon in the UK

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Bletchley Park to sell four first day commemorative covers for collectors

Covers celebrate Alan Turing's centenary year

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Websites support Wikipedia move during 'blackout Wednesday'

Civil and open rights groups join Wikipedia to highlight problems with US anti-piracy Bills by shutting down their websites for a day

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  • 18/01/2012
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Qualcomm launches medical tricorder competition at CES

Company wants developers to boldly go where no one has gone before

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Gove says "harmful and dull" ICT lessons in Schools will be scrapped

Education minister says children are "bored out of their minds" by the way technology is taught in schools

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Bletchley Park code-breaking block is awarded Grade II listing

Block C at the iconic World War II code-breaking centre gets protection

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MetaCert browser add-on can be set to block pornographic content

New software that doesn't block entire site but can filter out unwanted sexually explicit content

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