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This latest instalment in our series looking at the impact of digital technologies on the art world focuses on the ways artists are taking the torrent of big data being produced and transforming it into works of art.

Video conference calls have become a regular occurrence in offices, but squeezing everybody into frame can be a challenge. To make sure everyone in a tight space can be seen and heard, Logitech has announced MeetUp, a 4K webcam with a wide-angle lens and microphones tuned for small-space acoustics.

​​When someone is suspected of suffering from sleep apnea, they're often sent for a sleep study. This involves their spending the night at a clinic, with numerous electrodes hard-wired to their head. By contrast, the new SomnaPatch is quite simple, and almost as accurate as a sleep study.

In August 1977, the Ohio State University Radio Observatory picked up a radio transmission that was so strong it inspired the astronomer who discovered it to write “Wow!” in the margin of the data printout. Almost 40 years later, researchers have solved the mystery.

​While the latest Samsung Gear VR​ includes a Wii-like motion controller, some of the platform's games require a console-style gamepad. Today accessory maker Nyko announced a partnership with Samsung that's spawning the first official gamepad for the Gear VR.

Ori Systems is finally rolling out its modular, robotic furniture into a handful of apartment buildings across the United States. Currently only available for preorder to property developers, the first 1,200 systems will be installed in luxury apartments over the next twelve months.

​Plants are smarter than we give them credit for. Now, a team from the University of Birmingham has discovered a cluster of cells in seeds that act like a brain to decide when the plant should sprout, in a find that could help improve crop yields.

As part of its globe-spanning ambitions to introduce partial vacuum transportation to the masses,​ Hyperloop One has added another nine potential routes in Europe as a result of the start up's Global Challenge.

Researchers have redesigned the pacemaker, developing a new prototype that is wireless, battery-free and can be implanted directly into a patient's heart. The design offers an innovative new type of pacemaker that promises less complications than current devices.

DARPA’s unmanned aerial systems (UAS) can be fitted for a wide range of missions, but compact UAS can usually only carry one such instrument at a time, and need to land fr a swap over. Now, DARPA and BAE Systems are collaborating on a program to enable smaller UAS to multitask.

The Boeing 737 MAX 9 only took to the skies for the first time in April, weeks after its public unveiling in Renton, Washington, and now the stretched version of the MAX 8 passenger plane is off to the Paris Air Show where a MAX 9 flight test aircraft will take part in an air display.

The promise of a new Focus RS is always enough to get the motoring press all giddy with excitement, let alone one with drift mode and a rabid turbocharged engine. Surely no car could actually live up to that much hype – could it? After a week behind the wheel, we finally have the answer.