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Across Europe, fast-growing cities and city regions are increasingly confronted with urban violence from extremists

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Facebook has had a bad few weeks. The social media giant had to apologise for failing to

Huge quantities of networked sensors have appeared in cities across the world in recent years.

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Companies are starting to apply artificial intelligence across global supply chain management to improve efficiency, speed and

Physical actions in the real world and data processing in the digital world are fusing

I have heard a lot of talk in the last few years about open government

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