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New goal mouth technology is been rolled out for this year’s football World Cup. The idea is to use high speed sensors to tell the referee whether or not the ball has crossed the line. Fresh back from testing the technology in all Brazil’s World Cup venues is Dr Colin Young from Labosport who talks to Gareth Mitchell. Turing Test The University of Reading in England, this week claimed that a Russian ‘chatbot’ programme had passed the Turing Test, i.e it had convinced human judges that it was human and not a machine. But not everyone agrees that the Turing Test has been passed and even less so that this is a significant leap for Artificial Intelligence. Dr Murray Shanahan from Imperial is sceptical. COMPUTEX Taipei 2014 The Taiwanese capital, Taipei, has been hosting the annual COMPUTEX technology gathering. It is one of the biggest such shows in the world, so it is a challenge to boil it all down into one or two coherent ‘themes’. Taipei-based reporter Cindy Sui likes a challenge, so she gave it a go – it’s the Internet of Things. Playable City Clare Reddington from Watershed in Bristol talks about how to make a playable city – how to get a more textured understanding is of public space.