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Top 5 News stories: 04/09/2015

Every day on our social media feeds (Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus) we share a variety of stories about technology and the future. These were the five stories that proved most popular with likes, retweets, shares and comments this week.

BBC News Channel: CES — Why Wearable Tech Will Be A Success

I’m pretty confident in the future of wearable technology — at least the right wearable technology. I’ll be expanding on this on the Beeb later today, but here’s my recipe for what will be successful.

Why Twitter is Like a Teenage Football Prodigy

Last night I was at the Beeb, commenting on the Twitter IPO. It was one of those — fortunately rare — occasions where words failed me and I was not my usual eloquent self. Only when I got home did I work out what I should have said.

The Future with Darryl Morris: ‘Consumerisation’ of Technology

Each week on Darryl Morris’s recent run of shows on BBC Radio Manchester we’ve been doing three things:

• Reviewing some gadgets
• Explaining a techie term

Don’t Kill the Messenger: Why BBM isn’t to Blame for the Riots

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Social Media and The Hive Mind

Science fiction is full of instances of the ‘hive mind’, a collective consciousness shared across small groups or even entire species of beings. The narrative varies: sometimes they act as one individual through many bodies, and sometimes they have distinct personalities but…