Babbage | Babbage: August 7th 2013

Lean, chargrilled and grown in a lab

Dutch scientists offer a tasting of the world's first synthetic hamburger, why being sedentary is bad for health and what happens when Xerox machines go rogue

By Economist.com

DUTCH scientists offer a tasting of the world's first synthetic hamburger, why being sedentary is bad for health and what happens when Xerox machines go rogue.

Update, 8th August: In the video, our correspondents refer to "photocopying". Xerox has confirmed that the bug only occurs when the machines are used to scan documents. Our apologies. The firm's official statement, which offers workarounds for the issue, is here.

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