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Oliver Laughland on the people and stories in the media spotlight over the last seven daysThe storyMonkey doWhat's more idiotic than presenting a horde of monkeys with a keyboard and expecting them to reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare, even though it's estimated to take 14bn years? Doing the experiment with millions of virtual apes, removing all restrictive parameters, such as punctuation, then claiming you've made a discovery. That's what US programmer Jesse Anderson and his team have...

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