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The Surprising Origins of the Word ‘Android’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Where does the word ‘android’ come from, and what does it mean? And what does the origin of the word ‘android’ have to do with apes? And how did the word come to be used for an operating system? Let’s take a closer look at the curious etymology of…
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