Luckily no one was injured when one of Google’s self-driving cars this week crashed itself into a bus as it pulled out at a junction. The car was only travelling at 3km/h, after all. The company
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Revolutions are, as a rule, rare and momentous processes. But across the African continent the potential is ripe for a clean energy revolution that upsets and leapfrogs the old fossil-fuel order
I’ve designed a mind experiment. If I had to invest all my savings in a single company, and had to choose either Apple, Google (now Alphabet) or Facebook, which one would it be? I would not be able
Remember those big black disks with holes in the middle that used to be played on “turntables”? They’re not actually ancient history. This past year, worshippers at what novelist Michael Chabon calls “the Church of Vinyl” bought 9,2m records. And though
It’s not your imagination. Involvement by managers and employees in collaborative endeavours has increased by 50% in the past two decades, according to research published in Harvard Business Review. The study found that in many companies, the
Who controls what in the digital world? Apple is currently involved in a court face-off with the FBI, and has refused to produce software that would help investigators to unlock the phone of San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook. The clash
Apple has been ordered to help FBI investigators access data on the phone belonging to San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook. The technical solution proposed by the FBI
True innovation is hard to find, as few things come out of nothing. Take the now ubiquitous selfie, for example. The format may have changed, but the concept of making self-portraits is hundreds if not thousands of years old. The same is true of
The new sport of drone racing sees small but very fast robots fly around a circuit littered with obstacles. Unlike motorsports we are familiar with, the course of a drone race can be three-dimensional, with obstacles they need to fly around, under, over
Most people across the developed world still get most of their news via television – and traditional news brands, produced by journalists, still top the rankings for the most read news on the Internet. But a growing number of people have stopped turning