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
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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
You don’t have to be a scientist to get excited about breakthroughs in theoretical physics. Discoveries such as gravitational waves and the Higgs boson can inspire wonder at the complex beauty of the universe no matter how little you really understand them
The US economy added 2,7m jobs in 2015, capping the best two-year stretch of employment growth since the late 1990s, pushing the unemployment rate down to 5%. But to listen to the doomsayers, it’s just a matter of time
One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein, in his general theory of relativity, predicted the existence of a dark side to the cosmos. He thought there were invisible “gravitational waves”, ripples in space-time produced by some of the most violent events in the