During a recent outing to a fancy restaurant, Andy Rubin spotted an all-too-familiar tableau: a couple on what seemed to be a first date taking pictures of their food and then losing themselves in their smartphones for the
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Why aren’t there more female software developers in Silicon Valley? James Damore, the Google engineer fired for criticising the company’s diversity programme, believes that it’s all about “innate dispositional differences
Naspers’s conglomerate discount is widening. Its one-third stake in Tencent Holdings alone is now worth 27% more than the South African Internet company’s entire market cap. After a 70% increase in its stock so far this year
Alibaba and Tencent can count themselves among the world’s costliest technology companies after a stellar run. To justify those lofty valuations, China’s two largest corporations have to deliver on some of the riskiest bets they’ve
Sony. Netflix. And now, HBO. While the 2014 hacking at Sony Pictures pushed entertainment giants to take computer security more seriously, recent incidents have exposed weaknesses throughout Hollywood’s food chain
There has never been a better time to be a politician. But it’s an even better time to be a machine-learning engineer working for a politician. Throughout modern history, political candidates have had
A South African business empire built up by members of the Gupta family is under pressure as they face a mounting backlash over allegations that they exploited their friendship with President Jacob Zuma to loot billions of rand
A handful of big technology companies are becoming the next William Randolph Hearst and Walt Disney: they wield enormous power over what news and entertainment get made. In case you needed more
Around 90% of international trade takes place by sea. The paper bill of lading has been the foremost shipping document for centuries, and even today is all-pervasive. However, paper bills are inefficient and unnecessarily
The community supporting bitcoin has long tried to avoid a so-called “hard fork” splitting the currency in two. On Tuesday, it happened anyhow. The idea behind the change is to speed up transactions