Car makers slashed production. PlayStations got harder to find in stores. Broadband providers faced months-long delays for Internet routers. The reason? An abrupt and cascading shortage of semiconductors.
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The media frequently portrays young people excluded from wage work as inactive, aimless and alienated from mainstream society. This is a very misleading characterisation.
In recent years, Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city, has become Africa’s most attractive tech hub for investors. But that could be imperilled by the government’s decision to suspend Twitter’s operations in the country.
For decades, the exploration of our solar system left one of our neighbouring planets, Venus, largely unexplored. Things are about to change.
Although Skype, launched in 2003, has been available nine years longer than Zoom and is owned by tech titan Microsoft, Zoom has effectively left it in its dust.
The only reasonable course of action is to be proactive, and those taxpayers who are at risk of being “found out” should take the cue and rectify their affairs before it is too late. By Thomas Lobban.
Dogecoin may not be the funniest joke of all time, but it’s probably the one with the largest market valuation.
A recent deluge of downloads of messaging app Signal exposed tensions about its direction and management under its unconventional founder and CEO, Moxie Marlinspike.
As bitcoin attempts its latest price rebound after a 40% slump in three days, its long-term potential as an investable asset is becoming linked inextricably to its cost for the rest of society.
Before all the revelations about his divorce, dubious workplace behaviour and ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates was just America’s huggable billionaire techno-philanthropist.