As bitcoin’s “halving” approaches, the cryptocurrency’s supporters and sceptics are debating what kind of impact it may have on the coin’s value. What does it all mean?
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This is bigger than the market havoc of the pandemic. The collapse in the cost of solar energy is just the beginning of an energy world with more and more moments of being better than too cheap to meter.
Stephen Wolfram is a cult figure in programming and mathematics. Last week, he launched a new venture: the Wolfram Physics Project, an ambitious attempt to develop a new physics of our universe.
Society is seemingly trapped in amber, frozen in place by the coronavirus. But really we’re speeding ever faster toward a technological future.
The lockdown gripping much of the world economy has spurred a real-time stress test of the long-heralded digital future.
“Everything is digital now. Going digital was only a discussion point for many businesses but now it’s the only reality.”
The pandemic is confronting people around the world with important questions about how much and what kinds of surveillance and tracking to accept in support of better health.
Apple and Google are working together to fight the coronavirus war in a smart and effective way. It may be the first step in turning the tide against the pandemic and moving society back to a more normal life.
The public debate on strategies to tackle Covid-19 often unhelpfully positions health and economic considerations in a diametric fashion – as trade-offs. The two need to be parts of a coherent whole.
The tech bubble is popping, but not in the way anyone expected. After years of fretting that free-spending start-ups with unrealistic valuations would bring down the start-up economy on its own, a global pandemic is doing it in instead.