Samsung Electronics has posted profit that beat estimates as buoyant memory chip prices helped the world’s largest smartphone maker bounce back from the death of its fire-prone Galaxy Note7. Operating income rose by
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The Gigafactory has been activated. Hidden in the scrubland east of Reno, Nevada in the US, where cowboys gamble and wild horses still roam – a diamond-shaped factory of outlandish proportions is emerging from the sweat and promises of Tesla CEO
Faraday Future staked its claim to the world’s fastest electric car with its FF91 production model, showing footage of it outracing Tesla Motors’ Model S in a glitzy event in Las Vegas. The start-up electric car maker backed by Chinese billionaire Jia
For fans of audio fiction, 2017 promises to be a year of significant change as major players from the world of publishing, broadcasting and technology move into the field. The big change over the past few years has been the development of radio as
With almost half the world’s population now online, attempts to spread the Internet continue unabated. The likes of Facebook and Google offer data services for “free”, while satellites, drones, and balloons are used to cover those places that
Despite the phenomenal rise in computing over the last 50 years, the birth of the Internet and our ever-increasing reliance on technology, women are still not engaging with computer science at the same rate as men. This has been outlined in a recent
Huawei Technologies has pledged to overhaul its culture and re-think the way it conducts business, expecting global uncertainty to mount in 2017 after sales growth slowed. China’s largest telecommunications equipment maker expects a 32% rise in revenue
President Barack Obama retaliated against Russia for cyberattacks aimed at interfering with the 2016 presidential campaign, imposing sanctions on top Russian intelligence officials and agencies, expelling 35 Russian operatives from the US and releasing
US President Barack Obama has vowed that America will respond to Russian hacking undertaken during the country’s presidential campaign. Yet the public may never hear about it. During his presidency, Obama favoured a policy of deterrence when it came
In a year when populist voters reshaped power and politics across Europe and the US, the world’s wealthiest people are ending 2016 with $237bn more than they had at the start. Triggered by