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After Super Tuesday, print and broadcast media have woken up to the very real possibility of President Donald J Trump. But they can’t seem to understand that their own decline is a

Luckily no one was injured when one of Google’s self-driving cars this week crashed itself into a bus as it pulled out at a junction. The car was only travelling at 3km/h, after all. The company

A Zimbabwean bank is battling to contain a flight by depositors after a social media hoax message advised those banking with NMB Bank to withdraw their money. The message alleged that

Computer viruses now have their own museum. The recently opened online Malware Museum exhibits samples of early viruses that often include amusing graphics or popular culture references

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

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

Imagine it’s Valentine’s Day and you’re sitting in a restaurant across the table from your significant other, about to start a romantic dinner. As you gaze into each other’s eyes, you wonder