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One thing hasn’t changed as Tesla has crept from high-priced luxury-car maker toward mass-market manufacturer: Elon Musk’s heavy reliance on media buzz to bring attention to his electric cars. Nearly eight
Nectome promises to preserve the brains of terminally ill people in order to turn them into computer simulations – at some point in the future when such a thing is possible. It’s a start-up that’s easy to mock
Apple is designing and producing its own device displays for the first time, using a secret manufacturing facility near its California headquarters to make small numbers of the screens for testing purposes, according to people
The rapid evolution of crypto assets such as bitcoin may one day make them a threat to the financial system, Mark Carney, chairman of the Financial Stability Board, said in a letter to Group of 20 finance leaders. “Wider use and
When Diane Greene first joined Google in late 2015, her first task was to assemble the company’s disparate and often wayward cloud projects and whip them into a real business. Sales, marketing and engineering divisions
Facebook wants you to know: this wasn’t a breach. Yes, Cambridge Analytica, the data-analysis firm that helped US President Donald Trump win the 2016 election, violated rules when it obtained information from some
Media24 has agreed to pay R14m as a settlement agreement with the Competition Commission after admitting to price fixing and fixing of trade conditions in the media industry. The tribunal began its investigation in late
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod interviews Colin Fleming, head of retail at Zapper, the mobile payments specialist.
Fleming talks about his career in technology