Not our natural habitat. Risk and money go hand in hand.
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The desire to fritter away our pay packet on the roll of a dice may not be hardwired at all. So where does it come from?
What do you mean you’ve locked all my doors?
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Nest’s decision to render its Revolv hub products useless shows how far the home automation industry has to go.
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Tech companies play a growing civic role in how we operate as a society. We need to be sure we’re happy with that.
How many attempts will it take to unlock this phone?
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The FBI has accessed the data on a shooter’s iPhone. What if the device had been running Android?
Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s ‘The Tower of Babel’ (1563).
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While translation technology has improved dramatically, there are some significant hurdles.
Much mightier than any sword.
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The generation of designers broke out of their studios and took the business world by storm. Their skills could also be turned to bigger world problems.
Apple, Google and Facebook are in a row over taxes in Europe.
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Corporate taxation is a concern for governments and businesses because of their divergent interests.
Since May 2014, Google in Europe has taken requests for the removal of links from its search results.
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The debate about the right to be forgotten might be characterised as a showdown: privacy and compassion versus information and freedom. But its solution need not be that simplistic.
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Why driverless cars won’t let us take our eyes off the road just yet.
Choosing one isn’t that easy.
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In the race to dominate the world’s digital economy, tech giants Apple, Google and Facebook are making multiple bets they hope will secure their future.
Shedding little light. Google under scrutiny.
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Scutiny of the £130m settlement leaves the Public Accounts Select Committee
struggling to follow the HMRC strategy.
The tax deal between the UK government and Google shows governments have a long way to go when sharing the benefits of the knowledge economy.
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The rest of society won’t see the benefits of innovation until governments figure out a way to effectively tax the knowledge economy.
The US government is asking Apple to effectively hack it’s own phone.
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If Apple concedes to the US government’s request to hack its own product, it could end up undermining security and privacy for all of us.
Opening the artificial mind to public review and improvement.
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The world’s largest technology companies are making public the programming and hardware designs at the center of their businesses.
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The gap between CEO pay and average wage has sky-rocketed in the last 20 years. It’s not just unfair, it’s bad for business.
Fly away on my Zephyr.
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Internet connections could one day come from solar-powered planes that fly for months or even longer at a time.
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The finger of blame has been pointed at HMRC over the multinational’s ‘sweetheart deal’. That’s not fair.
Technology can be used to abuse or harass women, but it can help them too.
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There are many recent cases of women being abused or harassed online. But technology can also play a role in preventing violence against women.
You’re wrong m'lawd.
Stefan Rousseau
Lord Lawson thinks companies should partly be taxed on their sales. He’s very wrong.
Meep meep.
Elijah Nouvelage
The search goliath has spent over $5bn on everything from driverless cars to smart contact lenses in the past three years. The UK tax hounds must be delighted.