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The design of the global money game is the real antagonist in the fight against climate change. But the call to arms tends to be directed at the players who have had best luck with the dice.
Artificial intelligence holds great promise for medicine, but safeguards are needed to ensure it does not harm patients.
Policies that will drive investment and change the structure of economies in the West African sub region are facing several challenges.
Mobile phones and tablets are basically mini computers – and to a computer, everything is a number.
The emerging relationship between new technologies and Africa may be some of the most promising news for the continent but caution is important.
In Asian countries, many people wield umbrellas to protect them from the sun. American women used to as well – but then stopped.
As our planet warms, the number of air-conditioning units worldwide is expected to triple by 2050 – yet their use drives climate change. So how can we break the cycle?
Overall, participation in STEM careers activities is low, with less than 30% of UK 11- to 14-year-olds reporting having taken part in 2017.
Canadian technology start-ups that incorporate an approach that learns from failure tend to perform and innovate with greater success than start-ups that seek to assign blame.
In the recent Nigerian election WhatsApp was used to mislead voters in increasingly sophisticated ways. But it also strengthened democracy in other areas.
Amazon’s plan to invest $700 million retraining its workforce signals very soon all jobs will be STEM jobs – and higher education needs to play a bigger role.
Each device is complex in its own right, and trying to use them together in many different settings makes things even more complicated.
The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to the Moon.
Uber’s expansion has become a global epic with regional episodes, but the legal conflict in Argentina has even higher stakes.
Why do some countries grow faster than others? Innovative local companies play a key role.
With accessible software tools and workflows, machines can be left to do the laborious work so that people can focus on planning, thinking and doing.
US lawmakers and regulators are beginning to investigate big tech’s growing power, but they need to look beyond size and into their very natures.
A project to protect producers from food fraud by verifying and promoting the provenance of the region’s beef exports to China turned out to be a source of creative work in the region as well.
In the year 1984, there was self-congratulatory coverage that the dystopia of the novel had not been realized. However, an expert argues that the technologies described in the novel are here and watching us.
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Director, Center for National Security Initiatives, and Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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