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Explorer came at the dawn of the public internet. For millions of people, it will always be their first experience of the World Wide Web.
New virtual realities are changing the way we interact with our urban spaces. How will the metaverse make some urban amenities redundant and others indispensable?
Over 300 companies so far have closed stores, reassigned staff or halted sales in Russia in the two weeks since the invasion began.
Alphabet, Apple, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft have each taken some form of action against Russia — but the actual impact it will have isn’t clear.
From games streaming platforms to the metaverse, the Japanese tech giant looks to be behind the curve.
Activision’s big titles have led the way in getting us used to virtual worlds. Making them VR will be a gamechanger.
Sexual harassment and discrimination in gaming and tech are not inevitable or permanent, write experts in the field. The solutions are positive community standards and women in power.
Windows XP really was a game-changer for computers. But Microsoft has seen some turbulent times since the version was released 20 years ago.
Smart glasses like Facebook’s Ray-Ban Stories could be used to record you surreptitiously. If the company adds facial recognition, you could be even more exposed.
Big Tech makes a lot of promises about protecting privacy, but the reality is that using the industry’s products is a matter of trust.
Natural language coding means that people won’t need to learn specialized coding languages to write programs or design websites. But large corporations will control the means of translation.
A UN working group on cybersecurity is making incremental progress in highlighting the importance of including and protecting civilians.
Once a pioneer of the information age, now stereotyped as the browser of choice for people who are less than web-savvy, the curtain will finally come down on Internet Explorer next year.
A new study asked over 1,000 workers how productive they were at home, and the results shine a light into how companies should approach remote working in future.
The courts have given the government the authority to hack into private computers unannounced. The action addresses a clear threat, but it also sets an unsettling precedent.
Augmented reality has largely enjoyed cover from critique by being taken as a benign gaming technology. But recent developments suggest we need to get serious about it.
Commercial software is vital to all of our cybersecurity. What should governments do if they find it has weaknesses?
Our newfound ability to reincarnate the dead as chatbots presents several legal and ethical dilemmas.
While relying on internal documents can be controversial, Zuckerberg’s emails are so detailed and specific that they’re impossible to ignore.
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor of Practice, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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