Source: Time By Rana Foroohar Foroohar is an assistant managing editor at TIME and the magazine’s economics columnist. She’s the author of Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business. You know something is deeply wrong in our market system when a company likeMicrosoft, which has […]
Source: Time By Kevin Kelleher It’s one of the biggest—and riskiest—acquisitions in the history of technology A key to understanding the massive and unexpected $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft […]
Source: BBC A human-carrying drone has been given approval for test flights in Nevada, the first of its kind in the United States. The autonomous drone – dubbed 184 – […]
Source: BBC The French government has released a mobile phone app to alert the public in the event of a terrorist attack. The app is being released ahead of the […]
Source: BBC By Chris Baraniuk 26 May 2016 Some of the most magnificent Maya murals ever found – dating to 100BC – were discovered deep in the jungle of San […]
Source: BBC Taiwan’s Asus has unveiled what it says is the first “affordable” household robot. Voice-activated Zenbo will cost $599 (£409) and Asus says it will be able to control […]
Source: Mail Online By SARAH GRIFFITHS FOR MAILONLINE If trying to order dinner or find your hotel abroad fills you with fear due to your abysmal grasp of foreign languages, […]
Source: Time By Alex Fitzpatrick Nearly three years ago, technology billionaire Elon Muskproposed a radical idea: Why not create a transportation system that involved putting people-filled pods in low-pressure tubes, then […]
Source: BBC An NHS trust has been fined £180,000 after a sexual health centre leaked the details of almost 800 patients who had attended HIV clinics. The 56 Dean Street […]
Source: Huffington Post By Casey Williams Editorial Fellow, The Huffington Post Remote-controlled ships could hit the high seas within a decade. While they might end up putting sailors out of a […]
Source: Time By Greg Milner Greg Milner is the author of Pinpoint. Reliance on GPS erodes our ability to build our own cognitive maps “Your GPS is WRONG,” the sign proclaims. […]
Source: BBC The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Google in its 11-year legal battle with an authors group. The Court said it would not hear an appeal […]
Source: BBC By David Baker Technology journalist As the internet becomes dominated by images, Facebook is launching a system which can “read” photos and tell visually impaired people what appears […]
Source: BBC By Matthew Phenix The driverless race car is coming. That’s a car that drives around a track. Very fast. Without a driver. Competing against other fast cars. Also […]
Source: BBC The FBI has managed to unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino gunman without Apple’s help, ending a court case, the US justice department says. Apple had been […]
Source: BBC You put your card in the cash machine but nothing comes out. The bank’s IT systems have crashed again. But you need money fast, so what do you […]
Source: Tech Crunch Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering (and one of its most popular WWDC presenters) says the FBI’s demands on the company will make all […]
Source: BBC On an internet full of hurried, scruffy ballpoints, Medium is the web’s fountain pen. We’re told our attention spans are short. That we cannot focus on anything beyond […]
Source: The New York Times By Thomas L. Friedman When the U.S. military trains fighter pilots, it uses a concept called the OODA loop. It stands for observe, orient, decide, act. The idea is that if your ability to observe, orient, decide and act in a dogfight at 30,000 feet […]
Source: Time The DJI Phantom 4 can see and avoid obstacles in its path. Chinese drone maker DJI wants to make flying a drone so easy that anyone can do […]