Technology

Why Facebook Will Never Die

2018-06-06

Despite scandals over fake news and data privacy, the social network is unlikely to disappear any time soon

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Preventing an AI Apocalypse

2018-05-20

The view that AI-driven machines will outsmart humanity, take over the world, and kill us all

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A Saudi Silicon Valley? No easy feat, experts say

2018-04-06

In a country where dissenting social media users are jailed and bloggers are flogged, creating Silicon Valley-like environment may be difficult

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Is Technology Hurting Productivity?

2018-03-21

It is possible that new technologies are not just doing less to boost productivity than past innovations. They may actually have negative side effects that undermine productivity growth

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Education in the Digital Age

2018-02-26

Technology is displacing humans in the workplace

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Google Retinal Scans Predict Heart Attacks

2018-02-21

Most cardiovascular risk calculators use some combination of these parameters to identify patients risks

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Blockchains Will Change the Way the World Votes

2018-02-02

The extra costs of a recount may be conscionable, but the lasting social cleavages spurred from days of indecision in tense electoral circumstances are not

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Economic Growth Is No Longer Enough

2017-10-28

As new technologies subject the world’s economies to massive structural change, wages are no longer playing the central redistributive role they once did

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Amazon boss Jeff Bezos asks Twitter how he should spend $82bn fortune on good causes

2017-06-17

Social media was not short of responses. The billionaire, would-be philanthropist has received 15,000 responses within 24 hours

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The Wisdom of Nokia's Dumbphone

2017-03-02

The smartphone’s ubiquity has made it boring and oppressive. A new, retro handset opens the door to a different future

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Lifelong learning is becoming an economic imperative

2017-01-18

Technological change demands stronger and more continuous connections between education and employment, says Andrew Palmer. The faint outlines of such a system are now emerging

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Equipping people to stay ahead of technological change

2017-01-15

It is easy to say that people need to keep learning throughout their careers. The practicalities are daunting

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Leading the Middle East Into the Future

2016-10-14

To ensure the future prosperity of the Middle East, its governments and citizens must ask themselves if new technologies are being designed and adapted to meet real social needs

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MICROSOFT WILL 'SOLVE CANCER PROBLEM WITHIN A DECADE'

2016-09-20

Biologists, programmers and engineers plan to attack cancerous cells the way one attacks a bug in a computer

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Innovation and Its Discontents

2016-07-02

Innovations frequently face high barriers to implementation, with governments sometimes banning new technologies outright

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Google patents computer that can be injected directly into the eyeball

2016-05-01

The injection would improve its owners vision – and also give them access to extra powers

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