Simon Chandler
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Coronavirus Is Forcing Companies To Speed Up Automation, For Better And For Worse
Coronavirus is forcing companies to speed up their plans to replace jobs with automation, according to a report published today by analyst company Forrester. → Read More
Coronavirus Could Infect Privacy And Civil Liberties Forever
Not only are governments adopting new economic and public health measures to fight the coronavirus and its impact, but they're harnessing big data in ways that, while potentially saving lives, will also reduce our privacy and civil liberties. → Read More
Coronavirus Drives 72% Rise In Use Of Fintech Apps
The coronavirus has driven a massive 72% rise in the use of fintech apps in Europe, according to new research published today by deVere Group. → Read More
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Facebook Aims To Get 3.5 Billion People Online So That It Can Profit From Their Data
Facebook has published its latest annual Inclusive Internet Index, reporting that even though 4.1 billion individuals are now online across the globe, it still wants to play a key role in connecting the remaining 3.5 billion to the World Wide Web. → Read More
Reuters Uses AI To Prototype First Ever Automated Video Reports
Developed in collaboration with London-based AI startup Synthesia, the new system harnesses AI in order to synthesize pre-recorded footage of a news presenter into entirely new reports. → Read More
How AI Is Helping Diagnose Rare Genetic Diseases
While the rarity of rare diseases means they're often neglected by the medical establishment, artificial intelligence and machine learning have been emerging in recent years as new, promising tools in the fight against uncommon pathology. → Read More
How The Internet Of Things Will Help Fight Climate Change
The use of the IoT and smart devices will enable energy networks and consumers to become more energy efficient in general, thereby reducing energy consumption at a time when the future of our environment depends on it. → Read More
Brain-Computer Interfaces And Mind Control Move One Step Closer To Becoming Reality
Yes, this sounds like the stuff of dystopian sci-fi, but for several years now a growing number of organizations have been working on the development of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). → Read More
Too Many VPNs Put Our Privacy And Security At Risk
According to a broad range of specialists, many free and mobile VPNs on the market use unsafe protocols and log user activity, while even good virtual private networks can't always guarantee to protect their users from the prying eyes of a jealous government or its intelligence agencies. → Read More
Why TV Screens Are Getting Bigger And Bigger
The average screen size of TVs now sold in South Korea is a whopping 54 inches, having been a more modest 44.5 inches in 2010. → Read More
Blockchain is making it possible for anyone to buy shares in Apple and Facebook
'Tokenized stocks' will make it possible for anyone, anywhere to buyshares in established companies. And they could usher in round-the-clock global trading. → Read More
We’re giving away more personal data than ever, despite growing risks
Despite the Cambridge Analytica scandal and major data breaches, we're more willing than ever to trade our data for "better" and cheaper services. → Read More
This week’s Bitcoin crash was all about fraud and regulation
Cryptocurrencies have had a rough week: the value of bitcoin plunged to a mere 50 percent of its 2017 peak, and other currencies, such as Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin have seen double-digit losses compared to their heights from last year. → Read More
It’s not robots we should fear, it’s their creators
One day, artificially intelligent robots will replace human beings as the Earth's dominant form of life, or so says Stephen Hawking (and Elon Musk). However, for all the impressive progress AIs and robots have made in recent years, the most urgent and real danger they pose to society lies elsewhere. → Read More
'Sleep of the Righteous' Underlines Why Hilbig Had Won Almost Every German Literary Prize
Life within East Germany is exposed in all its repressive, absurd horror in a recently translated collection of short stories by Wolfgang Hilbig. → Read More
'Good on Paper' Asks, Is Fidelity Possible?
Rachel Cantor follows A Highly Unlikely Scenario with a literary mystery about the difficulties of translating art into life and life into art. → Read More
Alienated
UFO sightings are common in America. So is a lack of political transparency. → Read More
Alienated
UFO sightings are common in America. So is a lack of political transparency. → Read More
Alienated
UFO sightings are common in America. So is a lack of political transparency. → Read More