Tech

Artificial intelligence and robotics are the biggest talking points at this year’s CEBIT in Hanover. While some sound optimistic about the data-driven digital revolution, others warn about its negative implications. We’re living in the midst of...

Teenagers have abandoned Facebook in favour of other social media platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram, according to a study from the Pew Research Center. Just 51% of US individuals aged 13 to 17 say they use...

Clean, green, quick and quiet; no wheels, no engines to fail; able to stop quickly and safely and glide off noiselessly on a cushion of air. Magnetic levitation (maglev) was, according to 1980s science shows such...

The Honor 10 is Huawei’s cut-price premium smartphone offering that hopes to go toe-to-toe with iPhones and Samsungs for about one-third less than the average price. Strangely, the Honor 10 is the second Honor phone with...

Imagine that you’ve just bought a new GPS device for your car. The first time you use it, it works as expected. However, on the second journey, it takes you to an address a few blocks...

Mark Zuckerberg’s meeting at the European parliament ended in acrimony, amid a chorus of complaints that the Facebook founder had been allowed to evade questions and give vague answers. Over the 90-minute session the Facebook founder told MEPs there would...

Those of a certain age may remember the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. As Rafer Johnson lit the eternal flame, a man strapped into a rocket-propelled backpack launched himself across the...

Imagine the intellectual and social pressure of a pub quiz, then multiply it by more than 2 million people. Every day, at 3pm and 9pm sharp, an army of teenagers, students, pensioners and office workers stop...

Watch out for the return of the sailing ship. After a commitment last month to cut greenhouse gas emissions from shipping by at least 50% by 2050, the race is on to find new technologies that can green...

SCL Group and its Cambridge Analytica consultancy, which were at the centre of this year’s Facebook privacy row, are closing and starting insolvency proceedings. The company has been plagued by scandal since the Observer reported that the personal data of...