Innovation

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AI summit hears of widespread fear surrounding tech

THOSE attending last week’s AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park witnessed the high level of fear surrounding the technology. The event was touted as a...
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Pouring volts on troubled water — e-boats are go!

Which mixes better with water: electricity or oil? RICHARD THOMAS finds some sea legs in his BV trousers and sets forth to investigate. WHENEVER the...
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‘Create a sense of crisis before diving into digital’ — Huawei

A SENSE of crisis should be encouraged and intensified to help drive digital transformation, Huawei’s rotating chairman Guo Ping believes. Ping was speaking at a...

Clive Stafford Smith: A One-Man Army for Justice

Clive Stafford Smith is a British lawyer specialised in civil rights and fighting death penalty convictions. He has spent much of his working life...

Eden Full Goh: Here Comes the Sun

Eden Full Goh was barely ten when she picked up a book at the neighbourhood library with detailed instructions on how to build a...
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SpaceX launch for British climate satellite programme

BRITISH Earth-observation company Satellite Vu has signed another SpaceX launch contract for further thermal data collection. Its mid-wave infrared (MWIR) imaging satellite will be launched...
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Uber über alles? Ride-hailing firm damaged by leaked files

By HEATHER LEAH SMITH DISTURBING details have surfaced surrounding ride-hailing service Uber’s chaotic global expansion period. Uber was founded in the US in 2009; within three...
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‘A pro-enterprise pioneer’ – CBI Scotland Annual Dinner

Carolyn Fairbairn, CBI Director-General, outlined reasons why overseas firms should continue investing in the country at the CBI Scotland Annual Dinner this evening (Thursday). Attending...

The original Wolf of Wall Street

He was the man who Americans loved to hate, yet his achievements were revered. Selfish, unfriendly, single-minded and with a merciless desire to beat...

Book Review – The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

For all its potential as a canvas for the display of human suffering, sick-lit never quite made it as a genre. In her 1926...