Tech

BMW i8

Beemer and Daimler join forces to explore driverless options, ride-hailing and...

LUXURY German vehicle manufacturers BMW and Daimler have announced they will join forces to invest in next-generation services, including driverless vehicles. (Click here to see...
René Emilio Jaime Farach, CEO Banco Ripley

Achieving a shared vision with a well-disciplined team

Q&A with Banco Ripley Perú CEO René Emilio Jaime Farach BV: How do you evaluate Banco Ripley's performance in banking? René Jaime: Our bank is growing...
London Tech Week 2023

£9tn Indo-Pacific partnership ‘boost to UK tech’

ASIA Pacific investors are said to be set to inject millions of pounds into the UK tech industry. Investment opportunities worth £100bn are being presented...
Error in binary code

The fine art of stuffing-up at the right moment to make...

Professors of marketing at the Kellogg School, Eric Anderson and Florian Zettelmeyer, recount a story called the Analytics Paradox “A YOUNG firm starts out making...
Asteroid mining

There’s platinum in them there stars

Goldman Sachs Group predicts a new top-earner will soon be in our midst By HAL WILLIAMS THE American multinational investment bank and financial services company Goldman...
Woman sleeping on desk

Are we ‘sleepworking’ into an AI nightmare?

RESEARCH by a digital security firm shows that 80 percent of people have no fear that AI will take their jobs. The rise of ChatGPT...
AI fintech illustration

Bots enter fintech sector, but watchers are worried

AI AND machine learning (ML) are spreading across virtually every industry, with an increasing focus on fintech and financial services. A McKinsey report found that...
Gene therapy

Merger brings gene therapy aid for infants closer to production

FDA approves ‘breakthrough therapy’ designation for novel treatment NOVARTIS has announced a multi-billion dollar agreement and plan of merger with AveXis to acquire the US-based...
Brain waves

If you want to get ahead, freeze your brain — for...

Cryogenics takes a giant step sideways with glassy grey matter and voluntary, um, suicide By HAL WILLIAMS NOW here’s a variation on control+alt+delete: get dead and...
Artificial Intelligence

Masayoshi Son: Great Business Visionary, or Deluded Dreamer?

He’s won, lost, then won a fortune again. Now he has amassed the gigantic ‘Vision Fund’ from which to spread investment around the world’s...