Sir Clive Sinclair cutting-edge technology inventor and pioneer of home computing dies aged 81 ion London. His calculator Sinclair Executive won Design Council awards and was put on show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His innovative quartz watch, a sleek black affair, never worked properly and customers returned them in thousands.…
Investment banker and professor Jonathan Knee argues the truth, about the secrets to the success of the biggest tech companies: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google, and illustrates the nuances and complexities posed by their emergence, and explains a disparate portfolio of structural advantages buttressed by shrewd acquisitions, strong management, tax regulation and often encouraging…
Grifters came to be called visionaries and high finance lost its mind. In 2001, charismatic Adam Neumann arrived in New York, the land of opportunities, after five years as a conscript in the Israeli navy, he transformed himself into the charismatic CEO of WeWork worth $ 47bn, within the span of 15 years. His long…
Maye Musk, the mother of Tesla CEO and the world’s second-richest person Elon Musk, posted in social media on Monday to share a picture showing Musk as a baby to celebrate her son’s 50th birthday. “Happy Birthday Elon Musk. Thank you for this wonderful day 50 years ago.You’ve brought me great joy , Lots of…
Ever wondered what happens when artificial intelligence is shaping our understanding of ourselves, our societies and saturates our political life and depletes our planet? Dr Kate Crawford, senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, co-founder and director of research at the AI Now Institute at NYU, a visiting professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media,…
Hundred years after its publication, Kurt Godel’s famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true – yet never provable – continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Godel’s work was to mark a decisive turning point for the history of mathematics and, possibly, the future of artificial intelligence. In 1900,…
Twitter has launched a new “ tip jar” feature that lets people send money to others on social networks. The company says the feature is “an easy way to support the incredible voices that make up the conversation”. Twitter says the feature is “an easy way to support the incredible voices that make up the…
There five brands of Electric vehicles with 40 per cent of the global EV market with over 1.3m EV car sales in 2020. Zeekr only launched a few days ago and they have pedigree, as the people that own then also own Volvo and their parent company Geely. Nio is China’s best-known homemade, high-end EV…
Self-driving car enabling drivers to take their eyes off the road and their hands off the wheel could be permitted on UK motorways later this year. The Department of Transport (DTI) announced it will allow hand-free driving in vehicles with lane keeping technology on motorway with slow traffic speeds of upto 37mph. So Automated lane-keeping…
It is predicted by 2030, there will be 20 million electric cars on European roads alone. While Electric vehicles may be carbon neutral during their working lifetime, what happens when they run out of the road. In 10 to 15 years when there are large numbers coming to the end of their life it is…