3D printing is helping museums in repatriation and decolonisation efforts
Dec 04, 2019 12:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Manchester Museum recently returned items taken from Australia more than 100 years ago to Aboriginal leaders, the latest move in an ongoing debate over calls to repatriate museum artefacts to their countries of...
The tricky ethics of Google's Project Nightingale
Dec 04, 2019 12:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The nations second-largest health system, Ascension, has agreed to allow the software behemoth Google access to tens of millions of patient records. The partnership, called Project Nightingale, aims to improve how...
A quantum computing future is unlikely, due to random hardware errors
Dec 04, 2019 12:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Artists rendition of the Google processor. Forest Stearns, Google AI Quantum Artist in Residence, CC BY-ND Google announced this fall to much fanfare that it had demonstrated quantum supremacy that is, it performed a...
Love it or hate it, Tesla's Cybertruck is revolutionary
Dec 04, 2019 11:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
With a collective gasp and puzzled looks, the world was recently introduced to Teslas newest vehicle. The so-called Cybertruck is an angular, stainless steel, all-electric pickup truck that quickly became...
'The Sims 5' release date, gameplay: Will the next life simulation title appear at EA Play 2020?
Dec 04, 2019 09:19 am UTC| Technology
EA has made a huge change in 2019 by abandoning its usual E3 media event and organizing its own convention named EA Play. While it was deemed a successful event, fans of the companys life simulation video game series were...
We need a full public service internet – state-owned infrastructure is just the start
Dec 03, 2019 03:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The UK Labour Partys 2019 election manifesto contains plans to bring BTs internet infrastructure business into public ownership by creating British Broadband and to roll out and provide superfast broadband free to all...
How art and technology helped bring faces of the dead to life
Dec 03, 2019 03:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Facial reconstruction is best known as a forensic tool that can help identify human remains and reconnect them with families for burial or memorialisation. The technique has a potent claim on our imaginations. These...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects