What can drones do to protect civilians in armed conflict?
Dec 11, 2019 03:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Drones are usually in the news for bad reasons, like controversial killings of suspected terrorists in the Middle East, bombings of Saudi oil facilities or an assassination attempt on Venezuelan President Nicolas...
Dec 10, 2019 05:37 am UTC| Technology
The content roadmap of The Sims 5 is not too difficult to predict since the popular life simulation video game series has had familiar post-launch content packs over the years. This also makes it easier for avid fans to...
How our screen stories of the future went from flying cars to a darker version of now
Dec 10, 2019 05:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Fans of Ridley Scotts 1982 masterpiece Blade Runner returned to cinemas last month for an unusual milestone: history catching up with science fiction. Blade Runner opens in Los Angeles, in November 2019. Furnaces burst...
Work is a fundamental part of being human. Robots won't stop us doing it
Dec 10, 2019 05:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Hardly a week goes by without a report announcing the end of work as we know it. In 2013, Oxford University academics Carl Frey and Michael Osborne were the first to capture this anxiety in a paper titled: The Future of...
Fingerprint login would be a more secure defence for our data, if we used it properly
Dec 09, 2019 05:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Our electronic devices store a plethora of sensitive information. To protect this information, device operating systems such as Apples iOS and Android have locking mechanisms. These require user authentication before...
To stop a tech apocalypse we need ethics and the arts
Dec 09, 2019 04:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
If recent television shows are anything to go by, were a little concerned about the consequences of technological development. Dystopian narratives abound. Black Mirror projects the negative consequences of social...
The digital economy's environmental footprint is threatening the planet
Dec 09, 2019 04:40 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Nature
Modern society has given significant attention to the promises of the digital economy over the past decade. But it has given little attention to its negative environmental footprint. Our smartphones rely on rare earth...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects