Lego posted a rudimentary car made of stacked bricks and plastic wheels to the company’s Australian Facebook page on Monday The image is similar to promotional images of the Cybertruck, Tesla’s thoroughly mocked first electric […]
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‘God bless Birmingham’, says Banksy
Elusive artist Banksy has created new artwork in Birmingham, a festive-themed piece highlighting homelessness The artwork features in a film on Instagram that shows a man named Ryan on a bench being “pulled” by two […]
UK Regulators Create Banking IT Cheat Sheet
The Bank of England has teamed up with other regulators to offer UK banks a little advice on sorting out their woeful IT systems BoE, Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have […]
The Typography of the Next Decade
By 2015, when Google and Facebook pivoted to geometric sans serif logos within a few months of each other, minimalist aesthetics had reached a saturation point, both online and off Among Peak Minimalism’s alleged merits […]
China Just Opened The Suez Canal Of Our Era
The Belt and Road Initiative comes to Turkey in a big way, but the West is too distracted to notice or care A hundred years from now, Donald Trump’s looming impeachment and Syria’s unending travails […]
Parker’s Potential
NASA’s new solar probe is racing towards the sun—here’s what it will see once it gets there Despite being the source of all life on Earth and the definitional center of the solar system, the […]
Keeping Big-Tech Away From Banking
We know we can’t trust big monopolies with our financial information. The potential for collusion and exploitation is just too great As antitrust scholar Matt Stoller wrote after Libra was first announced, “Imagine Facebook’s subsidiary […]
China Adopts “Malicious” Cybersecurity Rules
After all these “cybersecurity” rules are in place, no foreign company may encrypt data so that it cannot be read by the Chinese central government and the Communist Party of China On January 1, China’s […]
LITTLE JOE: Plants Are Smarter Than They Look
Little Joe questions how far we might conceivably go to achieve happiness and if, in pursuit of it, we should risk sacrificing the very difference that tends to define the human race Set in the […]
Emotion-Sensing Robot to Assist Astronauts
An intelligent robot equipped with emotion-sensing voice detectors heads to the International Space Station, becoming the latest artificial intelligence-powered astronaut workmate in orbit The Crew Interactive Mobile Companion 2, or CIMON 2, is a spherical […]
The Top 20 Scientific Discoveries of the Decade
As the 2010’S come to an end, we can look back on an era rife with discovery. In the past 10 years, scientists around the world made remarkable progress toward understanding the human body, our […]
AI Will Soon ‘Hit the Wall’
“Deep learning and current AI, if you are really honest, has a lot of limitations.” – Jerome Pesenti Jerome Pesenti leads the development of artificial intelligence at one of the world’s most influential—and controversial—companies. As […]
The UK on Verge of a Major UBI Trial?
Over the last several months both Liverpool and Sheffield have been preparing themselves for a grand UBI experiment. But the whole project will require Labour forming the next government The pledge is there, on page […]
The 6 Major Signs of a Troubled Company Culture
Once a corporate culture turns toxic, it can diminish employee morale, hinder productivity, and alienate customers. But how does a company culture arrive at this point? Public relations firm Weber Shandwick, familiar with being on […]
Star Trek Writer D.C. Fontana Dies at 80
Dorothy Catherine Fontana, a writer on the original Star Trek series, is credited with developing the Spock character’s backstory and “expanding Vulcan culture” Fontana was the one who came up with Spock’s childhood history revealed […]
Android Vulnerability Used by Bank Thieves
A vulnerability in millions of fully patched Android phones is being actively exploited by malware that’s designed to drain the bank accounts of infected users The vulnerability allows malicious apps to masquerade as legitimate apps […]