Technology

The world is shifting and changing rapidly, with everything from tech and leisure, to the way we shop, cook and listen to music evolving into a lifestyle almost unrecognisable to life even as little as a decade ago. The way we work is changing too, with demands for greater opportunity, increased collaboration and a less hierarchical business model taking center stage over the rigid, hierarchy-based systems of the past. But what exactly does this mean for work in the next...

Last year, investment in legal tech topped $1 billion for the first time, and this year has already soared past 2018’s figures with more than $1.2 billion invested to date.

The proliferation of ‘fake news’ is one of the biggest bones of contention, with more than two-thirds of respondents in the survey saying they believed companies like Facebook had an obligation to fact-check political ads, or outright ban them.

'We know Facebook was used as a political weapon by Johnson, Cummings and Gove in the Vote Leave illegal campaign'

Instagram said it has removed double the amount of material relating to self-harm and suicide since the start of this year.

Literally any company with a significant amount of data can benefit from developing machine learning models to optimise forecasting.

Recently, in Shanghai, China's most important economic center, Haier Smart Home 001 Experience Center, an experiential exhibition hall showing Haier's achievements in intelligent families, officially opened.

While the UK, Europe, and North America may be set for transformational connectivity, corruption in the telecommunications sector threatens to rob emerging markets in Asia and Africa of these technologies’ revolutionary potential.

Sunrise Communications’ CHF 6.3-billion takeover of Swiss cable operator UPC has been approved by the country’s competition commission (COMCO) in a move that analysts predicted will further stoke the company’s feud with its largest investor – Freenet – which is fiercely opposed to the deal.