Chris Vallance Senior Technology Reporter Getty Images Demand for so-called “fast tech” – cheap electronic items often quickly binned or abandoned in drawers – is growing, a not-for-profit that works to reduce electronic waste has warned. Material Focus singled out heatwave-fuelled demand for battery powered mini-fans as an example of the problem, suggesting over seven...
Accurate weather forecasts are not just vital for planning our daily lives but knowing about upcoming severe weather can help us to change our behaviour, save lives and mitigate damage to property. It is impossible to assess the full economic value of weather forecasts globally, but the numbers are huge. According to NOAA (National Oceanic...
Marc Ashdown Business correspondent Getty Images Areas like Newport in Wales, home to the UK’s biggest semiconductor manufacturing facility, will be allowed to decide how investment is targeted in their communities. An £86bn package for the science and technology sector will help fund research into drug treatments and longer-lasting batteries, the government has said ahead...
Pointing out right-wing hypocrisy does little to alleviate its toll. Still, one provision tucked into Republicans’ sweeping tax and spending bill is particularly glaring in its ideological inconsistency: a 10-year ban on state AI regulation. Yes, that means that the party most wont to cry federal overreach is now seeking to directly intervene in state...
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will spend more than £1bn to develop technology to speed up decisions on the battlefield. The funding will be one of the results of the government’s long-awaited strategic defence review which is due to be published in full on Monday. The government has committed to raising defence spending to 2.5%...
Demand Progress on Monday led over 140 organizations “committed to protecting civil rights, promoting consumer protections, and fostering responsible innovation” in a letter opposing U.S. House Republicans’ inclusion of legislation that would ban state and local laws regulating artificial intelligence in a megabill advanced by the Budget Committee late Sunday. Section 43201(c) — added by...
These days, when people say the word “libertarian,” they are thinking of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and other tech bros who have tried to claim the label. Because of their support for Donald Trump, and particularly Musk’s recent actions as de facto president, libertarianism has gotten a rather bad reputation. This is unfortunate, since none...
In 2000, Paul Hawkins turned his cricket passion into innovation by creating the tech Read full article at source...
BBC Former clients of a Canadian tech entrepreneur say they were let down after they paid his company tens of thousands of dollars to help launch their start-ups. People across the world – from Scotland to the southern states of the US – have told the BBC they paid Josh Adler’s software company ConvrtX up...
Chinese technology giant Tencent has made a €1.2bn ($1.25bn; £1bn) investment in a spin-off from Ubisoft, the maker of the Assassin’s Creed video games. Shenzhen-based Tencent will own about a quarter of the new business, with Ubisoft holding the rest of the new subsidiary, which is valued at around €4bn. The unit will run some...
Alex Karp, the CEO of the controversial military tech firm Palantir, is the coauthor of a new book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. In it, he calls for a renewed sense of national purpose and even greater cooperation between government and the tech sector. His book is,...