Who's listening? The ethical and legal issues of developing a health app
Dec 10, 2016 10:00 am UTC| Technology Health Law
From large companies to tiny startups, many people are working on creating apps to monitor and improve our health. The technical skill needed is widely recognised and developers are becoming more aware of the need to...
Reflections on the idea of a common humanity
Dec 10, 2016 03:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Law
It is striking how often people now speak of a common humanity in ethically inflected registers, or ethically resonant tones that express a fellowship of all the peoples of the earth, or sometimes the hope for such a...
Faith, dissent and extremism: how Bangladesh is struggling to stay secular
Dec 09, 2016 11:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Politics Law
The recent violent attacks on a Hindu temple in Bangladeshs Netrokona district, and previous assaults on temples and homes in October in Brahmanbaria are a troubling illustration of Bangladeshs struggle to protect two of...
To protect markets we need strict penalties for insider trading
Dec 09, 2016 11:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Economy
In the first ever case in which a corporation has been found liable for insider trading, German construction company Hochtief has been fined A$400,000 for insider trading and required to make donations to the Australian...
Supreme Court: Design patents are worth less, but we won't tell you how much
Dec 09, 2016 03:52 am UTC| Law
When the Supreme Court took up Apples case alleging Samsung had stolen its patented iPhone designs for Samsungs own smartphones, product designers, lawyers and corporate executives were paying close attention. The case...
The bright side of Dieselgate and other corporate scandals
Dec 08, 2016 13:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Business
2015 was supposed to be a year of honours and glory for Volkswagen: it was about to steal the crown from Japanese rival Toyota and dominate the global automobile market. Then came September, and the revelation that one of...
These four cities are cracking down on diesel vehicles to improve air quality – here's how
Dec 08, 2016 10:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Four of the worlds biggest cities are to ban diesel cars from their city centres by 2025, in order to improve air quality. The mayors of Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City announced the plans at the C40 Mayors Summit on...
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