Three Areas of FinTech Innovation For 2016

Apr 05, 2016 09:10 am UTC| Technology Digital Currency

Its been over 17 years since new financial technology completely changed the game. That being PayPal, an online payments system that helped the fledgling eCommerce concept become a hundred billion dollar industry in the US...

Briferendum Series

Imagine if Google or Facebook took a line on the EU referendum

Apr 05, 2016 04:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Imagine if on June 23 this year British citizens looking at google.co.uk found the words #VoteIn towards the bottom of the search page. Perhaps they would ignore it and go about their business, or perhaps it would remind...

What to do when machines take our jobs? Give everyone free money for doing nothing

Apr 05, 2016 00:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

It was Groucho Marx who said, While money cant buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. Quite true, but what if theres no money coming in from work because your jobs been taken over by a...

US Election Series

Aging voting machines threaten election integrity

Apr 04, 2016 16:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics Technology

Imagine you went to your basement and dusted off the laptop or mobile phone that you used in 2002. What would happen if you tried to turn it on? We dont have to guess. Around the country this election year, people are...

Can I trust my robot? And should my robot trust me?

Apr 04, 2016 16:39 pm UTC| Technology

If we are serious about long-term human presence in space, such as manned bases on the moon or Mars, we must figure out how to streamline human-robot interactions. Right now, even the most basic of robots seem to have...

Networks of boosters could transform mobile phone signal in rural blackspots

Apr 04, 2016 16:14 pm UTC| Technology

There is exponential growth in 5G mobile communication technology, which will deliver terabits of data to mobile smartphones and tablet computers every second. For users, this will mean faster file download speeds on the...

Coming to terms with digital grief: hashtags and emojis are here to stay

Apr 04, 2016 15:52 pm UTC| Technology

I was on a train when the news broke from Brussels of a deadly terrorist attack. It was a fast developing story and, as is so often the case with todays breaking news, social media was keeping pace with it far more...