This week, a fortnight after he mysteriously vanished, Beijing confirmed that it has detained Meng Hongwei, the President of Interpol. The move, which Human Rights Watch says shows that “no one’s immune…
Don’t Mock the Space Force – It’s Good Science (and Business)
Predictably, in the two months since US Vice President Mike Pence announced White House plans to form a new “Space Force” to police the heavens, much online talk has focused on the…
Nokia and Ericsson’s Baltic Battle a Barometer for the Future of 5G
This June, Finnish mobile giant Nokia’s shares plummeted almost 10% after missing profit predictions based on its 5G solutions. CEO Rajiv Suri claimed that the company’s fortunes would pick up in the…
Silicon States: Lucie Greene Explores Big Tech’s New World
Renowned futurist and global think-tank leader Lucie Greene has spent years honing her expertise on the tech industry. In Silicon States, she examines the players, promises and potential problems of Big Tech, speaking…
Elon Musk: Down, Not Yet Out
Is Elon Musk really, as Wired posited yesterday, “broken”? Sure, the Tesla and SpaceX chief may have come across even more unhinged than usual these past months, missing deadlines, making grand statements and…
Machine Learning: How to Better Understand the User Journey of Job Seekers
By Erol Gün, senior manager of businesses intelligence at Joblift Most people have looked for a job on the Internet at some point, either by perusing job boards or using a job…
Iceland’s ‘Big Bitcoin Heist’ Showed How Strong the Country’s Crypto Economy Really Is
It was a story that seemed like it was pulled straight from pulp fiction: a developer and smalltime criminal steals 600 Bitcoin mining units, and escapes on a plane alongside his country’s…
World Cup VAR is a Disaster Waiting to Happen
On Thursday Russia and Saudi Arabia will contest the first match of this year’s FIFA World Cup, the biggest competition in soccer – and most viewed sporting event on earth. Soccer is…
Trump’s Artless Dealmaking Could Seriously Harm the Tech Industry
“My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward,” wrote Donald Trump in his 1987 book Trump: The Art of the Deal. “I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing…
Is Elon Musk a Danger to the Free Press?
Elon Musk is at it again. The multi-billionaire Tesla and SpaceX chief has cleaved Twitter by suggesting that the mainstream media needs a fact-checker – and he wants to run it. Musk’s…