Tag: global affairs

• Electrophone: the Victorian-era gadget that was a precursor to live-streaming

  December 13, 2020

  As the battle against COVID-19 continues to rage, the plight of Britain’s theatres, which have suffered catastrophic financial strain thanks to lockdown, continues to rumble through the arts world. One… more ›

• Theatrophone – the 19th-century iPod

  December 13, 2020

  Sickly and often bedridden, by February 1911 French novelist Marcel Proust had one constant companion in the solitary confines of his cork-lined Paris sanctuary: a mysterious contraption that he kept… more ›

• 14 tech trends to watch in 2021

  December 12, 2020

  As tech ecosystems mature around the world, they’re not always following the path laid down by Silicon Valley. 2020 was a more eventful year than anyone could have imagined. What… more ›

• Mexico’s cartels rule world’s vast fentanyl market in race for huge profits

  December 10, 2020

  Jorge A is Mexican businessman employed by an import-export company that specializes in the trade of tequila and agricultural and chemical products. But in January 2016, he was a long… more ›

• Sci-fi surveillance: Europe’s secretive push into biometric technology

  December 10, 2020

  EU science funding is being spent on developing new tools for policing and security. €1.7bn from the programme over the past seven years backed the development of security products for… more ›

• Secret deal reveals how Chinese spies are given free rein in Switzerland

  December 9, 2020

  The full text of a secret deal between Switzerland and China that allowed Chinese security officials access to the country at Swiss taxpayers’ expense has been revealed for the first time as… more ›

• ‘We want to build a life’: Europe’s paperless young people speak out

  December 5, 2020

  A generation of undocumented Europeans – inspired by the ‘Dreamers’ in the US – are fighting for residency rights.  Europe has its own dreamer generation, but unlike the US Dreamers,… more ›

• Hundreds of Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru

  December 4, 2020

  Hundreds of Google employees and more than 1,000 academic researchers are speaking out in protest after a prominent Black scientist studying the ethics of artificial intelligence said she was fired… more ›

• The New Wave of Fishless Fish Is Here

  December 2, 2020

  Food scientists and marketers are creating healthy, plant-based, imitation tuna, crab, and shrimp that look and taste like the real thing. Many of the most popular seafoods now suddenly face… more ›

• How to make a 3D population density map

  November 29, 2020

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