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• Best Music of 2020: The Year in Lists

  December 6, 2020

    Twenty twenty wap wap wap. Weird and problematic. Wintry and pandemicy. Wishing away politicians. Weeknd and Pop Smoke. Watermelon (sugar) and ppcocaine. Our annual running list of top 10s,… more ›

• All stars

  December 6, 2020

  Is a great team more than the sum of its players? Complexity science reveals the role of strategy, synergy, swarming and more Interest in collective behaviour is not new. It’s… more ›

• From London to Lisbon to Toronto, mayors grapple with public backlash to tech in cities

  December 5, 2020

    For the mayor of any modern city, an increasingly large part of the job entails managing the public backlash to new technology being deployed in those cities. The COVID-19… more ›

• The Exclusive and Elusive History of Goyard

  December 5, 2020

  Few brands can boast such longevity, dedication to hand-craftsmanship, and iconic status as Goyard. The notoriously exclusive luxury travel goods maker has stood as a symbol of wealth and classic… 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 ›

• Africa’s phone phenom: Your guide to Transsion

  December 2, 2020

  After spending the early 2000s globe-trotting for the overseas business arm of Chinese mobile phone maker Ningbo Bird, Transsion founder Zhu Zhaojiang broke out on his own. He opened Transsion’s… 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 ›

• Why WhatsApp Matters

  December 1, 2020

  WhatsApp is being remodeled in front of our eyes. Watch what happens because even if you don’t use the messaging app, the changes could reshape the direction of the internet.… more ›

• Mobile for Development – State of the Industry Report 2019

  November 29, 2020

  For the first time, digital transactions represent the majority (57%) of mobile money transaction values. A larger proportion of money is entering and leaving the system in digital form, rather… more ›

• Boucheron: a collector’s guide

  November 29, 2020

  The jeweller Frédéric Boucheron opened his first shop in the arcades of the Palais Royal, Paris; more than 160 years later, the maison he founded is a world leader. Boucheron… more ›