Column
Zuck didn't invent the metaverse, but he's started a fight to control it
Begun, the Metaverse Wars have. And the metaverse will fight Facebook's attempts at domination
11 Nov 2021 07:28 | 70
Column
It's one thing to have the world in your hands – what are you going to do with it?
Google won the patent battle against ART+COM, but we were left with little more than a toy
19 Oct 2021 08:30 | 18
Review
Through the Looking Glass – holographic display hardware is great, but it's not enough
An intriguing proof of concept for real-time 3D arrives, but without the software it's just a gimmick
29 Sep 2021 08:01 | 44
Column
Measuring your carbon footprint? There's no app for that
Smartphones can keep us informed about everything other than environmental impact. That needs to change
15 Sep 2021 07:15 | 58
Column
The web was done right the first time. An ancient 3D banana shows Microsoft does a lot right, too
It's wonderful that code written for Windows 3.1 still works well today
11 Aug 2021 08:01 | 135
Column
Great reset? More like Fake Reset: Leaders need a reality check if they think their best staff will give up hybrid work
Fortune favours the flexible in the new normal
28 Jul 2021 08:30 | 98
Column
Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class
Opting out of data monetisation is neither easy nor cheap
15 Jul 2021 09:15 | 89
Feature
Imagine a world where Apple shacked up with Xerox in the '80s: How might it look today?
An alternative history of the computer revolution
14 Jul 2021 10:02 | 91
Column
Data collected to promote public health must never be surrendered to police
Voluntary location-tracking to crimp COVID is too good a tool to waste
01 Jul 2021 07:26 | 108
Column
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The best time to build a semiconductor foundry is 5 years ago
The history of computing is all change, all the time. Yet silicon-slingers let the chips fail where they may
09 Jun 2021 11:28 | 50
Column
Blessed are the cryptographers, labelling them criminal enablers is just foolish
Preserving privacy is hard. I know because when I tried, I quickly learned not to play with weapons
12 May 2021 07:31 | 171
Column
Harassers and bullies succeed in tech because silence is encouraged
Countless people signed away the right to have their trauma acknowledged, and that can’t stand
20 Apr 2021 08:31 | 136
Column
A Code War has replaced The Cold War. And right now we’re losing it
There’s always someone to blame for bad infosec, but never a willingness to make meaningful change
10 Mar 2021 08:02 | 85
Column
How do we combat mass global misinformation? How about making the internet a little harder to use
We’re blinded by our trust of the Search box and its inscrutability
08 Feb 2021 07:48 | 162
Column
Breaking up big tech can make smartphones interesting again
We’re not upgrading to gorgeous new hardware because cloud services have stagnated
14 Dec 2020 07:04 | 40
Column
The revolution will not be televised because my television has been radicalised
When recommendation engines promote misinformation during a pandemic, it's a matter of life and death
16 Nov 2020 07:03 | 119
Column
To stop web giants abusing privacy, they must be prevented from respawning. Ever
History tells us tech companies just get bigger, even after being broken up or battered
16 Oct 2020 15:00 | 103
Column
Sadly, the web has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase 'nothing is true; everything is permitted'
Well, isn't this a lovely paranoid bed we've made for ourselves
05 Mar 2020 10:00 | 124
Column
Built to last: Time to dispose of the disposable, unrepairable brick
Maybe sustainability's not just for hipsters?
10 Feb 2020 10:04 | 213
Column
What if everyone just said 'Nah' to tracking?
Privacy is nearly dead, but we're not even close to getting over it
08 Jan 2020 11:00 | 223
Column
I cannae do it, captain, I'm giving it all she's got, but she just cannae take another dose of bullsh!t
A tricorder for food is possible, but the truth is trickier
04 Nov 2019 11:04 | 97
Comment
The immovable object versus the unstoppable force: How the tech boys club remains exclusive
The solution? A generation of woman being preferred for promotion over men
04 Oct 2019 10:22 | 150
Column
Like a grotty data addict desperately jonesing for its next fix, Google just can't stop misbehaving
It's time for an intervention
09 Sep 2019 10:02 | 109
Feature
Silly money: Before you chuck your chequebook away, triple-check that super-handy digital coin
Only fools rush into mobile payments and cryptocurrencies
23 Jul 2019 09:00 | 115
Column
It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare
Tick, tick, boom?
19 Jun 2019 09:15 | 101
Column
Minecraft's my Nirvana. I found it hard, it's hard to find. Oh well, whatever... Never Mined
What on Earth are you playing at, Microsoft?
23 May 2019 08:06 | 49
Column
Complex automation won't make fleshbags obsolete, not when the end result is this dumb
We're messy, expensive, lazy, difficult – and entirely necessary
25 Apr 2019 08:10 | 81
Column
FAANGs for the memories: Breaking up big tech's biggest isn't a matter of if, but of when
Everyone's had enough of their sh!t
26 Mar 2019 10:20 | 45
Column
Cheap as chips: There's no such thing as a free lunch any Moore
Industry faces down Spectre of performance optimisation
05 Mar 2019 10:06 | 44
Column
Having AI assistants ruling our future lives? That's so sad. Alexa play Despacito
It's Amazon how quickly these monopolies begin
17 Jan 2019 09:15 | 88
Security
Between you, me and that dodgy-looking USB: A little bit of paranoia never hurt anyone
Let's lift our eyes from the balance sheet and take a look around...
13 Nov 2018 09:40 | 155
Security
'Moore's Revenge' is upon us and will make the world weird
When everything's smart, the potential for dumb mistakes becomes enormous
04 Jun 2018 07:29 | 107
On-Prem
Social networks have already violated the spirit of GDPR
Closing off researchers’ access to APIs in the name of ‘safety’ means we’ll never know how we’re being screwed
08 May 2018 07:02 | 35
On-Prem
Tech’s big lie: Relations between capital and labor don't matter
IBM shafting fifty-somethings shows business-as-usual hasn't been disrupted
03 Apr 2018 06:30 | 44
Science
Fear the wrath of robots, for their judgement is final and irrevocable
The right to be forgiven will soon be more important than the right to be forgotten
12 Mar 2018 08:02 | 26
AI + ML
Voice assistants are always listening. So why won't they call police if they hear a crime?
We've given away our privacy for the wrong rewards
26 Feb 2018 07:34 | 126
Science
Face, face, face! Apple, TrueDepth and a nose-driven iPhone X game
Selfie-satisfied to augment reality with their mugs
13 Feb 2018 10:16 | 20
AI + ML
Talk down to Siri like it's a mere servant – your safety demands it
Voice assistants get samples of our voice that can be remixed and faked
12 Feb 2018 07:02 | 71
On-Prem
Death notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018
Done in by the weaponisation of optimisation, and now 2017 may be as good as it ever got
24 Jan 2018 07:03 | 218
Security
Smartphones' security enhancements just make them more dangerous
Is that incriminating data in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
08 Jan 2018 07:01 | 77
Science
Surveillance Capitalism thinks it won, but there's still time to unplug it
We gave up privacy for convenience, and 2018's the time to win both of them back
28 Nov 2017 07:02 | 79
Science
Your attention has value, personal cryptocurrency will advertise it
ICOs meet advertising in the end-game for the gig economy
14 Nov 2017 08:00 | 21
Science
Augmented reality: Like it or not, only Apple's ready for the data-vomit gush
It's all about AR... and iPhone has the X factor
13 Nov 2017 10:06 | 38
Science
It's time to rebuild the world for robots
We smoothed the world for cars, but assume robots will have eyes and ears
24 Oct 2017 07:01 | 55
Security
Leaky-by-design location services show outsourced security won't ever work
Google and Facebook can't – or won't – anticipate misuses of data that shouldn't exist
10 Oct 2017 07:03 | 88
Science
Alexa and her kind let the disabled or illiterate make the web work
But they need a marketplace and the cloud to make it happen
26 Sep 2017 07:03 | 23
Interview
Sure, HoloLens is cute, but Ford was making VR work before it was cool
Elizabeth Baron found genuine use for virtual reality in the design process
18 Sep 2017 11:16 | 12
On-Prem
The bigger the drone, the bigger the impact
Fast book delivery is a first world problem, but cargo-carriers might just slow down the growth of cities
11 Sep 2017 07:01 | 35
AI + ML
In the Pearl River Delta's electronics souks, AI lets the haggling happen
With three different forms of Chinese spoken across one mega-city, smartphone translation is essential
25 Jul 2017 07:03 | 12
Science
Good luck building a VR PC: Ethereum miners are buying all the GPUs
Once the tap turns on again, GPUs will restore PCs and edge computing to glory
10 Jul 2017 07:30 | 71
Science
Robots will enable a sustainable grey economy
Oldies will retain mobility and independence when Teslas can self-drive them to work or be sent out to do the shopping
29 Jun 2017 07:02 | 93
Security
Connectivity's value is almost erased by the costs it can impose
The internet made information flow on the cheap, but making it anti-fragile will cost plenty
13 Jun 2017 07:05 | 35
Star Wars New Hope @ 40
PAH! Four decades of Star Wars: No lightsabers, no palm-sized video calls
Sort of. Leia's a New Hope
24 May 2017 10:31 | 55
OPINION
Go ahead, stage a hackathon. But pray it doesn't work too well
Are you ready for an idea from the playground to challenge your organisation?
23 May 2017 06:01 | 21
Science
Facebook is abusive. It's time to divorce it
And lament that early browsers gave up on web site authoring tools and created monsters
08 May 2017 07:03 | 253
Personal Tech
TVs are now tablet computers without a touchscreen
And that's good because apps can handle codecs that broadcasters abandon
26 Apr 2017 07:27 | 134
Security
Machine vs. machine battle has begun to de-fraud the internet of lies
Standards help, too, as we fight to ensure the cost of sharing doesn't outweigh the benefits
10 Apr 2017 06:56 | 77
SaaS
OVH-VMware deal skips Australia, will snuff vCloud Air's public bits
Focus will be on Europe, US
05 Apr 2017 11:17 |
Science
Trump's America looks like a lousy launchpad, so can you dig Darwin?
The space boom is lifting off and there's only so many places close to the equator with heavy industry and stable government
27 Mar 2017 06:01 | 39
On-Prem
Can you ethically suggest a woman pursue a career in tech?
Efforts to engage women with STEM are useless if 'Bro culture' means they face years of harassment and frustration
13 Mar 2017 07:57 | 178
