Mark Pesce

LIDAR in iPhones is not about better photos – it's about the future of low-cost augmented reality

Column The cost of kit to capture the real world is plummeting, thanks to Apple

Personal Tech11 May 2022 | 35

COVID-19 was a generational opportunity for change at work – and corporate blew it

Column Faux flexibility – and then back in the office where we can keep an eye on you ...

On-Prem19 Jan 2022 | 106

A proposal to beat below-the-belt selfies: Crowdsourced machine learning using victims' image stashes

Column Empty your inboxes, people, we can duck this problem together

Bootnotes22 Dec 2021 | 77

Zuck didn't invent the metaverse, but he's started a fight to control it

Column Begun, the Metaverse Wars have. And the metaverse will fight Facebook's attempts at domination

Software11 Nov 2021 | 70

It's one thing to have the world in your hands – what are you going to do with it?

Column Google won the patent battle against ART+COM, but we were left with little more than a toy

Off-Prem19 Oct 2021 | 18

Through the Looking Glass – holographic display hardware is great, but it's not enough

Review An intriguing proof of concept for real-time 3D arrives, but without the software it's just a gimmick

Personal Tech29 Sep 2021 | 45

Measuring your carbon footprint? There's no app for that

Column Smartphones can keep us informed about everything other than environmental impact. That needs to change

Applications15 Sep 2021 | 58

The web was done right the first time. An ancient 3D banana shows Microsoft does a lot right, too

Column It's wonderful that code written for Windows 3.1 still works well today

Columnists11 Aug 2021 | 135

Great reset? More like Fake Reset: Leaders need a reality check if they think their best staff will give up hybrid work

Column Fortune favours the flexible in the new normal

Offbeat28 Jul 2021 | 98

Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class

Column Opting out of data monetisation is neither easy nor cheap

Security15 Jul 2021 | 89

Imagine a world where Apple shacked up with Xerox in the '80s: How might it look today?

Feature An alternative history of the computer revolution

On-Prem14 Jul 2021 | 91

Data collected to promote public health must never be surrendered to police

Column Voluntary location-tracking to crimp COVID is too good a tool to waste

Legal01 Jul 2021 | 108

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The best time to build a semiconductor foundry is 5 years ago

Column The history of computing is all change, all the time. Yet silicon-slingers let the chips fail where they may

On-Prem09 Jun 2021 | 50

Blessed are the cryptographers, labelling them criminal enablers is just foolish

Column Preserving privacy is hard. I know because when I tried, I quickly learned not to play with weapons

Security12 May 2021 | 171

Harassers and bullies succeed in tech because silence is encouraged

Column Countless people signed away the right to have their trauma acknowledged, and that can’t stand

Legal20 Apr 2021 | 136

A Code War has replaced The Cold War. And right now we’re losing it

Column There’s always someone to blame for bad infosec, but never a willingness to make meaningful change

Columnists10 Mar 2021 | 85

How do we combat mass global misinformation? How about making the internet a little harder to use

Column We’re blinded by our trust of the Search box and its inscrutability

Networks08 Feb 2021 | 162

Breaking up big tech can make smartphones interesting again

Column We’re not upgrading to gorgeous new hardware because cloud services have stagnated

SaaS14 Dec 2020 | 40

The revolution will not be televised because my television has been radicalised

Column When recommendation engines promote misinformation during a pandemic, it's a matter of life and death

Science16 Nov 2020 | 119

To stop web giants abusing privacy, they must be prevented from respawning. Ever

Column History tells us tech companies just get bigger, even after being broken up or battered

Security16 Oct 2020 | 103

Sadly, the web has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase 'nothing is true; everything is permitted'

Column Well, isn't this a lovely paranoid bed we've made for ourselves

Security05 Mar 2020 | 124

Built to last: Time to dispose of the disposable, unrepairable brick

Column Maybe sustainability's not just for hipsters?

Personal Tech10 Feb 2020 | 213

What if everyone just said 'Nah' to tracking?

Column Privacy is nearly dead, but we're not even close to getting over it

Security08 Jan 2020 | 223

I cannae do it, captain, I'm giving it all she's got, but she just cannae take another dose of bullsh!t

Column A tricorder for food is possible, but the truth is trickier

Science04 Nov 2019 | 97

The immovable object versus the unstoppable force: How the tech boys club remains exclusive

Comment The solution? A generation of woman being preferred for promotion over men

Legal04 Oct 2019 | 150

Like a grotty data addict desperately jonesing for its next fix, Google just can't stop misbehaving

Column It's time for an intervention

Legal09 Sep 2019 | 109

Silly money: Before you chuck your chequebook away, triple-check that super-handy digital coin

Feature Only fools rush into mobile payments and cryptocurrencies

Science23 Jul 2019 | 115

It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare

Column Tick, tick, boom?

Personal Tech19 Jun 2019 | 101

Minecraft's my Nirvana. I found it hard, it's hard to find. Oh well, whatever... Never Mined

Column What on Earth are you playing at, Microsoft?

Personal Tech23 May 2019 | 49

Complex automation won't make fleshbags obsolete, not when the end result is this dumb

Column We're messy, expensive, lazy, difficult – and entirely necessary

AI + ML25 Apr 2019 | 81

FAANGs for the memories: Breaking up big tech's biggest isn't a matter of if, but of when

Column Everyone's had enough of their sh!t

Legal26 Mar 2019 | 45

Cheap as chips: There's no such thing as a free lunch any Moore

Column Industry faces down Spectre of performance optimisation

Personal Tech05 Mar 2019 | 44

Having AI assistants ruling our future lives? That's so sad. Alexa play Despacito

Column It's Amazon how quickly these monopolies begin

AI + ML17 Jan 2019 | 88

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...

Security13 Nov 2018 | 155

'Moore's Revenge' is upon us and will make the world weird

When everything's smart, the potential for dumb mistakes becomes enormous

Security04 Jun 2018 | 107

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

On-Prem08 May 2018 | 35

Tech’s big lie: Relations between capital and labor don't matter

IBM shafting fifty-somethings shows business-as-usual hasn't been disrupted

On-Prem03 Apr 2018 | 44

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

Science12 Mar 2018 | 26

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

AI + ML26 Feb 2018 | 126

Face, face, face! Apple, TrueDepth and a nose-driven iPhone X game

Selfie-satisfied to augment reality with their mugs

Science13 Feb 2018 | 20

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

AI + ML12 Feb 2018 | 71

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

On-Prem24 Jan 2018 | 218

Smartphones' security enhancements just make them more dangerous

Is that incriminating data in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?

Security08 Jan 2018 | 77

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

Science28 Nov 2017 | 79

Your attention has value, personal cryptocurrency will advertise it

ICOs meet advertising in the end-game for the gig economy

Science14 Nov 2017 | 21

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

Science13 Nov 2017 | 38

It's time to rebuild the world for robots

We smoothed the world for cars, but assume robots will have eyes and ears

Science24 Oct 2017 | 55

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

Security10 Oct 2017 | 88

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

Science26 Sep 2017 | 23

Sure, HoloLens is cute, but Ford was making VR work before it was cool

Interview Elizabeth Baron found genuine use for virtual reality in the design process

Science18 Sep 2017 | 12

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

On-Prem11 Sep 2017 | 35

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

AI + ML25 Jul 2017 | 12

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

Science10 Jul 2017 | 71

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

Science29 Jun 2017 | 93

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

Security13 Jun 2017 | 35

PAH! Four decades of Star Wars: No lightsabers, no palm-sized video calls

Star Wars New Hope @ 40 Sort of. Leia's a New Hope

Science24 May 2017 | 55

Go ahead, stage a hackathon. But pray it doesn't work too well

OPINION Are you ready for an idea from the playground to challenge your organisation?

Devops23 May 2017 | 21

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LIDAR in iPhones is not about better photos – it's about the future of low-cost augmented reality

'Bigger is better' is back for hardware – without any obvious benefits

The right to repairable broadband befits a supposedly critical utility

Apple has missed the video revolution

COVID-19 was a generational opportunity for change at work – and corporate blew it

A proposal to beat below-the-belt selfies: Crowdsourced machine learning using victims' image stashes

Zuck didn't invent the metaverse, but he's started a fight to control it

It's one thing to have the world in your hands – what are you going to do with it?

Through the Looking Glass – holographic display hardware is great, but it's not enough

Measuring your carbon footprint? There's no app for that

The web was done right the first time. An ancient 3D banana shows Microsoft does a lot right, too

Great reset? More like Fake Reset: Leaders need a reality check if they think their best staff will give up hybrid work

Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class

Imagine a world where Apple shacked up with Xerox in the '80s: How might it look today?

Data collected to promote public health must never be surrendered to police

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The best time to build a semiconductor foundry is 5 years ago

Blessed are the cryptographers, labelling them criminal enablers is just foolish

Harassers and bullies succeed in tech because silence is encouraged

A Code War has replaced The Cold War. And right now we’re losing it

How do we combat mass global misinformation? How about making the internet a little harder to use

Breaking up big tech can make smartphones interesting again

The revolution will not be televised because my television has been radicalised

To stop web giants abusing privacy, they must be prevented from respawning. Ever

Sadly, the web has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase 'nothing is true; everything is permitted'

Built to last: Time to dispose of the disposable, unrepairable brick

What if everyone just said 'Nah' to tracking?

I cannae do it, captain, I'm giving it all she's got, but she just cannae take another dose of bullsh!t

The immovable object versus the unstoppable force: How the tech boys club remains exclusive

Like a grotty data addict desperately jonesing for its next fix, Google just can't stop misbehaving

Silly money: Before you chuck your chequebook away, triple-check that super-handy digital coin

It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare

Minecraft's my Nirvana. I found it hard, it's hard to find. Oh well, whatever... Never Mined

Complex automation won't make fleshbags obsolete, not when the end result is this dumb

FAANGs for the memories: Breaking up big tech's biggest isn't a matter of if, but of when

Cheap as chips: There's no such thing as a free lunch any Moore

Having AI assistants ruling our future lives? That's so sad. Alexa play Despacito

Between you, me and that dodgy-looking USB: A little bit of paranoia never hurt anyone

'Moore's Revenge' is upon us and will make the world weird

Social networks have already violated the spirit of GDPR

Tech’s big lie: Relations between capital and labor don't matter

Fear the wrath of robots, for their judgement is final and irrevocable

Voice assistants are always listening. So why won't they call police if they hear a crime?

Face, face, face! Apple, TrueDepth and a nose-driven iPhone X game

Talk down to Siri like it's a mere servant – your safety demands it

Death notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018

Smartphones' security enhancements just make them more dangerous

Surveillance Capitalism thinks it won, but there's still time to unplug it

Your attention has value, personal cryptocurrency will advertise it

Augmented reality: Like it or not, only Apple's ready for the data-vomit gush

It's time to rebuild the world for robots

Leaky-by-design location services show outsourced security won't ever work

Alexa and her kind let the disabled or illiterate make the web work

Sure, HoloLens is cute, but Ford was making VR work before it was cool

The bigger the drone, the bigger the impact

In the Pearl River Delta's electronics souks, AI lets the haggling happen

Good luck building a VR PC: Ethereum miners are buying all the GPUs

Robots will enable a sustainable grey economy

Connectivity's value is almost erased by the costs it can impose

PAH! Four decades of Star Wars: No lightsabers, no palm-sized video calls

Go ahead, stage a hackathon. But pray it doesn't work too well

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