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Is technology contributing to increased inequality?
Christoffer O. Herns Contributor Christoffer O. Herns is chief digital officer of Skandiabanken, Norway’s first pure internet bank and leading challenger bank. More posts by this contributor: Cash is no longer king What Facebook’s European payment license could mean for banks As global poverty continues to decline, another issue emerges. According to the World Economic Forum, rising […]
Intel is ready to unleash its super fast secret weapon
Intel is ready to unleash Optane. If you’ve ever waited for a webpage to load, took a lap around the office while your computer rendered 4K video or watched in dismay as your favorite video game stuttered to life, you know that computers are struggling to keep up with all the data. Intel isn’t down […]
Can you judge a book by its odour?
Cocoa, wood, rusks every book has a distinctive smell. And each smell says something about how and when it was made, and where it has been. What does it mean to experience a book? To a bibliophile such as Alberto Manguel, smell plays an important part. In a talk at the British Library this week, […]
Disrupt NY 2017
Instagram is killing it. The photo-sharing behemoth has topped 600 million users, with the most recent 100 million joining in the last year. Plus, the company now has more than 1 million active advertisers, building on Facebooks already-dominant advertising business. But there is also a question of whether Instagram can continue iterating in a unique […]
Aurora’s massive LightningStrike VTOL UAV just got one step closer to reality
A vertical take-off and landing craft (VTOL) that can stand toe-to-toe with combat helicopters, a concept taken directly from sci-fi, it’s almost the default futuristic military ship among Hollywood epics. A real one just finished its first test flight program, as the Aurora Flight Science LightningStrike XV-24A Demonstrator Craft ended its first stage of flight […]