Black people made up only three per cent of the UK tech workforce, but disparities set in long before people reach employment | Continue reading
Instant loan apps have boomed in India during the pandemic. First they lend people money, then they harass and publicly shame them until they can’t cope anymore | Continue reading
Some long-haulers are closing in on their tenth month of symptoms. With no end in sight, many are worried about life after the pandemic | Continue reading
Mainstream mental-health care will embrace alternative active substances such as psilocybin | Continue reading
Crypto-collectables will upend online economies by bringing the benefits of the blockchain to art, fashion and video gaming | Continue reading
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As we wrestle with the economic downturn caused by Covid-19, we need to include climate in our recovery plans | Continue reading
In the Covid-19 era we need the public to trust governments with their data. And that means trusting technology, too | Continue reading
For decades, Katalin Karikó's work into mRNA therapeutics was overlooked by her colleagues. Now it's at the heart of the two leading coronavirus vaccines | Continue reading
The Sputnik V vaccine has attracted criticism. But it might help Moscow strengthen its global influence | Continue reading
Coronavirus showed how vulnerable our global food supply chains are, but growing closer to home could also solve our waste problem | Continue reading
Branches of the Southern Co-op are using facial recognition to look for potential shoplifters. The roll-out raises concerns about the creep of surveillance tech in the private sector | Continue reading
Patients put their trust in a therapy company to keep their notes and diagnoses private. Then the ransom demands arrived | Continue reading
E-mobility has historically been confined to the wealthy. Not anymore | Continue reading
Microsoft's productivity scores have come under fire from privacy campaigners. Teams also collects a lot of data | Continue reading
Remember GDPR's Article 27? Well, you might have to after Brexit happens | Continue reading
Stuck at home during the pandemic, problem gamblers have been hounded by betting ads | Continue reading
No startup has managed to grow meat products in the lab without using an expensive serum derived from animal blood. That could be about to change | Continue reading
The fiery crash was a result of several things going wrong at once, and the driver owes his life to a series of incremental safety improvements and new technologies in the sport | Continue reading
A bot automated deepfake abuse online. Researchers say their warnings have been ignored and Telegram has failed to remove it | Continue reading
How to get a city on its bike? Ask Copenhagen, where cyclists pedal an estimated 1.4 million kilometres every weekday | Continue reading
More cities are starting to pedestrianise central zones to minimize cars and eliminate deaths on public roads | Continue reading
The high-tech island nation has had a good pandemic, quickly squashing the virus without a national lockdown. What did Taiwan get right? | Continue reading
Edit-warring was already common as India descended into political polarisation. Then along came Covid-19 | Continue reading
Scammers are luring people into Google Drive documents in an attempt to get them to visit potentially malicious websites | Continue reading
The Black Lives Matter movement pushed companies to bolster diversity targets. New plans to meet them are flawed | Continue reading
The BBC's investigation found 80 per cent of child sexual abuse content it reported was not removed by the social network | Continue reading
Professional gaming is booming, with millions on offer for the best players. But esports is also taking a physical and mental toll – and some have decided that enough is enough | Continue reading
Post-Covid, we must build a new income distribution system that will provide society, and every individual, with much greater resilience | Continue reading
The Covid-19 pandemic has put the brakes on plans to abolish seasonal clock changes in Europe in 2021, but it remains a question of when not if | Continue reading
Banks might be forced to charge millions of people to keep their bank accounts open. For fintechs fighting to break even, it could be fatal | Continue reading
The series of Artemis missions aim to land the first woman on the Moon in 2024 | Continue reading
With remote learning now the norm, universities are using surveillance software to keep tabs on students who are not engaging with their studies | Continue reading
Seven months into the Covid-19 pandemic, we still don’t know how effective contact tracing apps are. What we do know is Bluetooth can be wildly inaccurate | Continue reading
An economy of tech billionaires and gig workers, with middle-income jobs undercut by automation, is not politically sustainable | Continue reading
Spreadsheets run the world. When they break, governments and companies turn to an elite group of experts to save the day | Continue reading
As millions of people flood the jobs market, companies are turning to biased and racist AI to sift through the avalanche of CVs | Continue reading
There’s a lot of talk of scientist divided over Covid-19, but when you look at the evidence any so-called divide starts to evaporate | Continue reading
The November 2019 shutdown showed, step by step, how Iran can cut itself off from the global internet | Continue reading
QAnon has an estimated 4.5 million followers worldwide. The race is on to trademark it to sell Q-branded hats, T-shirts, mugs and consulting services | Continue reading
Tech firms are giving their products ridiculously confusing and complex names. Here’s why | Continue reading
Propelled by a sludge of conspiracy theories related to Covid-19, QAnon is gaining a substantial UK following | Continue reading
YouTubers are using AI to bring history to life. But historians argue the process is nonsense | Continue reading
Surveilling software is booming thanks to Covid. And some employees have been tasked with monitoring their workmates’ productivity from home | Continue reading
Last month, sci-fi show Altered Carbon joined Sense8, The OA and Luke Cage in being axed from Netflix after just two seasons. Despite passionate fan protests, for the streaming service, it’s all about data | Continue reading
The arrival of the trade union movement in the UK’s tech sector follows more sustained activism by workers in the United States | Continue reading
Would you go back to the office if you were paid £55 a day for transport? What if you had free food? Your boss thinks you will | Continue reading
An mRNA Covid vaccine would be a world-first — representing not just a victory over the current virus, but a real step forward in the way we make vaccines | Continue reading