I was inspired by the recent Chinese initiative to crack down on children who browse all day on social media. So I put on my investigative journalist’s hat and met with Joanna (obviously an alias), who has since become a life raft in a sea of despair. This is her story. Hello, my name is […]
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Last Thursday, August 3rd, the Indian Government announced immediate restrictions on the importing of consumer electronic devices. This prompted the likes of Dell, Apple and Samsung to suspend all imports. New Delhi also announced that the restriction would not apply to inbound passengers carrying such devices in their luggage. The importing of restricted devices would […]
I’ve come to understand and respect the anxieties felt by women concerning breast cancer examinations. First, the very reason they’re having the examination. Second, the harmful levels of radiation the mammogram will expose their bodies to, during the test. Third, the accuracy of the test itself. In a report published in The Lancet Journal on […]
20 billion kilometres away, humankind’s loneliest piece of technology sent us a faint signal yesterday. And the message was: I’m still here, I’m still in working order, what would you like me to do? We live in a time when the world is terrified of so much recently unveiled technology. Yet here’s a remnant of […]
Population Implosion is the World’s Next Big Crisis You can talk about South Korea, Finland, Japan, France and Australia becoming increasingly infertile and people will nod their heads sagely. You can throw up a lot of facts about why testosterone is shriveling in this age of information, and men will avert their eyes and women […]
Pokémon now lures children to sleep better The game that has kept millions awake well into the early hours, is now an app that incentivizes a good night’s sleep. Pokémon, delivering sleepless nights since 1996, is now available in the form of Pokémon Sleep. This is how it works: The app is available for your […]
Twitter releases its final tweet One of the definitions of a successful brand is that the people who use it tend to think of it as their own. There was a famous occasion when Burger King didn’t make their iconic Whopper for one day. When people ordered it and were told it wasn’t being made […]
The Taiwan Semiconductor Company (TSMC) has delayed the operational start of its first microprocessor factory in Arizona by a year. This is due to a shortage of skilled workers. The skill required to oversee the manufacturing process is highly specialised and the company foresees the need to train American workers to supplement the skilled Taiwanese […]
The fifteen-member United Nations Security Council sat on Tuesday to talk about Artificial Intelligence. This was the first time we find the UN discussing AI. In fact, it’s the first time a multi-regional conference has been held about the mounting concerns of this powerful technology. AI is about to become “a runaway horse”, according to […]
Technology Impact Ushers in New Geological Epoch It’s called Anthropocene and it marks the end of the 11,700 year old Holecene epoch. Please don’t assume there’s a celebratory tone in this article. Because there’ll be now a layer of rock which carries traces of Plutonium, the radioactive element used to manufacture nuclear weapons. An historical […]