Berenice Baker
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10 Dec
Perlego: The subscription e-reader aiming to democratise education
Perlego is novel e-reader technology available through a subscription app for student and business users who would otherwise be paying eye-watering sums for books they may only read once.
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5 Nov
Graphene: From incremental innovation to disruptive design
Graphene layers were only first successfully extracted from graphite in 2004, but chances are graphene is already in your mobile phone, car, tennis racquet or the wings of an aircraft you’ve flow in.
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25 Oct
Dug Song of Duo Security on Cisco, cybersecurity and skateboarding
A former member of elite hacker group w00w00, Dug Song co-founded Duo Security in 2010 with Jon Oberheide, specialising in multi-factor authentication.
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17 Oct
Stuart Semple on art, technology and the quest for the blackest black paint
Over a 20-year career, British artist Stuart Semple has developed a vast and wide-ranging portfolio with a theme of society at its heart.
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30 Sep
Norwegian Refugee Council: The importance of internet and tech training for displaced people
During the Syrian crisis, people fleeing the conflict travelled to Turkey and on to Europe via the Greek islands.
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9 Sep
Taleemabad: The app spreading education across Pakistan
In Pakistan, 51% of people are expected to own smartphones by 2020, but 48% of children cannot read a simple sentence by the time they leave primary education.
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23 Aug
Technology and the contemporary artist: An interview with Bryan The Girl
New Haven, Connecticut-based professional artist and educator Bryan Schiavone, known by her huge online following as Bryan The Girl, is recognised for her pen-and-ink crosshatching style, a method that dates back to the Renaissance to add depth and texture to drawings.
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19 Jul
Space soundbites: James Burke and Helen Sharman on the Apollo programme
Following the London Science Museum’s screening of the new Apollo 11 documentary on Wednesday, the UK’s first British cosmonaut and the first woman to visit the space station Helen Sharman held a two-way interview with veteran science broadcaster James Burke.
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1 Jul
The design-led future of work according to Infosys
In June, multinational technology consultancy Infosys opened its Brilliant Basics experience design and innovation studio in London’s creative hub Shoreditch.
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22 May
Honor 20’s impressive specs fail to bolster Huawei’s reputation
It was always going to be an uphill struggle for Chinese tech giant Huawei’s offshoot Honor to launch its new camera-led Honor 20 phone range, but even high-fidelity 30x zoom couldn’t help the company see the elephant in the room.
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16 May
Pluralsight sets technology conference gender balance bar high
“Diversity drives innovation” has been the battle cry of many tech giants in recent years, and to a company they boast admirable inclusivity programmes.
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14 May
Michael Dell on digital transformation: ‘Black Mirror tells us what not to do’
Verdict was exclusively invited to a round table with Michael Dell at Dell Technologies World earlier this month.
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10 May
Ten things we learnt at Dell Technologies World 2019
In an era when technology takes the blame for many of the world’s woes, Michael Dell made no apologies for being a technology optimist at Dell Technologies World, striding to centre stage to deliver his keynote to the strains of We Will Rock You.
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22 Mar
How machine learning and IoT can help the world’s poorest people
Plummeting cost-to-compute is making machine learning, (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT) applications more accessible than ever.
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15 Feb
Is Orbex the European SpaceX?
Entrepreneur-led and with soaring ambitions for transforming commercial spaceflight – not to mention a name ending in -ex – Orbex has drawn inevitable comparisons to SpaceX.
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16 Nov
Unusual advent calendars for 2018: Seven alternative Christmas countdowns
Advent calendars have come a long way from their roots as paper windows opening onto printed festive images.
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3 Oct
Transforming tech training in the Silicon Slopes: A visit to Salt Lake City’s Pluralsight
Walk down any street in Salt Lake City and the chances are that, in sharp contrast to the pancake-flat city centre, you’ll see picturesque mountains on the horizon.
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11 Jun
UK drone standards aim to tame ‘Wild West’ airspace
Commercial drone use is well on its way to becoming commonplace, transforming lives with applications in infrastructure, agriculture, medicine, delivery and many other fields.