How the metaverse will help us connect in the future workplace
The virtual world of the metaverse has the power to overcome the lack of in-person connection from the changing nature of work. Covid-19 forced the introduction of working from home...
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Netflix acquires Roald Dahl’s back catalogue
Netflix has acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company for GBP500m, its largest to date, marking...
It’s a fair COP26: Online shopping isn’t sustainable. But these startups can help
Sustainable shopping startups are having a moment, just in time for COP26. New businesses aimed at changing consumerism for the...
Uber rolls out radical innovation for driver satisfaction: Pensions
Ride-hailing company Uber is launching a pension scheme for its 70,000 UK drivers that will require it to make payments...
Robot farmers will require 5G, but agriculture is getting smart with IoT
There is now an autonomous “field robot” which can pull weeds faster, and presumably more accurately, than any farm worker...
Zoomtopia demonstrates how far Zoom has come – and how far it may go
In a short span of time, Zoom has jettisoned its video-centric roots and blossomed into a holistic Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) player. But Zoom has not been content with…
Inside Cervest’s plan to map the world’s climate risk
It was five in the morning when Iggy Bassi got a phone call telling him that a $6m mill on his sustainable farm in Ghana, West Africa, had been flattened…
“Apple lied” – Epic Games CEO responds to Fortnite App Store ban
The CEO of Epic Games has accused Apple of lying after the tech giant said it will not reinstate the Fortnite maker’s iOS developer account – effectively continuing its App…
US and China: Two different approaches to teenagers and social media
There is mounting evidence that social media platforms like Instagram can be harmful to teenagers. Worse still, Facebook knows and shows little plans to protect users of any age on…
CTO Talk: Q&A with Terra Virtua’s Jawad Ashraf
Jawad Ashraf is the CTO and co-founder at Terra Virtua, the marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The NFT craze has cooled down slightly from the early months of 2021. Back…
Vodafone issues 5G/IoT call to action in advance of COP26
UK telecoms operator Vodafone warned in September that the UK government has much more to do to meet aggressive emissions reduction targets that call for a 78% reduction in carbon…
