technology

Insurance company Axa crashed self-driving cars in the name of research

Of the 13,176 car accidents recorded in Switzerland in 2016, it’s thought around 90 percent were caused by the driver.…

Dixons Carphone trading suspended this morning after share price plummets

Dixons Carphone's share price fell over 25 percent this morning after the company was forced to cut its profit forecasts…

Samsung Galaxy Note 8 unveiled today: what has the company learnt since the Note 7 disaster?

Samsung is set to launch its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy Note 8, in New York today. The tech conglomerate…

Amid fears over AI weaponry, who are the experts calling for a ban on killer robots?

Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence program recently taught itself how to walk. Facebook’s AI developed its own language and fully autonomous…

These are all the ways AI is going to change the world – from the important to the frivolous

Now that we’re used to having the likes of Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri as part of our daily lives,…

The Ministry of Defence’s funding challenge is more than twice the size of Wales

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) faces one of its most serious "funding challenges" in a generation, according to a senior ‎aerospace,…

Google Glass is back (sort of) and other augmented reality glasses projects

Remember Google Glass, the first augmented reality glasses that Google released back in 2013? Whilst many thought the product was…

Want to create a fintech startup? Oxford University has a course for that

Oxford University, one of the most prestigious universities in the world, is getting behind the fintech hype by launching an…

From Blue Apron to SoundCloud, these tech companies are struggling. What’s next for them?

2017 has been a difficult year for a few technology companies. Uber has been dogged by scandal after scandal. Google…

A11 th0$e c0mp1ic@t3d pa$$words you’ve b33n u$ing ar3 u$e1ess

Sorry about it, folks, but apparently everything you know about passwords is wrong. That's according to the US's National Institute…