Since the first aeroplane flight more than 100 years ago, aeroplanes have been propelled using moving surfaces such as propellers and turbines. Most have been powered by fossil-fuel combustion. Electroaerodynamics, in which electrical forces accelerate ions in a fluid1,2, has been proposed as an alternative method of propelling aeroplanes—without moving parts, nearly silently and without combustion emissions3–6.

Every year, Pacific Content asks the best and brightest in the podcast industry for their predictions about the year ahead. According to the experts, 2020 will be explosive, combative, experimental…

Dutch bank ING is working on developing technology to help clients safely store digital assets, according to people familiar with the matter.

Australia said on Thursday technology giants such as Facebook Inc and Google will have to agree to new rules to ensure they do not abuse their market power and damage competition, or the government will impose new controls on them.

The woes experienced by the over-hyped AR firm were easily predictable – but the backlash will cause headaches for the sector at large

Apple Inc’s iPhone shipments in China fell more than 35% in November, marking their second straight double-digit decline as sales of the cheaper iPhone 11 remained sluggish, brokerage Credit Suisse said on Thursday.

Older folks in Japan are using exoskeletons to help them do their jobs as they are spending more of their lives in the workforce, as New Scientist reports.

The startup, called Diagonal Works, will aim to find new ways to improve towns and cities with software.

Netflix spends $15 Billion per year on Original Content, and pays another $13 Billion each year to license content from other studios. Other expenditures include technology and marketing, each…

Amazon has been steadily growing its logistics operation over the last decade, and it now delivers more than half of all Amazon packages in the US, according to an estimate from Morgan Stanley published on Thursday and reported by CNBC. That’s a staggering increase over the course of the last few years.

Jean-Eric Paquet has a €10bn war chest to turn the European Innovation Council into a “unicorn factory”.

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The post-industrial, creative and entrepreneurial society is emerging. Entrepreneurs are like artists and artists are like entrepreneurs. They both “turn nothings into somethings”. Artists give a…

Computers were offline, offices were closed and city government’s website was down on Friday as New Orleans officials sought to contain a cyber attack against its network that started in

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How musicians hack Spotify playlists to promote their own songs

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Our annual list of what the most powerful people in business read this year.

Whether it was self-driving Google cars, Apple’s biggest iPhone, Tinder swipes, Netflix hits, Facebook scandals, Elon Musk or Edward Snowden, these were the moments that shaped the decade.

What will 2020 bring for European startups? We asked experts like Jan Hammer at Index, Taavet Hinrikus at Transferwise and Roxanne Varza at Station F.

Welcome to Pornhub’s 7th annual Year in Review, where we bring you 2019’s hottest trends, terms, searches, and a recap of everything that happened this

Od września 2020 r. utrudniony dostęp do stron dla dorosłych?

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Over the past decade, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix, Apple, and Google have been at the cutting edge of corporate tax avoidance.

Mateusz Kozak i Wojtek Siudzinski rozmawiają o technologii, polityce, sztucznej inteligencji i motoryzacji.

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Machine learning and AI can now restore lost detail to blurry images. Many companies and labs have created such “super resolution” algorithms, but this software is now becoming commercially available, too. Pixelmator Pro is among the first image editors to offer such a tool.

Sony Music Entertainment has made a strategic investment in podcast production company Neon Hum to expand its development of original non-music programming.

Polski Związek Sportów Elektronicznych dołącza do Polskiego Komitetu Sportów Nieolimpijskich. To stawia esport na równi ze sztukami walki, wrotkarstwem i warcabami.

Największa przysługa, jaką konkurenci wyświadczyli Tesli, to lekceważenie jej latami. Największa przykrość, jaką Tesla wyrządza konkurentom to fakt, że nie upada. A może jednak?

A new report from think tank says some of the biggest companies in the country had effective tax rates of 0% or less in 2018.

It takes planning to make sure AI gatekeepers don’t bounce your résumé—sometimes for arbitrary reasons—before a human can make a call.

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Today the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite closed at an all-time record high of 8,814.23, up 0.91% on the day. The Nasdaq is up more than 32% on the year. Turning the clock back, the Nasdaq Composite is up around 60% from the end of 2016. Compared to the anti-records set in 2009 during the doldrums that […]

A new startup called MindMed could have the key to providing the upsides of psychedelic drugs for both focus and addiction treatment—while cutting out the downsides of tripping.

Looser rules are being considered for experimental therapies.