You take out your smartphone and log onto Amazon to make a credit card payment, transfer some money into your ISA savings account and, as a small business owner, check your current […]
Six Ways Open Banking Will Transform Financial Services
Why People And Robots Can Co-Exist In The Workplace
Machines are getting smarter, but many tasks and roles still need a human touch. Knowledge workers and robots that gather and mine data can co-exist in a world powered by artificial intelligence […]
Editing Brain Activity With Holography
What if we could edit the sensations we feel; paste in our brain pictures that we never saw, cut out unwanted pain or insert non-existent scents into memory? UC Berkeley neuroscientists are […]
An End to Traffic Jams? It Might Not Be a Dream
Three emerging technologies could soon transform the way we drive and go a long way toward eliminating traffic jams. In a new paper, Michael Ostrovsky of Stanford Graduate School of Business outlines these technologies — […]
Mr Frans Goetghebeur, Former Speaker At Bree/Schilde Summit Passes Away
We are sad to inform you Mr Frans Goetghebeur, former Chairman of the European Buddhist Union has passed away. Mr Goetghebeur was one of the speakers at the Bree/Schilde Summit in 2010. […]
Taming Big Tech, According To London School Of Economics
In the early days of the internet, the view that it would liberate, inform and empower people as a force for good was widely held. But following a series of scandals, where […]
New Technology Could Wean The Battery World Off Cobalt
Lithium-based batteries use more than 50 percent of all cobalt produced in the world. These batteries are in your cell phone, laptop and maybe even your car. About 50 percent of the […]
Ancient Bones Suggest First Humans Travelled Further Than We Think
Scientists have discovered an ancient bone in Saudi Arabia, dating back to 90,000 years ago. The relic is the oldest human (Homo sapiens) fossil to have been found outside of Africa and […]
NASA Ready to Study Heart of Mars
NASA is about to go on a journey to study the interior of Mars. The space agency held a news conference today at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, detailing […]
Why We Struggle To Get a Good Night’s Sleep As We Get Older
New research has identified the way age impairs the ability of the circadian clock in mammals to re-set itself when exposed to light, resulting in disruption to sleeping patterns and consequent threats […]
Giving Up Facebook Leads To a Drop in the Stress-related Hormone Cortisol, Study finds
Quitting Facebook for five days was associated with a drop in the stress hormone cortisol, according to a preliminary study published in the Journal of Social Psychology. “I have been a Facebook user […]
Is ‘Gut Feel’ a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
Most investments in startups should never be made, at least when using by-the-numbers reasoning. But funded they are. Laura Huang believes investors use gut instinct to manage that risk. The odds investors face when […]
Most Millennials Will Only Work For Purpose-driven Firms
Today’s talent is attracted to companies whose values match their own. The most attractive companies to today’s talent are driven by purpose, according to London Business School (LBS) experts. “Maybe we will […]
Facebook Data Breach Teaches Firms a Competitive Lesson
The world’s most dominant social media player has apologised, but will it change? The Cambridge Analytica scandal may have cost Facebook its top five rating in the S&P 500 market cap club, […]
