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Tech boss Jack Dorsey vows to donate $1bn to fight coronavirus
- Technology
- April 8, 2020, 07:18
Jack Dorsey, chief executive of Twitter and Square, said he planned to donate $1 billion (€920 million), or just under a third of his total wealth, to(...)

TikTok chief keen to prove Chinese-owned video app is not a menace
- Motors
- November 21, 2019, 05:45
Like almost everybody who runs a big tech company these days, Alex Zhu, the head of the of-the-moment video app TikTok, is worried about an image prob(...)

Feeding cities with less waste
- Innovation
- September 26, 2019, 02:17
A gigantic steel cylinder shines in the afternoon sun outside The Plant, a 93,500sq ft “living food laboratory” here. To the untrained eye, it looks l(...)

In a world deluged by plastics, a giant factory rises to manufacture more
- Manufacturing
- August 12, 2019, 12:18
The 386-acre property looks like a giant Lego set rising from the banks of the Ohio River. It is one of the largest active construction projects in th(...)

How $1bn from Microsoft could help to mimic the brain
- Innovation
- August 1, 2019, 04:03
As the waitress approached the table, Sam Altman held up his phone. That made it easier to see the dollar amount typed into an investment contract he (...)

Big Tech knows you better than your wife – time for a data divorce?
- Innovation
- July 18, 2019, 03:25
Germany’s top antitrust enforcer, Andreas Mundt, recently asked a room full of lawyers, academics and regulators to imagine a wall filled with their p(...)

Elon Musk looks to wire your brain to the Internet
- Innovation
- July 17, 2019, 07:43
Elon Musk aspires to make inserting a computer connection into your brain as safe and painless as Laser eye surgery. Neuralink, a company in which Mus(...)

What Trump’s Huawei reversal means for the future of 5G
- Innovation
- July 4, 2019, 04:49
In an impromptu question-and-answer session in late June at the White House, US president Donald Trump was asked about the nation’s efforts to block H(...)

Why hire a celebrity influencer when you can design your own?
- Technology
- June 20, 2019, 06:00
The kiss between Bella Hadid and Miquela Sousa, part of a Calvin Klein commercial last month, struck many viewers as unrealistic, even offensive. Had(...)

US developers creating new homes for surging esports
- Innovation
- June 6, 2019, 03:04
The rise of esports – electronic sports – is no surprise to anyone who has followed the video game industry. They are expected to bring in more than €(...)