Category: Technology

It’s been almost exactly 15 years since Lehmann Brothers declared bankruptcy, marking the height of the financial crisis. Since then, we’ve entered the era of the “polycrisis” – where several catastrophic events are happening at once. We’re dealing with the aftermath of a pandemic, a war in Ukraine, extreme weather events, rising inflation and a […]

NASA’s first Asteroid sample has landed. Osiris-Rex sample return capsule lands in the Utah Desert. The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in […]

The UK’s long-debated online safety bill (OSB) has been approved by the House of Lords, clearing the way for it to become law. But it has pitted the government, which proposed the bill, against tech companies that provide secure messaging services. Critics say it will allow authorities in the UK to compel service providers to […]

Recently, I was walking with some fellow parents after nursery drop-off when we came across a five-pound note lying on the pavement. We stood around it for a moment, a bit awkwardly, until someone suggested putting it on a nearby bench. Then one of the parents remarked that we’d probably have behaved differently — that […]

Rare view of New Zealand from the Space Station captured by Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli, with its snow-capped Southern Alps mountain range pictured between the partly cloudy Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean, on Sept. 12, 2023. At the bottom right of the image, one of the International Space Station’s roll-out solar arrays […]

HiBob, an Israeli cloud-based human resources platform, has successfully raised an additional $150 million in capital for 2023, just 10 months after their last round of funding was secured, according to a statement released by the company. The company announced that they matched their 2022 amount last week, bringing the company’s capital total to […]

Vatoz 32-foot foiling yacht, is a new dynamic boat based on the original Foiler’s advantages and technology. Created by Enata Marine, Vatoz is the result of a visionary collaboration with the award-winning, world-renowned yacht designer, Timur Bozca. Production will be limited to 8 ultra-luxurious units. It’s the perfect example of the collaborations the company made […]

Each year, millions of birds fly into power lines, wind turbines and the other man-made structures that litter the open air space. These collisions frequently result in the death of birds and, if power systems go down, disrupt our lives and pose financial challenges for power companies. Numerous bird species, including macaws in Brazil, geese […]

When a Virgin Galactic commercial flight soared into space on 8 September 2023, there were two Virgin Galactic pilots, an instructor and three passengers on board – as well as two fossils of ancient prehuman relatives from South Africa. Timothy Nash, a businessman, carried a clavicle belonging to Australopithecus sediba and the thumb bone of […]

Around 15 years ago, I was on a European Space Agency (Esa) committee, looking at Esa’s strategy for proposed forthcoming space missions. Under consideration was a mission to an asteroid. Over dinner, one of the committee members, an astrophysicist, quizzed me on why we needed to visit one of these objects. “Nasa has already been […]