Paywalls vs the digital tsunami

Today the New York Times retreats behind a paywall ‚ requiring regular readers to subscribe if...

Automated cars still ancestor to autonomous

A tragedy involving an Tesla S car was as much a warning as a sign of...

Picture this: phones as good as cameras

The new generation of cellphones comes with so many lenses, they can pretend to be as...

Please start this revolution without me

The iPad 2 went on sale this past weekend, and will no doubt break records. But...

Hot new phones offer choice at the top

Three powerful new name-brand phones mean anyone in the market for a mid-to-high-end smartphone is spoiled...

BlackBerry refuses to go away

When Facebook announced earlier this year that it would end support for WhatsApp on BlackBerry phones,...

When the invisible is the most revealing

The standardised physical appearance of new devices showcased at the IFA expo in Berlin this week...

The future is cloudy

Cloud computing may sound like an intimidating concept, but most of use it every day without...

When will we stop calling them phones?

If you don’t remember when phones were only used to talk to people, you may wonder...

You don’t have to make excuses for your old tech

The next ten years will see the most rapid advances in the history of technology, but...

The incredibly disappearing gadgets

Remember when you bought software in a box off the shelf? Then came the Internet and...

Data and the stars

An ambitious star-mapping project highlights the growing importance of big data and the cloud, writes ARTHUR...

The hacker, the scrapheap, and the first Apollo computer

A Tshwane computer engineer has tracked down one of the great treasures of the computer age...

Big health is driving big data

If big data seems to be something remote, think again: it’s becoming a big part of...

Dust off the old stuff

We all know that new technology becomes obsolete almost the moment we take it off the...

Bend it, shape it, this is the future of smartphones

In San Francisco last week, Lenovo unveiled what may well be the future of smartphones, writes...

Dolby’s beautiful noise

The future of sound is here, as Dolby brings “sound objects” to the living room, writes...

The broadband discount

Why does your 21Mbps wireless broadband modem behave like a dial-up connection? Are the networks lying...

Meet Futurecop, the VR policeman of tomorrow

The policeman of tomorrow will probably not look like Robocop, but will share many of his...

LG catches the rising curve of OLED

It’s a decade since the future possibilities of OLED TV first became obvious, and now that...