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Robots Japan: Aiko Chihira, a humanoid robot that can blink and speak developed by Toshiba Corp, staffs the information desk of a high-end department store in Tokyo.

1 Nov 2017 7 minute read

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Japan: building the future, living in the past?

How Japanese society and robots match up, by Christopher Simons.

Industrial robots China

1 Nov 2017 5 minute read

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Robots, not humans: official policy in China

Industrial robots are being put to work on a huge scale. Jenny Chan looks at the case of Foxconn.

Audrey Watters AI

1 Nov 2017 2 minute read

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Audrey Watters: ‘AI is ideological’

Think of computer code as new rules governing society – who gets to enforce it? asks Audrey Watters.

Edtech: will Google take over the classroom?

31 Aug 2017 6 minute read

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Will Google take over the classroom?

Tamasin Cave reports on the edtech players pushing for radical changes in schools.

8 Feb 2017 5 minute read

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An ‘Informational Right to the City’?

What rights do citizens have, not just to public and private spaces, but to their digital equivalents? Mark Graham...

1 Jan 2017 7 minute read

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A photographic account of changes over the years in: housing; water; education; health; sanitation; food and farming;...

5 Dec 2016 5 minute read

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Meet Africa's brightest young inventors

Stair-climbing wheelchairs and electric tuk-tuks are among local engineers’ answers to the many challenges facing their...

16 Nov 2016 3 minute read

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Wolfgang Streeck: how will capitalism end?

Capitalism's end might be in sight, but it might not be good news, German sociologist Wolfgang Streeck warned in a conference...

2 Nov 2016 4 minute read

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Why worker-led monitoring is needed to challenge electronic sweatshops

An alternative global strategy for the protection and promotion of workers’ human rights in ICT supply chains is emerging,...

1 Nov 2016 8 minute read

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Blinded by 'technology'

For all the fancy packaging, many of our gadgets have nothing to do with capitalist success stories. Bob Hughes...

1 Jul 2016 12 minute read

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Smiley-faced monopolists: how Google, Facebook and Amazon won the world

Does it matter that these titans are so successful? Vanessa Baird examines what their domination means for...

1 Jul 2016 8 minute read

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Can search engine rankings swing elections?

Research psychologist Robert Epstein on how the new technologies invisibly shape public opinion – and what we...

1 Jul 2016 5 minute read

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No, Mr Zuckerberg: India's fight for freedom against Facebook

Few can resist the tech titans. Prabir Purkayastha tells the story of Indians who went into battle against...

1 Jul 2016 3 minute read

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Beating the digital titans

You can take action at a practical and technological level – and a political one.

1 May 2016 11 minute read

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Technology as if people mattered*

The world's poor are still losing out. They need a better deal, argues Dinyar Godrej.

1 May 2016 1 minute read

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Mind the technology gap - the facts

Technology can be a big enabler – yet the difference in terms of what’s available to rich and poor is vast.

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