Technology and Business

The debate over the future of the new technology was between the US and EU. The danger for Britain is that we begin to look irrelevant

It’s 100 years since Werner Heisenberg developed the theory of quantum mechanics. No one could possibly have imagined how this discovery would be put to use in the future

China has upended the artificial intelligence war, and now anyone can win – shaking the assumptions of Trump, Musk and Starmer

As the Apprentice star calls for Britain to rejoin the EU, will the Brexiteers now demand he is banished from the Beeb?

Polygenic editing – making changes to DNA – is now a reality. But are the medical benefits outweighed by the ethical risks and hidden dangers?

The Chinese artificial intelligence company has sent shockwaves through the tech community. How did DeepSeek do it?

It might be useful for making Whitehall more efficient, but the potential downsides of the new technology are enormous

The nation’s problems are so deeply ingrained that no single technology could ever sweep them all away

As they can only take into account what they are given, they are fallible

American corporations are rushing to dump diversity and climate programmes as a far right regime takes power. Would the same happen here?

What happens when some of the men behind big tech – Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg – start going in a direction that makes you feel nauseous?

The tech giant’s groundbreaking new chip is a gamechanger in the field of supercomputers – and the basis of powerful and potentially transformative technologies

The self-styled 'Brexit hardman' has been reduced to flogging videos of himself on a celebrity website

What is mere storage space to them represents chunks of our lives that would otherwise go unremembered

The Labour government risks holding back a sector with huge economic potential. Can the UK’s digital entrepreneurs flourish without help from No.10?

The scientific developments in AI in 2024 were just the tip of the iceberg

It may not quite be ‘Google Maps of the human body’, but it’s not far off

With a declining industrial base, a lack of support for emerging sectors, and a shaky financial landscape, the country’s downturn might be here to stay

As users joining the “Xodus” are discovering, the platform is very different from Elon Musk’s kingdom

The philosoper’s ethical legacy lives on in the form of a bot – but its hectoring, evangelical tone means it is far from convincing

For years, scientists have been trying to undermine the cornerstone of modern fundamental physics, but it stubbornly refuses to break

The social media platform has become so vile and corrupted that no politician should be anywhere near it

Is AI really science, or just hi-tech number crunching?

Online life has changed over the past five years or so, and not for the better. The algorithm has taken over entirely

Artificial intelligence is ruining the internet we once loved

As Nobel season approaches, speculation has begun in the scientific community

The military’s investment in the technologies of invisibility should be a cause for concern

Sponsors’ stalls at the party’s Liverpool get-together shows how much the political axis has shifted

Israel’s string of detonations across Lebanon is a stunning victory for its covert operative – but it may well backfire

While Europe has under-invested, China has invested. The UK needs to take notice

But we won’t be there to reap the benefits of modernisation

He’s already the richest man on the planet. Now Elon Musk is going after even more power