Technology and Business

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

Old mistakes are catching up with the German industrial colossus

Unless we act now, it will be used in the destruction of our democracy

Post-Brexit subsidies were supposed to save the countryside. Instead they’ve given landowners incentives to oust their tenant farmers

The exploration of genetic modification for space travel raises ethical questions about altering human biology

In 5,000 years’ time, will people marvel at the accomplishments achieved today?

I’m not one for boycotts, but I make an exception for business leaders who backed Brexit

The time may come where they’re viewed as fellow workers, treated with respect and consideration

After over a decade of painful under-investment in technology, the UK has an opportunity now to lead the world once again

Posts are aimed at left and right, with tactics that are a hallmark of Russian security

Why have we failed to invest anywhere near as much as our rivals – and what can we do to put things right?

I will miss the London Underground’s lack of internet

If the tech bros will steal Scarlett Johansson’s voice, they’ll steal anything

Don’t believe everything you think you hear

We must defeat the software of despair and stop its rewiring of our politics

Thames Water is a national scandal, but in Wales a not-for-profit counterpart goes from strength to strength

But, according to Jean-Paul Sartre’s thinking, this may not be the cause for concern that society portrays it to be

Elon Musk’s car company has hit a rough patch of road - and things could be about to get even worse