The Guardian; The big idea: what’s the secret of innovation? (2023)
Digital Organization
The Guardian: The company purging meetings from calendars: ‘Uninterrupted time is precious’ (2023)
The Guardian: Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks (2023)
Impact of AI on Society
The Guardian: Is modern life ruining our powers of concentration? (2023)
Digital Society
The Guardian: Amazon enters the age of robots. What does that mean for its workers? (2022)
Impact of Technology on Work and Employment
The Guardian: From migration to railways, how bad data infiltrated British politics (2022)
The Guardian: The big idea: is cooperation always a force for good? (2022)
Autistic scholar Temple Grandin: ‘The education system is screening out visual thinkers’ (2022)
Impact of Technology on Education
Can artificial intelligence really help us talk to the animals? (2022)
Digital Assistants
The big idea: should cars be banned from cities? (2022)
Impact of Technology on Cities
TechScape: Can the UK create a safer internet? (2022)
Security and Privacy
What are the most effective ways to get cars out of cities? (2022)
A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world (2022)
Service Management
Dignity in a Digital Age review: a congressman takes big tech to task (2022)
The Guardian: Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science? (2022)
The Guardian: Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (2022)
‘We need a new commons’: how city life can offer us the vital power of connection (2021)
‘It’s critical’: can Microsoft make good on its climate ambitions? (2021)
Impact of Technology on Environment
‘Our notion of privacy will be useless’: what happens if technology learns to read our minds? (2021)
Augmentation
The hidden climate costs of America’s free parking spaces (2021)
Big tech’s push for automation hides the grim reality of ‘microwork’ (2021)
Impact of Robotics on Society
Robots: stealing our jobs or solving labour shortages? (2021)
What will our eco-friendly homes of the future look like? (2021)
Cargo bikes deliver faster and cleaner than vans, study finds (2021)
Party’s over: Amsterdam plans to keep tourists ‘in penis outfits’ away (2021)
Massive internet outage hits websites including Amazon, gov.uk and Guardian (2021)
Theoretical physicist Chiara Marletto: ‘The universal constructor could revolutionise civilisation’ (2021)
Quantum Computing
Why France’s New Tech ‘Repairability Index’ Is a Big Deal (2021)
Two-way street: how Barcelona is democratising public space (2020)
DeepMind AI cracks 50-year-old problem of protein folding
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Machine Learning