Telegraph Now Acting As PR Flacks For Microsoft
There was a time when the newspapers were written by people who knew something. No, not everything, but people did tend to be subject...
Lord Forbid That Slack Frees From The Tyranny Of Email
This is where we get one of those differences of opinion that makes markets. The idea that Slack would free us from the tyranny...
Deary Lordy Us – iPhone Rumour Machine Grinds Into Gear Again
It's that time of the year we're afraid - the iPhone rumour machine is grinding into gear. We've now got the entire summer of...
Maybe Life On Europa – No, The Moon, We Know Juncker’s Pickled
One of those oddities, an interesting and informative article at The Conversation. If there's salt on Europa then what sort of salt is it?...
La Liga’s Clever But Illegal Method Of Checking People Pay For Football Matches
Isn't this a clever - if illegal - use of the new technology over in Spain by La Liga? The problem to be solved...
What The Driverless Car Will Really Kill Is The Rail Network
As this piece from the Conversation points out, the technology really at risk from the driverless car is the long distance rail network. If...
Nationalising Science And Research Works About As Well As Nationalising Anything Else
Another reading of this paper is simply "Mariana Mazzucato is wrong" but then we knew that anyway. As Tyler Cowen points out:
…we suggest that...
The Joys Of Automated Checkouts At The Supermarket
From Our Man in Swindon:
But this week, things have got out of hand. The human-operated tills are now very much in the minority, reduced...
Matt Hancock’s Really Stupid Idea About Business Rates On The High Street
As we all know there's stupid, idiot and then politics. The last being the worst because people propose things just because they sound good...
Of Course Pregnancy Is At The Limit Of Human Endurance – That’s How Evolution...
An interesting finding about the link between endurance athletes and pregnancy. Which is that we can work out about how good endurance athletes can...