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Any conversation of cryptocurrencies has to begin with an explanation of blockchain and why it’s so revolutionary. In essence, blockchain changes the way we transact with each other and allows us to move from a world of cloning (in which we have to make copies of files we want to send o…
Uber clearly wasn’t messing around when it said it would launch a pay-as-you-go flying ride-sharing service to metropolitan skylines. Using the name Uber Elevate, they’ve now signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to create a new air traffic control system to manage these low-flying aut…
Let’s take a moment to look into the not-too-distant future. Imagine that a robot has stolen your job and pushed you into a lower-wage occupation, if not out of the workforce altogether. Now, this isn’t science fiction, for a University of Oxford study estimated that due to advances in …
On September 12th, 1962, John F. Kennedy told the United States, “We choose to go to the Moon.” What JFK and the American public didn’t know yet was that by investing in its space programme, it was also getting memory foam, precision GPS, the cardiac pump, food safety …
With enough money, you can buy almost anything – even a bold new dawn.
Saudi Arabia made history by becoming the first country to grant citizenship to a robot. The humanoid robot, named Sophia, held a press conference in Riyadh in front in front leaders of the country’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), telling them how ‘honour…
France plans for every car on its roads to be electric by 2040; India aims a decade sooner, and Norway is already thirty per cent there. CNN's Nicki Shields asks whether electric vehicles can go the distance.
Drawing inspiration from the concept of the coal miner’s canary, the Urban Canary is an electronic pet that reacts to pollution. It was designed to be carried by a child as they go about their day. The idea is that, through various sensors, it continually monitors air pollution and gets…
An unlovely acronym for one of metropolitan New York's richest enclaves, DUMBO has reinvented its nineteenth-century industrial bones as the centre of Brooklyn's tech scene and a parade of outrageously expensive real estate.
Known as the King of Vintage to devotees like Victoria Beckham, Rihanna and Amal Clooney, William Banks-Blaney has turned William Vintage into a global reference, now selling his rarefied couture finds worldwide online.
Solar and wind powered, Nice Architects' EcoCapsule is a cosy abode that lets you live off the grid with an almost zero-carbon footprint. Small enough to ship anywhere, the portable home draws clever cues from boat design.
How does one turn the mundane into the exceptional? Ken Kessler considers Vertu's answer, transforming the most ubiquitous of modern devices into a covetable luxury object for those who would always choose excellence over disposability.