In many parts of the world, the smartphone market has become saturated. But for less economically developed nations, it's set to expand and help development.

Felix Richter · Statista 06 Mar 2019

Fourth Industrial Revolution

India wants exclusive rights to the tonnes of data lying with e-commerce firms in the country

Indian online shoppers’ data is a “national asset” and a “mine of natural resource,” which the Indian government wants exclusive rights to.

Durba Ghosh · Quartz 04 Mar 2019

Gender Parity

Pixar's new short film is targeting toxic workplace cultures

'Purl' is an 8-minute short animation from Disney that follows a ball of yarn as she starts her new job in a finance company called 'B.R.O'.

Chris Morris · Fortune 01 Mar 2019

Digital Communications

Studying an emerging sign language won’t kill it – so what are linguists scared of?

Emerging sign languages could reveal how all language evolved – but keeping these fragile languages isolated for research may mean the people who rely on them lose out.

Michael Erard · Mosaic Science 01 Mar 2019

Mental Health

To better treat depression, these phone surveys track real-time emotions

Tracking someone’s emotional changes in real time using a smartphone could improve treatment for depression, new research suggests.

Bert Gambini · Futurity 28 Feb 2019

Big Data

User choice: the simple solution to the tech trust crisis

The temptation to profit from personal data has to be stemmed if the internet of things is to fulfill its potential.

John Chen 27 Feb 2019

Emerging Technologies

Streaming music isn’t as green as you might think. Here’s why

Assumptions around the environmental friendliness of streamed or on-demand services make a superficial kind of sense. But there’s more to the cloud than meets the eye.

Sean Fleming 27 Feb 2019

Emerging Technologies

These are the countries where most adults still don’t have a smartphone

Massive new mobile markets are emerging across the developing world, but smartphones are still out of reach for the world’s poorest.

Johnny Wood 27 Feb 2019

Digital Communications

Here's what 5G will bring in 2019

From making ultra-high definition video and cloud-based virtual reality possible, to delivering healthcare remotely, 5G is much more than just a faster version of 4G.

Ken Hu 26 Feb 2019

Cybersecurity

Overcoming the paralysis of trust management across a fractured IT landscape

The explosive growth of data is making it ever harder to ensure digital security, privacy, accountability and integrity. But companies should look to how enterprise IT tackled the issue o...

Adam Ghetti 26 Feb 2019

Education and Skills

Schools must look to the future when connecting students to the internet

A robust, future-proof and cost-efficient internet connection for students, in and out of school, is the foundation of a 21st-century education. But many schools are blindly replicating t...

Oren Pinsky 26 Feb 2019

Fourth Industrial Revolution

This is China’s plan to eclipse Silicon Valley

China is already on track to become the world’s biggest economy. Now it has outlined its plans to create its own version of Silicon Valley to rival, and even overtake, the original.

Alex Thornton 22 Feb 2019

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