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The big read: Tech world faces up to burning issues

As we race towards a technological renaissance, we find ourselves more vulnerable than ever to a great cosmic power, writes James Fitzgerald. Techies around the world would have been hard-wired for insights…

Europe: Britain never did get it

When Theresa May declared in her landmark Brexit speech this week that it was her fervent wish that Europe should succeed with the European Union (EU) project, it struck me how strange…


Apple gets green light from Greenpeace

We are well aware that industries such as manufacturing, transport and energy have big environmental footprints, but what about big data’s? About 400 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute….




Higher education bill faces stiff examination

Sally Hunt of the University and College Union tells Chief-Exec.com  that the Government’s planned shake-up risks higher fees, lower quality and untold damage to the sector’s global reputation The controversial Higher Education and…


Union warns of Brexit brain drain

Higher education in the United Kingdom will be hard hit by Brexit, according to 90 per cent of UK lecturers and professors in a poll to be released today. Research funding had…


To boldly go…

… and confidence will take you further. There are plenty of reasons for thinking that the world has changed quite fundamentally in the past year. Election and referendum results went against poll…


Who will lead the world in 2017?

Short of wartime and economic depression, it is hard to imagine a New Year arriving amid as much trepidation as this New Year. The year just ending brought us the shocks of…


The big read: Life under the all-seeing “I”

Stefano Ermon of Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Lab speaks to Chief-Exec.com  about the hopes and hazards of a world populated by learning machines   As anyone who has ever tried to get…