Geoff White
Which tech company is dominant in a globalised world?
Does humanity have enough common ground to support truly global tech companies? Are there countries where Angry Birds just simply wouldn’t fly?
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Geoff White
Whose right is it to be forgotten, anyway?
The story surrounding Google’s removal of a link to BBC journalist Robert Peston’s blog becomes ever more intriguing.
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How to find what Google search is deleting
Getting around the “right to be forgotten” is not hard, and if the reaction to Google’s removal of articles from its search results is anything to go by, the law may even have the opposite effect…
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New project to make ‘The Space’ for digital art
We live much of our lives in the digital sphere in Britain in 2014, from dating to food shopping. But art?
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Science fact and science fiction: a timeline of AI
From Terminator to the Turing test, a timeline of the most significant developments in artificial intelligence (plus some pretty cool, and prescient, sci-fi books and films).
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Is Apple teaching Google a lesson in internet ethics?
Apple is teaming up with privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo to offer an alternative to internet giant Google.
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Kylie Morris
Google: good for tech, but bad for women?
In a week where crude, sexist emails sent by Snapchat’s founder are made public, Google reveals that just 17 per cent of its staff are women and 1 per cent African American. Time for change?
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Why you may not find it when you Google it
Google introduces a new form allowing people in Europe to request that information about them on the web is removed from search results.
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EU ruling on Google data risks ‘opening the floodgates’
An individual’s “right to be forgotten” is backed by the EU high court, which rules that Google must remove data from its search listings if asked, leaving lawyers, tech firms and Google reeling.
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Geoff White
Did UK spooks use NSA data to spy on Britons?
A new report on how GCHQ and the UK’s other spy agencies used NSA data is published – but it leaves many questions still unanswered.
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Geoff White
Google and Facebook fight for web supremacy with drones and balloons
Pilotless drones and high-altitude balloons are some of the ideas being mooted by the internet giants keen to dominate the infrastructure of the web.
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Geoff White
More than meets the eye: phones at the heart of retail technology
Do companies need to use technologies like iris recognition when it’s our mobile phones that have, in effect, become extensions of ourselves?
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Geoff White
Kids and porn: the issue’s not going away
The latest contribution to the debate about kids and porn came from the culture media and sport committee. But parents hoping for a speedy solution are in for a disappointment.
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San Francisco housing crisis: tech companies held to blame
A booming population of affluent newcomers is pushing long-term residents out of their homes and fuelling talk of class war in San Francisco, the once mellow haven for hippies.
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The 10 things you were googling in 2013
What do Paul Walker, the iPhone 5S, the royal baby and Nelson Mandela have in common? They are all key words you were searching for on Google in 2013.
