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Data is giving rise to a new economy
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India’s ID system is reshaping ties between state and citizens
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Mobileye and Intel join forces
Mobileye and Intel join forcesAn Israeli firm and a tech giant team up to shape the future of cars CARMAKING in Israel has amounted to little more than some unstylish models put together in the latter half of the last century and a few rugged off-roaders still assembled for the country’s security forces. A reluctance to make them, however, has not stopped Israel from becoming a thriving centre for
Some Saudi women are secretly deserting their country
Some Saudi women are secretly deserting their countryWomen are fed up with being treated like children CAN Saudi Arabia keep its women? Last month’s appointment of women to head two big banks and Tadawul, the kingdom’s stock exchange, offers hope that the path to a fulfilling career is not completely blocked. But the restrictions of Saudi life remain so irksome that covertly, silently, many women
Declining trust in government is denting democracy
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With “Your Name”, Makoto Shinkai proves himself a director to watch
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How voice technology is transforming computing
How voice technology is transforming computingLike casting a magic spell, it lets people control the world through words alone ANY sufficiently advanced technology, noted Arthur C. Clarke, a British science-fiction writer, is indistinguishable from magic. The fast-emerging technology of voice computing proves his point. Using it is just like casting a spell: say a few words into the air, and a nea
Wheels within wheels
MYSTERY, MIRACLE AND authority are three powers alone able to hold the conscience of people captive, explains Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor in “The Brothers Karamazov”. Mr Putin has mastered all three. Yet none of these is as important as secrecy, the main tool of a good spy. Nobody really knows what goes on behind the Kremlin’s thick walls, or inside Mr Putin’s head. But several things ar
Cloud chronicles
Cloud chroniclesHow open-source software and cloud computing have set up the IT industry for a once-in-a-generation battle AS BOSSES go, Linus Torvalds and Andy Jassy couldn’t be more different. Mr Torvalds works, often in his bathrobe, out of his home in Portland, Oregon. He leads an army of volunteer developers whose software can be had for nothing. The office of Mr Jassy, who usually sports bus
WeChat’s world
YU HUI, a boisterous four-year-old living in Shanghai, is what marketing people call a digital native. Over a year ago, she started communicating with her parents using WeChat, a Chinese mobile-messaging service. She is too young to carry around a mobile phone. Instead she uses a Mon Mon, an internet-connected device that links through the cloud to the WeChat app. The cuddly critter’s rotund belly
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