China wants to become a leading high-tech power by 2049. To achieve this goal, Chinese businesses are acquiring firms and know-how in the West. But many industry experts are concerned about the development. Chinese President...
Nintendo’s Pokémon Go app has turned the slumping Japanese video game developer into an overnight celebrity on the app market. Can it sustain its success, or is it just experiencing its 15 minutes of fame?...
We have new technology to soothe the nerves of anxious pet owners all over the world. All you need is a good Wifi connection at home and a solid 4G connection/wifi connection at your workplace...
How important are EU funds for British research institutions? Even though Great Britain pays more into the EU than it gets out of it, one exception is in the field of science. The reason: Great...
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on Monday, giving software engineers the chance to rub shoulders with Apple’s technorati. But it looks like Siri will steal the show. Programmers from around the world are...
Only two years after the US tech giant bought Nokia, it has now announced big cuts to its Finnish smartphone business. A Finnish union leader says this is the beginning of the end of Microsoft’s...
With Google’s 2016 developers conference just around the corner, those heading to Mountain View can’t wait to see what the US tech giant has lined up for them. We look at some of the expected...
Self-driving cars, robotics and automation may sound utopian to you. But author Nicholas Carr says we’re in danger of ceding too much responsibility, including complex moral choices, to machines. DW: The thing that stands out...
By 2025, self-driving cars could lead to a steep decline in fossil fuels – and in personal car ownership. Smart electric vehicles will pick you up, drop you off, and mostly look after themselves. A...
Who will die next? This is one of the main questions that occupy fans of the US series “Game of Thrones.” Computer science students from Munich have developed an algorithm that answers this question. In...
Sure, space exploration costs money. And Internet entrepreneurs have lots of it. But we’ve got to stop the likes of Milner, Zuckerberg and Musk expanding their power beyond Earth, writes DW’s Zulfikar Abbany. I’m surprised...
It’s a tale of many sides. Most often we only get the positives of digitalization, while those speaking for the negative are hauled off to a padded cell. But a Berlin summit wants us all...
