The “illumination satellite” would reflect sunlight down to Earth, creating a glow about eight times brighter than the moon. It might sound like a plot cooked up by a cartoon villain, but a city in southwestern China is aiming to launch into space an artificial moon that could replace streetlights by bathing the ground in […]

Microsoft’s stock market value now stands at $823 billion, on track to close above Amazon’s for the first time since April. Microsoft overtook Amazon as second most valuable U.S. company on Friday after investors punished Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce behemoth for a disappointing quarterly earnings report, wiping $65 billion off the online retailer’s market capitalization. Apple […]

That’s according to reports from Forbes and Bloomberg both of which claim that the company has completed a $3 billion investment that values the company at $75 billion. A source with knowledge of the deal confirmed the round to TechCrunch and suggested that the value is pre-money, which, adding the round, would put ByteDance’s valuation at $78 billion. That’s […]

The latest generational cohort to emerge is defined by experience not just biology A few weeks ago, a middle-aged friend joked to some office colleagues that he found millennials frustrating to handle — “until you have to convert a PDF file into a word document”. An actual millennial — normally defined as someone born between the early 1980s and 1996 — was […]

Investments in innovation take on all shapes and sizes. If you’re Uber, the level of investment is usually undeniably grand whether it’s to the tune of a $500 million collaboration with Toyota to deliver autonomous vehicles by 2021, or $200 million to bring Jump-branded electric scooters to the United States. A company with the sources and long-term management […]

TV presenter Megyn Kelly has been a mainstay of US cable and network news for more than a decade – but now the career of one of the country’s best-paid anchors is in doubt. Earlier this week, she was heavily criticised for defending Halloween costume “blackface” during a segment on her Megyn Kelly Today morning show […]

A 56-year-old man has been arrested in Florida in connection with a mail-bombing campaign aimed at critics of US President Donald Trump. US officials named the man as Cesar Sayoc, saying that more arrests could follow. Mr Trump said the acts were “despicable and have no place in our country”, and promised “swift and certain […]

Technology was at the center of the biggest consumer product launches of the past 12 months and they have one thing in common: they embody what has come to be known as a digital native brand. This is an analysis that summarizes how the top DNVBs differentiate from the rest. Kylie Jenner launched her cosmetics […]

How twisted can things get when an anonymous piece of code harms people but can’t be stopped? Two cinematic masterpieces offer us devastating answers and lots of food for thought: Dr. Strangelove (1965). In this Stanley Kubrick classic that takes place at the height of the cold war, an American General loses his mind and […]

“You have to debug your business model.” I looked across the table at the VC I was having lunch with. It wasn’t going how I thought it would. I was ready to tell him about the cool technology I had developed. How it would transform the world of enterprise computing. He wasn’t interested in that. […]