In an open letter of January 6, 2018, JANA Partners and The California State Teachers’ Retirement System, a big teachers' pension fund, pleaded with Apple to take steps to decisively protect young people from excessive use of iPhones. We discuss the issues of smart phones in the classroom, managing screen time, plus the tech giant's response to the letter.

We chew over the recent dramatic falls in the much hyped and super volatile cryptocurrency. What does the future hold for bitcoin and other digital currencies? Is the world headed for a single global, blockchain-based currency?

In an open letter of January 6, 2018, JANA Partners and The California State Teachers’ Retirement System, a big teachers' pension fund, pleaded with Apple to take steps to decisively protect young people from excessive use of iPhones. We discuss the issues of smart phones in the classroom, managing screen time, plus the tech giant's response to the letter.

The popular sports app's visualisation of its global network of athletes shows over a billion activities covering all of Earth's continents. But some intelligence services are concerned about what this map might reveal.

The popular sports app's visualisation of its global network of athletes shows over a billion activities covering all of Earth's continents. But some intelligence services are concerned about what this map might reveal.

Our weekly news round-up: Intel's Shooting Stars provide spectacular Olympics Opening Ceremony drone show; Trump Administration weighs privatising International Space Station; Falcon Heavy success ushers in new era of competition in space; Social media bans pornographic face-swapping 'deep fakes'; Equifax hack compromises more consumer data than first admitted; Chinese police wearing facial recognition glasses; Embark's self-driving truck travels from LA to Florida; Australian government websites hacked and used to mine cryptocurrencies.

Our weekly news round-up: Intel's Shooting Stars provide spectacular Olympics Opening Ceremony drone show; Trump Administration weighs privatising International Space Station; Falcon Heavy success ushers in new era of competition in space; Social media bans pornographic face-swapping 'deep fakes'; Equifax hack compromises more consumer data than first admitted; Chinese police wearing facial recognition glasses; Embark's self-driving truck travels from LA to Florida; Australian government websites hacked and used to mine cryptocurrencies.

With a view to driving down domestic power bills, thousands of homes will become part of a new virtual power plant.

With a view to driving down domestic power bills, thousands of homes will become part of a new virtual power plant.

The Bulletin of the Atomic scientists, including 15 Nobel laureates, has moved the minute hand 30 seconds closer to Armageddon. There are grave concerns over North Korea, NATO Vs Russia, tensions in the South China Sea, war in the Middle East, global failure to act effectively on climate change and the use of technologies as weapons to weaken democracies.