Elon Musk’s Boring Company flamethrower has sold out after $10m of sales in less than a week February 1, 2018 Not content with running several successful companies, entrepreneur Elon Musk has made a niche sideline in novelty products, the latest of which is an Instragram-worthy flamethrower costing $500 (£351). But anyone hoping to get their hands on one has missed their window of opportunity – the entire 20,000 have already sold out. And it’s netted [...]
No more dodging hard questions, we need a conversation about AI January 9, 2018 Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the hottest areas of technology in recent years. It’s in our phones, cars, and living rooms. It’s part of our banking decisions, love lives, and even our weekly grocery shop. By 2035, Accenture estimates that AI could add £654bn to the national economy. Given its rapid adoption [...]
Could a robot replace Jose Mourinho? The growing presence of artificial intelligence and machine learning in football December 19, 2017 If you pay attention to the countless academic studies devoted to the subject or the dire prophecies from Elon Musk or Stephen Hawking, an artificial intelligence (AI) age is rapidly approaching that promises to make most of our jobs redundant. A McKinsey and Company report published earlier this year estimated that more than half of [...]
Virgin billionaire Richard Branson is taking up Hyperloop One chairman role December 18, 2017 Virgin entrepreneur Richard Branson is taking up a top leadership position at Virgin Hyperloop One, the transportation startup he recently invested in and rebranded under his empire’s name. The billionaire businessman will become chairman at the US company which hopes to build high speed transport based on a technology concept created by Elon Musk around [...]
AB InBev has ordered 40 Tesla Semi electric trucks to deliver beer December 7, 2017 Drinks giant AB InBev is the latest business to get an order in for Tesla’s electric truck. The maker of Stella Artois and Budweiser has put in an order for 40 of the vehicles, which are also have some driverless technology, to deliver its beers. Read more: Meet Tesla’s new Roadster: The fastest production car [...]
Meet Tesla’s new Roadster: The fastest production car ever made unveiled alongside its new Semi truck November 17, 2017 Among all the excitement about Tesla’s – admittedly pretty snazzy – new electric truck, Elon Musk also managed to surprise with another announcement. That’s right: Tesla has unveiled a new version of its original sports car, the Roadster. Musk said it’s the fastest production car ever made, with the ability to do 0 to 100 [...]
Love it or hate it, you can’t halt the momentum of Silicon Valley October 26, 2017 Opposition and doubt always accompany any great change. The rise of computer technology over the last 30 years is no different than the invention of the car or the light bulb in this respect. The innovations that Silicon Valley has produced have shaken just about everything we thought we knew, and made us question the [...]
Beware Vermicious Knids: A US billionaire wants to launch an inflatable space hotel into lunar orbit by 2022 | City A.M. October 19, 2017 Roald Dahl might have warned of the dangers of space hotels, but that hasn’t put off billionaire entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, who has said he will put an inflatable “habitat” into space by the end of 2022. Hotel entrepreneur Bigelow’s eponymous space company, Bigelow Aerospace, announced a partnership with rocket maker United Launch Alliance to launch [...]
Tesla fires hundreds of employees after performance review October 14, 2017 Electric vehicle maker Tesla fired hundreds of employees this week following a performance review, according to reports. Tesla has not confirmed the number of dismissals, but Reuters reported a former employee said the number was around 400 and included associates, team leaders and supervisors, while the San Jose Mercury News put the number at between [...]
20 years since Deep Blue: Garry Kasparov on the human-machine relationship October 9, 2017 When Garry Kasparov was defeated in a game of chess by IBM’s Deep Blue in 1997, it represented more than just a PR exercise from an opportunistic computer manufacturer looking to bump its share price. For many, it signified the start of the end of human supremacy: the machines had won. Today, 20 years later, [...]