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Until last Friday Silicon Valley Bank was the 16th largest bank in the US, worth more than $200bn Four decades ago, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was born in the heart of a region known for its technological prowess and savvy decision making. The California-headquartered organisation grew to become the 16th largest bank in the US, …

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Low-cost smartphone has three-day battery life, decent camera and is designed to be taken apart Designed to allow the back to be popped off and the battery replaced within minutes, Nokia’s new G22 is not the first smartphone to be DIY-repairable. But the Android handset is the first to come in at a budget price. …

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From a ball point pen to a skyscraper, everything we make needs one or more of these design wonders When I was about five years old, I was living with my parents and sister in snowy upstate New York. It was the 1980s and one day I sat in front of my favourite large rectangular …

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The writer says that meganets – the huge tech networks already part of daily life – have led to groupthink and the breakdown of public discourse and that we must exert more influence on them David Auerbach is a writer and software engineer who has worked for Google and Microsoft. He also teaches the history …

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Car engines, bespoke medicines, organs for transplant, food, fashion and now even a whole street of houses… Is the all-conquering promise of 3D printing finally coming true? Nori bricks, which were first fired in the Lancashire town of Accrington in 1887, quickly became legendary as the hardest brick ever produced. Their strength, derived from the …

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Raising funds from investors is unfavorable for marginalized founders, who face racial bias in the world of venture capital Rechelle Balanzat, an Asian-American founder, has led her startup Juliette, a self-funded, app-enabled dry-cleaning startup since 2014. As a double minority in tech, Balanzat said she faced gender bias with investors, and also encountered investors who …

‘Not going to beg’: why entrepreneurs of color are increasingly self-funding Read More »

End-to-end encryption does not prevent wall-to-wall media coverage, as many prominent users have discovered to their cost In modern communications, emails can be the digital equivalents of scribbled notes – all lower case and poor punctuation – or pedantic official documents, depending on context and recipients. But the key thing is that the prose is …

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So many of our most precious memories are anchored in particular songs. But does the easy availability of every track spell the end of that? Jude Rogers and her young son compare music notes The second we get in the car, my son strikes up his familiar tune. “I want my playlist, Mum!” Put your …

Streams are made of this: will digital platforms change our musical memories? Read More »

The stablecoin fell as low as $0.87 as Circle broke the news that its reserves were at the collapsed lender The value of the world’s fifth-biggest cryptocurrency, USD Coin (USDC), slumped to an all-time low on Saturday after Circle, the US firm behind the coin, revealed that $3.3bn of the reserves backing it were held …

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Legislation puts duty of care on tech firms to protect under-18s but does not mandate use of specific age-checking technology A fifth of teenagers watch porn frequently and some are addicted, UK study finds The online safety bill is due to become law this year and it imposes a duty of care on tech companies …

Will UK’s online safety bill protect children from adult material? Read More »