Tech Tent: Can we trust algorithms?

Elva Mankin

Three students sit on a street kerb with a protest placard reading: “students not statistics” When school students took to the streets in London and other cities this week it was a protest unlike any other. Its target: an algorithm they said had threatened their futures. On Tech Tent this […]

There’s More to the US than Tech Stocks

Elva Mankin

Tech stocks The tech success story is an all-consuming one for investors, which reached further dizzying heights when Apple became the first listed company to reach a staggering valuation of $2 trillion. The sector as a whole has been given a new lease of life by lockdown shopping, headlines about […]

‘Three quarters of UK does grocery shopping online’

Elva Mankin

Online shopping More than three quarters of people in the UK now do at least some online grocery shopping, according to supermarket chain Waitrose. It said the growth in online supermarket shopping due to coronavirus was “reminiscent of scaling Everest”. Separate research suggests almost half of consumers feel their shopping […]

How IoT revolutionized medical care during the pandemic

Elva Mankin

Over the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the world into an unprecedented situation. It even gave birth to new concepts such as social-distancing and prioritized technologies like cloud, internet of things (IoT) services, and artificial intelligence. Likewise, IoT and the internet of medical things (IoMT) have witnessed […]