With the investment, Lyft is much smaller than Uber, the giant of the ride-hailing space.Here are some of the major players who are changing the way we get from Point A to Point B. Funding: More than …
Rhiannon Williams: It’s nice to be nice, but better to be Steve Jobs?
Who cares if the Apple co-founder was a volatile man who was difficult to deal with? Sometimes that’s the price of genius. Can a great man be a good man? This is the question posed by the traile…
Calais migrants charging people to view Banksy mural of Apple’s Steve Jobs
In an entrepreneurial spirit Jobs might have been proud of, migrants and refugees ask for £3.60 to view the street artist’s mural. Migrants in Calais have started charging people to view a mural…
Don’t fear the frictionless economy – for it makes the consumer king
The disappearance of train tickets will be just another step in the remorseless march of convenience. The tide of technology has claimed another victim. No more will the traditional cry of “Tickets, p…
Apple buys company that scans your face to read emotions
Emotient, bought for an undisclosed sum, uses facial recognition technology to detect a range of nine emotions. Your iPhone may one day be able to know whether you’re happy or upset after Apple …
Scientists crush our childhood dreams of becoming Spider-Man
A group of buzz-killing researchers from the University of Cambridge have dashed our childhood dreams by proving that Spider-Man-style wallcrawling is physically impossible. Even if a radioactive spid…