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We asked 23 top historians to write the paragraph that will describe the past decade, 100 years from now.

Microsoft is definitely committed to getting the Surface Duo out the door, but that doesn’t mean it will definitely be successful. Both Microsoft and Google will have to get developers to make tablet apps.

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It’s not robot overlords. It’s economic inequality and a new global order.

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For humans to survive the automation revolution, we need to double down on our humanity.

The following points are taken from Udo Gollub, the CEO of 17 Minute Languages Facebook post..

Yesterday Elon Musk appeared in Dubai at the World Government Summit where he participated in a most revealing and far-reaching interview, far reaching even by the standards of the man whose mind expands to embrace the galaxy. If there was any doubt that Musk loves humanity it was dispelled yesterda

Claims that Russia is behind the political shocks of 2016 ignore the corrupting influence of digital capitalism

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: seven keys, held by individuals from all over the world, that together control security at the core of the web. The reality, discovers James Ball, is rather closer to The Office than The Matrix

BBC News retraces the leaks by ex-CIA contractor Edward Snowden, which led to the revelation of America's extensive surveillance programme.

Bernie Sanders, Daniel Ellsberg, former members of the NSA and more weigh in on whether Obama should grant clemency to the divisive whistleblower