Western Digital Recognises SMR is an Issue for NAS Drives
For most of us, we have become accustomed to having our files available to us at the touch of a button without much care for the future. We expect and demand our data to live online, for free, in perpetuity. While irrational, it does mean that our ‘lives’ are...
Negative Oil Prices? An Explainer
Oil is the most traded commodity in the world, with its total value traded easily exceeding that of gold and diamonds. For a nation, possessing vast quantities of this limited commodity quickly makes them a global player in the developed world. Better still, if they can set the prices,...
Is the Future Faraday?
OK, tell me if you’ve heard this one before. A billionaire founder has the ambitious dream to make autonomous electric vehicles and has named the company after a 19th-century scientist. You would be right to assume it’s Tesla, but in fact, it’s China’s reply, meet Faraday Future. Named after...
Chinese Bike-Sharing Bubble Finally Deflates
What do Amsterdam and Beijing have in common? The two could not be more starkly contrasted, except for one small overlapping love – the bicycle. While their histories are wildly different the need – or even the desire – to have the city planned around the humble bike is...
The Case of the Missing Startups
American businesses are employing more people than ever, the stock market has soared – even with the ten per cent correction – and consumer optimism is growing. Given this spirit, it remains a puzzle as to why productivity is lagging behind in the United States, and why are wages...