2017 February

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Banking is one of the world’s oldest professions, but people only have a profession if…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Connecting devices to each other and to the internet can make them much smarter, and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Despite recent developments, if poverty was a disease governments would classify it as a pandemic,…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As financial services organisations around the world increasingly embrace AI we ask the question –…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A new form of never seen before malware has been discovered and it’s getting more…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The cost of renewable energy is beginning to fall as the technologies mature, now the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A new technology breakthrough from Department 13 will help the US military take control of…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF People who have locked in syndrome, like ALS have the worst of both worlds –…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The increasing threat from bio-terrorism, and the resurgence of new global pandemics such as Ebola,…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Millions of people around the world suffer from deafness, now scientists might be zero’ing in…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A team of Canadian researchers have achieved a world first and hacked a quantum network,…