Could humanoid robots be heading for the battlefield? www.bbc.com/news/article...

There's a lot of reasons but here's a business-focused take: Why does Amazon have no Western rivals? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Saddened to hear of the death of Craig Venter. I wrote this piece in 2013 after interviewing him in La Jolla. Venter was a maverick outsider and science needs those. www.theguardian.com/science/2013...

Craig Venter's prescription for science? Organise it around big goals and build teams to achieve them. "That is what we do – I have created 'team science' versus the university system with 200 prima donnas each with their own little space." www.theguardian.com/science/2013...

Spotify's "borderline existential" balancing act: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Inside the business of making quirky food-themed hair claw clips: www.bbc.com/news/article...

The welcome and needed alternatives to teak in luxury yachting: www.bbc.com/news/article...

‘Blokes cringe if you talk about it in the pub’ - my feature on the untapped power of menstrual blood published today. www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

“There’s no need to be quite so ruthless with our own species, folks.” Natasha Lyonne chiding AI leaders at the TIME100 AI Impact Dinner in San Francisco last night. time.com/7322685/time...

“Swearing is what made people excited about it.” My interview with Cory Doctorow, campaigner against the enshittification of the internet, has just published in The Nerve! www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Exciting new publication out of the UK and I have a piece coming out in it soon. www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...

High stakes for US green energy firms: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Move fast, kill things: the tech startups trying to reinvent defence with Silicon Valley values: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

"Not kissing [Trump’s] ring, like many others have, is probably an economic limiter – but it’s better to be principled." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How AI can spot diseases that doctors aren't looking for www.bbc.com/news/article...

Inside the great AI drug race: www.bbc.com/news/article...

This scientist treated her own breast cancer. But should the paper have been published? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Come get up close and personal with some driverless trucks in the Pilbara (in Western Australia). www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wildlife biologist Diane Boyd: ‘Wolf and human societies have intriguing parallels’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New beanless 'coffee' emerges but does it taste any good? www.bbc.com/news/article...

AI scientist Ray Kurzweil: ‘We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045’ www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

‘We need other logics for our approach to nature’: Banu Subramaniam is uprooting colonialism in botany. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Can we have our cake and eat it? Welcome to the world of sugar elimination www.theguardian.com/society/2024...