China is building a digital dictatorship to exert control over its 1.4 billion citizens. For some, “social credit” will bring privileges — for others, punishment. Foreign Correspondent Updated Tue at 8:13pm Published Mon at 3:07pm Dandan Fan is very much the modern Chinese woman. A marketing…

In 2008 the staff at Sea Star Aquarium in Coburg, Germany, had a mystery on their hands. Two mornings in a row, they had arrived at work to find the aquarium eerily silent: the entire electrical system had shorted out. Each time they would reset the system only to find the same eerie silence…

lls's vision of the future is almost fully expressed in two books written in the early Twenties, The Dream and Men Like Gods. Here you have a picture of the world as Wells would like to see it or thinks he would like to see it. It is a world whose keynotes are enlightened hedonism and scientific…

This is the second in a series of two special features on cybersecurity in the oil and gas sector In October, four South Korean hackers in Shanghai spent seven hours attempting to infiltrate an oil refinery’s corporate network to gain access to its control systems and shut the facility down. Another…

This is the first in a series of two special features on cybersecurity in the oil and gas sector But for a coding error, an attempted cyberattack last year on a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia could have led to a catastrophic explosion. Malware implanted into the control system to sabotage the…

I have an addiction. More accurately it’s a pesky bad habit I uncovered during a period of self-examination while on sabbatical – I love, excessively, the consumption of bite-sized posts, which I justify reading as it relates to my profession; I rationalize the act as a productive use of my time.…

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Art of Travel, by Francis GaltonThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at…

You might think it would be good to have your company held up in business schools as a famous example. But that wouldn't be the way the people behind the Schlitz brand feel about it. Schlitz is held up as a dreadful warning of how not to do it. Indeed, the company that now owns Schlitz, once "the…

For years, archaeologist Timothy Pugh thought he was simply following the cows as he walked across the site of Nixtun-Ch’ich’, an ancient Maya city in northern Guatemala. The site, whose name means, roughly, “a rocky place,” is located on a peninsula that juts out like a pointed finger into Lake…