Delivery woes
The exorbitant transaction fees Grubhub and DoorDash and Uber Eats charge mean restaurants often lose money
Technology
Monday
How we can keep innovating
The prophets of stagnation are wrong
Thursday
Two cheers for preppers
As the Facebook outage portends, sometimes it’s good to be prepared
Friday
Into the Darknet Diaries
Nowhere does the gap between coverage and reality seem bigger than in the field of technology and the internet
Wednesday
Do Democrats really need Joe Biden to stay alive?
A look ahead to America’s first hologram presidency
Wednesday
The risks and rewards of ransomware
The list of nation state suspects includes Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, India and South Korea
Sunday
Automation and the future of modern warfare
What role will micro drones play in the wars to come?
Friday
Keeping up with the sex robots
The uncanny valley of the dolls
Friday
The techlash has well and truly begun
There is growing resentment towards Amazon, Facebook, Google, and the power of technology
Monday
Black Mirror politics is coming to the midterms
Isn’t there a sinister side to an army of 17,000 citizen activists looking for damaging intel on Republicans?
Thursday
Amateur porn is not empowering
If ever you find yourself bored and with 15 minutes to spare, I recommend looking up Pornhub’s annual report, the closest thing you will get to a statistical breakdown of the planet’s libido. Here you will discover that the average visit to Pornhub lasts nine minutes 59 seconds; that the most popular time to watch porn is a Sunday evening; and that sexual tastes for the most part tend to follow cultural lines, with English-speakers prizing lesbian material most highly, and eastern Europeans on the whole preferring anal. There’s nothing new about porn, and humans have been trying to get their hands on it pretty much since they left the
Wednesday
Big data wants your vote
From the outside it all looked haphazard and frenzied. A campaign that was skidding from scandal to crisis on its way to total defeat. That’s not how it felt inside the ‘Project Alamo’ offices in San Antonio, Texas where Trump’s digital division — led by Brad Parscale, who’d worked previously with Trump’s estate division setting up websites — was running one of the most sophisticated data-led election campaigns ever. Once Trump’s nomination was secured, the Republican Party heavyweights moved in, and so did seconded staff from Facebook and Google, there to help their well-paying clients best use their platforms to reach voters. Joining them were 13 employees from the UK-based
