Tech

Four days after graduating college in Saudi Arabia, serial entrepreneur Albara Hakami founded his first business. Seven years and several companies later and he’s just sold his latest software startup to one of the world’s largest providers of business payments.

When two of the most influential men in global trucking sat down to talk in Phoenix, Arizona last spring, they discovered they shared the same passion for full industry transformations, and for outpacing and outthinking sluggish incumbent players. They quickly decided to combine their expertise.

Thousands of years after the world’s first great cities emerged in the fertile lands of the ancient Middle East, the region is playing a starring role in a new chapter in urban civilization.

In December 2019, when few people could point to Wuhan on a map and even fewer knew what a coronavirus was, a risk software company in Toronto was already using AI to scrawl through websites and databases and accurately predict a global pandemic of almost unprecedented scale.

The critical part played by plastics in modern life has never been clearer. This much misunderstood material has proved its worth across all facets of the global response to Covid-19. One of the world’s largest plastics companies is demonstrating a revolutionary recycling technology.

When the Soviet Union launched the world’s first man-made satellite in 1957, it triggered a Space Race that would revolutionise global communications, take mankind to the moon and transform humanity’s understanding of its place in the cosmos.

Over the course of the last millennium, Universities once mainly religious establishments have evolved into the secular powerhouses of the global economy, drivers of research, innovation and social development.

Carsten Isensee is stepping into the driver’s seat at Barcelona-based car manufacturer SEAT just as the company hits top gear. With car deliveries increasing by 10.9% last year, sales are at their highest level in history.

Snow sports fans at the world's top ski resorts this year will be looking for more than fresh powder and slightly-below-freezing cold. Just as network-based tech is inching into all other parts of our lives, it's also taking a hold of the slopes—to the joy of skiers.

Imagine if hospitals could fly? Would they be safer for patients? Before you say to yourself, what a silly question. Please hear me out...