Parmy Olson

Amateurs collectors use software to identify famous figures, but experts are skeptical.

Firearm sellers are finding new ways to disguise listings after lawmakers called on Mark Zuckerberg to better police the site’s Marketplace last year.

Using artificial intelligence, companies can scan a person’s face to approximate their ethnicity.

Faced with a burgeoning number of Covid-19 patients, hospitals are turning to artificial intelligence to help with diagnoses and assessments. So far, the results are mixed.

Evan Spiegel, the co-founder and chief executive of Snap, told an audience at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council that consumers were starting to understand how the online advertising market works and that understanding is beginning to drive them toward demanding more privacy.

His Wish was the world’s most downloaded shopping app last year. Its ultra-cheap wares make Walmart look like Bergdorf, but his 90 million users can’t afford to care—and their impulse purchases have added up to a $1.4 billion fortune for Szulczewski

Following Facebook’s $22-billion purchase of WhatsApp, its founder took perhaps the most expensive moral stand in history. Acton explains why he walked away from $850 million

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Jeff Coghlan is the founder of Matmi, a creative agency in Macclesfield which specialises in technology and gamification

Ledger’s president Pascal Gauthier believes his crypto wallet company can help the world’s biggest financial institutions safely invest in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

Take a centrist president with a mandate and a private sector background, mix in the country’s top tech billionaire with the world’s best incubator, and the potential is tantalising: Can they transform Europe’s perennial economic underperformer into a tax-cutting, job-creating entrepreneurial hotbed…

We’re in an age where it doesn’t matter if something is alive or not alive, its founder says.

Startups are getting access to one of the world’s most powerful address books, thanks to Prince Andrew, Duke of York

After flat-packed furniture and streamed music, Sweden’s latest big export could be an alternative to your credit card

Fitbit is losing market share to Apple, but that’s okay. Corporate wellness is saving it

Millions of smartphone owners in poor countries can’t afford to get online, so Nathan Eagle gives them data for free. Not everyone agrees with his methods

Improbable invented a new way to simulate almost any complex system in software. Warriors, gamers and economists are extremely interested

Echo Labs uses light and a clever algorithm to measure oxygen and CO2 in the blood stream.

With and without our consent, websites, wearables and apps are running millions of experiments on us every day to make them more money and make us healthier, happier and smarter

Anonymous are back – this week the group hacked the Ku Klux Klan. This is a long-awaited and compelling study of the hactivist collective, writes Jamie Bartlett