Rising seas will displace 150 million people by 2100, says climate report

Published time: 17 Dec, 2017 14:37 Lands inhabited by more than 150 million people could be submerged in water by the end of this century. That’s according to the latest projections from a group of US researchers. A new study published in the journal Earth’s Future used the latest information from the Antarctic ice sheet […]

Samsung could displace Intel as the world’s biggest chip company in 2017

Enlarge (credit: Samsung) Intel has been the world’s biggest chipmaker by revenue since January of 1993, when sales of its 386 and 486 processors helped it surpass Japanese companies like NEC and Toshiba. The release of the first Pentium CPU later that year and the proliferation of Windows 95 and 98-powered PCs over the next […]

Will robots displace humans as motorised vehicles replaced horses?

IN THE early 20th century the future seemed bright for horse employment. Within 50 years cars and tractors made short work of equine livelihoods. Some futurists see a cautionary tale for humanity in the fate of the horse: it was economically indispensable until it wasn’t. The common retort to such concerns is that humans are […]