Inspired by EY’s great weekly ‘5 must-reads for your weekend’ articles (like this one and this one), I’ve decided to put together something similar once a month. I’ll be covering both newer and older content that has recently caught my attention on a variety of media, including TV series, films…

From Roland ‘The Master of Disaster’ Emmerich, Moonfall boasts some cosmically bad dialogue, but it’s still a lot of fun — Last week, to a cosmic chorus of oohs and aahs, NASA published a series of stunning shots taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful space observatory in human history. “Prepare for a new way to see the universe,” they said, pulling back the curtain on time…

Dodgy websites are using software to steal content. I should know, it happened to me! — Consider this sentence: afflicted constructions are suffusive on the betweenmesh before tomorrow. “Eh? What gibberish is this?” you ask, confused. And now consider this translation: tortured phrases are rife on the internet today. “This makes more sense, but what, pray tell, is a tortured phrase?” you ask, still confused.

AI firm Adept is building Artificial General Intelligence that makes jobs easier, but what in the name of Terminator does this actually mean? — Regular followers of my blog or anyone who has kindly picked up a copy of my debut book, AI by Design: A Plan for Living with Artificial Intelligence, will no doubt be aware of my human-centric take on our future working relationship with AI. I firmly believe that AI technologies…

After just one business trip to Tel Aviv, I could easily tell that Israel’s startup scene is thriving compared with the UK’s, but why? Clue: one word and it begins with ‘A’ — While working with my client Visa a few years ago now, I helped open innovation hubs for the financial services firm in London, Berlin, and Tel Aviv. The project meant spending some time in each of these vibrant cities, which was awesome all round, but it was Tel Aviv that…

Microsoft is leveraging AI to beat March Madness, but where have we seen a reliance on historical data for sports speculation before? Moneyball! — As my regular readers must surely know by now, I have a real weakness for links between tech or business, on one hand, and pop culture, on the other. I usually find these connections in science fiction films, series and books, but not always. …

Artificial intelligence is changing the role of auditors in terms of both what they do and how they do it. Here’s why… — By this point, we all know that Artificial Intelligence is set to change the face of business across the globe. In fact, the change is already happening in no small way. But what does this mean for auditors, both internal and external? …

The cryptocurrency requires an ever-increasing quantity of energy thanks to mining, but is a greener process possible? If not, what do we do? — When Bitcoin first jangled onto my radar, I asked two questions, the first of which was: “Could this stuff make me very rich?” My answer was “perhaps,” and so in 2014 I bought some. Ultimately though, I didn’t hang onto it! Considering the sharp increase in Bitcoin’s value in recent…

Hulu’s Elizabeth Holmes miniseries is a stark reminder of the things women must do to succeed in the male-dominated business world. — Like many, I’ve been completely absorbed by the case of disgraced biotech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, especially after reading John Carreyrou’s best-selling 2018 non-fiction book Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. From the initial 2015 journalistic and regulatory investigations, which uncovered tech failures within now defunct blood-testing…