Category: All features
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Spotlight on Toulouse
Europe’s aerospace hub is a thriving, synergistic blend of industry giants, start-ups and research centres.
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Invasion of the job snatchers
Make no mistake, the intelligent machines of the Fourth Industrial Revolution will lay waste to human employment – unless governments act.
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Team players
Machines are getting much better at learning from humans and interacting with them. The next challenge: getting robots to talk to each other.
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Medicine: the debate over Big Data
Should doctors have access to huge datasets? The potential to improve healthcare is obvious, but privacy remains equally important.
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An entrepreneur searching for meaning
Determined to understand what internet users are thinking, Christian Henschel now manages one of Europe’s leading platforms in mobile intelligence.
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Tackling the gender gap
New initiatives are helping women climb the ladder at technical universities.
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Cobots: our new partners at work
Collaborative robots are boosting productivity, but they will also require us to rethink how we approach our jobs.
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Detecting hacks in real time
Dutch start-up Bitsensor tries to help applications protect themselves better from cyberattacks.
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Life-saving lessons
Linking engineering and medicine has led to better diagnostics, drugs and treatments. But it’s not always easy to collaborate successfully.
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The missing link in primate paralysis
A wireless brain-spine interface allows monkeys to walk again.
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Searching for meaning, not just words
An Austrian start-up helps machines understand human language.
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Avoiding the sound of silence
With Europe’s ageing population, hearing loss will become a major concern for public health. A new generation of technologies can slow the process.
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How noise kills
Sound pollution has become one of the main health hazards in European cities. New technologies may provide some solutions.
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From toys and cable to shoes
As CEO of Sarenza since 2007, Stéphane Treppoz has turned the online seller into a key style site in 28 countries.
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Successful and resolutely European
Not every start-up wants to move to America. Here are four that have remained loyal to their home turf.
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Galileo puts Prague on the cosmic map
Long known for its scientific creativity and skilled workforce, the Czech capital is redefining itself as a hub for space technology.
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Europe sees the light
To reach their full potential, the most innovative European start-ups often have no choice but to let American giants buy them. But this is changing.
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Keeping innovators at home
The European Commission turns its attention to four key aspects of the problem.
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A new frontier for artificial intelligence
Using algorithms to process sound is a booming field. Here are four promising innovations.
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Sound from all directions
The latest innovations provide listening experiences that are more immersive than ever. Some technologies even use bones to transmit sound.