Andrew Orlowski

Britain's once world-beating petrochemicals sector is on its knees because of high energy costs and policy indifference - Jane Barlow/PA

Is your manager pretending to work, but really slacking?

Why do what someone else is doing but only slightly better? While incremental improvement has been good enough for China, Britain's

Elon Musk's space empire is going public in the biggest share offering of all time . A company valuation of $1.75tn (£1.3tn) will hand $75bn to Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, as SpaceX likes to be known.

A data-driven, utilitarian approach to public services could have dystopian repercussions.

The free lunch is over. Google says demand has risen sevenfold over the past year. But now the real cost of AI is finally beginning to emerge, and the consequences are cataclysmic.

No wonder Hollywood is in trouble. The dream factory's role as our great storyteller and myth-maker has been usurped by artificial intelligence companies, who now create more compelling fiction than the screenwriters can.

No wonder Hollywood is in trouble. The dream factory’s role as our great storyteller and myth-maker has been usurped by artificial intelligence companies, who now create more compelling fiction than the screenwriters can.

When the first automobiles appeared in Germany, villagers and townsfolk thought they were witchcraft: these Teufelswagen, or "devil's carriages", had been sent to steal their horses.

It’s amazing how the childless insistently become experts in parenting when they find out technology is involved. All of a sudden, they’re telling us what we must do, and what governments cannot do. But anyone legally responsible, as many of us are, for the safety and the moral development of teenagers has to wrestle with finding the right balance between privacy, freedom and being safe.