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Is modern life ruining our powers of concentration? | Technology
How does it feel inside your head? Turn your attention inwards. Maybe you’re daydreaming, allowing your mind to wander. Or maybe it feels sharp and …
Year of the tech grifter: will Silicon Valley ever learn from its mistakes? | Technology
It was a month of eerie parallels. On 12 December, the disgraced crypto founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested on fraud charges in the Bahamas, marking …
Can Technology Fill In Fashion’s Missing Data on Emissions?
The latest app feature from Klarna, the Swedish bank and major “buy now, pay later” lender, claims to offer information that much of the fashion …
How to Invest in Technology During a Recession
Investing in the right technology can be difficult even in the best of times. The field of available options is vast, it’s easy to be …
The BoF Podcast Episode 28: Are the Technology Giants Too Powerful?
The destructive monopolisation of the internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon is undermining cultural production, argued Jonathan Taplin on the #BoFVOICES stage in a debate …
The Technology Everyone at VOICES Was Talking About (And It Wasn’t the Metaverse)
Last week, while I attended this year’s VOICES — BoF’s big annual gathering for thinkers and industry leaders — I had the opportunity to talk …
How Shopify Is Empowering Entrepreneurs Through Technology
At VOICES 2022, BoF’s annual event where global changemakers gather to inspire innovation and reimagine the fashion industry’s future, BoF’s Rahul Malik spoke to Shopify …
‘My friends call me the BlackBerry queen!’ Meet the people clinging on to old tech – from faxes to VCRs | Technology
More than 40 years since the fax machine became an office mainstay, it seems the party is finally over. With telecom providers no longer required …
How Technology Can Power a Better Future
Full access to the livestream is available to our entire global community. Register to stream all the VOICES sessions, free of charge. From supply chain …
How to quit Twitter – and where to go instead | Technology
Another Twitter exodus has begun. Since Elon Musk first made a bid to acquire the social network, some users have expressed concern at the direction …
Technology and Fashion: An Intertwined Story
Technology has seemingly shaped and defined the very cultural shifts which have led humanity to its current point. As one of the most invested-in industries …
Will plunging shares end big tech’s era of ‘pornographic’ profits? | Technology
Last week was a bad time to be a tech billionaire. When the pandemic drove the world online, the founders of Facebook, Google and Microsoft …
The Technology Turning New Shoppers Into Loyal Customers
Companies don’t often say it aloud, but not all customers are equal. The goal is to attract and keep the ones who will return regularly …
How Bottega Veneta Uses Technology In Service of Craft
Technology is still often thought of as being at odds with craftsmanship, replacing the work of human hands with processes that are mechanised, automated and …
‘Your account has been disabled’: the real impact of a Facebook ban | Technology
Would you rather be banned for life from Tesco or Apple? Or, to go further: would you find it easier to cope with losing access …
Bounties and monkey business: the truth about crypto’s bug infestation | Technology
In February, Twitter user Brodan, an engineer at Giphy, noticed something odd about Bored Ape Yatch Club (BAYC), the premiere ape-based non-fungible token collection. A …
At APM Monaco, a Company Culture Defined by Transparency and Technology
APM Monaco was launched in Monaco in 1982 by mother and son duo Ariane and Philippe Prette, as a manufacturer of gold, diamonds and precious …
Technology Is Fuelling and Fighting Compulsive Shopping
Compulsive shopping isn’t just an internet phenomenon. About a century ago, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin gave it the name “oniomania,” combining the Greek onios, …
How Technology Is Tearing Down Fashion’s Value Chain Siloes
This article first appeared in The State of Fashion: Technology, an in-depth report co-published by BoF and McKinsey & Company. Fast-changing consumer demand and persistent …