The potential of 5G technology to benefit consumers dispels the ICT “industry myth” that consumers are unwilling to pay a premium on 5G, according to a newly published study which found that smartphone users are willing to pay 20% more for fifth-generation services - including more broadband choices - and half of early adopters would pay as much as 32% more.

Food delivery company Deliveroo has joined forces with UK fintech company, Portify, to launch a digital tool designed to offer users support with skills development, online support with personal budgeting and access to a range of perks and rewards.

Data analytics specialist Qlik has completed its acquisition of data integration and big data management software solutions provider Attunity.

Humanity needs machines that can understand "all things human" and take into account our emotional and cognitive state, according to artificial emotional intelligence company Affectiva's co-founder and CEO Rana el Kaliouby.

We are in the early stages of an important technological revolution, so there are lessons to be learned from previous revolutions, MIT Sloan School of Management professor Erik Brynjolfsson suggests.

Ever since the Department of Human Services started its robo-debt campaign to get back money which it has allegedly overpaid to welfare recipients, it has often been accused of having scant regard for the privacy of people. Sam Varghese provides an account of his own brush with DHS and privacy.

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