Smart Regions

Teleprometheus: medical information at your fingertips

In partnership with the European Commission

Better training can help professionals in Intensive Care Units (ICU) avoid errors in treatment and this is what Teleprometheus brings to the table.

25 April 2018

Spotlight

Spotlight on the future of transport in Poland

The success of economies in the future will depend on how well they adapt to new modes of mobility, as well as storing the energy needed to drive them

17 April 2018

World News

Deleting a Facebook account is almost impossible, says expert

Want to delete your Facebook account? You might run into more trouble than you thought as it turns out erasing all traces of a Facebook account is almost impossible..

6 April 2018

Next Series

Me and Mario: robots that care

Futuris travels to Ireland to see how a new robot could transform elderly care.

6 April 2018

World News

Cannes film festival bans red carpet selfies

The prestigious film festival in southern France has also banned movies from streaming service Netflix

4 April 2018

Spotlight

Start-up success in Poland

Start-ups in Poland are riding the country's continuous economic growth. A survey by Startup Poland says that some of the main sectors include big data, IoT and biotech.

3 April 2018

United Kingdom

‘Space harpoon’ to capture orbiting junk heads to ISS

The British-designed satellite is equipped with a net for capturing space litter and a harpoon for spearing and hauling in bigger objects.

3 April 2018

Business Planet

Supercharging the future

Business Planet travels to Germany to meet experts and entrepreneurs revolutionsing the way we store energy.

23 March 2018

Next Series

European research teams find new ways to map the seafloor

Armed with what looks like a small army of autonomous robots, a European research team are finding new ways to explore the seafloor.

19 March 2018

Germany

How has digitalisation transformed travel marketing?

We went to its chief marketplace to find out

17 March 2018

New Zealand

Robots and racism: We discriminate against 'darker-coloured' humanoids

Humans have similar automatic biases towards 'darker-coloured' robots as they do toward 'people with a darker skin colour', according to new research from the University of Canterbury.

11 March 2018

World

VR, cinema and jazz: discovering creative industries at the Abu Dhabi

Creative concepts in the capital: Luminaries gather at the Abu Dhabi Ideas Weekend

9 March 2018

Business Planet

One of a kind medical devices... and how to get them financed

This week Business Planet travelled to Rome where an innovative young company Echolight has developed a new way to help Europe's ageing population with the help of EU funding.

9 March 2018

Focus

EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel calls for a "humans in command" approach to digital transformation

At he Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society outlined her vision for a of successful evolution.

2 March 2018

Spain

The 5G revolution will not be televised... it will be live

Cristina Giner reports on the latest technology being readied to make us all go faster at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

1 March 2018

Spain

New algorithm could count demonstrators 'more accurately'

Could this be the tool that ends all debates about the number of people who attend a demonstration?

28 February 2018

World News

4YFN at the MWC: a good place for a start-up

Four Years from Now is a startup business platform which puts 650 startups in touch with 700 investors.

28 February 2018

World News

Seven retro tech gadgets that have had a modern update

New versions of the Nokia 3310 phone and Super Nintendo games console were both brought back last year—which old-school gadgets can we expect to reappear on the market in 2018?

27 February 2018

Spain

Europe lagging behind Asia and North America in 5G race, warn industry

'Far and away, the US and China activity will dwarf Europe,' said Nokia's Chief Executive Rajeev Suri ahead of the World Mobile Congress 2018 in Barcelona.

26 February 2018

Ecotech

Crowdfunded electric car to hit market

A futuristic-looking electric car - that started life as a university project - may disrupt the automobile market.

26 February 2018