The easy ride that chip designers have enjoyed for decades has come to an end

The venture-capital game is evolving with deals declining even as their value rises

Innovative regulation can quell political rumblings and revive public trust

As Armenia’s physicist president tests his theory, Trump intuitively grasps its implications

But will automated valuation methods lead to more rational housing markets?

Absent perfect competition and rational actors, we should defend this principle

Forget fevered talk of ‘divergent humanity’. Technology should serve the public good

Appreciating humour may be vital for future co-operation between humans and machines

Mark Zuckerberg can do more to improve a social network that was meant to build communities but has helped to split societies

America faces a threat to its tech dominance, with unpredictable military repercussions

Fresh thinking advanced by competition leaves conventional research in the shade

The risk of escalation is high as it is hard to know who is attacking whom or why

The computer games sector is experimenting with a different way of creating products

Automation is capable of creating jobs, not destroying them, a survey shows

Machine learning can save time and money by improving patient records and management

We also need technology to work with consumers, not against them

Tech companies appear to understand that they need to become more diverse