The Sandbox

ECall and a wave of other new safety technologies underpinned by telecoms networks, could dramatically improve road safety.

In the future, there are many activities in which robots could assist humans – helping to feed people in care, assisting workers in factories with dangerous tasks, or assisting around the house with domestic chores.

If your therapist was a robot would you be more or less likely to trust it with your emotional wellbeing? If one of your colleagues was a machine, would you find it hard to work with it, or would you relish the lack of small talk and workplace politics?

Baron Martin Rees is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist, but believes that humanity’s focus should be at home rather than among the stars.

World AIDS Day 2018 provides a timely moment to reflect on just how much change – and progress – has been made in the 30 years since the inaugural World Aids Day in 1988.

Vodafone has demonstrated the potential of automated control and network programmability of microwave backhaul in a live commercial network in Italy using Software Defined Networking (SDN). This is an important milestone in the transformation of the operator’s transport networks.

Sam Etherington is just 19 but has been in intensive care three times. Sam, a security guard, has struggled with asthma all his life. Diagnosed aged three, he has tried inhalers of, “all colours and sizes,” has missed school and had numerous hospital stays. His symptoms are worst at night.

Vodafone, Jaguar Land Rover and Huawei will undertake a live demonstration of a full Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) connected car system with the potential to significantly improve road safety standards in the near future.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ensuring girls get an education is a monumental challenge.

Europeans say that they are getting fewer hours of digital skills training than their counterparts in Asia, setting out a challenge to employers and governments wanting to develop Gigabit Societies.