By enabling frontline workers to tweak designs from a tablet, Danish company Odico is bringing new agility to the factory floor. — Pushing a drill bit through a sheet of metal might seem mundane, but when you’re binding a 12-ton aluminum blade to a wind turbine, the way each hole is bored matters quite a lot. …

As the transition to renewables marches on, brands that have dominated energy for decades will have to take a back seat. — For more than a century, the energy sector has been dominated by supermajors like BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, and Total — carbon to the core, with global empires built on extracting oil and gas wherever it lies. Today a new set of brands is making itself synonymous with energy: silicon-driven tech…

Though they lead the way on energy efficiency, data centres still have to grapple with soaring power costs. Is strategic energy purchasing the answer? The hum. If you’ve ever been inside a big data centre, you’ll know what I mean: a warm, mid-range murmur emanating from row after row of…

A handful of first movers have taken an early lead, but who are the innovators and what sets them apart? — The Decentralised Finance (DeFi) marketplace is on fire. Figures from Chainalysis have the current volume of DeFi-deposited assets at USD 100 billion and climbing — across a user base closing in on two million. Category-wise, decentralised exchanges (DEXs) are the biggest story in DeFi. Insurgent companies like Polkadex, Uniswap, and…

For businesses, entrepreneurs or creators with limited marketing spend, long-form content is a direct route to authority and rankings — ‘Keep online content short & sweet’. It seems like good advice. Reading off screens can be tiring. Marketing is becoming more visual. Social media has made everyone easily distracted. Microsoft claimed in 2015 that human attention spans had sunk to Dory from Finding Nemo level. That’s been debunked, but the…

How would you react if ransomware locked your systems? For many new companies it's a no-brainer: pay up — and fast. — It begins like any other day. You sit at your desk, turn on the computer, open Slack and click your first email. Then suddenly the screen goes black. A red alert starts to flash: ‘Whoops! Your files are now encrypted. If you ever want to see them again, pay us…

Mobile has taken over everything from gaming to computing — but strangely, not shopping. That’s about to change. — A decade after smartphones arrived on the high street, mobile dominates everything from paying bills to hailing cabs — but not shopping. In e-commerce, the all-powerful smartphone still punches below its weight. It’s an odd one. Mobile web traffic is surging — driving more than 56 per cent of visits…

How buying ‘green’ electrons moved from science fiction to reality. Cheap and reliable power is one of the pillars of modern society, and we consume it on a gargantuan scale. Last year humanity used more than 20,000 TWh of electricity — twice as much as in 1990. We need it…

‘We may look back and say Slussen finally convinced the industry to leave manual processes behind.’ A buzz of creative chaos fills the air around Stockholm’s Slussen. …