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Connected world

from the public leaders network
  • Folkstone and its surrounding area as depicted in the first Ordnance Survey map of the south coast i

    A smarter, more digital world must grasp the power of a map

    Alex Wrottesley
  • Amsterdam

    10 steps to building a smart city

    As urban areas swell around the world, leaders are seeking better ways to accommodate citizens. Experts from a recent livechat offer advice
  • Driverless car

    Who will lead the push to a smarter way of life in cities?

    Technology needs to keep pace with demand as urban areas around the world continue to grow. Our experts debate whose job it is to keep our cities working

  • Smart cities are about people not technology – video

  • Home, smart home: how safe will you really be in the house of the future?

  • Who makes a smart city? – livechat

  • Could smart guns make armed police safer and more accountable?

  • The Internet of (nearly) Everything

  • Without a strong business case, councils risk wasting money on internet of things

  • NHS and internet of things: 'The future of care is about the patient taking control'

On media

  • Shoppers on Oxford Street, London.

    Five key insights about the internet of everything and shopping

    We round up the best comments and tips from our live Q&A on the role of the internet of everything in retailRead the live Q&A in full
  • The internet of everything is often referred to as the internet of silos

    Knitting together the internet of everything

  • Smeaton Tower in Plymouth

    Will the internet of everything change how we shop? – live Q&A

  • Standards and the internet of things webchat – 7 things we learned

  • The smart home and a data underclass

  • Five ways to bring advertising to life in the internet of things

  • The data-driven economy will help marketers exploit us

    Neil Lawrence

  • Creating standards for the internet of things – live webchat

  • The data-driven marketing revolution

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On small business

  • Models on a fashion catwalk wearing smart textile clothing lit by LEDs

    Is wearable technology set to take over our wardrobes?

  • Computer in chains

    How will the internet of things impact data security?

    The internet of things has many advantages, but when machines start collecting data, privacy and security become an issue
  • Face recognition technology

    You are being watched: face recognition deemed 'creepy' by UK shoppers

    Richard Newton
    A survey asked UK shoppers to rate in-store technologies, with respondents asked to label them creepy or cool
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On technology

  • Police stand guard during a protest in Ferguson on the anniversary of the shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown

    Body cams, smart guns and tracking darts: policing and the internet of things

  • Vint Cerf, widely acclaimed as the 'father of the internet', and Google Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist.

    What role should the government play in developing the internet of things?

  • Satellite image of planet earth Europe at night

    Data could be the real draw of the internet of things – but for whom?

  • A pro-democracy protester uses her phone in her tent pitched under a bridge at the movement's main protest site in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong on December 2, 2014. The original founders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy Occupy movement tearfully announced on December 2 they would "surrender" by turning themselves in to police and urged protesters on the streets to retreat. AFP PHOTO / ANTHONY WALLACEANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images

    The internet of things – who wins, who loses?

    Maria Farrell
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Internet of things

  • Emma Beddington

    I am being terrorised by my robot vacuum cleaner

    Emma Beddington
  • John Naughton

    Alexa, how did Amazon’s voice assistant rack up a $10bn loss?

    John Naughton

    • We can make our phones harder to hack but complete security is a pipe dream

      John Naughton

    • How smart thermostats can save you fuel and money

    • The smart toilet era is here! Are you ready to share your analprint with big tech?

    • Why right to repair matters – according to a farmer, a medical worker, a computer store owner

    • Amazon’s Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen

      Lauren Bridges

    • Oliver Letwin, the unlikely merchant of technological doom

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