technology

Illustration of a grey factory building with a reflection of it in green underneath

Edition 43

The workers who tried to make ‘swords into ploughshares’

Andy Danford spent decades in Bristol’s aerospace and arms sectors, navigating industrial battles, political upheaval, and bold ideas for transforming weapons factories into socially useful workplaces

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

This Better Work

Illustration of 4 desks with laptops on them and chairs on the floor, with an orange background.

Tech workers need unions too

Daniel Watson

People Just Do Something

Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

Listen: People Just Do Something, with Joshua Dávila on putting the blockchain into use for the left

George Colwey Priyanka Raval
George Colwey, Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and Priyanka Raval

Bristol and the Climate Crisis

Could a camera developed in Bristol that can ‘see’ methane leaks offer a path to curbing industrial greenhouse gas emissions?

UN scientists argue that cutting methane offers the fastest, most effective way to reduce the rate of global temperature rises.

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

Opinion

How a police and council database is predicting if your child is at risk of harm

Jake Hurfurt

Features

5 ways robots are changing our healthcare

Fatima Hudoon
Fatima Hudoon

Bristol and Beyond

5G rollout raises urgent questions about high-frequency health impacts

As Bristol experiences 5G mobile phone technology for the first time and conspiracy theories abound, science writer Andy Extance looks at the technologies risks and benefits. 

Andy Extance

Interviews

Artificial intelligence, robots, and the future of society: interview with Darren Jones

We are hurtling into a ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’: an age of artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, and unparalleled automation in the workplace. Should we be worried? To find out, the Cable spoke to Darren Jones – one Bristol MP who is paying attention

Sandi Dheensa and Michael Cox

Opinion

Opinion: Bristol’s new phoneboxes could end up spying on you

Councillors should scrutinise plans to introduce phonebox replacements with potentially worrying surveillance capabilities.

Adrian Short

Voices

Opinion: Engineers can’t ignore social responsibility

“If we are going to look with pride on how our tools make positive contributions to the world, we must also accept some responsibility for...

Ben Marshall

City

Facial recognition: Bristol research could change the world as we know it

Bristol Robotics Laboratory are developing a facial recognition system that could change the world as we know it.

Simon Oxenham

Edition 9

Bringing braille back from the brink

Braille literacy has been in dramatic decline. Yet in Bristol, users and innovators are joining forces to create technology to save it.

Ann Burke
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