Siraj Datoo

Update (Aug. 12): City of London halts recycling bins tracking phones of passers-by Recycling bins in the City of London are monitoring the phones of passers-by, so advertisers can target messages at people whom the bins recognize. Renew, the startup behind the scheme, installed 100 recycling bins with digital screens around London before the 2012 Olympics....

The City of London is halting a scheme that used recycling bins to track people as they walked by with their smartphones. The head of Renew London, which was behind the operation, wrote in an email, "I can confirm that we are not currently running any trials." Quartz was the first to report on the...

Sensors have played a role in mobile devices for years, even if it was simply a compass designed to help...

Dutch architect Koen Olthuis specializes in building things that float. His structures, he concedes, use a similar technology to oil...

A bakery, a bookmaker and a barber have recently appeared in a village in Northern Ireland. But you cannot enter...

The numbers: Not bad at all. As predicted, UK GDP grew by 0.6%, increasing at twice the pace of the the first quarter (0.3%). The economy had been slowing until very recently. In last quarter of 2012, it contracted by 0.3%. Historically, the economy tends to expand at a rate of between 2.25%-2.5% per year. If the...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer doesn't use a passcode to protect her phone, defying the wisdom of most corporate IT departments....

Demonstrating a feat that was until recently thought to be impossible, researchers in Geneva, Singapore, Cambridge and Waterloo, Ontario have "unconditionally guaranteed" the security and sanctity of a message transmitted between two points on earth. Their work (pdf) could lead to impenetrable communications networks for financial trading, online voting, or an...

When Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook and dropped out of Harvard, he inspired future generations of students that they too might...

The age of the cotton-paper banknote is slowly coming to an end. Following in the footsteps of former colonies Australia,...

Apple first announced iOS7, its latest (and largest) iteration to its mobile operating system at its developer conference, WWDC, in...

Don Draper would be proud. A PR firm in Tokyo, Wit Inc, is pushing the bounds of advertising by paying women to wear stickers on their thighs. Advertising on women's skin appears to be much more cost-effective than forking out exorbitant sums for public billboard space. In 2012, the overall expenditure on 'outdoor' advertising in Japan was ¥299.5 billion...