Medication errors in hospitals don’t disappear with new technology

A pharmacy technician counts prescription medication at a pharmacy in Edmond, Okla. In the first six months of 2016, Pennsylvania hospitals reported 889 medication errors or close calls that were…

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The 20 Most Successful Technology Failures of All Time

The graveyard of technology is riddled with failed products: remember the Apple Newton? Or Microsoft's Zune? How about Amazon's Fire Phone? And yet in Silicon Valley "failing fast" is heralded…

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Top 10 ‘breakthrough’ technologies for 2017

File photo: A visitor speaks to Baidu's robot Xiaodu at the 2015 Baidu World Conference in Beijing, China, September 8, 2015. Xiaodu, an artificial intelligent robot developed by Baidu, has…

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How Technology Is Making Expense Reporting Easier

With the right app, business travelers can record travel expenses by simply speaking into a smartphone. ILLUSTRATION: CHRISTOPH HITZ FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Good news for road warriors: Keeping…

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SanDisk Launches 256GB microSD Card, iXpand Flash Drive at MWC 2017

HIGHLIGHTS The 256GB SanDisk Extreme microSD card is priced at $200 The 256GB iXpand Flash Drive has been priced at $249.99 New iXpand Flash Drive and Connect Wireless Stick are…

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Uber to pay $20m to ‘misled’ drivers

Between January and March 2015, ride-sharing service Uber put out ads on Craigslist in the hope of attracting new drivers by offering attractive hourly rates of pay. In Boston, for…

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Google placed its own ads first, study claims

Adverts for Google products occupied 91% of the top ad slots on the firm's search results pages, in a study done for the Wall Street Journal. Advertising data firm Semrush…

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The rise of the robots?

"Your bones will turn to sand. And upon that sand a new God will walk." Dolores in the latest sci-fi TV blockbuster, Westworld. It may not quite be that bad.…

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CES 2017: UK support to tech firms ‘an embarrassment’

The UK government's lack of support for start-ups attending the CES tech show is a "source of embarrassment", according to the event's organiser. Gary Shapiro compared the country unfavourably with…

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Taxi-sharing could end traffic jams, suggests MIT study

Taxi-sharing services could reduce the number of cars on the road by 75%, a study has suggested. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study found that a fleet of 3,000…

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