After being postponed a year due to the pandemic, the2021 Tokyo Olympicsare cause for great excitement. We’ve waited impatiently to once again, behold the impressive display of sporting skills and competitive endeavors from the top athletes in the world. But an additional factor to get excited about this year is the introduction of many new technologies used to enhance the whole experience. Being held in Japan, arguably one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, it’s no surprise that they pulled out all the stops....

With today’s smartphones being far more powerful than the games consoles of even just a few years ago, it’s little surprise that there’s a thriving scene of developers building software to reproduce the best of yesteryear’s gaming on that device in your pocket. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the open world of Android is the focus of many developers’ attention. It’s possible to play everything from Tetris on the GameBoy and Sonic The Hedgehog on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis right up to the 3D adventures of Super Mario 64 on the N64 using a reasonably specced Android handset....

How escooter firms Dott, Lime, and Tier got to stay in Paris Environmental responsibility With a 40% weight in the decision, operators’ measures to implement sustainable and environmentally responsible business practices was the most important factor in the Paris tender’s final selection. While, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, emissions from electric scooters can be up to 20 times lower than those of an electric car and several hundred times lower than those of an internal combustion engine (ICE) car, emissions associated with scooter manufacturing and lifetimes, charging, and collection/redistribution can significantly alter the overall reduction in emissions that electric scooters can offer....

How esports is quietly spawning a whole new generation of problem gamblers Esports betting adverts and children Our research, sponsored by GambleAware and in collaboration with Ipsos MORI, the thinktank Demos and the University of Sussex, analysed 880,000 tweets from 417 UK-based accounts related to gambling operators. We looked at data from their 621,000 UK-based followers, and the 166,969 UK-based individuals who engaged with these tweets by commenting, liking or sharing them....

Electric vehicles (EVs) are hitting the roads in ever greater numbers. Global EV sales were up by168%in the first half of 2021 compared to 2020, and are expected to cost the same as – or even less than – combustion (petrol and diesel) cars by2028at the latest. Accompanied by proposedgovernment banson the sale of combustion vehicles in many countries, EVs will be increasingly commonplace over the next decade. But EV uptake brings its own set of challenges....