Inequalities between women and men in the workplace have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and are likely to persist in the near future, according to the International Labour Organization...
Once more, before the Apple keynote is scheduled to take place on September 12, analysts have provided their pricing predictions on the upcoming iPhone. Specifically, it is the iPhone 9, which is the...
Benjamin Selwyn is a professor of international relations and international development at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. His publications include The Struggle for Development (Polity Press:...
An investigation by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute has implicated Apple in profiting from prisoner slave labour in China.The allegation is that Apple’s suppliers, such as O-Film Technology...
The fact that smartphones exist at all is nothing short of a miracle. Regardless of the considerable technical accomplishments they represent, the logistics involved in building a smartphone is compli...
Fairphone 4 has just gone official, and it carries some notable upgrades over the previous version. Fairphone is focusing on delivering an experience like other smartphone manufacturers. Instead of ch...
In 1965 my dad brought home a transistor radio from the television factory where he worked. At home, we still had the stately valve-amp radiogram that took up half the parlour, where my mother had lis...
Nike, Adidas, Apple, Microsoft and Samsung are among 83 multinationals that have been linked to forced labor by Uighurs in factories across China, according to a new study by the Australian Strategic...
The abundance of electronics and gadgets makes it easy to forget what it takes to bring them to market. The manufacturing process begins with mining essential elements and is far less beautiful than a...
Several Apple suppliers may have used forced labor in China, according to The Information. Working with two human rights groups, the publication identified seven companies that supplied products or se...
Any ethical, non-🍏 📱 recommendations?It all started with a WhatsApp message from my friend, an environmental campaigner who runs a large government sustainability project. She's the most ethical perso...
iPhone 12 production in India has been halted by protests over food poisoning at a Foxconn factory, Reuters reports.Foxconn's manufacturing plant near Chennai in southern India, which produces iPhone...
News media across the globe have been heaping praise on Samsung's cool new Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones. But amid all the raves about the tech innovations and fancy features of these devices, the liv...
After living for two years with a cracked screen, it’s finally time for me to buy a new phone. Apple launched its new iPhone 11 last month right before Samsung’s new Galaxy Fold model hit the market....
Where did the slick smartphone you got for the holidays come from? You might imagine a remote futuristic industrial park, with robotic assembly lines whirring in ultra-efficient silence. But the worke...
