Long before artificial intelligence brings about the singularity, algorithms are having an influence over our most important decisions, including which candidate to back in elections. The danger this could go too far is real and we probably need some well-considered regulatory intervention. Earlier this week, the U.S. psychologist Robert Epstein published a harsh article about Google’s alleged manipulation of …

  One of the most striking ways in which Narendra Modi’s government has changed the policy narrative in India is to make manufacturing central to its ambitions. This is an overdue recognition of the fact that India — whose workforce is overwhelmingly poor and underemployed, and growing at the rate of a million people every month — needs to create …

  It was always going to be tough for the world’s container shipping lines — accustomed to decade after decade of growth in the volume of video-game consoles, auto parts, furniture, frozen seafood and all manner of other things transported in boxes across the sea — to adjust to a slowdown in global trade. What has made it a whole …