Ross Anderson

What next for the world of watches?

Every year, the world’s greatest watch companies and their biggest fans head to Geneva for an orgy of horological spectacle: Watches & Wonders. Here, companies pull out their latest, newest, most impressive goods, showing off the main products they intend to launch and the fans salivate and loosen their already pummelled wallets. It’s not a cheap

Why Apple killed its electric car

After spending over $10 billion, screwing over corporate partners, hiring and firing talent and a decade of work trying to develop a flagship product for a new, massive market, Apple has killed what could have been its most ambitious product yet: an electric car. The failure of the electric vehicle project singularly reflects the culture

London’s New Year fireworks were a dangerous shambles

Drone lights, shining above Westminster, spelled out ‘London: a place for everyone,’ at this year’s New Year Eve show in the capital. To most watching on TV around the world, it was big, fun spectacle with bright fireworks and New Year cheer.   It’s only good fortune that it didn’t become a crowd crush, of the

Can Apple make virtual reality relevant?

Earlier this week, Apple unveiled their latest product: the Vision Pro ultra-premium mixed reality headset. It’s sleek, advanced and luxurious, powered by Apple’s class-leading M2 and R1 chips, running their new VisionOS operating system, and built with a blend of glass, aluminium and plush fabric. Seven years after that messy launch, the Watch division made