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How Smartphones Control the Police

By Nathan Liu in Politics on 01 Jun 2020

In London, there is one CCTV camera for every fourteen people. But there are at least eight million residents with smartphones. When police brutality escalates in Hong Kong, and the murder of a black man is filmed by passers by in the US, they look like our greatest defence.

Podcasts: The Internet’s Greatest Achievement

By Nathan Liu in Technology on 24 May 2020

My love of podcasts comes in waves. In a virus laden world where walks outside are the only sense of normality available, I am once again in love with the internet’s most underrated medium.

The Cloud Storage Conundrum

By Nathan Liu in Technology on 19 May 2020

If I fill my iCloud storage, I have two options: pay up or have my personal data deleted. It shouldn’t have to be this way.

How to Sell an ARM Mac

By Nathan Liu in Technology on 12 May 2020

The challenge won’t be in building, it’ll be in storytelling.

A Touch of Social Distance

By Nathan Liu in Mental Health on 08 May 2020

We have been educated how to make a face mask and shop with distance. We have not been taught how to survive without touch.

A New iPod: An Exercise in Focus

By Nathan Liu in Technology on 02 May 2020

As our technology does more and more, as the power at our fingertips becomes unwieldy and under-utilised, our expectations grow higher. But to be perfect, to do one thing extremely well, we have to drop those distractions.

The Government That Doesn’t Want Trust

By Nathan Liu in Politics on 26 Apr 2020

Britain needs leadership that treats a crisis with the weight it deserves, not as political opportunity. We need leadership that will apologise not manipulate.

This is a Computer

By Nathan Liu in Technology on 22 Apr 2020

Across the tech blogging sphere, on YouTube and in podcasts, more people have asked if the iPad is a computer than have asked when we’re going to be allowed outside again. So I wonder: Is it even possible to write something new?