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US food delivery app DoorDash offers to buy UK rival Deliveroo for $3.6bn
25/04/2025 15:17
The London-based company, the second largest food deliver app in the UK, said no ‘firm offer’ had been made yet
DoorDash is offering to buy its UK-based rival Deliveroo for $3.6bn (£2.7bn), Deliveroo said on Friday.
Deliveroo said that its board was in talks with DoorDash over the offer and that a firm offer had not been made, according to statement sent to the Guardian. Should a firm offer of £1.80 ($2.40) a share be made, Deliveroo said, “it would be minded to recommend such an offer to Deliveroo shareholders.
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Can at-home brain stimulators make you feel better?
25/04/2025 12:21
For now, the evidence for neuromodulation products is slim
Technology | The Guardian
Marks & Spencer pauses online orders as firm struggles with cyber-attack fallout
25/04/2025 10:36
Contactless payments now restored in stores after week of problems as retailer apologises to shoppers
Marks & Spencer has halted all orders through its website and apps as the retailer continues to battle the fallout from a cyber-attack that began on Monday.
The company apologised to shoppers for “this inconvenience” and paused digital orders “as part of our proactive management of a cyber incident”.
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The Download: how Trump’s tariffs will affect US manufacturing, and AI architecture
25/04/2025 08:10
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Sweeping tariffs could threaten the US manufacturing rebound Despite the geopolitical chaos and market collapses triggered by President Trump’s announcement of broad tariffs on international goods, some supporters still hope the strategy will…
Technology | The Guardian
Microsoft says everyone will be a boss in the future – of AI employees
25/04/2025 07:31
Tech company predicts rise of ‘frontier firms’ – where a human worker directs AI agents to carry out tasks
Microsoft has good news for anyone with corner office ambitions. In the future we’re all going to be bosses – of AI employees.
The tech company is predicting the rise of a new kind of business, called a “frontier firm”, where ultimately a human worker directs autonomous artificial intelligence agents to carry out tasks.
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Apple ‘aims to source all US iPhones from India’, reducing reliance on China
25/04/2025 06:16
Report suggests tech firm – swept up in Donald Trump’s trade war – will make change as soon as 2026
Apple is reportedly planning to switch assembly of all iPhones for the US market to India as the company seeks to reduce its reliance on a Chinese manufacturing base amid Donald Trump’s trade war.
The $3tn (£2.3tn) technology company aims to make the shift as soon as next year, the Financial Times reported.
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Sweeping tariffs could threaten the US manufacturing rebound
25/04/2025 05:00
Despite the geopolitical chaos and market collapses triggered by President Trump’s announcement of broad tariffs on international goods, some supporters still hope the strategy will produce a “golden age” of American industry. Trump himself insists, “Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country.” While it’s possible that very targeted tariffs could help protect…
Technology | The Guardian
Elon Musk’s xAI accused of pollution over Memphis supercomputer
24/04/2025 22:09
Hearing scheduled for Friday as residents receive anonymous leaflets that downplay pollution dangers
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company is stirring controversy in Memphis, Tennessee. That’s where he’s building a massive supercomputer to power his company xAI. Community residents and environmental activists say that since the supercomputer was fired up last summer it has become one of the biggest air polluters in the county. But some local officials have championed the billionaire, saying he is investing in Memphis.
The first public hearing with the health department is scheduled for Friday, where county officials will hear from all sides of the debate. In the run-up to the hearing, secretive fliers claiming xAI has low emissions were sent to residents of historically Black neighborhoods; at the same time, environmental groups have been amassing data about how much pollution the AI company is likely generating.
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Ofcom accused of prioritising interests of tech firms over child safety online
24/04/2025 14:15
Watchdog’s new codes of practice are not strong enough, says children’s commissioner for England
The communications watchdog has been accused of backing big tech over the safety of under-18s after the children’s commissioner for England criticised new measures for tackling online harms.
Rachel de Souza said she warned Ofcom last year that its proposals for protecting children under the Online Safety Act were too weak. New codes of practice issued by the watchdog on Thursday have ignored her concerns, she said.
Requiring social media platforms to deploy “highly effective” age checks to identify under-18s.
Ensuring algorithms filter out harmful material.
Making all sites and apps have procedures for taking down dangerous content quickly.
Ensuring children must have a “straightforward” way to report content.
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Driving business value by optimizing the cloud
24/04/2025 09:56
Organizations are deepening their cloud investments at an unprecedented pace, recognizing its fundamental role in driving business agility and innovation. Synergy Research Group reports that companies spent $84 billion worldwide on cloud infrastructure services in the third quarter of 2024, a 23% rise over the third quarter of 2023 and the fourth consecutive quarter in…
Technology | The Guardian
Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 review – reality-bending daftness
24/04/2025 09:14
PC; Strange Scaffold
What looks like a glitchy dinosaur-hunting puzzler turns out to be a meta game about game development that the player patches as they go
The haunted house has become a ripe location in which to set weird video games. Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, Blue Prince, Botany Manor and Layers of Fear spring to mind. The manor as a site of danger, supernatural peril, untrustworthy architecture – perfect, surely, for an unsettling experience. Or even a silly experience in unsettling surroundings.
Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 promises much in its title. It presents initially as a high-concept dinosaur-hunting adventure in spooky house run by a sinister old mogul, then quickly reveals to the player that it knows it is a video game. A broken video game, that is, and it is up to us to patch it as we go.
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The Download: Apple’s eucalyptus carbon bet, and climate tech’s bad vibes
24/04/2025 08:15
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal “We were losing the light, and still about 20 kilometers from the main road, when the car shuddered and died at the edge…
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The vibes are shifting for US climate tech
24/04/2025 06:00
The past few years have been an almost nonstop parade of good news for climate tech in the US. Headlines about billion-dollar grants from the government, massive private funding rounds, and labs churning out advance after advance have been routine. Now, though, things are starting to shift. About $8 billion worth of US climate tech…
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Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal
24/04/2025 05:00
We were losing the light, and still about 20 kilometers from the main road, when the car shuddered and died at the edge of a strange forest. The grove grew as if indifferent to certain unspoken rules of botany. There was no understory, no foreground or background, only the trees themselves, which grew as a…
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Roundtables: Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Promise to Product
23/04/2025 14:03
Recorded on April 23, 2025 Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Promise to Product Speakers: David Rotman, editor at large, and Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been crowned the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2025 by MIT Technology Review‘s readers. BCIs are electrodes implanted into the brain to send neural commands to computers, primarily to assist…
The Economist - Science & technology
Australia’s dingoes are becoming a distinct species
23/04/2025 11:55
Many will still be culled under false pretences
The Economist - Science & technology
Lethal fungi are becoming drug-resistant—and spreading
23/04/2025 11:52
New antifungals offer a glimmer of hope
The Economist - Science & technology
AI models can learn to conceal information from their users
23/04/2025 11:51
This makes it harder to ensure that they remain transparent
The Economist - Science & technology
The Carthaginians weren’t who you think they were
23/04/2025 11:18
New research shows just how diverse the ancient city of Dido was
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review – deeply satisfying homage to Japanese role-playing games
23/04/2025 09:10
PC, PlayStation 5 (version played); Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
Boasting a unique world, challenging combat and great writing, this RPG has a lot going for it, if only it didn’t revel in its own mysteriousness so much
When we meet Clair Obscur’s protagonist Gustave, he’s getting ready to say goodbye to his ex-girlfriend, Sophie. Once a year the Paintress, a giant god-like woman visible from across the sea, wakes, paints a number on a large monolith, and in the peaceful town of Lumière, everyone whose age corresponds with the number dies. This process, called the Gommage, has shortened people’s lives for 67 years, and now it’s Sophie’s turn. Immediately after this heart-wrenching goodbye, Gustave and his adopted sister Maelle get ready to set sail as part of Expedition 33, on a journey to defeat the Paintress and end her gruesome cycle.
While stunningly beautiful, the continent you arrive at is no friendly place, and the path to the Paintress is filled with surreal monsters called Nevrons, which you fight in turn-based battles. Characters have a melee attack and a long-range attack, but most importantly, they have a large variety of unique skills including elemental magic attacks and strong attacks with multiple hits that have the chance to stun. Each member of your team has a special way of building up damage even further; Maelle for example uses a defensive, offensive or aggressive combat stance, inspired by fencing, while the magic that Lune wields builds up so-called stains that you can then spend to make other spells more powerful. Add to this long list of optional passive skills called Pictos, and soon you have a wide array of ways to enhance your characters. The interplay between building up action points to use skills, building up damage and defending is really interesting, and I enjoyed trying out different tactics, even as it meant that a lot of my time was spent in menus.
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The Download: introducing the Creativity issue
23/04/2025 08:10
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Creativity issue The university computer lab may seem like an unlikely center for creativity. We tend to think of creativity as happening more in the artist’s studio or writers’ workshop. But…
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3 Things Caiwei Chen is into right now
23/04/2025 05:00
A new play about OpenAI I recently saw Doomers, a new play by Matthew Gasda about the aborted 2023 coup at OpenAI, here represented by a fictional company called MindMesh. The action is set almost entirely in a meeting room; the first act follows executives immediately after the firing of company CEO Seth (a stand-in…
MIT Technology Review
Why we still need AM radio
23/04/2025 05:00
Ariel Aberg-Riger is the author of America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History.
The Economist - Science & technology
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23/04/2025 04:15
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‘I did things I cringe at’: Alex Warren, rough-sleeper, viral prankster and now No 1 pop sensation
22/04/2025 11:21
He slept in cars, found notoriety on social media and could be pop’s next superstar. The singer of Ordinary, the longest-running No 1 of the year, talks about his journey to breakout success
At 18, Alex Warren was homeless, sneaking into the gym of a gated community in his home town of Carlsbad, California, to shower for job interviews and film TikTok videos of himself singing in the bathroom. Six years later he is one of pop’s next potential superstars. His bombastic ballad Ordinary has been No 1 in the UK charts for five weeks, the longest-running chart leader this year, and entered the US Top 10 last week. As soon as he heard the finished version, he was “freaking out – my wife and I listened to it on repeat for our entire drive home, for 45 minutes.”
Ordinary may be Warren’s breakout hit but he’s been famous for a long time. He gained notoriety on social media in his teens by making hugely popular videos with titles such as “BROTHER WAKES UP IN MIDDLE OF LAKE PRANK!” In 2019 he co-founded the Hype House, a shared house of content creators (including the D’Amelio sisters and Addison Rae) known for Covid-era internet videos, as well as at least one controversial facemask-free influencer party and, eventually, a $300,000 (£226,000) lawsuit – which Warren wasn’t named in – which alleged property damage and unpaid rent.
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Be a sim-only saver: could you join the phone users shunning bundles?
21/04/2025 05:30
More people are switching to deals with greater flexibility and value, and there are a growing number of providers
People are rejecting mobile “bundles” that include a new phone and data contract, and are increasingly turning to sim-only deals that offer better value for money.
A growing number of consumers are not getting a new phone when they change their mobile contract and are instead holding on to their existing handset or buying a secondhand one, according to analysts.
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How to split the bill without causing long-term divisions
21/04/2025 03:00
Whether you’re eating out or settling up households costs, here are ways to make it as fair and painless as possible
Income disparity in friendships can sometimes lead to conflict. A study published last year by a US financial services company, Bread Financial, found 26% of people felt they were “financially incompatible” with their friends, while 21% said they had lost a friendship because of money.
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Looking for the last human place on the internet? Try Google Maps
20/04/2025 11:00
The navigation app might be built for function – but dig deeper and you’ll find a trove of inside jokes, neighbourhood quirks and charming errors
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There is a certain kind of guy who looks at Google Maps for fun. I am that guy. As a kid I went through a cartography phase, drawing elaborate maps of fictional islands and poring over the family street directory in an effort to reconcile the lines and dots on the overcrowded pages with the streets, shops and friends’ houses in my mind’s eye. You could say that phase never really ended.
In much the same way as some people will pull up a movie’s IMDb entry the second they start watching, any time I come across an interesting town, country or geographical oddity (which is often in the news business), I’m firing up Maps to see what topographical morsels I can uncover. I’m no GeoGuessr savant, but I’ve spent many pleasant hours puzzling over interesting enclaves and panhandles, or pootling around far-flung locales in Street View. After finishing a recent episode of Severance I opened a tab and took an armchair tour through the remote Newfoundland island where it was shot.
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Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Tape Two) review – love, grief and self-recrimination as the girls reunite
18/04/2025 07:36
PC, PS5, XBox; Don’t Nod
The concluding half of this two-parter may be lacking in interactive challenges, but is profound, sensitively structured and emotionally resonant
One thing you realise as you get older is that memories are plastic and that the stories you tell about your life change with every recollection, depending on who you are at the time. This is one of the themes – and indeed the mechanics – of Lost Records, a narrative adventure about four teenage girls who develop an intense friendship in rural Michigan during the summer of 1995. In the first instalment, they form a band, discover an old shack in the woods to use as a clubhouse, and encounter a supernatural force emanating from a deep hole they discover nearby. But as autumn draws in and the girls plan a climactic rock gig, tragic secrets are uncovered.
Cleverly, the story is told mostly in flashback, as the characters meet again, decades later, in their long-abandoned home town – they’re older, wiser and with new perspectives on what happened to them as teenagers. Lead character Swann, a keen photographer whose video camera provides a key game interface in the first episode, is living a solitary life, while Autumn is still filled with anxiety and Nora is now an influencer. Missing is Kat whose terminal cancer diagnosis obliterates their world at the close of part one.
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How to form good habits, and break bad ones: trick your brain
17/04/2025 08:17
Small rewards and a change of scenery can help
Technology | The Guardian
Apple iPad Air M3 review: the premium tablet to beat
17/04/2025 02:00
New iPad has laptop-level power, reliable battery life, great video call camera and a choice of screen sizes
Apple’s iPad Air continues to be the premium tablet to beat, with the latest version featuring a chip upgrade to keep it ahead of the pack.
The new iPad Air M3 costs from £599 (€699/$599/A$999) – the same as its predecessor – and comes in two sizes with either an 11in or 13in screen. It sits between the base-model £329 iPad A16 and the £999 iPad Pro M4, splitting the difference in price and features.
Screen: 11in or 13in Liquid Retina display (264ppi)
Processor: Apple M3 (9-core GPU)
RAM: 8GB
Storage: 128, 256, 512GB or 1TB
Operating system: iPadOS 18.4
Camera: 12MP rear, 12MP centre stage
Connectivity: Wifi 6E (5G optional eSim-only), Bluetooth 5.3, USB-C, Touch ID, Smart Connecter
Dimensions: 247.6 x 178.5 x 6.1mm or 280.6 x 214.9 x 6.1mm
Weight: 460g or 616g
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Scientists are getting to grips with ice
16/04/2025 09:20
Climate change is making water freeze in unexpected ways
The Economist - Science & technology
Microplastics have not yet earned their bad reputation
16/04/2025 09:20
There are worrying signs. But more thorough studies of their health effects are coming
The Economist - Science & technology
AI models could help negotiators secure peace deals
16/04/2025 09:20
Some are being developed to help end the war in Ukraine
Technology | The Guardian
‘It’s allowed me to see through his eyes’: Super Mario, my dad and me
16/04/2025 05:00
When his mum found their old family NES covered in dust and rust, Thomas Hobbs cleaned it up, got it working and reconnected with his childhood and late father
One of my earliest memories is watching my mum and dad play the opening level of Super Mario Bros in cooperative mode on the Nintendo Entertainment System. This was the early 1990s, and they were joined at the hip on the sofa, laughing at the idea of two portly plumbers becoming gigantic after consuming copious amounts of magic mushrooms.
In this moment I sensed their natural chemistry, while the intoxicating mix of 8-bit visuals and perky, synth-heavy music blew my toddler mind. Although it was irritating seeing them constantly fail to jump high enough to hit the top of the flagpole at the end of the level, I remember being transfixed by the TV screen, and I’m pretty sure this was the first time I connected properly with a video game.
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Pixel 9a review: Google’s cut-price Android winner
15/04/2025 02:00
Class-leading camera, top-tier chip, very long battery life, AI and quality software dominate mid-range rivals
Google’s latest cut-price Pixel offers the best bang for your buck in Android phones and is arguably better in many areas than some models costing twice the price.
The Pixel 9a starts at the same £499 (€549/$499/A$849) as last year’s equally good value model. That makes it £300 or so less than Google’s regular Pixel 9 and places it up against mid-rangers such as Nothing’s Phone 3a Pro and Samsung’s Galaxy A56.
Screen: 6.3in 120Hz FHD+ OLED (422ppi)
Processor: Google Tensor G4
RAM: 8GB
Storage: 128 or 256GB
Operating system: Android 15
Camera: 48MP + 13MP ultrawide, 13MP selfie
Connectivity: 5G, Sim/eSim, wifi 6E, NFC, Bluetooth 5.3 and GNSS
Water resistance: IP68 (1m for 30 minutes)
Dimensions: 157.7 x 73.3 x 8.9mm
Weight: 185.9g
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Plaything – how Black Mirror took on its scariest ever subject: a 1990s PC games magazine
14/04/2025 07:30
This story from Charlie Brooker’s dystopian series is set at PC Zone magazine and thrillingly close to true events at one dingy London office in the 90s
Out of all the episodes in the excellent seventh season of Black Mirror, it’s Plaything that sticks out to me and I suspect to anyone else who played video games in the 1990s. It’s the story of socially awkward freelance games journalist, Cameron Walker, who steals the code to a new virtual pet sim named Thronglets from the developer he’s meant to be interviewing. When he gets the game home, he realises the cute, intelligent little critters he’s caring for on the screen have a darker ambition than simply to perform for his amusement – cue nightmarish exploration of AI and our complicity in its rise.
The episode is interesting to me because … well, I was a socially awkward games journalist in the mid-1990s. But more importantly, so was Charlie Brooker. He began his writing career penning satirical features and blistering reviews for PC Zone magazine, one of the two permanently warring PC mags of the era (I shared an office with the other, PC Gamer). In Plaything, it’s PC Zone that Cameron Walker writes for, and there are several scenes taking place in its office, which in the programme is depicted as a reasonably grownup office space with tidy computer workstations and huge windows. I do not think the production design team got this vision from Brooker.
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Electric vehicles also cause air pollution
11/04/2025 13:50
Though fume-free, their brake pads and tyres disintegrate over time
Technology | The Guardian
Blue Prince review – exploring this game may become your new obsession
11/04/2025 09:00
Dogubomb/Raw Fury; PC, PS5, Xbox
Thoughtful design details and puzzles will keep you returning to an atmospherically uninhabited family mansion to search for a hidden room and family secrets
My first day with Blue Prince, I told myself I’d just have a little taste before turning to my usual evening K-drama. Before I knew it the sun had long since set and my lounge was lit only by my Steam Deck and a game that had fast become my new obsession. It is the sort of game that feels as though it were made just for you – and the elements that make it truly special are best discovered without forewarning, so forgive any vagueness in what follows.
In a similar style to What Remains of Edith Finch or Gone Home, Blue Prince has you exploring your character’s atmospherically uninhabited family home. But as in Outer Wilds, your exploration is limited: you are frequently forced to start afresh with little more than the snippets of knowledge you’ve gained. Each expedition is further complicated by Rogue-like randomisation: the house’s shapeshifting floor plan is a five-by-nine grid to be filled anew each day with tiles drafted by you, a feature that some players may recognise from the board game Betrayal at House on the Hill. But in this case there’s a random choice of three options whenever you open a door.
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AI models are helping dirty industries go green
10/04/2025 08:53
Mining companies and steelmakers are feeling the benefits
Technology | The Guardian
Apple MacBook Air M4 review: the laptop to beat, now cheaper
10/04/2025 02:00
Chip, memory and webcam upgrades are joined by welcome price cut for the top premium notebook
Apple’s much-loved MacBook Air gets even more power, a much better webcam and an unexpected price cut for 2025, making one of the very best consumer laptops even more tempting.
The company’s thinnest and lightest laptop currently starts at £999 (€1,199/$999/A$1,699) – £100 less than last year’s model – and has Apple’s top M4 chip with a minimum of 16GB of memory, making the cheapest model much more capable.
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Could data centres ever be built in orbit?
09/04/2025 14:32
A startup called Starcloud has plans to do just that
The Economist - Science & technology
The tricky task of calculating AI’s energy use
09/04/2025 14:29
Making models less thirsty may not lessen their environmental impact
The Economist - Science & technology
AI models can help generate cleaner power
09/04/2025 14:23
Energy companies are using them to increase efficiency and spot problems
The Economist - Science & technology
Researchers lift the lid on how reasoning models actually “think”
02/04/2025 13:06
They plan sentences far in advance. They also bullshit themselves when reasoning out loud
The Economist - Science & technology
How Daylight Saving Time affects your sleep and diet
02/04/2025 13:05
This annual time shift has long-lasting effects on health
The Economist - Science & technology
Motors in the wheels take EVs further
02/04/2025 13:04
Simpler to build, lighter and extra range
The Economist - Science & technology
What does space miso taste like?
02/04/2025 13:04
It should make the diets of astronauts more interesting
The Economist - Science & technology
Mitochondria transplants could cure diseases and lengthen lives
31/03/2025 15:44
A technique that may create a new field of medicine
Technology | The Guardian
Global protests against Tesla CEO Elon Musk – video
29/03/2025 16:30
Protesters gathered outside Tesla showrooms around the world on Saturday as part of a global day of action against billionaire chief executive Elon Musk. The protest is part of the Tesla Takedown movement — a grassroots campaign that calls for people to boycott Tesla, sell their shares and join local picket lines in a peaceful demonstration against Musk’s influence
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Is red meat unhealthy?
28/03/2025 14:06
Overdoing it could give you heart disease or cancer
The Economist - Science & technology
Can Musk put people on Mars?
27/03/2025 11:46
Whether successful or not, his attempt to do so will reshape America’s space programme
The Economist - Science & technology
Climate change may make it harder to spot submarines
27/03/2025 11:46
The sound of their engines will not travel as far
The Economist - Science & technology
How harmful are electronic cigarettes?
21/03/2025 13:25
The risks of vaping may be worth the benefits
The Economist - Science & technology
Why don’t seals drown?
20/03/2025 14:01
They can time their dives to match their blood oxygen
The Economist - Science & technology
Rumours on social media could cause sick people to feel worse
19/03/2025 13:27
They are powerful triggers of an inverse placebo effect
The Economist - Science & technology
Can people be persuaded not to believe disinformation?
19/03/2025 13:25
AI chatbots and critical thinking courses might help
Technology | The Guardian
Kindle Colorsoft review: Amazon’s new e-reader gets colour screen upgrade
19/03/2025 03:00
With launch problems fixed, first colour Kindle improves reading experience – but it is pricey and too small for comics
Amazon’s first Kindle with a colour screen had been a very long time coming and then suffered a rough landing last year, plagued with yellowing screen issues and shipping delays. But with those problems fixed, is a splash of colour the revolution the Kindle needs?
Amazon isn’t the first to use a colour e-ink screen in an e-reader, but it thinks its upgrades meaningfully improve on the tech used by others such as Boox and Kobo over the past four years by offering greater contrast and speed.
Continue reading...The Economist - Science & technology
Do viruses trigger Alzheimer’s?
17/03/2025 09:56
A growing group of scientists think so, and are asking whether antivirals could treat the disease
Technology | The Guardian
Nothing Phone 3a Pro review: funky mid-ranger with real zoom camera
17/03/2025 03:00
Transparent back, flashing LEDs, novel design, long battery life and huge triple camera help this Android stand out
London-based Nothing has brought one of the last things setting top-level phones apart from cheaper mid-range models down to a more affordable price: high-quality camera zoom.
Cameras have long been the battleground of the most expensive phones, each vying for better quality, longer reach and multiple lenses. While much of this costly progress has trickled down to cheaper models, optical zoom cameras are few and far between below the £600 mark.
Screen: 6.77in 120Hz FHD+ OLED (387ppi)
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3
RAM: 12GB
Storage: 256GB
Operating system: Nothing OS 3.1 (Android 15)
Camera: 50MP main, 50MP 3x tele and 8MP ultrawide, 50MP selfie
Connectivity: 5G, eSIM, wifi 6, NFC, Bluetooth 5.4 and GNSS
Water resistance: IP64 (spray resistant)
Dimensions: 163.5 x 77.5 x 8.4mm
Weight: 211g
Continue reading...The Economist - Science & technology
What is the best way to keep your teeth healthy?
14/03/2025 14:32
Tooth-brushing reigns supreme. But fluoride in tap water is a good safety net
The Economist - Science & technology
Ukraine’s embrace of drone warfare has paid off
12/03/2025 13:31
Two new reports highlight strengths as well as weaknesses
The Economist - Science & technology
The race is on to build the world’s most complex machine
12/03/2025 13:29
But toppling ASML will not be easy
The Economist - Science & technology
Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator
12/03/2025 13:27
High-speed electrons can etch nano-scale designs
Technology | The Guardian
iPhone 16e review: Apple’s cheapest new phone
11/03/2025 03:00
Stripped back iPhone offers latest chips, AI and longer battery life, but with only a single camera on the back
Apple’s cheapest new smartphone is the iPhone 16e, which offers the basic modern iPhone experience including the latest chips and AI features but for a little less than its other models.
The iPhone 16e costs £599 (€699/$599/A$999) and is the spiritual successor to the iPhone SE line. Where the iPhone SE still had the old-school chunky design with home button, the 16e has the body of the iPhone 14 with the chips of the £799 iPhone 16.
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Is butter bad for you?
07/03/2025 13:19
A new study suggests olive oil may be a healthier alternative
The Economist - Science & technology
Two private companies reach the Moon within four days
07/03/2025 13:16
Though Firefly Aerospace has had better luck than Intuitive Machines
The Economist - Science & technology
Satellites are polluting the stratosphere
05/03/2025 12:38
And forthcoming mega-constellations will exacerbate the problem
The Economist - Science & technology
AI models are dreaming up the materials of the future
05/03/2025 12:34
Better batteries, cleaner bioplastics and more powerful semiconductors await
The Economist - Science & technology
Mice have been genetically engineered to look like mammoths
04/03/2025 09:44
They are small and tuskless, but extremely fluffy
The Economist - Science & technology
Is posh moisturiser worth the money?
01/03/2025 05:13
Don’t break the bank
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How artificial intelligence can make board games better
26/02/2025 13:30
It can iron out glitches in the rules before they go on the market
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The skyrocketing demand for minerals will require new technologies
26/02/2025 13:29
Flexible drills, distributed power systems and, of course, artificial intelligence
Technology | The Guardian
White House says ‘more than 1 million’ federal workers responded to Doge’s ultimatum email – video
25/02/2025 16:01
The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said more than 1 million US federal employees responded to an email sent by Elon Musk's Department of government efficiency asking them to list five things they had accomplished in the last week. 'It took me about a minute and a half to think of five things I did last week. I do five things in about 10 minutes, and all federal workers should be working at the same pace that President Trump is working,' said Leavitt. She added that a new email was being sent threatening employees that they will be fired if they don’t respond
More than 20 Musk staffers resign over Doge’s ‘dismantling of public services’
Trump defends Musk as backlash to federal workers ultimatum grows
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Spy-satellite-grade images could soon become available to everyone
25/02/2025 07:25
The key is to fly very low indeed
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Do better shoes help you run faster?
21/02/2025 09:52
Yes, but the benefits won’t last
Technology | The Guardian
Samsung Galaxy S25 review: the smallest top-tier Android left
21/02/2025 02:00
Compact phone has flagship chip and buckets of AI, but hasn’t changed much from predecessors
The smallest and cheapest of Samsung’s new Galaxy S25 line might be the one to buy, offering top performance and the very latest AI features for less and proving that smaller-sized Androids can still be great.
Unlike previous generations of Samsung’s smaller models sold in the UK and Europe, the regular S25 has the same top-flight chip as the enormous and pricey Ultra model, offering a lot of performance while costing £799 (€919/$800/A$1,399).
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Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything
19/02/2025 14:10
Plate tectonics could explain continental plateaus and mini mass extinctions
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How the Trump administration wants to reshape American science
19/02/2025 14:08
The consequences will be felt around the world
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New research uncovers polygamy and intermarriage in ancient Eurasia
19/02/2025 13:04
DNA analysis reveals shifting family patterns
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Do bans on smartphones in schools improve mental health?
14/02/2025 09:52
What the early evidence suggests about the effect on students
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AI is being used to model football matches
12/02/2025 13:58
The mathematics of network analysis helps them follow the action
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A neutrino telescope spots the signs of something cataclysmic
12/02/2025 13:50
What could have generated the most energetic neutrino ever detected?
The Economist - Science & technology
How artificial intelligence is changing baseball
12/02/2025 13:49
Moneyball enters its AI era
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Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still
12/02/2025 07:04
A $6m LLM isn’t cool. A $6 one is
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Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 review: Apple’s best workout buds are back with a bang
12/02/2025 02:00
Better fit, great sound, noise cancelling, longer battery life and heart rate sensors upgrade just about everything
After five years, Apple is back with a full revamp of the earbuds that put its Beats headphones brand on the map for athletes and sports people: the Powerbeats Pro 2.
Designed to hook on to the ear and stay put without wires, the original Powerbeats Pro were the best earbuds for working out and were worn by sports superstars including LeBron James and Anthony Joshua.
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World leaders and tech bosses focus on innovation at Paris AI summit – video highlights
11/02/2025 15:48
Collaboration and opportunity were at the centre of the talks, as JD Vance urged his ‘European friends’ to view the technology with ‘optimism rather than trepidation’. The US and the UK refused to sign a declaration on ‘inclusive and sustainable’ artificial intelligence at the summit. Campaign groups criticised the UK’s decision and said it risked damaging its reputation in this area
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Does intermittent fasting work?
07/02/2025 11:57
It does for weight loss. Its other supposed benefits are debatable
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Cryptocurrencies are spawning a new generation of private eyes
05/02/2025 12:54
Their tools are software, and a nose for trouble
The Economist - Science & technology
Fine-tuned acoustic waves can knock drones out of the sky
05/02/2025 12:50
The right sounds can also disable their cameras
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Fighting the war in Ukraine on the electromagnetic spectrum
05/02/2025 12:48
Drone operators and jammers are in a high-tech arms race
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Are ice baths good for you?
31/01/2025 10:56
They won’t hurt. Actually they might, a bit
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Why carbon monoxide could appeal to the discerning doper
30/01/2025 10:42
Professional cycling is debating whether to ban the poisonous gas
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A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin
29/01/2025 13:26
How the Casarabe died out remains a mystery
The Economist - Science & technology
Heritable Agriculture, a Google spinout, is bringing AI to crop breeding
29/01/2025 13:26
By reducing the cost of breeding, the firm hopes to improve yields and other properties for an array of important crops
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Could supersonic air travel make a comeback?
28/01/2025 16:55
Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator jet exceeds Mach 1
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Should you worry about microplastics?
24/01/2025 12:50
Little is known about the effects on humans—but limiting exposure to them seems prudent
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Wasps stole genes from viruses
22/01/2025 14:07
That probably assisted their evolutionary diversification
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America’s departure from the WHO would harm everyone
22/01/2025 13:40
Whether it is a negotiating ploy remains to be seen
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Genetic engineering could help rid Australia of toxic cane toads
22/01/2025 13:35
It is better than freezing them to death
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High-tech antidotes for snake bites
21/01/2025 13:13
Genetic engineering and AI are powering the search for antivenins
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Can you breathe stress away?
17/01/2025 14:23
It won’t hurt to try. But scientists are only beginning to understand the links between the breath and the mind
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The Economist’s science and technology internship
17/01/2025 06:39
We invite applications for the 2025 Richard Casement internship
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A better understanding of Huntington’s disease brings hope
16/01/2025 11:00
Previous research seems to have misinterpreted what is going on
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Is obesity a disease?
15/01/2025 12:54
It wasn’t. But it is now
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Volunteers with Down’s syndrome could help find Alzheimer’s drugs
15/01/2025 12:50
Those with the syndrome have more of a protein implicated in dementia
The Economist - Science & technology
Should you start lifting weights?
10/01/2025 14:12
You’ll stay healthier for longer if you’re strong
The Economist - Science & technology
Does melatonin work for jet lag?
08/01/2025 13:53
It can help. But it depends where you’re going
The Economist - Science & technology
Training AI models might not need enormous data centres
08/01/2025 13:52
Eventually, models could be trained without any dedicated hardware at all
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How the Gulf’s rulers want to harness the power of science
07/01/2025 14:56
A stronger R&D base, they hope, will transform their countries’ economies. Will their plan work?
The Economist - Science & technology
Cancer vaccines are showing promise at last
01/01/2025 12:53
Trials are under way against skin, brain and lung tumours
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New firefighting tech is being trialled in Sardinia’s ancient forests
01/01/2025 12:51
It could sniff out blazes long before they spread out of control
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Can Jeff Bezos match Elon Musk in space?
01/01/2025 12:50
After 25 years, Blue Origin finally heads to orbit, and hopes to become a contender in the private space race
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Why some doctors are reassessing hypnosis
28/12/2024 10:41
There is growing evidence that it can help with pain, depression and more
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Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all
18/12/2024 13:04
We analyse two centuries of scholarly work
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Giving children the wrong (or not enough) toys may doom a society
18/12/2024 13:00
Survival is a case of child’s play
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Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why
16/12/2024 13:15
Paradoxically, cleaner emissions from ships and power plants are playing a role
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Humans and Neanderthals met often, but only one event matters
12/12/2024 14:01
The mystery of exactly how people left Africa deepens
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Machine translation is almost a solved problem
11/12/2024 14:23
But interpreting meanings, rather than just words and sentences, will be a daunting task
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AI can bring back a person’s own voice
11/12/2024 14:21
And it can generate sentences trained on their own writing
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Carbon emissions from tourism are rising disproportionately fast
11/12/2024 13:57
The industry is failing to make itself greener
The Economist - Science & technology
Why China is building a Starlink system of its own
06/12/2024 10:06
When it is finished, Qianfan could number 14,000 satellites, rivalling Elon Musk’s system
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Lots of hunting. Not much gathering. The diet of early Americans
04/12/2024 14:01
What they ate is given away by the isotopes in their bodies
The Economist - Science & technology
Stimulating parts of the brain can help the paralysed to walk again
04/12/2024 13:54
Implanted electrodes allowed one man to climb stairs unaided
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Can anyone realistically challenge SpaceX’s launch supremacy?
04/12/2024 13:54
And if its boss now tries to kill NASA’s own heavy lifter, will that matter?
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Dreams of asteroid mining, orbital manufacturing and much more
03/12/2024 12:33
Ideas for making money in orbit that seemed mad in the 1960s now look sane
The Economist - Science & technology
Elon Musk is causing problems for the Royal Society
28/11/2024 08:53
His continued membership has led to a high-profile resignation
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Deforestation is costing Brazilian farmers millions
27/11/2024 13:51
Without trees to circulate moisture, the land is getting hotter and drier
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Robots can learn new actions faster thanks to AI techniques
27/11/2024 13:15
They could soon show their moves in settings from car factories to care homes
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Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad for you
25/11/2024 15:40
A mystery is finally being solved
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Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever
20/11/2024 13:17
Concerns about some of their business models are building
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The two types of human laugh
20/11/2024 12:47
One is caused by tickling; the other by everything else
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Scientists are building a catalogue of every type of cell in our bodies
20/11/2024 12:45
It has thus far shed light on everything from organ formation to the causes of inflammation
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How squid could help people get over their needle phobia
20/11/2024 12:41
Cephalopod ink propulsion is inspiring an alternative to syringes
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Norway’s Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda
13/11/2024 13:16
Climate change and fish farming are endangering its future
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Artificial intelligence is helping improve climate models
13/11/2024 13:15
More accurate predictions will lead to better policy-making
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Physics reveals the best design for a badminton arena
13/11/2024 13:15
The key is minimising the disruptive effects of ventilation
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There’s lots of gold in urban waste dumps
11/11/2024 12:24
The pay dirt could be 15 times richer than natural deposits
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A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI
06/11/2024 12:40
Companies that bet on the right one could win big
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As wellness trends take off, iodine deficiency makes a quiet comeback
06/11/2024 12:34
Levels of the vital nutrient are falling rapidly in America
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How blood-sucking vampire bats get their energy
06/11/2024 12:21
They pull off a trick previously thought unique to a few insects
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China plans to crash a spacecraft into a distant asteroid
05/11/2024 10:03
It will be only the second country to conduct such a planetary defence experiment
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Researchers are questioning if ADHD should be seen as a disorder
30/10/2024 14:18
It should, instead, be seen as a different way of being normal
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Airships may finally prove useful for transporting cargo
30/10/2024 13:41
The problem of variable buoyancy is being overcome
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Space may be worse for humans than thought
30/10/2024 13:39
Why going into orbit sends cells haywire
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Heart-cockle shells may work like fibre-optic cables
28/10/2024 11:45
Inbuilt lenses transmit sunlight to symbiotic algae
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Winemakers are building grape-picking robots
23/10/2024 12:34
Automating this delicate task is harder than it seems
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Why Oriental hornets can’t get drunk
23/10/2024 12:26
They can guzzle extreme amounts for their size, without suffering ill effects
The Economist - Science & technology
The study of ancient DNA is helping to solve modern crimes
23/10/2024 12:25
Such techniques have helped secure two convictions this year
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Perovskite crystals may represent the future of solar power
21/10/2024 14:50
Their efficiency rates far exceed those of conventional silicon panels
The Economist - Science & technology
SpaceX is NASA’s biggest lunar rival
17/10/2024 09:55
The company’s successes are also showing up the agency’s failings
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Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents
16/10/2024 08:41
The conditions are hot, sulphurous and low in oxygen
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has achieved something extraordinary
13/10/2024 14:32
If SpaceX can land and reuse the most powerful rocket ever made what can’t it do?
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Could life exist on one of Jupiter’s moons?
11/10/2024 09:25
A spacecraft heading to Europa is designed to find out
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Meet Japan’s hitchhiking fish
10/10/2024 09:24
Medaka catch rides on obliging birds, confirming one of Darwin’s hunches
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AI wins big at the Nobels
10/10/2024 09:24
Awards went to the discoverers of micro-RNA, pioneers of artificial-intelligence models and those using them for protein-structure prediction
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Noise-dampening tech could make ships less disruptive to marine life
10/10/2024 09:24
Solutions include bendy propellers and “acoustic black holes”
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Google’s DeepMind researchers among recipients of Nobel prize for chemistry
09/10/2024 12:15
The award honours protein design and the use of AI for protein-structure prediction
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AI researchers receive the Nobel prize for physics
08/10/2024 11:38
The award, to Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, stretches the definition of the field
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A Nobel prize for the discovery of micro-RNA
07/10/2024 10:47
These tiny molecules regulate genes and control how cells develop and behave
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AI offers an intriguing new way to diagnose mental-health conditions
02/10/2024 12:45
Models look for sound patterns undetectable by the human ear
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Why it’s so hard to tell which climate policies actually work
02/10/2024 12:43
Better tools are needed to analyse their effects
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Isolated communities are more at risk of rare genetic diseases
02/10/2024 12:41
The isolation can be geographic or cultural
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An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains could follow
02/10/2024 11:02
For now, it is the most sophisticated connectome ever made
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Immune therapy shows promise for asthma, heart disease—and even ageing
25/09/2024 13:05
Making treatment quick and affordable will be the challenge
The Economist - Science & technology
New technologies can spot pesky leaks in water pipelines
25/09/2024 12:57
Across Europe, nearly a quarter of water goes to waste
The Economist - Science & technology
NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover
25/09/2024 12:55
Never used, one previous owner
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The world’s oldest cheese sheds light on ancient Chinese culture
25/09/2024 12:54
What genetic analysis of a 3,500-year-old sour goat’s cheese from Xinjiang reveals
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New battery designs could lead to gains in power and capacity
19/09/2024 08:42
Researchers are looking beyond the cathode
The Economist - Science & technology
Most electric-car batteries could soon be made by recycling old ones
19/09/2024 08:42
Mining for raw materials may peak by the mid-2030s
The Economist - Science & technology
China’s AI firms are cleverly innovating around chip bans
19/09/2024 08:42
Tweaks to software blunt the shortage of powerful hardware
The Economist - Science & technology
Earth may once have had a planetary ring
18/09/2024 14:27
It would have collapsed 450m years ago
The Economist - Science & technology
How bush pigs saved Madagascar’s baobabs
18/09/2024 14:22
Non-native species are not always harmful
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Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power
13/09/2024 13:08
Tricks from the oil industry have produced a hot-rocks breakthrough
The Economist - Science & technology
The world’s first nuclear clock is on the horizon
11/09/2024 13:34
It would be 1,000 times more accurate than today’s atomic timekeepers
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Baby formulas now share some ingredients with breast milk
11/09/2024 13:33
They may one day replicate its benefits
The Economist - Science & technology
Breast milk’s benefits are not limited to babies
11/09/2024 13:32
Some of its myriad components are being tested as treatments for cancer and other diseases
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Particles that damage satellites can be flushed out of orbit
10/09/2024 13:42
All it takes is very long radio waves
The Economist - Science & technology
A common food dye can make skin transparent
05/09/2024 14:01
The discovery allows scientists to see inside live animals
The Economist - Science & technology
Fewer babies are born in the months following hot days
04/09/2024 14:07
The effect is small but consistent
The Economist - Science & technology
New tech can make air-conditioning less harmful to the planet
04/09/2024 14:05
The key is energy efficiency
The Economist - Science & technology
The noisome economics of dung beetles
02/09/2024 13:19
They are worth millions a year to cattle ranchers
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Digital twins are making companies more efficient
28/08/2024 12:57
They will also help them reap the benefits of advances in AI
The Economist - Science & technology
Digital twins are enabling scientific innovation
28/08/2024 12:57
They are being used to simulate everything from bodily organs to planet Earth
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Digital twins are speeding up manufacturing
28/08/2024 12:56
Makers of Formula 1 cars and jet engines are leading the way
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Billionaire space travel heads for a new frontier
27/08/2024 22:32
Flying on Elon Musk’s spaceship; sponsored by Doritos
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Wildfires are getting more frequent and more devastating
22/08/2024 08:54
Climate change is accelerating the blaze
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The world needs codes quantum computers can’t break
21/08/2024 13:08
America’s standards agency thinks it has identified three
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Why a new art gallery in Bangalore is important for Indian science
14/08/2024 12:35
It aims to make research and tinkering more accessible to the public
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Climate change could reawaken harmful invasive plants
14/08/2024 12:33
The sooner they can be weeded out, the better
The Economist - Science & technology
AI scientists are producing new theories of how the brain learns
14/08/2024 12:31
The challenge for neuroscientists is how to test them
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Exposure to the sun’s UV radiation may be good for you
12/08/2024 12:47
For now, though, keep the sun cream handy
The Economist - Science & technology
Engineered dust could help make Mars habitable
07/08/2024 14:07
Restoring water on Mars may be easier than you think
The Economist - Science & technology
New batteries are stretchable enough to wear against the skin
07/08/2024 12:13
They take their inspiration from electric eels
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Do women make better doctors than men?
07/08/2024 12:12
Research suggests yes
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Lavender extract makes excellent mosquito-repellent
07/08/2024 12:12
Scientists have turned it into clothing
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How to reduce the risk of developing dementia
05/08/2024 12:26
A healthy lifestyle can prevent or delay almost half of cases
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GPT, Claude, Llama? How to tell which AI model is best
31/07/2024 12:29
Beware model-makers marking their own homework
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How America built an AI tool to predict Taliban attacks
31/07/2024 12:25
“Raven Sentry” was a successful experiment in open-source intelligence
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Gene-editing drugs are moving from lab to clinic at lightning speed
31/07/2024 12:23
The promising treatments still face technical and economic hurdles, though
The Economist - Science & technology
How Ukraine’s new tech foils Russian aerial attacks
24/07/2024 12:19
It is pioneering acoustic detection, with surprising success
The Economist - Science & technology
The deep sea is home to “dark oxygen”
24/07/2024 12:17
Nodules on the seabed, rather than photosynthesis, are the source of the gas
The Economist - Science & technology
Augmented reality offers a safer driving experience
24/07/2024 12:16
Complete with holograms on the windscreen
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Clues to a possible cure for AIDS
22/07/2024 04:25
Doctors, scientists and activists meet to discuss how to pummel HIV
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AI can predict tipping points before they happen
17/07/2024 13:55
Potential applications span from economics to epidemiology
The Economist - Science & technology
Astronomers have found a cave on the moon
17/07/2024 13:53
Such structures could serve as habitats for future astronauts
The Economist - Science & technology
H5N1 avian flu could cause a human pandemic
17/07/2024 13:53
Existing immunity and vaccines may soften its severity
The Economist - Science & technology
Freeze-dried chromosomes can survive for thousands of years
11/07/2024 11:00
They contain unprecedented detail about their long-dead parent organisms
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Researchers are figuring out how large language models work
11/07/2024 09:55
Such insights could help make them safer, more truthful and easier to use
The Economist - Science & technology
A scientific discovery could lead to leak-free period products
11/07/2024 09:55
Polymers from algae can turn menstrual blood into a gel
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Vaccines could keep salmon safe from sea lice
10/07/2024 13:08
A successful jab would be a boon to fish farmers
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New yeast strains can produce untapped flavours of lager
03/07/2024 13:05
One Chilean hybrid has a spicy taste, with hints of clove
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A new technique could analyse tumours mid-surgery
03/07/2024 13:02
It would be fast enough to guide the hands of neurosurgeons
The Economist - Science & technology
The world’s most studied rainforest is still yielding new insights
03/07/2024 13:01
Even after a century of research, Barro Colorado in Panama continues to shed light on natural life
The Economist - Science & technology
A new bionic leg can be controlled by the brain alone
01/07/2024 12:36
Those using the prosthetic can walk as fast as those with intact lower limbs
The Economist - Science & technology
How the last mammoths went extinct
27/06/2024 12:25
Small genetic mutations accumulated through inbreeding may have made them vulnerable to disease
The Economist - Science & technology
The race to prevent satellite Armageddon
27/06/2024 09:40
Fears of a Russian nuclear weapon in orbit are inspiring new protective tech
The Economist - Science & technology
At least 10% of research may already be co-authored by AI
26/06/2024 13:54
That might not be a bad thing
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A deadly new strain of mpox is raising alarm
26/06/2024 12:28
Health officials warn it could rapidly spread beyond the Democratic Republic of Congo
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What The Economist thought about solar power
21/06/2024 10:27
A look back through our archives: sometimes prescient, sometimes not
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How physics can improve image-generating AI
20/06/2024 09:26
The laws governing electromagnetism and even the weak nuclear force could be worth mimicking
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A flower’s female sex organs can speed up fertilisation
20/06/2024 09:26
They can also stop it from happening
The Economist - Science & technology
The dominant model of the universe is creaking
19/06/2024 13:21
Dark energy could break it apart
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Only 5% of therapies tested on animals are approved for human use
14/06/2024 14:53
More rigorous experiments could improve those odds
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The secret to taking better penalties
14/06/2024 11:49
Practise with an augmented-reality headset
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China has become a scientific superpower
12/06/2024 13:42
From plant biology to superconductor physics the country is at the cutting edge
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Like people, elephants call each other by name
10/06/2024 13:13
And anthropoexceptionalism takes another tumble
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Elon Musk’s Starship makes a test flight without exploding
07/06/2024 11:34
Crucially, the upper stage of the giant rocket survived atmospheric re-entry
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Zany ideas to slow polar melting are gathering momentum
06/06/2024 08:57
Giant curtains to keep warm water away from glaciers strike some as too risky
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The quest to build robots that look and behave like humans
05/06/2024 12:32
The engineering challenges involved are fiendish, but worth tackling
The Economist - Science & technology
Robots are suddenly getting cleverer. What’s changed?
05/06/2024 12:31
There is more to AI than ChatGPT
The Economist - Science & technology
Many Ukrainian drones have been disabled by Russian jamming
29/05/2024 10:47
Their latest models navigate by sight alone
The Economist - Science & technology
Progress on the science of menstruation—at last
29/05/2024 10:46
Newly developed research models show promise
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Hordes of cicadas are emerging simultaneously in America
28/05/2024 11:59
The ancestors of these two neighbouring broods last met in 1803
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A second human case of bird flu in America is raising alarm
24/05/2024 15:35
How close is the H5N1 outbreak to becoming the next pandemic?
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The AirFish is a fast ferry that will fly above the waves
22/05/2024 11:16
It takes inspiration from the “Caspian Sea Monster”
The Economist - Science & technology
A new age of sail begins
21/05/2024 09:37
By harnessing wind power, high-tech sails can help cut marine pollution
The Economist - Science & technology
A promising non-invasive technique can help paralysed limbs move
20/05/2024 12:46
All that’s needed is electricity and exercise
The Economist - Science & technology
It is dangerously easy to hack the world’s phones
17/05/2024 13:27
A system at the heart of global telecommunications is woefully insecure
The Economist - Science & technology
The Great Barrier Reef is seeing unprecedented coral bleaching
15/05/2024 12:54
Continued global warming will mean its obliteration
The Economist - Science & technology
Some corals are better at handling the heat
15/05/2024 12:51
Scientists are helping them breed
The Economist - Science & technology
Today’s AI models are impressive. Teams of them will be formidable
13/05/2024 13:16
Working together will make LLMs more capable and intelligent—for good and ill
The Economist - Science & technology
A Russia-linked network uses AI to rewrite real news stories
10/05/2024 13:26
CopyCop churned out 19,000 deceptive posts in a month
The Economist - Science & technology
To stay fit, future Moon-dwellers will need special workouts
08/05/2024 12:22
Running around the inside of a barrel might help
The Economist - Science & technology
Wind turbines keep getting bigger
08/05/2024 12:21
That poses a giant transport problem
The Economist - Science & technology
New crop-spraying technologies are more efficient than ever
08/05/2024 12:17
Pesticide use could be cut by up to 90%
The Economist - Science & technology
Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya
05/05/2024 05:43
The ancient culture, which transformed Europe, was also less murderous than once thought
The Economist - Science & technology
Producing fake information is getting easier
01/05/2024 14:24
But that’s not the whole story, when it comes to AI
The Economist - Science & technology
Disinformation is on the rise. How does it work?
01/05/2024 13:46
Understanding it will lead to better ways to fight it
The Economist - Science & technology
Fighting disinformation gets harder, just when it matters most
01/05/2024 13:45
Researchers and governments need to co-ordinate; tech companies need to open up
The Economist - Science & technology
The truth behind Olena Zelenska’s $1.1m Cartier haul
01/05/2024 13:13
The anatomy of a disinformation campaign
The Economist - Science & technology
A promising technique could make blood types mutually compatible
29/04/2024 11:28
That would ease the demand for type-O donors
The Economist - Science & technology
Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers
24/04/2024 14:18
Psychiatrists are at long last starting to connect the dots
The Economist - Science & technology
Climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation
24/04/2024 14:12
This simplifies things for the world’s timekeepers
The Economist - Science & technology
Memorable images make time pass more slowly
24/04/2024 14:11
The effect could give our brains longer to process information
The Economist - Science & technology
Large language models are getting bigger and better
17/04/2024 15:08
Can they keep improving forever?
The Economist - Science & technology
What is screen time doing to children?
17/04/2024 14:57
Demands grow to restrict young people’s access to phones and social media
The Economist - Science & technology
Locust-busting is getting an upgrade
17/04/2024 14:48
From pesticides to drones, new technologies are helping win an age-old battle
The Economist - Science & technology
The first week after prison is the deadliest for ex-inmates
11/04/2024 10:42
Alcohol and drugs kill many in the early days of freedom
The Economist - Science & technology
New technology can keep whales safe from speeding ships
11/04/2024 10:41
Collisions kill 20,000 every year
The Economist - Science & technology
Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions
10/04/2024 13:17
Different colonies build in competing architectural styles
The Economist - Science & technology
How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia
08/04/2024 13:38
From target hunting to catching sanctions-busters, its war is increasingly high-tech
The Economist - Science & technology
The science that built the AI revolution
03/04/2024 11:30
A special series of “Babbage”, our podcast on science and technology
The Economist - Science & technology
Why robots should take more inspiration from plants
03/04/2024 07:18
They would be able to grow, grip and move in more useful ways
The Economist - Science & technology
A stealth attack came close to compromising the world’s computers
02/04/2024 09:58
The cyber-scare shows why the internet’s crowdsourced code is vulnerable
The Economist - Science & technology
Could weight-loss drugs eat the world?
30/03/2024 11:59
Scientists are finding that anti-obesity medicines can also help many other diseases
The Economist - Science & technology
Antarctica, Earth’s largest refrigerator, is defrosting
27/03/2024 10:11
The world must pay more attention to its southern pole
The Economist - Science & technology
Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting
26/03/2024 12:05
Their techniques are passed down through the generations
The Economist - Science & technology
A new generation of music-making algorithms is here
21/03/2024 10:15
Their most useful application may lie in helping human composers
The Economist - Science & technology
How XL Bullies became such dangerous dogs
20/03/2024 13:39
Generations of breeding are to blame
The Economist - Science & technology
AI models can improve corner-kick tactics
19/03/2024 12:19
Football coaches should pay attention
The Economist - Science & technology
Elon Musk’s Starship reaches space successfully
14/03/2024 14:44
Though it failed to return to Earth, it’s a step nearer to the stars
The Economist - Science & technology
A flexible patch could help people with voice disorders talk
13/03/2024 13:25
It would convert vocal-cord movements into sound
The Economist - Science & technology
New York City is covered in illegal scaffolding
13/03/2024 11:12
Machine learning algorithms could help bring it down
The Economist - Science & technology
How to train your large language model
13/03/2024 11:11
A new technique is speeding up the process
The Economist - Science & technology
How to harvest moisture from the atmosphere
13/03/2024 11:10
New technologies could provide water to Earth’s most arid climates
The Economist - Science & technology
Some Labradors have a predisposition to obesity
08/03/2024 11:44
A gene mutation slows the dogs’ metabolism and makes them constantly hungry
The Economist - Science & technology
Graphene, a wondrous material, starts to prove useful
06/03/2024 12:58
It could help launch satellites
The Economist - Science & technology
A new technique to work out a corpse’s time of death
06/03/2024 12:57
AI could make the work of pathologists more accurate
The Economist - Science & technology
Physicists are reimagining dark matter
06/03/2024 12:53
There might be new particles, forces and perhaps even a Dark Big Bang
The Economist - Science & technology
Scientists can help fetuses by growing tiny replicas of their organs
05/03/2024 14:22
They could be used to improve treatments in the womb
The Economist - Science & technology
A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs
28/02/2024 12:17
All use different chemistries for cost or performance
The Economist - Science & technology
Scientists want to tackle multiple sclerosis by treating the kissing virus
28/02/2024 12:13
Vaccines and antivirals are already undergoing trials
The Economist - Science & technology
AI models make stuff up. How can hallucinations be controlled?
28/02/2024 12:11
It is hard to do so without also limiting models’ power
The Economist - Science & technology
Why recorded music will never feel as good as the real thing
28/02/2024 12:11
The answer, according to neuroscience
The Economist - Science & technology
The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane
21/02/2024 12:34
At five times the speed of sound, a craft flies through plasma, not air
The Economist - Science & technology
Radio telescopes could spot asteroids with unprecedented detail
21/02/2024 12:31
They would need radar to do it
The Economist - Science & technology
Long covid is not the only chronic condition triggered by infection
21/02/2024 12:29
Finding similarities between post-infectious illnesses could lead to better treatments
The Economist - Science & technology
New treatments are emerging for type-1 diabetes
20/02/2024 11:16
The trick is to outsmart the immune system
The Economist - Science & technology
For the perfect cup of tea, start with the right bacteria
15/02/2024 11:00
The organisms near a tea plant’s roots can influence the depth of flavour in its leaves
The Economist - Science & technology
What tennis reveals about AI’s impact on human behaviour
15/02/2024 10:59
Since the introduction of Hawk-Eye, umpires have been biting their tongues
The Economist - Science & technology
A private Moon mission hopes to succeed where others have failed
15/02/2024 07:29
The odds are stacked against it
The Economist - Science & technology
A 40-year-old nuclear-fusion experiment bows out in style
09/02/2024 14:30
Its final run set a record for how much energy such reactions can produce
The Economist - Science & technology
The first endometriosis drug in four decades is on the horizon
07/02/2024 13:16
At last, progress is being made on a condition that affects one woman in ten
The Economist - Science & technology
Scientists have trained an AI through the eyes of a baby
07/02/2024 13:15
“Chair” and “ball” were among little AI’s first words
The Economist - Science & technology
NASA’s PACE satellite will tackle the largest uncertainty in climate science
07/02/2024 11:59
It will monitor tiny particles in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans
The Economist - Science & technology
Ancient, damaged Roman scrolls have been deciphered using AI
06/02/2024 12:03
The new techniques could help rediscover lost works from antiquity
The Economist - Science & technology
How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine
05/02/2024 14:21
First-person view drones have achieved near mythical status on the front lines
The Economist - Science & technology
Why some whales can smell in stereo
01/02/2024 09:28
One nostril is good. But two can be better
The Economist - Science & technology
AI could accelerate scientific fraud as well as progress
01/02/2024 09:28
Hallucinations, deepfakes and simple nonsense: there are plenty of risks
The Economist - Science & technology
Why prosthetic limbs need not look like real ones
01/02/2024 09:28
Designers are experimenting with tentacles, spikes and third thumbs
The Economist - Science & technology
Alzheimer’s disease may, rarely, be transmitted by medical treatment
29/01/2024 11:03
Childhood treatment with contaminated human growth hormone may cause the disease years later
The Economist - Science & technology
How ants persuaded lions to eat buffalo
25/01/2024 14:05
A tale of elephants, thorn trees, and the sensitivity of ecosystems
The Economist - Science & technology
Scientists have found a new kind of magnetic material
24/01/2024 14:14
“Altermagnets” have been hiding in plain sight for 90 years
The Economist - Science & technology
Why AI needs to learn new languages
24/01/2024 14:01
Efforts are under way to make AI fluent in more than just English
The Economist - Science & technology
Can scientists save your morning cup of coffee?
23/01/2024 14:04
A warming planet threatens the world’s favourite drug
The Economist - Science & technology
Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable
17/01/2024 15:59
Both detection software and watermarks can be defeated
The Economist - Science & technology
Common sense is not actually very common
17/01/2024 13:31
Very few claims meet with universal agreement
The Economist - Science & technology
The Pentagon is hurrying to find new explosives
17/01/2024 13:26
Most of America’s existing ones date from the second world war
The Economist - Science & technology
We’re hiring a Science and Technology Correspondent
17/01/2024 05:33
An opportunity to join our editorial staff in London
The Economist - Science & technology
Researchers in China create the first healthy, cloned rhesus monkey
16/01/2024 11:32
Their new technique could make the routine cloning of primates easier
The Economist - Science & technology
2023 was the hottest year ever
10/01/2024 14:56
And 2024 could be warmer still
The Economist - Science & technology
Simine Vazire hopes to fix psychology’s credibility crisis
10/01/2024 14:03
Her new job editing the field’s most prestigious journal should help
The Economist - Science & technology
Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
10/01/2024 12:47
Contrary to what opponents of wind farms fear
The Economist - Science & technology
Heart attacks, strokes, dementia—can Biden and Trump beat the odds?
09/01/2024 15:38
What the science of ageing has to say about the presidential election
The Economist - Science & technology
The Economist’s science and technology internship
09/01/2024 08:48
We invite applications for the 2024 Richard Casement internship
The Economist - Science & technology
An American rocket has a fine debut; not so the Moon lander on board
09/01/2024 07:12
Private firms are on the way to putting a man back on the lunar surface
The Economist - Science & technology
Vast amounts of the world’s shipping sails unseen
03/01/2024 13:47
New AI tools could help to eradicate blind spots on the oceans
The Economist - Science & technology
Moon landing apart, Indian science punches far below its weight
03/01/2024 13:34
The government needs to get out of the way and the private sector should step up
The Economist - Science & technology
A new type of jet engine could revive supersonic air travel
19/12/2023 14:13
It would also be simpler and more fuel-efficient
The Economist - Science & technology
Delivery robots will transform Christmas
18/12/2023 11:37
Santa’s hi-tech little helpers
The Economist - Science & technology
How scientists went to an asteroid to sample the Sun
14/12/2023 17:14
...and how listening to its return helped prepare them for Venus
The Economist - Science & technology
Reviving ancient viruses can help fight modern ones
14/12/2023 15:26
Insights from evolution can also improve vaccines
The Economist - Science & technology
Jensen Huang says Moore’s law is dead. Not quite yet
13/12/2023 13:30
3D components and exotic new materials can keep it going for a while longer
The Economist - Science & technology
The excitement of 70,000 Swifties can shake the Earth
13/12/2023 13:22
As recorded by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
The Economist - Science & technology
Will lab-grown meat ever make it onto supermarket shelves?
12/12/2023 12:52
The meat of the future remains too expensive in the present
The Economist - Science & technology
A startup called Anduril has unveiled a reusable missile
07/12/2023 09:46
Palmer Luckey’s firm hopes “Roadrunner” will shake up America’s arms industry
The Economist - Science & technology
The Extremely Large Telescope will transform astronomy
06/12/2023 13:53
It will be the world’s biggest optical telescope by far—and a powerful time machine
The Economist - Science & technology
Why chinstrap penguins sleep thousands of times a day
30/11/2023 14:00
But only for four seconds at a time
The Economist - Science & technology
Politics and technology are pushing oil firms to cut methane
29/11/2023 14:32
When it comes to climate change, methane is low-hanging fruit
The Economist - Science & technology
Do rising methane levels herald a climate feedback loop?
29/11/2023 13:59
A scientist notes ominous similarities to the ends of previous ice ages
The Economist - Science & technology
A Google AI has discovered 2.2m materials unknown to science
29/11/2023 13:52
Zillions of possible crystals exist. AI can help catalogue them
The Economist - Science & technology
Solar geoengineering is becoming a respectable idea
22/11/2023 14:36
One way to fix an accidentally altered climate is to alter it again deliberately
The Economist - Science & technology
A new way to predict ship-killing rogue waves
22/11/2023 14:26
And a way to figure out how, exactly, AI works its magic
The Economist - Science & technology
SpaceX tests Starship, and prepares to face down Amazon
22/11/2023 14:24
Elon Musk’s Starlink business could soon be competing with Jeff Bezos’s Kuiper
The Economist - Science & technology
Could newborn neurons reverse Alzheimer’s?
15/11/2023 13:58
Some scientists think so. Others doubt the cells even exist
The Economist - Science & technology
New ways to pay for research could boost scientific progress
15/11/2023 13:55
A new field hopes to apply science’s methods to science itself
CNBC - Business News
Buy now, stock up or delay: Here's what consumers are snapping up or putting off in the face of tariffs
26/04/2025 09:10
Fears of tariff-related higher prices have motivated consumers to buy cars early, but it's also contributing to a hesitance to buy and a hunger for deals.
CNBC - Business News
Plane tickets are getting cheaper as domestic travel demand weakens
26/04/2025 08:00
Airlines are trimming their domestic schedules as leisure traveler demand comes in lighter than expected.
CNBC - Business News
More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says
26/04/2025 07:00
Consumers are using buy now, pay later plans to pay for essentials such as groceries, as concerns around the economy grow.
CNBC - Business News
MercadoLibre CEO says US-China trade war is a big opportunity for Latin America
25/04/2025 17:08
Galperin told CNBC's Robert Frank he believes there will be a "permanent shift" in U.S.-China trade relations.
CNBC - Business News
International tourism to the U.S. slumps, but Americans can't stop traveling overseas
25/04/2025 15:15
United Airlines and Delta Air Lines say international and premium travel is robust while domestic coach-class travel and some corporate travel has slowed.
CNBC - Business News
Novo Nordisk scores major legal win that bars many compounded versions of Wegovy, Ozempic
25/04/2025 14:07
Patients flocked to those Ozempic, Wegovy copycats when the branded drugs were in short supply, or if they didn't have insurance coverage for the treatments.
CNBC - Business News
Alaska Airlines warns of slower demand as second-quarter profit outlook falls short
25/04/2025 10:19
Alaska Airlines warned of weaker demand, pressuring airfares.
CNBC - Business News
Private jet demand declines as tariffs spook would-be buyers
25/04/2025 10:00
A new survey of jet brokers shows that even buyers with deep pockets are pulling back.
CNBC - Business News
As Trump targets Harvard and nonprofits, wealthy donors are wary of stepping up their giving
25/04/2025 08:00
Many philanthropists are wary of getting caught in the political crossfire, but some are stepping up during the funding crisis.
CNBC - Business News
Comcast stock drops as investors balk at weakness in broadband
24/04/2025 16:09
Comcast lost 199,000 total domestic broadband customers, reflecting the continued pressure on the cable giant's cornerstone business.
CNBC - Business News
Merck lowers profit outlook, partly due to $200 million expected tariff hit
24/04/2025 15:26
Merck said the expected tariff charge primarily reflects levies between the U.S. and China, but does not account for Trump's planned pharmaceutical tariffs.
CNBC - Business News
Companies from Chipotle to Delta are worried about Trump's tariffs. Here's what they're saying
24/04/2025 14:52
PepsiCo, Chipotle and Procter & Gamble are among the companies that lowered their forecasts.
CNBC - Business News
Corporate America shelled out millions for Trump's inauguration. Now he's upending many of their businesses
24/04/2025 14:23
Corporations like Target, McDonald's and Delta donated to Trump's inaugural committee after skipping the last two cycles. Now he has roiled their businesses.
CNBC - Business News
March home sales drop to their slowest pace since 2009
24/04/2025 13:50
Home sales in March were weaker than expected, due to higher mortgage rates and concern over the broader economy.
CNBC - Business News
American liquor exports hit record high in 2024, driven by tariffs
24/04/2025 12:22
U.S. Spirits exports reached a record $2.4 billion in 2024 driven in large part by tariff fears.
CNBC - Business News
Procter & Gamble CEO says price hikes are 'likely,' as Tide owner cuts outlook due to tariffs, uncertainty
24/04/2025 10:49
Procter & Gamble's quarterly earnings topped estimates, but its revenue fell short of expectations.
CNBC - Business News
Hasbro forecasts as much as $300 million impact if China tariffs don't come down
24/04/2025 10:44
Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks said the company will be forced to raise prices and warned of potential job losses as the company tries to absorb costs.
CNBC - Business News
American Airlines withdraws 2025 forecast on murky economic outlook
24/04/2025 10:16
American Airlines joined Delta, Southwest and Alaska in pulling its 2025 financial guidance.
CNBC - Business News
PepsiCo cuts earnings forecast as it predicts 'uncertainty' in tariffs, consumer spending
24/04/2025 09:25
PepsiCo cut its forecast for its core constant currency earnings per share, citing new tariffs.
CNBC - Business News
Bristol Myers Squibb tops quarterly estimates, hikes outlook as drugmaker braces for tariffs
24/04/2025 08:41
The guidance revisions include the estimated impact of current tariffs on U.S. products shipped to China, but not Trump's planned pharmaceutical tariffs.
CNBC - Business News
Southwest to cut flights this year, pulls guidance, citing 'macroeconomic uncertainty'
24/04/2025 08:35
Southwest Airlines said it plans to cut flights in the second half of 2025 and pulled its 2025 and 2026 guidance.
CNBC - Business News
Boeing CEO says China has stopped taking its aircraft amid trade war
23/04/2025 23:21
CEO Kelly Ortberg said that a few 737 Max planes that were in China set to be delivered to carriers there have been flown back to the U.S.
CNBC - Business News
Eli Lilly sues four telehealth sites selling compounded Zepbound, Mounjaro
23/04/2025 21:02
Eli Lilly & Co. is suing four telehealth companies selling compounded versions of Lilly's weight-loss drug Zepbound and its diabetes drug Mounjaro.
CNBC - Business News
Trump considering exemption for automakers on some tariffs, White House says
23/04/2025 18:36
Trump is considering exemptions for automakers from some tariffs announced by his administration, the White House confirmed Wednesday.
CNBC - Business News
Chipotle is seeing a 'slowdown' in consumer spending as 2025 gets off to a rough start
23/04/2025 17:58
Chipotle's same-store sales fell in the first quarter for the first time since 2020.
CNBC - Business News
Boeing to seek FAA approval this year to increase 737 Max production as losses narrow
23/04/2025 17:20
Boeing's first quarter loss narrowed to $31 million in the first quarter and it burned less cash than analysts estimated.
CNBC - Business News
Trump wants automakers to move vehicle production to the U.S. It's not that simple
23/04/2025 14:50
Relocating production lines takes years of planning and construction and requires massive amounts of space and capital.
CNBC - Business News
Ford launches exclusive experience program for its priciest pickups
23/04/2025 11:00
Ford is offering its most premium pickup truck customers a new package, including a personal concierge, accessory discounts and a maintenance plan.
CNBC - Business News
Why cable companies like Comcast and Charter are leaning into mobile service
23/04/2025 09:15
Less than a decade after cable giants like Comcast and Charter jumped into the mobile business, the segment has become a significant financial driver.
CNBC - Business News
Asian Americans take bigger share of sports viewership, Nielsen says
23/04/2025 09:00
Asian Americans are taking a bigger share of live sports viewership, according to a recent report from Nielsen.
strategy+business: STRATEGY
Be a better decider
07/03/2025 00:00
Asreinventionpressurerises,theMarchissueofs+bexploreshowCEOsneedtorewiretheirdecision-making.
strategy+business: STRATEGY
What does it take to thrive in an uncertain world?
04/02/2025 13:00
In this special episode of Take on Tomorrow, PwC's Sarah von Fischer is joined by Carol Stubbings, PwC's Global Chief Commercial Officer, and Paul Griggs, PwC US Senior Partner. The trio discuss the findings of PwC's 28th Annual Global CEO Survey and unpack how leaders are tackling disruption.
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What does responsible AI look like in the age of agentic AI?
28/01/2025 13:00
As artificial intelligence evolves, how can we ensure transparency and accountability? Matt Wood, PwC's Global and US Commercial Technology & Innovation Officer, discusses the challenges and opportunities of building confidence in agentic AI.
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PwC's 28th Annual Global CEO Survey
20/01/2025 13:00
CEOs report early productivity gains from generative AI and rising payoffs from investments in sustainability. The challenge is to increase scope and speed.
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What does it take to run a responsible business?
03/12/2024 13:00
On the latest episode of the Take on Tomorrow podcast, Charles Conn, Patagonia Board Chair, shares how to align ethics with profit, offering lessons in balancing purpose with performance.
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Take on Tomorrow @ the APEC CEO Summit
19/11/2024 13:00
On the latest episode of the Take on Tomorrow podcast, PwC's Global Chairman, Mohamed Kande, discusses the vital role the Asia-Pacific region plays in inclusive global growth, the impact of new technologies, and how to stay resilient in a shifting world.?
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Fjällräven forges a trail in outdoor sustainability
18/11/2024 01:00
Fjällräven's CEO, Martin Axelhed, discusses the brand's commitment to sustainability and its impact on growt
strategy+business: STRATEGY
Can ideas be the engine of growth?
04/11/2024 13:00
On the latest episode of the Take on Tomorrow podcast, economist and author Daniel Susskind explains how innovation and ideas can lay the groundwork for a new way to measure growth.
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How can we secure the future of food?
22/10/2024 13:00
The Take on Tomorrow podcast examines the role businesses can play in reimagining our food systems.
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The CEO's sustainability checklist
17/10/2024 00:00
The October issue of s+b explores how reinventing your business for a sustainable future starts with four mission-critical actions.
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When is the right time to reinvent your business?
16/10/2024 13:00
A set of indicators could provide advance notice of impending periods of business model change in sectors and industries.
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Is quantum computing about to radically change the world?
10/10/2024 13:00
Quantum computing is set to revolutionize our lives--are businesses and society ready? Caltech's Spiros Michalakis explains how this quantum leap could reshape our future.
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Do the right thing: Building trust in turbulent times
30/09/2024 01:00
Companies should focus on the human impact of their core business, says academic and consultant Alison Taylor.
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Game over to game on
12/09/2024 00:00
The September issue of s+b explores how to level up your skills approach to win the battle for talent.
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Ten questions for a winning climate-transition business strategy
09/09/2024 01:00
Harvard Business School's George Serafeim frames key questions to help executives craft effective climate-transition strategies.
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From trade-offs to payoffs: CEOs on creating value with climate action
06/08/2024 01:00
Our survey of 4,700 CEOs found that companies taking more action on climate-related opportunities and risks also have better financial performance.
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Generative AI: The 21st-century power play
30/07/2024 00:00
The August issue of s+b explores how GenAI is sparking a surge of innovation akin to the advent of electricity. Discover how to channel its reinvention potential.
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CN Rail is forging new alliances to reimagine supply chains
11/07/2024 01:00
Tracy Robinson, CEO of CN Rail, speaks to s+b about the company's role in reshaping the rail industry through the growth of intermodal networks, which bring together traditional competitors from across the transportation ecosystem.
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Tech Translated: Neuromorphic computing
25/06/2024 01:00
Potentially the key to the next generation of true artificial intelligence, neuromorphic computing could revolutionize business.
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Tech Translated: Embedded finance
18/06/2024 01:00
Embedded finance enables the integration of financial services across industries, creating opportunities for new business models and paths to value.
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Tech Translated: Metamaterials
04/06/2024 01:00
Synthetic metamaterials offer unusual properties that can unlock innovative new approaches to solving long-running challenges.
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Tech Translated: 4D printing
04/06/2024 00:00
4D printing enables the creation of objects and materials that can change over time, offering radical new business opportunities.
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From sludge to success
28/05/2024 00:00
The June issue of s+b explores how the road to business renewal starts when CEOs step in to reduce organizational friction.
strategy+business: STRATEGY
From stagnation to innovation: Make business model reinvention real
21/05/2024 00:00
A practical guide for reimagining how your company creates, delivers, and captures value.
strategy+business: STRATEGY
The big power of small goals
16/05/2024 00:00
Employees who are disciplined about setting daily goals not only accomplish more but also feel better about their work. Here are three ways that managers can make daily goal-setting a habit.
strategy+business: STRATEGY
Preparing for climate risks to key commodities: What businesses should know
30/04/2024 01:00
PwC research shows how heat stress and drought imperil the production of critical minerals, food crops, and industrial metals. Companies can limit disruption by acting now.
strategy+business: STRATEGY
The path to generative AI value: Setting the flywheel in motion
08/04/2024 01:00
How organizations can structure their GenAI pursuits to blaze a path to value and create lasting momentum.
strategy+business: STRATEGY
Corporate "power changers"
27/03/2024 00:00
The April issue of s+b explores how companies can reduce their energy consumption by 31% by decade's end and save a cool US$2 trillion a year--without sacrificing growth.
strategy+business: STRATEGY
Reimagining consumer insights at PepsiCo
25/03/2024 01:00
Stephan Gans wants to embed real-time, data-rich insights into PepsiCo's decision-making processes. As the food-and-beverage giant's Chief Consumer Insights and Analytics Officer, he's building a new set of tools to get there.
strategy+business: STRATEGY
From steam to sensors and solar: HSB's tale of reinvention
18/03/2024 01:00
John B. Riggs, CTO and SVP of Applied Technology Solutions at HSB (Hartford Steam Boiler), describes how the company is using technology to build new ventures and create new business models in the historically risk-averse insurance sector.
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