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Fall of Biden: A tragic chronicle of ignored warnings and missteps

In his lively, engaging but sometimes frustrating chronicle of the 2024 presidential election campaign, Chris Whipple records the incredulity of one of those at the gathering

After Musk's criticism, South Africa paves way for Starlink's entry

South African official is paving the way for Starlink, and other similar providers, to operate in the country through an alternative to the requirement of Black ownership

'Everything is going to work out well': Trump on tariff reversal decision

After his reversal on social media, Trump's team was put in the unenviable position of trying to spin the media that this was the plan all along, a brilliant strategy

Tech titans funded Trump; now face tariffs, trials and tight rules

The sweeping tariffs he imposed last week will squeeze Apple's iPhone supply chain and make it much more expensive for Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft to build supercomputers to power AI

The Beatlemania duet: Ian Leslie's book traces John and Paul's epic journey

Leslie, a British journalist and author, has a deep affection for, and a penetrating understanding of, these complex characters and their unprecedented friendship

The Thinking Machine: Tracing AI's rise from gaming to Nvidia's vision

Huang doesn't offer the author much on how his upbringing may have led to his current status as a technology apex predator

'0 to 1939 in 3 secs': Why anti-Musk satire is flourishing in Britain

There have been some instances of unruly protests and vandalism in Europe. But much of the anti-Musk sentiment has taken the form of political satire

As Bangladesh reinvents itself, Islamist extremists see an opening

Demonstrators at a rally in Dhaka, the capital, warned that if the government did not give the death penalty to anyone who disrespected Islam, they would carry out executions with their own hands

'The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto': The tangled story of cryptocurrency's rise

Even in 1999, the notion of a digital currency that bypassed nation-states and financial institutions was not a novel one

President Donald Trump's punishing tariffs stun US' automaker allies

Mexico, Japan, and South Korea, along with Canada, account for about 75 per cent of US vehicle imports

AI advances and layoffs: Is the white-collar job market shrinking?

Unemployment rate for college graduates has risen faster than for other workers in recent years

John Green's latest book traces his long journey with tuberculosis

Green is best known for young adult novels like The Fault in Our Stars, a best-selling tear-jerker about two teenage cancer patients

Columbia's $400 million move seen as watershed in Trump-era academic fight

Columbia University's concession on Friday to a roster of government demands as it sought to restore about $400 million in federal funding is being widely viewed as a watershed moment

Having a name: In Syria, they want to be wanted by the Assad regime

For more than five decades, the dictator Bashar al-Assad and his father before him ruled Syria by terror. Anyone wanted by any of the regime's numerous intelligence

How artificial intelligence is changing the way world builds computers

The result is a new kind of supercomputer - a collection of up to 100,000 chips wired together in buildings known as data centers to hammer away at making powerful AI systems

US to withdraw from EU-led group investigating invasion of Ukraine

The decision to withdraw from the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression (ICPA) against Ukraine, which the Biden administration joined in 2023

US President Donald Trump's policies spark surge in foreign stocks

Since Trump's inauguration, the S&P 500 has fallen 6 percent, while the Dax index in Germany has risen 10 per cent

Careless People: Facebook insider's expose alleges bad behaviour at the top

Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking: An ugly, detailed portrait of one of the most powerful companies in the world

When corporate rebranding backfires: Lessons from past successes and flops

The 200-year-old company is now called aberdeen group, effectively reversing a decision to rebrand as abrdn in 2021 in a bid to pitch itself as a modern, agile, digitally-enabled brand

Every breath you take: Zimmer's Air-Borne explores mysteries of aerobiology

Air-Borne shows us how the scientific community came to understand that Covid-19 transmission was less akin to shots from a gun, and more like smog in a valley