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Live from SF: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tapes podcast with 6,000 friends

Engineers, venture capitalists, and other Silicon Valley digerati chatted as they found their seats, with Modelos and slices of pizza in hand. The anticipation was high

Polaris Dawn mission: SpaceX launches four private astronauts into space

The crew consists of billionaire Jared Isaacman, Scott Poteet, a retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel, and two SpaceX employees, Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis

It's glowtime: AI in spotlight as Apple launches GenAI-backed iPhone16

The new iPhones represent a big moment for generative AI, which can answer questions, create images and write software code

Palace coup: How Iger outmanoeuvred Chapek, returned to power at Disney

Iger's 15-year tenure as chief executive had been so successful that he had considered running for president as a Democrat. Queen Elizabeth II knighted him just before she died

Starliner creates trouble as latest setback for Boeing's space business

SpaceX has since carried out seven of those missions and will bring home the astronauts Starliner left behind, while Boeing has yet to complete one

Lindsay M Chervinsky's book explores how John Adams shaped US presidency

Chervinsky reminds us that Adams set important precedents in his failures as well as his triumphs

Japan tries to reclaim its dominance as leader of global tech industry

It has been 40 years since such competitive anxieties about a rising Asian power prompted this kind of embrace of government intervention among the biggest free-market economies

Era of free mortgages over in Japan with central bank raising interest rate

Japan's central bank had maintained benchmark interest rates near zero since the mid-1990s. As a result, many home buyers have gotten used to paying between 0.3 and 0.4 per cent

With X blocked, Brazilian residents find new homes for their thoughts

Some customers of few internet providers that had not yet complied with ban posted excitedly on X that they could still use the service, and the phrase 'it didn't go down' began trending

'At War With Ourselves': A must-read for a potential second Trump term

At War With Ourselves serves as essential reading for anyone countenancing a potential second round of Trump as a global leader

African debt crisis may have severe implications for world economy

The continent's foreign debt reached more than $1.1 trillion at the end of last year. More than two dozen countries have excessive debt or are at high risk of it

Are tech executives responsible for what happens on their platforms?

In 2021, Twitter executives in India faced arrest over posts that the government wanted removed from the site

From Zuckerberg of Russia to wanted man, the journey of Pavel Durov

Durov said he had begun building Telegram to be a more secure way to communicate after Russian security forces showed up at his apartment around 2011

President elections put Nippon Steel's $15 bn takeover of US Steel in peril

On December 18, the companies announced that Nippon Steel had agreed to acquire US Steel for $14.9 billion, a 40 per cent premium to US Steel's share price at the time

Why convenience store chain 7-Eleven is indispensable part of life in Japan

For many residents, more than 55,000 cheerful, jingle-filled stores, known as konbini, are an indispensable part of daily life.

Streaming revamp: Apple rethinks its movie strategy after string of misses

The film's director, Jon Watts, told Vanity Fair that he had found out about the change in plans only days before the announcement

Digging with teeth: This book does some historical detective work

An Incisive History of Teeth, From Hagfish to Humans', Bill Schutt seeks to trace not just the history of individual creatures, but of all animal life on Earth, based entirely on teeth

As US economy, Fed approach crossroads, all eyes on Powell, Jackson Hole

On Friday, Powell will again deliver his most important policy speech of the year from that closely watched stage

Global aviation market: Boeing faces a steep climb in catching up to Airbus

The two companies form a duopoly in the global passenger plane market, but Airbus has far outproduced and outsold Boeing in recent years

Coming to China's 'iPhone city': An electric car factory from Foxconn

Now Foxconn, a Taiwanese electronics giant, is planning to build a new, 700-acre campus in Zhengzhou to make electric cars