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The Luddites of Big Tech

Merchant is keen to reframe the Luddites as proto-unionist reformers rather than violent revolutionaries

Vietnam chases secret Russian arms deal, even as President Biden flies in

Vietnam Air, Boeing near $10 bn deal

Putting name to stranger's face: Tech Facebook, Google didn't dare release

Engineers at the tech giants built these tools years ago but Silicon Valley did not want to move fast and break things

The 'mercurial man child'

Yet even as Musk struggles to relate to the actual humans around him, his plans for humanity are grand

Joe Biden and The West Wing fantasy

If Biden is the last politician, we should presumably cling to him for as long as possible. Boomer hegemony as destiny: This is the future sketched for us by Foer's thin and yet telling book

American military brings in artificial intelligence robot for aerial combat

And gaining and maintaining an edge in artificial intelligence is one element of an increasingly open race with China for technological superiority in national security

The rise and fall of the pocket calculator

The ancients grappled with the question of whether we always benefited from making tasks easier for ourselves

First GOP Prez debate: Ramaswamy seizes spotlight as DeSantis hangs back

First GOP Prez debate: As Republican presidential candidates traded fire at their first debate, they mostly left their party's dominant front-runner unscathed

China's central bank cuts interest rate again as property slump spreads

Stocks in Hong Kong, where many of China's biggest companies trade, fell more than 1 percent Monday, while shares in mainland China were down about 0.50 per cent

Looking for peace in war

Mann, the author of the four-volume The Sources of Social Power, disputes the idea that humans are genetically programmed to make war

Uncovered! A plot laid out for Donald Trump to overturn Biden's win

Trump may be on trial in 2024 in three or four separate criminal cases, but so far the indictments appear not to have affected his standing with Republican voters

A minority report

Izgil is a soft-spoken poet, not an orator or activist; that's perhaps one reason his understated account is so effective

AI deception: What can you do when artificial intelligence lies about you?

Scott Cambo, who helps run the project, said he expected a huge increase of cases involving mischaracterizations of actual people in the future

Joe Biden, Donald Trump neck-and-neck in possible rematch, finds poll

Biden appears to have escaped the political danger zone he resided in last year, when nearly two-thirds of his party wanted a different nominee

Crushing it: Donald Trump leads Republican presidential nominee race

Trump led DeSantis 54 percent to 17 per cent. No other candidate topped 3 per cent support in the poll

When your work becomes the war: Welcome to the era of 'Top Gun' CEO

Increasing number of companies are turning to military-style training to prepare executives to handle uncertainty and flux

Anti-apartheid's first couple

The book arrives at a moment of widespread disillusion, especially among the young, about South Africa's negotiated settlement and the halo over Nelson's head

Big histories for the future

Publications of Neil Howe's The Fourth Turning Is Here and Peter Turchin's End Times. Both books affirm the idea that we are in the midst of a major crisis

A global warming thriller

The yearning question for climate journalists now: What are the magic words? We have the facts and the wildfires to prove them.

Oceanic exploration: In too deep

Humans have "conquered" the world's surfaces and mountaintops. The oceans, however, have largely escaped such scrutiny, with their floors far less well known than the surfaces of the moon, or Mars