Next few weeks will show if Trump has finally pushed too far with Greenland levies, as calls grow for bloc to take tougher action As the sun set over the port of Limassol in Cyprus, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, last Thursday used a tried […]
The US president’s trade war for Greenland tells us that the time for fence-sitting or wishful thinking is over One way or the other, President Trump said, he will have Greenland. Well, at least now we know it’s the other; not an invasion that would have sent young men home […]
Prada says its tailoring opposes US ‘corporate masculine power’, while D&G’s all-white cast causes controversy in Milan Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, the two designers behind Prada, are well aware that fashion is about more than clothes. However, backstage after their menswear show in Milan on Sunday, the duo said […]
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots I am a science-fiction writer, which means that my job is to make up futuristic parables about our current techno-social arrangements to interrogate not […]
Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be mercilessly extracted. The fightback begins here In the last 15 years, a linked series of unprecedented technologies have changed the experience of personhood across most of the world. It is estimated that nearly 70% of the human population of the […]
We asked some of those who have family in Iran to tell us their views on the current crisis Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s former shah, has called on the west to help unseat Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader. Speaking on Friday at a news conference in Washington, […]
At 81, Jean Stewart was frustrated by her growing frailty, so she decided to get active. Now 96, push-ups, kettlebell squats and pushing a weight-loaded sledge keep her strong I see people 30 years younger than me and they’ve given up,” Jean Stewart, 96, says. It’s not an attitude she […]
In harrowing documentary My Underground Mother, a woman finds out what really happened to her mother in the war When journalist Marisa Fox was a young girl, her mother would regale her with stories of her own youth, all of which roiled with drama and consequence. When she was a […]
Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AI Will the race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) lead us to a land of financial plenty – or will it end in a 2008-style bust? Trillions […]
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