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Democrats’ success was helped by popular anger over tech, AI and the super rich – life for billionaires could become much more difficult The photo of Silicon Valley centi-billionaires at Donald Trump’s inauguration – Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg, front row and side by side – now looks like a hitlist for a blue Congress hellbent on making life difficult for billionaires. The picture symbolized at the time the bending of the knee by the richest men in the world to its most powerful, a symbiosis of the ultra-rich. Already unfathomably wealthy, Silicon Valley tycoons believed a Maga-sized public shift to the right would enrich them even more. It did. For several years, while Trump seemed an everlasting kingmaker and AI’s expansion seemed unstoppable, their fortunes ballooned to values beyond comprehension. Elon Musk’s surpassed $1tn. Continue reading...

Motorola is trying something it hasn't attempted in the modern smartphone era: to make an all-out flagship slab-style phone. Previous high-end Edge devices never quite hit the mark, and lacked features that would put it in the highest flagship tiers. The company has had plenty of success with its Razr clamshell foldables, leaning on brand […]

WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature that allows you to invite friends and family members to events in the app - even if they don't have the messenger installed. When you create an event in WhatsApp, you can share a link with a friend or family member without the app, and they can still […]

Microsoft is unveiling a new Xbox PC app that launches "up to 60 percent faster" than before, with an overhauled design to match new updates to Xbox Cloud Gaming on the web and smart TVs. Xbox Insiders will be able to start testing the updated Xbox PC app today, and the updated Xbox Cloud Gaming […]

Tom Curry injured during training on Wednesday Brother Ben has not played for England since 2025 Tom Curry has emerged as a major doubt for England’s autumn opener against Australia on Sunday, handing Steve Borthwick a huge blow before a crucial November campaign, with twin brother Ben leading the race to start at openside flanker. It is understood that Tom Curry sustained his latest injury during Wednesday’s full bore training session, throwing Borthwick’s plans for his back-row configuration into disarray. Borthwick will finalise his team selection before announcing it on Friday afternoon but as things stand, Ben is in pole position to wear the No7 jersey. Continue reading...

(Virgin) The reunion that fans were hoping for turns out to be a cash-grab box set – though there is a worthwhile curio featuring Posh on lead vocals Is there a more taunted fanbase than that of the Spice Girls? Seemingly every other week a story – usually perpetuated by Mel B, the band’s number one cheerleader – appears in the tabloids hinting at some sort of reunion. Or film. Or documentary. Swift denials then emerge, typically linked to Geri or Victoria, and all is calm until a week or so later. So when teasers showing landmarks from 1996’s Wannabe video suddenly appeared on the band’s official social media accounts in September, it felt as if the fans had something tangible to celebrate. The comments quickly filled with hopes of another reunion tour following 2007’s full-band jaunt and 2019’s Posh-less stadium trek. In a music landscape littered with nostalgia tours, surely Ginger, Scary, Baby, Sporty and (maybe) Posh could strap on some Buffalo boots for a final zig-a-zig-ah? Continue reading...

Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso (Picture: Getty) Xabi Alonso revealed that Moises Caicedo is a doubt for Chelsea’s Premier League game against Sunderland on Sunday. Caicedo has endured an injury-affected start to life under Alonso, featuring for a total of 14 minutes in Chelsea’s first five league matches of the season. The midfielder has returned to the starting lineup after the last international break, and has started Chelsea’s last five matches in all competitions. But Caicedo now appears to face a late fitness test ahead of Chelsea’s trip to the Stadium of Light as he deals with ‘discomfort’ following last weekend’s win over Manchester United. Asked about Caicedo, who missed a portion of open training on Wednesday, Alonso said: ‘He had little problems after the last game, so will check tomorrow different situations and Moi is one of them. ‘It’s a discomfort, more than the (previous injury in his) calf.’ Elsewhere, Alonso confirmed that both Joao Pedro and Maxence Lacroix remain sidelined with longer-term injuries. Chelsea midfielder Moises Caicedo (Picture: Getty) ‘No, not really any update but we are not expecting them for tomorrow that is clear. ‘Let’s see after these two weeks of international break how their recovery is and the progress that they make. Ahead of the Leeds game, I will have more of an update.’ But there was some positive news, with Alonso confirming that Emiliano Martinez is in contention to start at the weekend after he suffered a fractured jaw at Everton last month. ‘Tomorrow we have the last training session before Sunday, and we will decide, but he is training well,’ Alonso confirmed. On whether it will be tough to drop second-choice Mike Penders to bring Martinez back into the fold, Alonso added: ‘All the decisions are tough in all the positions. ‘But it’s very good that Emi made a good effort, that he has been ahead of the plans to be part of the team and tomorrow we will check and Sunday we will make the final decision.’…

Scientists at the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) in Campinas, São Paulo state, developed an instrument for the Sirius particle accelerator that can observe the interior of solar cells on a nanoscale while they are operating. Rather than analyzing isolated components in a laboratory setting, this new platform enables the evaluation of complete devices generating electricity under real operating conditions. It simulates daily exposure to light, heat and humidity.

Octopuses are extraordinarily versatile. From walking across the seabed on their eight arms to jetting through the water, manipulating tools and squeezing through unimaginably tight spaces, the flexibility of octopuses almost defies belief. "Octopuses can change their body shape to squeeze through tiny holes, almost like water flowing through a gap, so their size doesn't always limit where they can go," says Wenci Xin from the National University of Singapore.

The NFL has given Carnegie Mellon University researchers access to official film and on-field data to develop new technologies that can enhance the way coaches, players and fans annotate, analyze and understand games.

Kobo is launching a new monthly subscription service called Stack that lets you upload your own ebooks and documents to the company's servers where they'll be synced across multiple devices and apps, including your reading progress, highlights, and annotations. Kobo Stack is similar to Amazon's Send to Kindle feature that allows users to upload a […]

It would greatly benefit the environment and climate if nylon—chemically known as polyamide—could be produced on a large scale from plastic waste in the future, rather than from petroleum, as has been the norm until now. At LIKAT in Rostock, chemists pursuing this approach have succeeded in selectively converting polyethylene—the main component of all plastic waste—into dicarboxylic acids, which can serve as chemical precursors for nylon.

Next spring, Apple will take the stage to unveil the second-generation iPhone Air to the world, after taking a bit more time to go back to the drawing board and incorporate a second camera into the design. That said, iPhone Air is no longer the flashy cool phone, now iPhone Duo is. With that being the case, it seems obvious to me that iPhone Air 2 will need to appeal to a wider audience, beyond just the enthusiast crowd. more…

iOS 27.2 launched last week with a lot of new features, and also several ways you can customize your iPhone. Here’s what’s new for iPhone personalization. more…

An international team of researchers led by UT Southwestern Medical Center has developed a versatile light-sheet microscope that captures 3D views of biological samples, from activity inside living cells to larger tissues. Designed to make detailed imaging much simpler and faster, the approach could help laboratories stretch equipment budgets and expand research that may ultimately inform patient care.

Sequoia pioneered the scouts model and many VC firms followed suit, but a consensus now seems to be forming that the model has reached limits in its current form.

The most prestigious prize in fiction still carries significant heft with the book-buying public, even in a changing landscape of book marketing and discovery led by BookTok

"The Magnificent Seven" remake isn't as good as the original, but with familiar stars like Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt, it's the perfect starter Western movie for modern audiences.

“3 Body Problem” and “Better Days” filmmaker Derek Tsang is attached to direct and executive produce “Group 41,” a true-crime drama series about the first Asian-American squad at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The project, from Jonah Greenberg’s Salty Pictures, is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. The 10-episode series, with […]

The UK is 14th most light-polluted country, but in south-west England the veil is lifted at the dark skies festival “It’s just mind-blowing,” says the astronomer and teacher Jo Richardson. She is standing in Exmoor national park talking about Saturn, the first planet she ever saw through a telescope. But it is not the cosmic colour of the planet that Richardson is drawn to, nor its mysteries – it is the vastness. “Saturn, on average, is 800m miles away,” she says, the equivalent to travelling the circumference of the Earth 32,000 times. “You can see it through a telescope here. That’s just nuts.” Continue reading...

GQ’s Frazier Tharpe reports from the Yeezy Season 01 fashion show in Los Angeles, where Ye played the hits—literally. For his unflagging disciples, the strategy seems to be working.

The rapper has come out fighting with a comeback album that’s poised to stoke flagging dancefloors — and his jiu-jitsu training with Tom Hardy can’t have done his mission any harm, writes Mark Beaumont

The seventh edition of Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) kicked off today with talk of bolstering Taiwan’s intellectual property (IP); reaching out to international markets through co-production and exports; and a reassuring message on government support. Sue Wang, chair of TCCF organizer Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA), opened proceedings by first acknowledging the disruption that […]

The Samsung Galaxy S27 has already made the rounds through several certification databases, and today it has passed through another one. The handset, bearing the model number SM-S952B/DS, has just been approved by India's Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), and it's the first member of the S27 family to get there. Unfortunately, the BIS listing doesn't reveal any specs, but we already know a fair bit from the phone's earlier appearances. The same model number recently showed up in the NBD database with a 6.3-inch screen, the Exynos 2700 chipset at the helm, and 12GB of RAM paired with...

Human cells turn genetic instructions into proteins with great precision. Critical for the translation of this information are transfer RNAs, or tRNAs, small molecules that read the genetic code three letters at a time and bring the matching building blocks of proteins, the amino acids, to the cell's protein-making machinery, the ribosome.