Japan’s TDK is claiming a breakthrough in optical technology that would process data 10 times faster than current electronics and solve a key bottleneck holding back the growth of generative ...

Flat to declining wage growth and falling payrolled employees will enable BoE to ease despite still-strong wage pressures ...

Instead, Wolfspeed got caught up in the politics and bureaucracy of the Chips Act and a change of administration, and is now left (to switch from land to sea) swimming with the sharks. Ironically or ...

China’s President Xi Jinping has urged Vietnam to work with Beijing to oppose “unilateral bullying”, in a thinly veiled criticism of Donald Trump’s imposition of high tariffs on trading partners. Xi ...

Context: Russian President Vladimir Putin hosts a “Victory Parade” each year to commemorate the Soviet Union’s victory in the second world war. Foreign leaders are guests of honour to watch the column ...

If faster economic indicators are a reliable guide, Donald Trump has pushed the US economy off a cliff within 100 days of his second term as president. We should always be careful about alternative ...

Argentina is getting an enormous lifeline. Last week, the International Monetary Fund agreed to loan the country $20bn. It is the 23rd deal between the IMF and the country, but this money comes with ...

One of Donald Trump’s top officials has warned European allies hesitant about working with Elon Musk’s satellite internet company that they needed to choose between US and Chinese technology.

On show in Venice, Schütte’s work — ranging from monumental sculptures to intimate watercolours — explores themes such as death and anxiety ...

The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, a new Netflix documentary, presents a troubling case study of how children are being exploited by parents trying to tap into the lucrative, woefully unregulated, ...

The young, dreamy twentysomethings who populated Summerhouse, Later (1998), Hermann’s first short-story collection, which became an international bestseller, are now firmly in middle age yet as ...

The fact is that keeping steel production in the UK requires a forever subsidy. Globally, capacity is perhaps 30 per cent higher than demand. The cost of energy is a big factor in steelmaking; ...