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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Customers stockpiling chips and bringing forward smartphone purchases ahead of US tariffs and export controls have boosted quarterly profits at Samsung Electronics. Shares in the world’s largest memory chipmaker jumped 2.1 per cent on Tuesday … Read more
For more than 100 years, writers, artists and filmmakers have sketched out their visions of the household robot, a supposedly inevitable culmination of human technological advancement. One day, these multitasking machines will, we’re told, perform tedious tasks efficiently and without complaint, respond courteously to requests and remain unobtrusively compliant and meek. In The Automatic Maid-Of-All-Work (1893), … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The financial stress facing many UK universities is prompting them to look for new sources of cash. Here is the bad news for those hoping that spinouts from technology and life sciences research will plug … Read more
Can Nintendo’s Switch 2 revive a stagnant gaming industry?
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Arctic sea ice hit a record low for the end of the region’s winter last month, in a stark sign of how climate change is opening up the North Pole to a geopolitical race for … Read more
This article is an on-site version of the India Business Briefing newsletter. To receive it in your inbox regularly, sign up if you’re a premium subscriber, or upgrade your subscription here. Good morning. Stock markets around the world are still struggling to make sense of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Indian markets are also waiting for … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The number of wildfires in the UK has soared above the historic average as firefighters battle blazes across Scotland and Northern Ireland. A fire in Galloway, so intense it could be seen from space, started … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Extraordinary springtime temperatures in Central Asia have coincided with drought and extreme floods in vast areas of Australia greater than the size of Texas and fires in South Korea. Researchers at the World Weather Attribution … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A court has confirmed for the first time the existence of a legal battle between Apple and the UK government, which has demanded the iPhone-maker provide access to its most secure cloud storage systems. The … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s agency for “high impact science” is setting its sights on fighting emerging biological threats and extending people’s healthy lifespans among its latest targets for research. The two-year-old Advanced Research and Invention Agency has … Read more