Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Robots have assisted surgeons for decades, but now they are being deployed to new areas of US hospitals as the healthcare industry grapples with an acute shortage of workers. One such robot is Diligent Robotics’ … Read more
When did you last check your smartphone screen time? Recently I was shocked to discover that my daily average was six hours, two minutes with Instagram and WhatsApp dominating the “most used” leaderboard. In the course of a week I picked up my iPhone 782 times, turning to WhatsApp first to check for messages, voice … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The slogan “take back control” taps into something deep in the British electorate — or so politicians seem to believe, since it continues to pop up in speeches almost a decade after it was first … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Strict data protection laws are hindering Germany’s efforts to swell the ranks of the armed forces of Europe’s largest nation, its reservists’ association has warned. Patrick Sensburg, head of the Reservist Association of the German … Read more
Four of Europe’s oldest industrial groups have added more than €150bn to their market caps on the back of soaring demand for data centres driven by the boom in artificial intelligence. European makers of everything from switches to smart meters are providing the servers and infrastructure that power data centres for large language models and … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Social engineering used to refer to large-scale campaigns to alter the attitudes or behaviour of a population. These days, cyber specialists use it to mean something else: manipulating individuals into performing actions or divulging information … Read more
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Big Tech myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is director of Europe and transatlantic partnerships at the Open Markets Institute In its scale and societal importance, cloud computing now resembles a public utility. Nearly all of us depend on it in … Read more
In a relaxed sweater, holding her mobile phone at arm’s length, Alex Mahon, chief executive of Channel Four, recorded herself announcing her resignation last month. She posted the heartfelt video on LinkedIn, telling her 84,000 followers the decision “slightly breaks my heart”. Mahon is one of an increasing number of business leaders making short, usually … Read more
