Business
China’s tech advances are causing chaos from Silicon Valley to the White House
Over the past month, a series of advancements in China’s artificial intelligence, chip manufacturing and robotics technologies have rattled financial markets, caused divisions among US tech moguls and left...
‘Intense, salty, foul’: the best (and worst) supermarket anchovies, tasted and rated
To taste these anchovies, I invited a friend, the food journalist and author Sudi Pigott, to join me. Arriving with a packet of Pujadó Solano anchovies and her new...
Purple reign: how shade became British gardeners’ favourite
If you manage to spot a garden in bloom this summer, beyond the strips of bleached and torched grass, there may be one colour you see more than any...
Biohacker Bryan Johnson is keeping his girlfriend’s menstrual blood in his freezer | Arwa Mahdawi
The tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has devoted his life to dodging death. The 48-year-old is obsessed with becoming the healthiest person in the world and is on a quixotic...
Spanish PM calls for urgent EU meeting after ‘selfish’ responses to Ceuta crisis
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has called for an urgent meeting of EU interior ministers after what he called some member states’ “selfish, polarising and unlawful reaction” to this...
Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor
When the superstar academic Jason Arday took to the stage at the British Sociological Association’s 75th anniversary conference earlier this year, he delivered a talk called Wanted Dead or...
Brazil’s HIV advocates say they predicted USAID funding cuts: ‘We would see the trends’
HIV advocates from Brazil, whose health system operates independently from foreign aid, say they predicted a dramatic reduction in donor funding for HIV and wish other countries had prioritized...
‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops
Pubs, restaurants and supermarkets are having to buy lettuce and broccoli from Spain at what should be the height of UK growing season, as drought and extreme heat hit...
