AI phones could sustain chip sector if data centre spending slows, says Nvidia supplier
Doug Lefever, who leads Nvidia supplier Advantest, said he was watching for any sign of slower spending on AI by big US tech groups. Meta, Google and Microsoft have been heavy investors in data ...
US drugstores vanish as pressures mount on business model
Retrenchment in industry has led to concerns about spread of ‘pharmacy deserts’ with limited access to medicines ...
Giotto’s genius blooms afresh in Padua
Restoration of the biblical frescoes in the Scrovegni chapel reveals the Italian painter to be not just the maestro of human ...
Introducing Slate Money: The Week of Minor Apocalypses
Slate Money hosts Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss a few things that have been circulating in the news ...
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Meta to add display to Ray-Bans as race over smart glasses intensifies
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Meta plans to add displays to its ...
Gavin & Stacey: The Finale review — farewell takes fans on a teasing emotional ride
And so, once more unto the beach of Barry Island and the suburban sprawl of Billericay. Seventeen years since Gavin & Stacey emerged as a promising late-night BBC3 sitcom and five years since the last ...
China steps up campaign for single people to date, marry and give birth
Women receive cold-calls about family planning and universities asked to offer ‘love courses’ to tackle demographic crisis ...
Number of Londoners moving out of UK capital falls to lowest since 2013
London residents purchased 5.7 per cent — or 57,020 — of the homes sold outside the capital this year, the lowest share since 2013 and nearly half the Covid-era peak in 2021, according to research by ...
Births, deaths and piano recitals — classical music to look forward to in 2025
Celebrations of Pierre Boulez and Dmitri Shostakovich, a festival of Mahler and a Mark-Anthony Turnage twist on a cult Danish classic ...
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The Rest is Silence — standing the test of time
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first signs of trickery in Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest is Silence are an epigraph — wrongly attributed — ...
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Berlin cries Kulturkrise as cuts hit arts scene
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A performance of Verdi’s Macbeth last month at the Deutsche Oper briefly turned into a political protest, as a ...
‘Waste of time’: how Keir Starmer fumbled his first months of power
Starmer’s backers believe he can turn things around in 2025. Tom Baldwin, the prime minister’s biographer, said that “in ...