Scarce not long ago, smartphones are becoming ubiquitous. Ownership remains skewed towards men, but devices are shared and ...

Mr Trump signed two executive orders aimed at expanding America’s capabilities in quantum computing. One called on government ...

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Outdated regulation could be as big a threat as the technologies it is supposed to govern, write Gus O’Donnell and Sharon ...

It is true that this resilience owes a lot to Russia’s heavy fiscal stimulus. Last year the government spent the equivalent ...

Last week, officials in Mumbai restricted water access after the reservoirs around India’s financial capital dwindled to just ...

One person connecting several competitive primaries is Zohran Mamdani. The leftist new mayor has upended races in the Bronx, ...

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B EFORE HE BECAME prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer’s favourite weapon was disgust. He was disgusted by the lies of Boris ...

Investors in European stock markets breathed a sigh of relief when America and Iran agreed to end hostilities. Their truce ...

America’s AI power grab We have two covers this week, on the American state’s extraordinary influence over artificial ...

Claire McQue, a Latin America contributor, reports from Bogotá on why voters embraced a tough-talking political outsider ...