Zhang Bin/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images Over the past decade, quantum computing has grown into a billion-dollar industry. Everyone seems to be investing in it, from tech giants, such as IBM and Google, to the US military. But Ignacio Cirac at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany, a pioneer of the…
With Meta successfully poaching a number of its senior researchers, an OpenAI executive reportedly reassured team members Saturday that company leadership has not “been standing idly by.” “I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something,” Chief Research Officer Mark Chen wrote in a Slack memo…
President Donald Trump told Fox News that a group of “very wealthy people” are in place to buy hugely popular video app TikTok, telling Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo that he will unveil the identities of the investors in about two weeks. He also noted that the deal would likely require approval from the…
A mining machine is seen at the Bayan Obo mine containing rare earth minerals, in Inner Mongolia, China. China Stringer Network | Reuters In April 2025, China imposed new export controls on seven rare earth elements and the permanent magnets derived from them — materials that form the foundation of modern life and modern warfare….
The Catholic Church’s effort to win young followers relies in part on influencers, D.J.s and two Brazilian nuns with plenty of rhythm.
After nearly a decade of wearables testing, I’ve amassed a truly terrifying amount of health and fitness data. And while I enjoy poring over my daily data, there’s one part I’ve come to loathe: AI summaries. Over the last two years, a deluge of AI-generated summaries has been sprinkled into every fitness, wellness, and wearable…
There were two minutes of Inter Miami’s Club World Cup left and the cameras were out in Atlanta. Here at last was the moment many had come for, one that didn’t matter as far as the match was concerned but that felt almost bigger than all that went before, a comment perhaps on this competition…
As I’ve now said repeatedly, I still believe that Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos’ wedding was the final straw for Anna Wintour. This is an increasingly popular theory too – Wintour has completely avoided featuring any MAGA cultist or Trump-adjacent within Vogue. But she couldn’t say no to Jeff Bezos, who has made a hard-right…
The overnight attack was one of the largest on Ukraine and included strikes in the western part of the country, which is hit less often.
Hugh Schulte/Millennium Images, UK For some of us, the phrase “mindset” might bring to mind the unscientific platitudes that you find in certain kinds of self-help books. A growing body of research, though, is showing that our mindset can powerfully shape our lives, thanks to its impact on our perception, motivation and behaviour. This story…
