Elon Musk’s SpaceX is looking to raise $75bn (£55bn) from its blockbuster stock market listing next week as the rocket company aims for the largest initial public offering ever. If the stock market launch – primed for 12 June – goes as planned, founder Musk, the world’s wealthiest person, could make history as the first…
4 June 2026 Shakira has insisted she has no intention of finding herself a new man. Shakira – May 2025 – Getty – Met Gala, New York The 49-year-old singer is believed to have been single since splitting from footballer Gerard Pique – the father of her two sons Milan, 13, and Sasha, 11, back…
Iran is heading to the World Cup while the country is at war with a host nation, a situation that is unique in the tournament’s history. The United States-Israel war on Iran began on February 28, and there has been an uneasy ceasefire in place since April 8, but the uncertainty – and occasional flare-up…
How does Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring hold up today? Rachel Carson was a marine biologist who wrote three books about life in the ocean, before a letter, published in The Boston Herald, prompted a change of focus. The letter described the deadly impact of the pesticide DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) on a bird population in Massachusetts. Carson…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. — the world’s biggest semiconductor-maker — is struggling to meet demands from American customers even with its factory buildout in the US, according to reports from Reuters and Bloomberg. “Customer demand is so high, and we can only support so much,” TSMC CEO C.C. Wei said after a shareholder meeting on…
Budapest’s liberal Mayor Gergely Karacsony had been charged with helping to organise the banned 2025 march.
The president of the Writers Guild of America, East weighed in on the firing of 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley and others at the newsmagazine, arguing that the moves show that top brass show “profound contempt for the journalism profession.” Tom Fontana wrote in a letter to members, “In the past year, CBS has enacted…
At the start of the gen AI boom, the scarcest asset seemed obvious: access to the frontier model. Companies rushed to license models such as GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini, hired prompt engineers, and built proprietary copilots. Then a different constraint emerged: access to GPUs, cloud capacity, and data-center space. Now, beneath all of that, a…
Eight people were indicted this week in New York in connection with what prosecutors describe as a “wide-ranging retail theft ring” that stole nearly $5m worth of goods – from steaks to cheeses to copper wiring and cigarettes. The Manhattan district attorney’s office announced charges against the eight individuals on Wednesday, accusing them of “conspiring…
The feature is now available to eligible Google Workspace, AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. Steve Dent for Engadget Slogging through emails to find stuff can be a chore, but Google AI subscribers and enterprise customers can now get AI to do it. Google’s “Ask Gemini in Drive” feature announced in March can now…
