We have a release date for the smaller 43mm OnePlus Watch 3 It will begin rolling out on July 8 It’s said to be “packed with specs that rival the full-sized version” When I reviewed the OnePlus Watch 3 two months ago (at the time of writing), I said it was already a contender for…
WARREN BUFFETT must be feeling smug right now. Months before American stockmarkets started sliding from record levels in late February, as investors began to question President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the world’s largest economy, the nonagenarian billionaire was cashing out of equities. In 2024 his industrial conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway, sold a net $134bn of stocks,…
The best teams in the world will be in the United States this summer as the FIFA Club World Cup will bring teams from reigning Champions League champions Paris Saint-Germain to the only amateur side in the competition in Auckland City FC from New Zealand. Lionel Messi and Inter Miami will kick off the competition…
BT could save £3 billion by cutting up to 55,000 workers, AI could end even more contracts If share prices don’t rise, BT might have to spin off Openreach Group revenue was down 2% year-over-year BT CEO Allison Kirkby has indicated the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence could lead to even deeper cuts beyond current…
Getty Images Doug Barrowman, who led PPE Medpro, pictured alongside his wife Baroness Michelle Mone. The chair of the Covid inquiry has ruled that evidence related to PPE Medpro, the firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman, will be heard in a closed, private session next month. On 3 March, the…
For decades politicians in Washington might have been mistaken for lobbyists for American companies in China. They pushed for the country to be opened up to American banks, planes and fast-food chains. Boeing, an American plane manufacturer, for example, began receiving orders from China just after Richard Nixon visited the country in 1972. Now many…
The summer of soccer will take a new look this year with the FIFA Club World Cup, which comes to the U.S. for the first edition of the expanded competition that will see 32 teams from around the world compete for a share of the $1 billion prize purse. Several high-profile teams will take part…
German state Schleswig-Holstein wants to remove all traces of Microsoft, including Windows Transition started in 2023, and should be complete by the end of 2025 Digitalization minister says, “We’re done with Teams” Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s northernmost state, has confirmed it will be phasing out Microsoft office software tools (including Teams, Word, Excel and Outlook) in its…
Family photo Matthew’s father, pictured as a baby in the late 1940s Matthew’s dad had brown eyes and black hair. His grandparents had piercing blue eyes. There was a running joke in his family that “dad looked nothing like his parents”, the teacher from southern England says. It turned out there was a very good…
When Monica Lewinsky, once an intern at the White House, was cajoled into a lunch date by Linda Tripp, a colleague wearing a wire, she was met by fbi agents and taken to a room in Washington’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel to be interrogated. What seemed like an innocent lunch date was one of the first steps…
