In his office in upstate New York, Wendell Weeks is about to do an ad hoc product demonstration. He brandishes something he calls a Norwegian hammer, a device used to test how resistant materials are to hard knocks. Mr Weeks first experiments on a thin sheet of metal; the hammer leaves a visible dent. Then…
Warning: What you’re about to read is Jacob Wilson‘s opinion. He is a professional baseball player — a very good one — and not a medical expert, but there are some things he is convinced are true, and this is one of them. The 23-year-old Wilson, the Athletics’ wunderkind shortstop, is wise enough to understand…
WHO IS consulting good for? Consultants, obviously. Chief executives, who can blame failure on bad outside advice and take credit for successful counsel. Also, for the industry’s one listed behemoth, its shareholders. Between the start of 2015 and the end of 2024 Accenture, which split off from its accounting sibling in 2000 and went public…
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All an NBA prospect needs is a chance. Editor’s Picks That’ll be the case on Thursday, when 29 prospects hear their names called in the second round of the 2025 NBA draft (8 p.m. ET, ESPN). Second-round picks in the NBA draft have developed into some of the league’s most valuable, reliable and productive players…
Damp carpet and old coffee. That is how a perfumier might have described the “top notes”—industry speak for the initial olfactory experience—at SIMPPAR, the annual fragrance-ingredient expo held this month in Paris. It is where vendors from Sicilian dynasties to Japanese chemical firms gather to showcase their ingredients. Some are natural. The centifolia rose, a…
Jun 26, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Wrexham will begin their first Championship campaign in over 40 years away at former Premier League side Southampton. After becoming the first-ever side in English football to achieve three consecutive promotions, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenny’s Wrexham face a difficult start to life in the second tier with an…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sam Laidlaw, the former chief executive of Centrica, is out of the running to be the next chair of oil major BP. Laidlaw, who stepped down as chief of the British Gas owner in 2014,…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Preliminary intelligence assessments provided to European governments indicate that Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile remains largely intact following US strikes on its main nuclear sites, two officials said. The people said the intelligence suggested that…
HDMI 2.2’s bandwidth is up from 48Gbps to 96Gbps Uncompressed 4K at 240Hz and 8K at 60Hz – or compressed 4K at 480Hz and 8K 240Hz Not all ports labelled HDMI 2.2 have to support the full spec It’s official: the HDMI 2.2 specification has been published, and that means manufacturers can start building it…
