Science fiction, from The Jetsons to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is replete with humanoid robots. But for a long time in the real world, such robots have been a novelty at best and a punchline at worst. Somehow, though, in the last few years, things have shifted. More than a handful of companies are developing…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Donald Trump has called Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell a “numbskull” for not cutting interest rates, saying the White House may “have to force something” if the US central bank does not reduce…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An Air India flight to London Gatwick has crashed in Ahmedabad in western India shortly after take-off, according to local police. Police in Gujarat state told the Financial Times that the plane crashed “within 10…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Senate fiscal hawk doesn’t believe Republicans can hit their own self-imposed timeline to pass President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” Senate Republicans are racing against the clock to finish work on their version of the president’s colossal bill after the House GOP advanced its offering late…
Toothless and Hiccup (Mason Thames) in “How to Train Your Dragon.” Universal Pictures/DreamWorks The family adventure How to Train Your Dragon, starring Gerard Butler, Mason Thames and Nico Parker, is new in theaters. Do critics think you should hit a ride with the live-action remake of the 2010 animated hit? Rated PG, How to Train…
Kia says it will offer Netflix, Disney+ , YouTube and LG Channels The entertainment is only available when parked It’s not free, as it comes part of a subscription-based package Kia is the latest in a slew of manufacturers to start offering blockbuster entertainment inside vehicles, with a new subscription-based Entertainment Package unlocking Netflix, Disney+,…
SpiNNaker 2 supercomputer operates without disks or an operating system for unmatched speed Sandia’s system uses 152 cores per chip to mimic the parallelism of the human brain With 138,240 terabytes of DRAM, the SpiNNaker 2 relies entirely on memory speed A new computing system modeled after the architecture of the human brain has been…
TikTok is preventing users searching for “skinnytok” – a hashtag which critics say directs people towards content which “idolises extreme thinness.” Content associated with the hashtag includes videos showing people’s work-out routines or what they eat in a day. TikTok said it had “blocked search results for #skinnytok since it has become linked to unhealthy…
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…
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Masato Hattori An artist’s impression of Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, the newly discovered tyrannosaur ancestor Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur – in the collection of a Mongolian museum – that they say “rewrites” the evolutionary history of tyrannosaurs. Researchers concluded that two 86 million-year-old skeletons they studied belonged…
