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SpaceX bond sale signals markets are in ‘bubble territory’, warns Allianz CIO

Debt investors will scrutinise Musk’s rocket company more closely than equity markets, says Ludovic Subran

Italy's visa hurdles for Russians counterproductive — political scientist

Sandro Teti said the number of Russian tourists fell by 95%, and they prefer to travel to other countries

Hong Kong is world’s most unequal society for wealth distribution, study finds

Hong Kong has become the world’s most unequal society in terms of wealth distribution, a study has found, as the core drivers of income inequality in the city have shifted from wage disparities to capital concentration, reducing social…

Wealthy nations reap huge benefits from immigration, study finds

Political tensions over immigration have been on the rise in recent years.

Xjenza Malta And OGS Sign Agreement To Strengthen Mediterranean Research Cooperation

Xjenza Malta and Italy’s Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at strengthening collaboration in research, innovation and scientific capacity building…

Mars will not be habitable anytime soon: Here's what new Nasa study found

Best Android Phones of 2026: Our Experts Give Their Verdict

From Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra to Google's Pixel 10 Pro Fold, these award-winning phones are the best you can buy in 2026.

What Europe’s heat wave means for the power grid

It’s been hard to look away from headlines about the European heat wave this week. Temperatures are breaking records across the continent, and the weather is threatening lives , shutting down schools , and in one particularly ironic case…

IBM has unveiled chip technology that could help extend Moore’s Law another decade

IBM has built a new prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the size of a fingernail, which is twice the density of the company’s previous state-of-the-art technology announced in 2021. The design could pave the way…

Cellebrite said it cut off Russia, but Russia used is tools anyway

Security researchers found evidence that Russian authorities hacked the iPhone of a political opponent using a phone-unlocking device made by Cellebrite, even after the company said it would stop selling to Putin’s government.

I just tried ChatGPT's new 'Scheduled Tasks' feature — and it's the closest thing yet to a real AI assistant

ChatGPT's new Scheduled Tasks feature announcement this week — the ability for ChatGPT to now send reminders, handle recurring work, or monitor things — caught my attention immediately. After all, AI assistants are all predicated on being…

SpaceX’s Record IPO Puts Brazil’s Space Industry on Investors’ Radar

Markets Key Facts —The trigger. SpaceX listed on June 12 in the largest IPO ever, raising about $75bn. —The value. The listing valued the company at roughly 1.8 trillion dollars. —The gap. Brazil’s public space budget was about R$170m…