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A Movie Night in Cuba’s Blackout

Amid the energy crisis caused by the Trump administration’s oil blockade of Cuba, our correspondent Jack Nicas visits a children’s movie night in a Havana neighborhood made possible by one family’s modified generator.

Power 50 2026 - All our finalists revealed

The nominations are in - and the finalists for the 2026 edition of the Power 50 can now be revealed. Part of the Mobile Industry Awards 2026 , the Power 50 highlights the most important and influential figures in the UK mobile industry…

ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’

One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities.

Apple briefly tops $5 trillion market value, becoming second company to hit milestone

Why proving personhood is the new standard for identity verification

Most fraud strategies fail before a fraudster is ever detected, because they evaluate documents, rather than people. Consider the operational reality: a customer signs up for a fintech service. Their government-issued ID clears every…

Shares in Asian chip firms plunge further as AI sell-off continues

Drop comes after South Korean company SK Hynix’s results undershot investors’ expectations Business live – latest updates Shares in companies linked to AI have plunged further after disappointing results from the South Korean chipmaker SK…

I turned my guitar amp into a giant home speaker and it was a loud and stupid idea, but it basically worked (with some…

You all know what a guitar amplifier is. Big, intimidating stacks of speakers and dials, designed for some nice loud guitar playing. But do they work as well for other people's guitars; i.e., can a big powerful block of music-playing kit…

The Hardest Part of AI Isn't the Model Anymore.

A year or two ago, if your AI feature wasn't performing well, the answer was usually simple. Try a better model. Teams moved from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4, experimented with Claude, or waited for the next release, and many of their problems…

‘Construction sites are probably one of the hardest environments you could ask an autonomous system to operate in’

In an era increasingly dominated by AI and automation, it’s still incredible just how much construction work remains manual. The contrast is most stark in data centers – facilities built to power cutting-edge technology, but whose delivery…

It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job

The fact it may soon be better than you at making dinner? Insult to injury. But that’s exactly what the company 1X promised when it showed off a pair of new, impressively dexterous (and, to some, oddly sexy?) robotic hands in a July demo…

South Korean chipmaker SK hynix reports 1,242% profit surge on booming AI demand

Despite record second-quarter profits fuelled by AI demand, SK hynix shares plunged as investors questioned whether the boom can last amid Middle East tensions.

OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services

OpenAI's investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face.