Intel once set the pace of technological progress. Gordon Moore, one of its founders, predicted in 1965 that chips would get ...

As we published this, President Donald Trump was even mulling quasi-nationalisation. More than ever, semiconductors hold the ...

Taipei, a city of over 2m people, stopped moving at 1.30pm on July 17th. Sirens rang out across the capital as residents ...

The world’s biggest market is less central in global trade today than it once was. At the start of the century, America ...

Vladimir Putin, who met Mr Trump in Alaska on August 15th, wants Ukraine to hand over unoccupied land in the eastern Donbas ...

CARRIE BRADSHAW has skipped across Manhattan in Manolo Blahniks for the last time. On August 14th “And Just Like That…” ...

When J.D. Vance, America’s vice-president, visited Britain this summer, doyens of the British right recommended that Mr ...

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Developers, governments, startups and utilities around the world are turning former fossil-fuel power stations, and old oil and gas wells, into renewable-energy plants and testbeds for green ...

Automation is also tricky: robots are good at putting together a specific item but struggle to recognise and take apart the thousands of different devices that end up in the rubbish. A new generation ...

A lot more research needs to be done, says Dr Bennett. The gene variant highlighted by the study is common; it is found in 45% of people in Britain. For that reason, it is unlikely to be the only ...

At the top of Vladimir Putin’s shopping-list is the western part of Donetsk province, which is still firmly in Ukrainian ...