I f investment in data centres is about to slow, nobody told Mark Zuckerberg. On January 29th, during an earnings call, ...

Next comes the rest of the debris: the husks of washing machines, the chimneys standing sentry over the remains, and heaps of ...

F OR SOLDIERS at the front, electromagnetic defences are as vital as air: invisible when present, and disastrous when not. In ...

Germany’s election on February 23rd, which will probably mark an end to Mr Scholz’s tenure, is a good moment to assess the ...

Might it also be possible, then, to use acoustic waves to disrupt the electromechanical sensors that drones require to fly?

T the Labour government has had a spluttering start since it came into power seven months ago. Trying to explain its policies ...

What Leeds wants, Leeds does not get. Whenever a major infrastructure decision has been made, England’s third-biggest city has invariably been on the wrong end of it. Leeds’s limb of hs 2, the ...

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But neither they nor anyone else could have predicted President Donald Trump’s astonishing plan to end their misery: the ...

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T WO OF Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet choices appear headed for confirmation after winning critical Senate ...

F OR THE criminally minded, the allure of cryptocurrencies is easy to grasp. Decentralised online ledgers called blockchains allow digital assets, in the form of “tokens”, to be moved without ...