After more than a week of ratcheting up tariffs on products imported from China, the Trump administration issued a rule late Friday that spared smartphones, […]
Month: April 2025
How the Crypto Industry’s Political Spending Is Paying Off
At the end of a three-hour hearing last month, Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, sided with a group of Republicans in a hotly contested […]
Erin Brockovich: ‘My chiropractor saw mud on my stiletto – I said, I’ve been collecting dead frogs’ | Ents & Arts News
Erin Brockovich says a chance conversation about a muddy stiletto with her chiropractor led to the making of the award-winning film about her life. The […]
Will Katy Perry sing in space – and will the all-female Blue Origin rocket crew count as astronauts? | Science, Climate & Tech News
It’s been more than 60 years since a woman travelled into space without a man. And now six of them are blasting off from Earth. […]
How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse
The Chinese internet giant ByteDance has made some of the world’s most popular apps: TikTok and, in China, Douyin and Toutiao. In the United States, […]
From AI Barbie to ‘Ghiblification’ – how ChatGPT’s image generator put ‘insane’ pressure on OpenAI | Science, Climate & Tech News
ChatGPT’s new image-generation tool led to a record number of users in April, forcing OpenAI’s boss to beg people to “chill out a bit”. With […]
Nintendo Switch 2 launches straight into Trump’s trade war | Money News
It was going to be the revivifying event the video games industry desperately needed – instead, thanks to Donald Trump’s tariffs, the launch of the […]
Big Tech’s Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | iHeartRadio This week, with the tech world in chaos over President Trump’s […]
What’s Wrong With Apple? – The New York Times
Even before President Trump’s tariffs threatened to upend Apple’s manufacturing business in China, the company’s struggle to make new products was leading some people inside […]
Satellite ‘space factory’ could create advanced tech that slashes billions of pounds from energy bills | Science, Climate & Tech News
A company started by “two blokes in a Cardiff garage” is about to launch a game-changing space factory that could start a new industrial revolution. […]