Month: March 2025

In response to the billionaire’s scorched-earth raids on US government agencies, Tesla chargers and showrooms are being targeted In the early morning hours of Donald Trump’s inauguration day, a person wearing a long black cloak and face mask wheeled a cart down an Oregon sidewalk. He was headed toward a Tesla showroom in Salem, and …

Eggings, swastikas and dog poop: Tesla bears brunt of people’s ire against Musk Read More »

Photographers, translators, academics and GPs are among those whose jobs are either threatened or aided by the tech Oliver Fiegel, a 47-year-old photographer based in Munich, was reading a German national Sunday newspaper recently when he saw a front-page image that looked strangely off. The image showed a boy chasing a football on a pitch. …

‘It’s happening fast’ – creative workers and professionals share their fears and hopes about the rise of AI Read More »

Media organisations including the Guardian and the BBC fail to gain entry to proceedings What could Apple’s legal challenge mean for data protection? A hearing in Apple’s legal battle with the UK government over access to customer data was held behind closed doors on Friday after the press failed to gain entry to proceedings. The …

Apple’s UK encryption legal challenge heard behind closed doors Read More »

One afternoon, as he passed a train station bench in Chicago, the street photographer spotted young men in uniform … On his way to work at a north Chicago public high school, Spiro Bolos has been making a photo series of people on this train station bench. On the way to visit his partner one Sunday …

‘I feel conflicted when I see navy recruits’: Spiro Bolos’s best phone picture Read More »

Christopher Tsai retains faith in carmaker’s earnings potential despite backlash that has seen its shares take a hit A devoted investor in Elon Musk’s Tesla – and once a close childhood friend of the US president’s eldest son and namesake – says he hopes the world’s richest man’s role in cutting federal spending for Donald …

Notable Tesla investor says he hopes Musk’s government role is ‘short-lived’ Read More »

Cambridge scientist behind VR platform says it could help those put off by high cost of speech anxiety treatment A free online platform that allows speakers to practise in front of thousands of virtual spectators has been released to help with the anxiety many feel when presenting to an audience. Dr Chris Macdonald, the founder …

Free online virtual reality tool helps people tackle public speaking nerves Read More »

As they get ready to tour its mournful music, the band reflect on Disco Elysium, the video game whose soundtrack won them a Bafta – and plenty of new followers When Jan Scott Wilkinson, frontman of the band formerly known as British Sea Power, was first asked to work on a video game soundtrack, he …

‘The odd drunken detective has been sighted at gigs’: how Sea Power won legions of gamer fans Read More »

Sam Altman, the OpenAI boss, has declared its new model ‘good at creative writing’. We asked writers including Tracy Chevalier, Kamila Shamsie and David Baddiel if they agree This week has seen writers divided over a story written by an AI model that is “good at creative writing” – at least according to Sam Altman, …

‘A computer’s joke, on us’: writers respond to the short story written by AI Read More »

Serve up perfect rice every time with our expert-tested rice cookers, from space-saving mini appliances to microwave steaming bowls • The best blenders to blitz like a pro, tried and tested How often do you eat rice? Even if it’s not a daily staple in your house, it’s safe to say most Britons cook and …

The best rice cookers for gloriously fluffy grains at home: nine tried and tested favourites Read More »

Letter from Elon Musk’s firm to US trade representative warns of ‘downstream impacts’ of tit-for-tat tariffs Business live – latest updates Elon Musk’s Tesla has warned that Donald Trump’s trade war could expose the electric carmaker to retaliatory tariffs that would also impact other automotive manufacturers in the US. In an unsigned letter to Jamieson …

Tesla tells US government Trump trade war could ‘harm’ EV companies Read More »