Month: March 2025

With sales down and electric vehicle rivals catching up, the rightwing politico’s brand is driving into a storm Globally renowned brands would not, ordinarily, want to be associated with Germany’s far-right opposition. But Tesla, one of the world’s biggest corporate names, does not have a conventional chief executive. After Elon Musk backed Alternative für Deutschland …

‘Major brand worries’: Just how toxic is Elon Musk for Tesla? Read More »

The investor and former Twitter board member believes rejecting DEI initiatives is simply denying US firms talent As Elon Musk grinned in the Oval Office, one of Britain’s most influential tech investors looked on in horror. “He is absolutely horrendous. I have said it multiple times: I think it is horrifying what is happening,” says …

‘Musk? He’s horrendous’: Martha Lane Fox on diversity, tech bros and International Women’s Day Read More »

Chiefs from Coinbase, Ripple and Robinhood to strategize with president on how to make US ‘crypto capital of world’ Cryptocurrency industry elite are set to meet with Donald Trump at the White House on Friday to discuss how the government will enact Trump’s vision of making the country the “crypto capital of the world”. The …

Trump to host crypto leaders after creating strategic reserve of bitcoin Read More »

Paolo Ardoino – head of the world’s most traded cryptocurrency, which is backed by Trump aide Howard Lutnick – claims Tether is benefiting the US Paolo Ardoino, CEO of the cryptocurrency company Tether, was flying over Switzerland last week as he contemplated the changing regulatory landscape. Tether used to be at war with the establishment. …

Crypto giant Tether CEO on cooperating with Trump administration: ‘We’ve never been shady’ Read More »

‘British Fallout’ became the almost-instant sobriquet for this game when it was announced – but that doesn’t capture the breadth of its scary influences The year is 1962 and you’ve just woken up in the shadow of the Windscale (now Sellafield) nuclear power station in Cumbria, five years after its catastrophic meltdown. Trapped in the …

Atomfall, the survival game that draws from classic British sci-fi Read More »

Many fellows feel the billionaire has breached its code of conduct, but others say scientific neutrality is at stake It is a 365-year-old institution revered the world over, with past members including luminaries such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Dorothy Hodgkin. But now a row over a billionaire maverick has thrown the Royal Society …

‘It would be seen as political’: why the Royal Society is torn over Elon Musk Read More »

Once again Lara Croft has appeared near the top of an arbitrary list of the hottest video game characters – but when are we going to admit there’s something about Luigi’s eyes? Is Lara Croft hot? It’s a question that’s plagued our greatest minds for almost three decades. Yes, she appeared on the cover of …

If we’re going to rank the hottest video game characters, let’s not be boring about it Read More »

The world’s richest man has spent years trying to get Starlink into the fast-growing economy. It could serve as a beachhead for his other business ambitions in India It is easy to believe that Elon Musk’s reach knows no limits. But while the world’s richest man may control a space satellite empire, own one of …

Could Elon Musk’s newfound political influence help him finally crack India? Read More »

Boss says BBC News’s reach is ‘defying gravity’ and it must use AI to ‘support and accelerate our growth’ BBC News is to create a new department that will use AI to give the public more personalised content, as its leader said the corporation had been “defying gravity” in reaching audiences amid seismic changes in …

BBC News to create AI department to offer more personalised content Read More »

A generation who came of age online now feel deprived of real connections. The upside is they are doing something about it It’s the love-hate relationship that defined a generation. We think we know all about teenagers and the phones to which they’re so umbilically tied: sleeping with them under the pillow, panicking at the …

It’s the age of regret: gen Z grew up glued to their screens, and missed the joy of being human | Gaby Hinsliff Read More »