Travellers are getting seemingly convincing messages asking them to provide bank card details and threatening their reservation will be cancelled Travellers using the popular hotel website Booking.com are being warned not to fall for scam emails asking them to confirm their hotel payment, after a hack of Booking.com’s email system. In recent weeks the Observer …
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Tax audits and land use probes follows company founder announcing his run for Taiwan presidency Business live – latest updates China’s tax authorities have launched multiple investigations into the company that makes the iPhone, months after its billionaire founder announced he would run in Taiwan’s presidential elections. Foxconn is facing tax audits of its operations …
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Businesses keep trying to prove AI’s superior creativity, but haven’t proved it can compete with human inspiration Prove you’re not a robot. It’s (fairly) easy if you try. You could scroll down or click the little x in the corner of the screen to get rid of me. If you are reading the print edition …
With the intentions of Xi Jinping uncertain, there is a rush to build advanced chip-fabrication plants outside Taiwan. But it is proving a bigger challenge than anticipated When the history of our time comes to be written, one thing that will amaze historians is how an entire civilisation managed to impale itself on its worship …
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used by employers to help decide who to hire. What does it mean for candidates – and their future bosses? Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast When Anisa* graduated from her second degree, she felt “fairly confident” that her postgraduate studies, double-major undergraduate …
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An Australian company that helped the website remain accessible has been ordered to pay damages – but the legal arguments remain unsettled Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast An Australian company found to have helped keep the notorious forum Kiwi Farms accessible online has been ordered to pay …
Meeting in Manchester is part of worldwide action – including Black Friday protests – over tax, market abuse and workers’ rights It was about 3am on a night shift in May last year when Amazon worker Christine Manno tried to retrieve a box stacked high in the warehouse in St Peters, Missouri. She was 30ft …
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The billionaire’s posts began with a laboured gag and ended with a dangerous intervention into the reporting of the conflict in Gaza A year ago this week, when he completed the purchase of Twitter for $44bn, Elon Musk tweeted “the bird is freed”. Billionaires like nothing more than casting themselves as popular liberators, but the …
The AP photographer captured two friends meeting as the sun set on a torrid evening near Girona In the countryside just outside Girona, a group of friends share a 300-year-old farmhouse. They spend their weekends and holidays here, with their kids. What began as a way to disconnect from the big city of Barcelona evolved …
Bidding wars appear to be over as BT and Sky share content and heat goes out of auctions in continental Europe Eight years ago a triumphant Richard Scudamore revelled in a record £5.14bn haul from the sale of Premier League TV rights, after a second consecutive high-stakes auction where eye-watering bidding fuelled another 70% increase …
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