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The 100 best novels of all time

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The 100 best novels of all time

A countdown of the greatest literature published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?

6 months ago

He's So Random

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He's So Random

A software engineer wanted to resist the usual algorithms. So he created his own—and transformed his whole existence.

6 months ago

The Most Awkward Cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2

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The Most Awkward Cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2

The Last Supper makes a conspicuous—and strange—appearance during a gathering of self-styled elites.

6 months ago

Bulls and bears both believe this could be 1999 all over again. Embrace it or dump your tech stocks?

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Bulls and bears both believe this could be 1999 all over again. Embrace it or dump your tech stocks?

We are not guaranteed a close rerun of the 1999-2000 extremes. Just because things got crazier then doesn't mean that's ahead of us.

6 months ago

SoftBank has injected $450 million into this British AI chip company

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SoftBank has injected $450 million into this British AI chip company

U.K.-based Graphcore is developing AI chips and systems and was acquired by the Japanese giant in 2024.

6 months ago

The car park that changed British art: Bold Tendencies at 20

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The car park that changed British art: Bold Tendencies at 20

Two decades after it opened in a multi-storey in Peckham in London, the space has redrawn the map for how to present art – with rooftop cocktails and the pink staircase that launched a thousand selfies

6 months ago

‘I shared a single bed with my mother for three years’: Sung Tieu on her monument to immigrant workers in Venice

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‘I shared a single bed with my mother for three years’: Sung Tieu on her monument to immigrant workers in Venice

At the German pavilion, the artist has re-created the housing estate where she grew up to tell the forgotten history of migrants, including her parents, hired under a socialist agreement between East Germany and Vietnam – then abandoned

6 months ago

EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's ‘addictive design’ targeting kids on social media

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EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's ‘addictive design’ targeting kids on social media

"We are investigating platforms that allow children to go down \"rabbit holes\" of harmful content," EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday.

6 months ago

Trump heads to China to spread the gospel of American tech while emulating Xi Jinping on AI

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Trump heads to China to spread the gospel of American tech while emulating Xi Jinping on AI

Tim Cook and Elon Musk, among other tech CEOs, will accompany the US president on a trip to China

6 months ago

Let Loose the Memes of War

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Let Loose the Memes of War

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6 months ago

The Empire of Baloney

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The Empire of Baloney

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6 months ago

OpenAI revenue chief Dresser says enterprise AI adoption is 'at a tipping point'

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OpenAI revenue chief Dresser says enterprise AI adoption is 'at a tipping point'

The OpenAI Development Company is a partnership with 19 investment and consultancy firms and is majority-owned and controlled by the startup.

6 months ago