Tech

A simple patent fix can revive America’s innovation engine

Washington got one right for a change. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s proposed new “One Challenge” rule may finally break Big Tech’s stranglehold on innovation, revitalize our patent system, and supercharge America’s growth.

Don't risk the AI revolution over electricity populism

The United States needs more electricity now, not tomorrow. The country is locked in an existential competition with China over supremacy in artificial intelligence and the technologies that will define economic and military power in the 21st century. AI is extraordinarily electricity-intensive. Yet, America’s power grid is fragile, aging, and constrained by a political and regulatory system that makes it painfully slow to build new generation.

Afraid of dying alone? How a Chinese app exposed single people’s deepest, darkest fears

In China, marriage and birth rates have hit record lows and many people are living in isolation. Is the Are You Dead? app just a practical response to this – or something more troubling?

Cameo by Rob Doyle review

In this larky autofiction, the ups and downs of creative life are cartoonishly dramatised as the writer becomes an action hero

Release the beast! How Iron Maiden and a naked Ralph Fiennes created the ultimate big-screen needle drop

The Number of the Beast lights up an unforgettable scene in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple thanks to director Nia DaCosta expertly blending ‘craziness and romance’

I got a fine after Cineworld cut its parking time limit

The cinema chain didn’t warn me clearly when I went to see Avatar: Fire and Ash that I needed to register my number plate

Aryan Papers review

We are in 1942 Stuttgart – though the sight of modern wheelie bins says otherwise – as a woman at a facility dedicated to breeding Aryan babies tries to smuggle two Jewish children to safety

Will Trump Strike Iran?

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OpenAI to focus on 'practical adoption' in 2026, says finance chief Sarah Friar

OpenAI will make 2026 its year of "practical adoption," the artificial intelligence startup's finance chief said in a blog Sunday.

Is this man the future of music

Worth a staggering $2.45bn, Suno is an AI music company that can create a track with just a few prompts. Why is its CEO happy to see it called ‘the Ozempic of the music industry’?

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

A beginner’s guide to Arc Raiders: what it is and how you start playing

Embark Studios’ multiplayer extraction shooter game has already sold 12m copies in just three months. Will it capture you too?