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Claude Guillemot, co-founder of video game maker Ubisoft, dies in plane crash

A founder of global gaming company Ubisoft, maker of Assassin's Creed, was killed in a plane crash in western France, authorities said Saturday.

The Wall the Tohono O’odham Don’t Want

Before Trump won his first election, in 2016, with promises to “build the wall,” Arizona’s border with Mexico already had the most barriers of any U.S. state. But an unfinished stretch lay along the southern boundary of the Tohono O’odham Nation, a reservation the size of Connecticut. Now Trump is trying to fill that line in, by ordering a wall built across a 62-mile-long stretch of reservation land. This would constitute what the chairman of the nation, Verlon Jose, called “the biggest land grab of the modern era.” The federal government, he told me, “hasn’t unilaterally tried to take Indian lands like this in a very long time.”

Five top tech stocks with major upside, Bank of America says

Bank of America reveals its top tech stocks heading into the second half.

Social media bans are trending. But it’s too late for my son and me

We’re both addicted to our screens. But at least we’re watching together – it’s dystopian bonding for the modern age

The AI boom is about to meet America’s old-fashioned infrastructure bust

The top four tech companies have committed roughly $700 billion to AI data center construction in 2026 alone. But to become AI infrastructure, that money needs traditional infrastructure — power, water, and permits — and now Big Tech is discovering, the hard way, that America can’t deliver physical infrastructure on schedule. Gartner projects that 40% of AI data centers will be constrained by power availability by 2027. Between 30% and 50% of facilities scheduled to open this year are already stalling. In many regions, connecting to the grid now comes with a wait measured in years, not months.

‘You don’t have to go to special places to find beauty’: Takeshi Aruga’s best phone picture

The furniture designer turned photographer was drawn to the colourful geometry of a multistorey car park in Japan

A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency

Does a thought-experiment about US ascendancy in the technology say as much about AI jitters as it does about the reality?

Motorway traffic drones are coming to UK roads, but will they drive us to distraction?

National Highways agency uses virtual reality test to see if drivers are distracted by introduction of low-flying drones

From coal to cabernet: the wine seller using a flooded mine to cut heating bills

Lanchester Wines in north-east England uses heat from a disused coalmine to maintain wine temperatures and with 23,000 flooded mines in the UK, there’s huge potential for more businesses and homes to follow its lead

Frank Bowling: ‘Guiltiest pleasure? Sixteen-year-old whisky. My doctor says I shouldn’t’

The artist on his need for order, an embarrassing Christmas costume, and the people he hopes to meet in heaven

Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy

Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furore

Nuclear developers race for Trump goal of 'criticality' before July 4 deadline

The Fourth of July this summer marks not only the 250th anniversary of the United States, but also the deadline for 10 nuclear companies vying to develop small and more advanced reactors to reach what the industry calls “criticality.”