Omar Sadraoui knows firsthand what it’s like to be a junior investment banker. He graduated from HEC Paris’ prestigious Masters in Management Program and spent three years at Deutsche Bank in London, first as an analyst and then as an associate, before quitting last August. Sadraoui says he is not alone: most young people are … Read more
Scientists have confirmed for the first time that the fabric of spacetime takes a “final plunge” at the edge of a black hole. The observation of this crashing region around black holes was made by astrophysicists at Oxford University Physics, and helps validate a key prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 theory of gravity: general relativity. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Visa and Mastercard will be required to share more information about the fees they charge merchants under new rules proposed by the UK’s payments regulator. The Payment Systems Regulator proposed on Tuesday that the two … Read more
BT has extended the deadline for migrating customers from its copper-based Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to digital landlines to give vulnerable people, including telehealth users, more time to move. The state’s former telecom monopoly had planned to switch customers to internet-based services at the end of next year, but says it will now switch … Read more
Google has published a paper directly challenging Microsoft over a series of security flaws in recent months, showing that businesses and public sector organizations need a more secure alternative. The tech giant looks to take advantage of what has been a tough year for Microsoft from a security perspective, after the company suffered a litany … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Janet Yellen has urged the EU to join US efforts to curb Beijing’s green technology exports, warning that a glut of cheap Chinese goods could threaten the survival of factories around the world. could threaten … Read more
Ocean water is pushing miles beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier,” making it more vulnerable to melting than previously thought, according to new research that used radar data from space to create an X-ray of the crucial glacier. As the salty, relatively warm ocean water meets the ice, it causes a “powerful melt” under the glacier and … Read more
CNN — Ocean water is pushing miles beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier,” making it more vulnerable to melting than previously thought, according to new research that used radar data from space to create an X-ray of the crucial glacier. When the salty, relatively warm ocean water meets the ice, it causes a “powerful melt” under the … Read more
The warm gas giant WASP-107 b, known for its unusually low density and moderate temperature, may have an inflated atmosphere due to tidal heating that warms its interior more than previously thought. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com A surprising depletion of methane suggests that tidal heating has puffed up the atmosphere of warm gas giant WASP-107 … Read more
Chinese astronomers have published the most detailed atlas of the moon ever, which they describe as the “first high-resolution geological atlas of the entire moon.” The atlas not only provides images of the craters as seen from telescopes or orbiters, but also provides geological, lithological and tectonic maps of the entire lunar surface. NASA compiled … Read more