Unlock Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor-in-chief of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nvidia is on track to sell $12 billion worth of artificial intelligence chips in China this year, despite U.S. export restrictions that limit trade in one of the world’s largest semiconductor markets. The $3 trillion Silicon … Read more
NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew just 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) above the volcanic world Io this year. The otherworldly vistas, including a look at the most powerful volcano known to man, did not disappoint. “They are truly stunning, stunning images,” Ashley Davies, a planetary scientist at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Mashable. Other space … Read more
The new car market grew by 1.1% in June to 179,263 units, surpassing the million-car sales mark in the first half of the year since 2019. Battery electric vehicles have the highest monthly market share since December 2023, but year-to-date take-up has remained steady at 16.6%. The industry is calling on the next government to … Read more
It’s been a year since Meta launched Threads in an attempt to take over the platform now known as X. Mark Zuckerberg said at the time that he hoped it would turn into “a public conversation app with over 1 billion people on it.” Meta’s timing was good. Threads launched at a particularly chaotic time … Read more
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that there were 392,000 outstanding award assessments for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in England and Wales at the end of May. PIP claimants living in Scotland will not have their award assessed by the DWP as their case will transfer to Adult Disability Payment (ADP) before … Read more
A group of scientists from the Field Museum in Chicago recently discovered fossilized grape seeds that could provide a link between dinosaurs and the many types of wine available today. The South American study found nine new fossil grape species that are at least 19 million years old. The oldest species was found in a … Read more
A small black rock brought back by a student from a study trip through the Western Australian outback has been broken open to reveal the remains of 2.4 billion-year-old creatures. The remarkable thing about these microfossils is that they appear to be more complex than anything that existed at the time. Not just a few … Read more
Bungie has been exploring the depths of our solar system for the past decade, but it looks like it’s finally gearing up to go somewhere new, or rather somewhereotherwise. At least that’s what seems to be happening in Destination‘s 11th year, that is provisionally titled Borders. What is Dragonsplague? Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Devastating Contagion Explained … Read more
New research into ripples in the fabric of spacetime suggests that a nearly 2,000-year-old cosmic calculator followed the lunar calendar instead of the solar calendar. The hand-cranked “Antikythera Mechanism” was recovered in pieces from a sunken shipwreck in the Aegean Sea in 1901, sparking more than a century of research into how it was made—and … Read more
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has released figures showing that the state pension currently supports almost 12.7 million older people in the UK. To qualify for this benefit, which is available to those who have reached the state pension age of 66 for both men and women, individuals must have paid at least … Read more