It’s behind you: Times photographers’ pictures of the month

They were old friends from north London who built Britain’s most successful AI company. Now they are set to lock horns as rivals in the Big Tech battle to dominate the technology. Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman are co-founders of DeepMind, an AI research company they sold to Google in 2014 for $650 million. Hassabis…

Historians deplore the prejudiced and overgeneralising term “Dark Ages”. The centuries that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, with their barbarian invasions, shrinking populations, declining literacy and crude carvings, are now recommended to us as having been relatively pleasant. Recent histories of the period suggest the “Light Ages” or the “Bright Ages” as alternative…

Fujitsu is in line to win a nationwide contract for a digital ID card scheme for checking the age of customers in pubs and supermarkets. The Japanese IT company, which has been at the centre of the Post Office Horizon scandal, is expected to be a key provider for the system, despite a voluntary pledge…

Dyson is investing £9 million a week worldwide after bringing in record revenues of just over £7.1 billion last year. Global revenues were up 9 per cent on the year before. Annual profit was also up by 9 per cent at £1.4 billion. Over the year Dyson, which designs and manufactures its electricals and technology…

★★★★☆ I tried Apple’s new Vision Pro headset for the first time last summer and immediately wanted to have another go. Behind closed doors at Apple’s headquarters in California, I was one of a handful of people that were allowed to spend 30 minutes experiencing the company’s vision for the future. To say Apple’s headset…

Are you swaggering through your 70s as a sexually adventurous “boomer bedrocker”? Or are you shuffling towards your 60th birthday as a lost “middlescent”, still wondering how to make your mark? To a demographer or a brand consultant, you are more than an individual. You are a product of the era in which you were…