It’s behind you: Times photographers’ pictures of the month
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The annoying thing about overused economic sayings is that they tend to be true. That the UK is stuck trying to solve the productivity puzzle, one of those phrases that’s become common parlance over the past 15 years, is no different. Britain has performed particularly badly on productivity growth relative to comparable economies across Europe…
Excitement reached fever pitch on Monday as fans packed out a Californian arena, hollering and clapping. They were there for one thing. Not the Mean Girls musical nor Taylor Swift. No. The hype was for the latest computer architecture from Nvidia. “I hope you realise this is not a concert! You have arrived at a…
American government lawyers are suing Apple, claiming that the technology company has created a monopoly with the iPhone, in an antitrust case that has been in the pipeline for years. Prosecutors from the Department of Justice (DoJ) paint a picture of a self-interested company that is only after financial gain; of a stitched-up Apple ecosystem…
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…
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…
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…