The forest of cranes along the skyline of Milan attests to the construction boom that is under way in the financial capital of Italy. Rich foreigners have lately been flocking to the...
MAKE YOUR way around the busy warehouses of Torrance, near the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and you will find an unexpected sight. Dozens of electrified 18-wheelers belonging to...
It’s summer in the northern hemisphere. And as holidaymakers travel to unfamiliar places, that means demand for online customer reviews. Want to find a restaurant that won’t give everyone food poisoning, or...
Ever since Toyota entered America in the 1950s, the country has been a vital market for it. The carmaker, which sells more vehicles worldwide than any other, hawks around a quarter of...
The recipe for Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa has not changed since it was first concocted in the 1600s. Yet the sweet Chinese cough syrup, which has the colour and consistency of...
Ignore for a moment Donald Trump’s shakedown of Nvidia, in which he has allowed the world’s most valuable firm to resume limited exports of its artificial-intelligence (AI) chips to China in return...
Sarah Gwilliam is neither a software engineer nor, she confesses, does she “speak AI”. But after her father died recently she got the spark of an idea for creating a generative artificial-intelligence...
It was a rare day of good news for Britain’s beleaguered oil giant. On August 5th BP not only announced a quarterly profit of $2.4bn on its preferred measure, a third higher...
