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Starship will change what is possible beyond the Earth
The success of SpaceX’s massive new space vehicle promises a host of new projects, including the colonisation of Mars ...
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China is writing the world’s technology rules
Governments have long recognised the value in setting standards. Britain and Germany once tussled over the specifications for ...
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An economics Nobel for work on why nations succeed and fail
This year’s winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, usually called the Nobel ...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has achieved something extraordinary
T HE LAUNCH was remarkable: a booster rocket with twice the power of the Apollo programme’s Saturn V lancing into the ...
The Economist6d
The front line of the tech war is in Asia
Tech firms will be investing tens of billions of dollars annually in data centres in Asia for years to come. And the picture ...
The Economist6d
AI wins big at the Nobels
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper from DeepMind, Google’s AI company, received one half of the chemistry prize for their ...
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When workplace bonuses backfire
The gelignite of incentives ...
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Why the American stockmarket reigns supreme
I F YOU had invested $10,000 in the American stockmarket at the end of the year 2000 you would have had about $27,000, after ...
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The world’s most innovative country
W HICH COUNTRY leads the world in innovation? Most people would say America. A few might say China. But according to the ...