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Individual workers will have their own triggers, ostensibly tiny things to which they are extremely sensitive.

How to beat desk rage

4 min read . 11:10 AM IST

A view shows a gas processing facility, operated by Gazprom company, at Bovanenkovo gas field on the Arctic Yamal peninsula, Russia. (File Photo: Reuters)

Europe has shaken off Putin’s gas embargo

5 min read . 10:53 AM IST

The news may become “a sort of ‘soup’ of language that is experienced differently by different people”.. (AP Photo/Vladimir Voronin) (AP)

Artificial intelligence is remixing journalism into a “soup” of language

2 min read . 10:18 AM IST

Instead of being slashed, trade links between America and China are enduring—just in more tangled forms.

How America is failing to break up with China

7 min read . 09:40 AM IST

For Porsche, cars powered by e-fuels will be a sideline rather than its main business (Photo: Reuters)

Sucking a carbon-neutral fuel out of thin air

2 min read . 08 Aug 2023

The concept of ultra-processed foods was devised by Carlos Monteiro, a Brazilian scientist, in 2009 (Photo: iStock)

What makes ultra-processed foods so bad for your health?

3 min read . 08 Aug 2023

The contempt for Musk says something about the press and about Musk, and a lot about Twitter (Photo: AFP)

Elon Musk is showing what a waste of time Twitter can be

5 min read . 08 Aug 2023

Palantir builds digital infrastructure to help clients manage lots of data, be it on security threats, health-care systems or factories’ productivity (Photo: Bloomberg)

AI-wielding tech firms are giving a new shape to modern warfare

5 min read . 08 Aug 2023

A unique combination of local-government investment and private enterprise, the 'Hefei model' has fostered industries like high-end manufacturing, EVs, biotech and semiconductors (Photo: AFP)

An unlikely tech cluster exemplifies China’s economic vision

9 min read . 07 Aug 2023

Energy firms made half as much money in the second quarter of 2023 as they did a year earlier, when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed up oil and gas prices (Photo: AP)

Beyond the tech hype, how healthy is American business?

5 min read . 07 Aug 2023

More than 200 of the world’s largest financiers, including 87 banks, have announced policies restricting investments in coal-mining or coal-fired power plants (Photo: Bloomberg)

Who is keeping coal alive?

12 min read . 07 Aug 2023

The greatest impediment to super-apps are, unsurprisingly, app stores (Photo: Reuters)

The rise of the super-app

5 min read . 07 Aug 2023

A growing emphasis on employees’ well-being is one reason why perfectionism is out of favour

Why it’s OK not to be perfect at work

4 min read . 07 Aug 2023

AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko. (AP)

What Ukraine’s bloody battlefield is teaching medics

8 min read . 05 Aug 2023

Ukraine estimates that to continue financing the war this year, it will need $39.5bn more than it expects to receive from tax and aid, a shortfall equivalent to 9% of GDP (Photo: Reuters)

Western lenders may regret forcing Ukraine to turn to the IMF

3 min read . 04 Aug 2023

When Starlink was made available to Ukraine last year, after Russia’s invasion of the country, the army’s newspaper called it an “accomplice” of the “hegemony-obsessed US” (Photo: AP)

Why China fears Starlink

5 min read . 04 Aug 2023

The superconducting material named LK-99 is a mix of powdered compounds of lead, oxygen, sulphur and phosphorus

Have scientists really found a room-temperature superconductor?

2 min read . 04 Aug 2023

Supporters of US President Joe Biden's s plans for student debt relief march near the White House in June (Photo: Reuters)

The moratorium on repaying student loans in America was a bad idea

2 min read . 03 Aug 2023

The backlash came after Disney condemned Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Google halted midterm donations to candidates who had refused to certify Joe Biden’s 2020 win, and Delta, Coca-Cola and Microsoft denounced new voting laws in Republican states (Photo: Reuters)

Conservative Americans are building a parallel economy

6 min read . 03 Aug 2023

Investors expect the tech giants, with their deep technological insights and even deeper pockets, to capture the spoils of AI (Photo: AP)

Can big tech keep getting bigger in the age of AI?

5 min read . 03 Aug 2023

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