When Goldman Sachs entered the credit card space in 2019 with a partnership with Apple, many consumer banks were concerned that a new competitor had emerged. But just four years later, the firm is pulling back. The banking giant’s move from Wal...
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Deaf scientists and sign language experts have created hundreds of new signs for British Sign Language (BSL). Expanded BSL vocabulary now includes climate-related terms like "greenhouse gas" and "carbon footprint", for...
In the eras before air-conditioning, southern China's skywells played a key role in keeping people's homes cool. Could they do it again today? Ru Ling loves spending time in skywells. To her, these courtyards of old Chinese houses are the perf...
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A visual timeline recounting the events that led up to the disappearance of the Titan submersible....
Warnings over the safety of OceanGate's Titan submersible were repeatedly dismissed by the CEO of the company, email exchanges with a leading deep sea exploration specialist show. In messages seen by the BBC, Rob McCallum told OceanGate C...
One of the three "godfathers of AI" has said it won't take over the world or permanently destroy jobs. Prof Yann LeCun said some experts' fears of AI posing a threat to humanity were "preposterously ridiculous"....
Tim Cook says Apple Vision Pro will change how people engage with tech...
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A blood test for more than 50 types of cancer has shown real promise in a major NHS trial, researchers say. The test correctly revealed two out of every three cancers among 5,000 people who had visited their GP with suspected symptom...
Paolo Sebastian Designer Gets Married...
Ambitious targets to halt the decline in nature may already be slipping out of reach, a study suggests. Scientists say the effects of climate change and habitat loss on animal populations have been underestimated. They say bringi...
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Dr Talia Cohen Solal sits down at a microscope to look closely at human brain cells grown in a petri dish. "The brain is very subtle, complex and beautiful," she says. A neuroscientist, Dr Cohen Solal is the co-founder...
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Fast food chain McDonald's is temporarily closing its US offices this week ahead of an expected announcement on corporate job cuts. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the move, said McDonald's had told US and some internat...
Artificial intelligence (AI) could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs, a report by investment bank Goldman Sachs says. It could replace a quarter of work tasks in the US and Europe but may also mean new jobs and a produc...
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the second-biggest bank failure in U.S. history, took place over less than 48 hours. Customers withdrew $42 billion -- nearly a quarter of the bank's total deposits -- within a single day last week...