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Franco Colapinto has been spotted with China Suarez, who was once branded as a "home wrecker" after leaving his own rumoured Formula 1 love triangle.The Argentine driver has fully entered the spotlight of F1, both on and off the track. Now…

The more certain short-term impact is that US investors who are still interested in Chinese AI startups will have to do a whole lot more due diligence. The Treasury Department is not setting up a new government committee like CFIUS that…

It has to be a dare, surely. In a twist Hollywood could not script, President-elect Donald Trump has tapped sleazy Matt Gaetz for his new attorney general. The MAGA fanboy, famous for his relentless Trump loyalty – and a history of dodging…

It’s the day after Donald Trump declared his election victory, and a tech scout for NATO is peering down at a miniature factory, the size of a shoebox, designed to manufacture semiconductors in space.Chris O’Connor, with his black bomber…

It took nearly two years of planning to get here. This is one of about two dozen “superloads”—pieces of highway cargo that weigh more than 120,000 pounds—that will be lumbering across Ohio for Intel. Today’s load, number 13, is 280 feet…

After more than 1,200 days of silence, Li Ziqi, arguably the most successful internet influencer from China on YouTube, is suddenly posting videos again.Earlier this week, the 34-year-old content creator, who is best-known for sharing…

Ask the search engine Ecosia about “Paris to Prague” and flight booking websites dominate the results. Ecosia’s CEO Christian Kroll would prefer to present more train options, which he considers better for the environment. But because its…

Amid a rising tide of low-cost weaponized adversary drones menacing American troops abroad, the US military is pulling out all the stops to protect its forces from the ever-present threat of death from above. But between expensive…

A Boeing's engine was engulfed in flames shortly after take-off, in a terrifying incident that forced the plane to turn back.The Hainan Airlines flight had just departed from Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy, bound for Shenzhen, China, when…

Eight years ago, the November US election results profoundly shocked the small staff at Backchannel, the boutique tech publication I headed. The morning after, an editor posted on our Slack that working on a technology story seemed…