Facebook owner Meta hit with record €1.2bn fine over EU-US data transfers ~tech social media facebook Article 290 words 22 votes
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan fights for survival with strategy of hope and fear ~society politics Article 1151 words 12 votes
Norway's $1.4tn wealth fund calls for state regulation of AI – Nicolai Tangen says fund will set guidelines for companies it invests in on ethical use of AI ~tech Article 290 words 4 votes
Xi Jinping vows to make Chinese military ‘great wall of steel’ as tensions rise with west ~society Article 423 words 6 votes
Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI ~games.tabletop board games Article 676 words 8 votes
Liz Truss's UK growth plan is nothing but a magic potion ~finance economics Article 766 words 11 votes
EDF rules out extension of nuclear plant to secure UK winter supplies ~enviro energy Article 716 words 8 votes
Northvolt and Norsk Hydro will take their battery recycling joint venture to Europe later this year after the Swedish start-up opened their first plant in Norway ~tech Link 5 votes
The inside story of the Pfizer vaccine: A 'once-in-an-epoch windfall' ~health medicine Article 4765 words 6 votes
China set to report first population decline in five decades ~society Article 809 words, published Apr 27 2021 10 votes
Keir Starmer struggles to counter Boris Johnson’s ‘vaccine bounce’ as UK polls loom ~society politics Article 918 words, published Apr 8 2021 5 votes
UK declares China in breach of 1984 Hong Kong declaration ~news china united kingdom law hong kong politics Link 19 votes
Seeking to capitalize on a growing population that is increasingly less poor, American and Chinese tech giants clash in Africa ~tech Link 5 votes
FC Barcelona and Real Madrid will be forced to pay back illegal state aid ~sports.football Article 611 words 10 votes
Google apologises to Thierry Breton over plan to target EU commissioner ~tech google Article 471 words 6 votes
Intimidation, surveillance and conspiracy theories: Inside the Financial Times' five-year investigation of the billion-dollar Wirecard fraud ~finance Article 4800 words 5 votes
Novelist Arundhati Roy on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next ~health Article 2892 words, published Apr 3 2020 5 votes
Big companies raise record sums from bond market in dash for cash ~finance business Article 685 words, published Mar 29 2020 4 votes
Now that Sweden has called a halt to its five-year trial with negative interest rates the serious work has begun on looking at whether it worked ~finance economics Article 2132 words 7 votes
Why rigged capitalism is damaging liberal democracy ~finance economics business Article 2166 words 5 votes
How Oxford university shaped Brexit — and Britain’s next prime minister ~society politics Article 3979 words 13 votes
Germany’s Social Democrats seek poll salvation in shift to left ~society politics Article 664 words 9 votes
Shell yields to investors by setting target on carbon footprint ~enviro climate change Article 737 words 9 votes
The week in energy: Not all oil is equal ~enviro climate change plastics pollution energy Article 1756 words 7 votes
DeepMind’s move to transfer health unit to Google stirs data fears ~health healthcare Article 669 words 11 votes
Jony Ive on the Apple Watch and Big Tech’s responsibilities ~tech apple.watch Article 2567 words 5 votes