The British Museum is in hot water after a translator has accused the museum of plagiarizing her translations in its ongoing “China’s Hidden Century” exhibition.
TopHow Britain can become an AI superpower
Get ready for some big British celebrations in 2030. By then, if Rishi Sunak is to be believed, the country will be “a science and technology superpower”.
TopThe Federal Reserve decided to leave its key interest rate unchanged
The Federal Reserve decided to leave its key interest rate unchanged at a range of 5% to 5.25%. It was the first time that America’s central bank left the rate on hold following ten consecutive increases, which started in March 2022. However, it indicated that it would probably lift the rate twice again this year.
TopThe world this week:Business
Elon Musk appointed Linda Yaccarino as chief executive of Twitter, five months after he said he would relinquish the role. Mr Musk took over the company last October. Ms Yaccarino comes from NBCUniversal, where she was in charge of advertising.
TopThe world this week:Business
Elon Musk said he would launch a new artificial-intelligence platform called TruthGPT as a rival to ChatGPT and other generative-AI bots, somewhat contradicting his recent call for a moratorium on developing such technology.
TopInternet regulation: Britain should scrap the Online Safety Bill
Boris johnson’s government is up to its neck in short-term crises. Amid a great deal of sound and fury, Britain’s prime minister is trying to survive the fallout from a string of illegal parties in Downing Street and is pondering how to ease a nasty cost-of-living crunch.
TopElon Musk wants to re-engineer the “public square”
SWEEPING STATEMENTS about the future of humanity do not usually feature in discussions about leveraged buy-outs.But Elon Musk has never felt bound by convention. Asked about his plans to buy Twitter, a social network, and take it private—which were approved by the firm's board on April 25th—he went straight for the big idea.
TopA Cambridge college reflects on the controversy over Ronald Fisher
STEP INSIDE the dining hall of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and within its cool, wood-panelled walls are memorials to great scholars of Caius and their work.
TopBritons don’t want new prisons. They also don’t want old ones to close
Violent crime in England and Wales peaked in 1995 according to the British Crime Survey, the best guide to the true level of offending. But the adult prison population has risen.
TopA guide to Britain’s cost-of-living crunch
THE SIGNS are there. Richard Walker, the boss of Iceland, a discount supermarket, reports that his customers are switching towards frozen food, as a way to reduce waste, and buying fewer items as they try to manage their cash.
TopWhy Boris bashes the archbishop
ARGUMENTS BETWEEN the government of the day and the Archbishop of Canterbury have a long, bloody pedigree.
TopThe carbon market drives land sales in Scotland
WHEN PRINCE ALBERT purchased the 20,000-hectare (50,000-acre) Balmoral estate in 1852, he did so for his family and for the views, the grouse and the deer. Owners of estates in the Scottish Highlands have conventionally had similar motives.
The NIMBY city
LAST DECEMBER York City Council considered a proposal to demolish a Mecca bingo hall and replace i...
TopBritish academics are seeing their retirement benefits cut
MANY ACADEMIC fights involve hostile questions at conferences and cutting footnotes. But a dispute over pensions has sent scholars to the picket lines.
TopThe classification of films is changing
“FUCKING” IS NOT what it used to be. Where once the mere presence of a “fuck” would be enough to merit a “15” rating in a film, and an “18” if said often enough, today the guidelines of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) have softened.