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Ford’s Dagenham engine output halved in a decade. Its plan is to build military vehicles instead
Output at Ford’s Dagenham plant has fallen from 90,000 engines a year to about half that. The company is bidding, with General Dynamics and…
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A 100MW data centre holds about 400 tonnes of copper. The industry is now betting on light instead
About 400 tonnes of copper goes into a typical 100MW facility, 20 of it in the wiring between servers. Replacing that wiring with light is…
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Trump says “artificial” makes AI sound fake. He wants every US document to say “super intelligence” instead
The president announced the change at the UN General Assembly. Experts told the BBC the term is unlikely to catch on, because it already…
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IMF chief: debt has been “pushing up like a staircase not to heaven”, and governments have done nothing about the cost
Kristalina Georgieva says advanced economies including the UK and US must cut borrowing after weeks of spiralling interest costs, driven by…
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Trump says he would back a halt to US diesel exports. The country that imports it is watching closely
With US diesel at record highs before November’s mid-terms, the president says he has called for keeping the fuel at home. Treasury…
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Spain’s biggest recorded wildfire burned 80,000 hectares. One farmer lost two-thirds of his land and 20 cows
Juan Ángel Izquierdo’s family have farmed the Gredos mountains for 200 years. July’s fire merged with two others, burned around 80,000…
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A robot learned to walk, see a bottle and pick it up in minutes — because it practised millions of times in a simulation
At a Cambridge start-up, Freddo the robot takes a plastic bottle from a staff member. The skill took minutes to develop, because it was…
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A $178 jumper with the Nvidia boss’s face on it, worn the way you would wear a football shirt
Natalie Fratto does not work for Nvidia. She owns a woollen jumper carrying a cartoon of its chief executive, and compares it to her All…
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One chemical tank nearly exploded in California — and aircraft window production has still not fully restarted
A tank holding 7,000 gallons of toxic material began heating up at a GKN Aerospace site. Fifty thousand residents were evacuated, and one…
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Two European battery champions went bankrupt. The next attempt is being made a billionth of a metre at a time
Sweden’s Northvolt and Norway’s Morrow both filed for bankruptcy, and Europe fears it has missed another technology shift. A growing number…
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“Employees are being assessed on how effectively they can participate in their own redundancy”
Duncan Trevithick gets a bonus if he uses AI to finish more work. He has done the maths on what that actually buys him, and the answer is…
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Tirana has almost 400 dental clinics for 600,000 people. That is not an accident
A window cleaner from Bolton is showing off a new set of teeth fitted in the Albanian capital. Albania is moving decisively into medical…