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Can Nintendo’s new console propel it to even greater heights?

The world’s most successful maker of gaming hardware has not released a new console for nearly eight years. Yet the fanfare around the Nintendo Switch 2, expected to launch in the next...

Corporate America’s diversity wars are just getting started

“I am a woman of colour. I am a mom. I am a cis-gender millennial who has been diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder. I am intersectional.” She was also a spook. Her...

No one gains from American tariffs on cars from Mexico and Canada

The flurry of executive orders issued by Donald Trump on his first day back as president showed the high priority he places on making America’s borders less porous. His efforts to “repel...

Football clubs are making more money than ever. Players not so much

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The allure of the company town

Billund is a small town in Denmark with a population that stands at a little over 7,000 people. It is also the birthplace and headquarters of the world’s largest toy company. If...

From cribs to carriers, high-end baby products are in vogue

Among the whizzy gadgets unveiled in January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was the Elvie Rise, an automated baby bouncer that transforms seamlessly into a bassinet. The device, which...

What Elon Musk should learn from Larry Ellison

DEATH DOESN’T make sense to Larry Ellison. Especially if it is premature like that of his doting adoptive mother, of kidney cancer when he was 20 years old. Even mere ageing is...

DeepSeek poses a challenge to Beijing as much as to Silicon Valley

With the release of its latest artificial-intelligence (AI) model, DeepSeek, an obscure Chinese firm, has laid waste to several years of American policy meant to hold back Chinese innovation—and, in the process, blown...

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