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Can big oil’s bounce-back last?

CALLS FOR the oil business to decarbonise are growing louder everywhere, and not just from governments and environmentalists. Moody’s, a rating agency, reckons that half of the $1.8trn in the energy industry’s...

How health care is turning into a consumer product

TECH AND health care have a fraught relationship. On January 3rd Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, a startup that once epitomised the promise of combining Silicon Valley’s dynamism with a stodgy health-care...

Cars meet chips in Sin City

SINCE 2008, when General Motors’ then boss delivered a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), an annual technology jamboree, Las Vegas has offered a glimpse of carmaking’s digital future. This...

Streaming giants get more serious about children’s shows

THE PANDEMIC has been tough for parents of young children. With schools shut, many had to keep an eye on their offspring while juggling chores and remote work. Succour came courtesy of...

The rise of performative work

IN AN EPISODE of “Seinfeld”, a vintage TV sitcom, the character of George Costanza reveals the secret of pretending to work: act irritated. He shakes his head, frowns and sighs to demonstrate...

Why workers are fleeing the hospitality sector

RESTAURANT AND hotel bosses have had a tough year. Some 700,000 hospitality workers threw in the towel on average each month in the past year. Bars, cafés and eateries are 1.3m workers...

A jury finds Elizabeth Holmes guilty of fraud

AFTER SEVEN days of deliberation and a flurry of notes to the judge about deadlock, a 12-member jury in Silicon Valley found Elizabeth Holmes, the entrepreneur behind a once promising phlebotomy startup,...

Will the cloud business eat the 5G telecoms industry?

SMARTPHONES ABLE to take advantage of zippy fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks have graced American pockets for nearly three years. Samsung launched its first 5G-enabled device in April 2019. Apple followed suit in...

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