The cost of cooling your home
Fans and air-conditioning units are being snapped up by sweltering consumers, but what is the most economical way to keep homes cool during heatwaves? Following weeks of cool, wet weather, the UK …
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Shipping needs are at odds with California’s climate goals
In retrospect, Southern California’s political and civic leaders may have erred a half-century ago in deciding that the region’s economic future would depend on developing a massive logistics industry centered …
An A.I. Leader Urges Regulation and a Rethink
Mustafa Suleyman is one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence entrepreneurs, having co-founded not one but two start-ups at the cutting edge of the most transformative technology since the internet. …
TUC to report Government to UN workers’ rights watchdog over new strikes law
T he TUC is reporting the Government to the United Nations workers’ rights watchdog over the controversial new law on strikes, it has been announced. General secretary Paul Nowak said …
Is Google’s Search Engine Smart or Sneaky? A Trial Court Judge Will Decide
A family member’s hurried Google search for a last-second visa to visit New Zealand recently caused a headache—and provided a timely reminder of why Google faces a landmark US antitrust …
Cost-of-living crisis blamed for consumers cutting summer holidays short
H olidaymakers are taking shorter trips due to cost-of-living pressures, new figures show. Advantage Travel Partnership, a network of independent travel agents, said the average length of holidays sold by …
To Test the A.I. Learning Hype, I Visited Classrooms
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. In January, Marisa Shuman, a computer science teacher at the …
Unions criticise Government’s ‘attack on right to strike’
T he Government’s controversial legal move on providing minimum levels of service during strikes will be strongly criticised by unions at the TUC Congress, which opens on Sunday. Officials say …
Teen’s death leads to outpouring of concern over spicy chip challenge
By Steve LeBlanc and Michael Casey | Associated Press WORCESTER, Mass. — The death of a Massachusetts teenager after his family said he ate an extremely spicy tortilla chip has …
Net zero should not be about ‘hairshirt’ policies, says Sunak
A chieving net zero must be about focusing on jobs and growth rather than so-called “hairshirt” policies that raise bills, the Prime Minister has said. Rishi Sunak has recently made …