• TechScape: Is the US calling time on Apple’s smartphone domination?

    The tech giant fights regulators on both sides of the Atlantic, as the US government launches a grab-bag of accusations. Plus, Elon Musk’s bad day in court• Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereApple’s problems have gone transatlantic. Even as it squabbles with the EU over the Digital Markets Act and nervously eyes the UK’s passage of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers bill, the company’s biggest fight is now back at home, after the US...

  • Social Security’s retirement age is a bad deal for us all

    The Right and Left don’t agree on much these days. But over on X, people on both sides of the political spectrum recently united to lambaste conservative commentator Ben Shapiro for speaking some simple truths about the untenable trajectory of retirement. “No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, […]

  • What have we learned from week one of Mike Lynch’s US fraud trial?

    The criminal trial over the $11bn sale of Autonomy to HP saw prosecutors calling him ‘Dr Lynch’ – and defense using ‘Mike’At the height of his career, Mike Lynch – once the UK’s leading tech entrepreneur, hailed as “Britain’s Bill Gates” – sold his software firm to a Silicon Valley giant in an $11bn (£8.6bn) deal. Last Monday, more than a dozen years later, that deal became the centrepiece of a trial in San Francisco.Lynch has been charged with 16 counts of wire fraud, securities fraud and...

  • Amazon’s Pixel Tablet deal made us do a double-take

    The Google Pixel Tablet is currently at its lowest price point since it launched back in June 2023.  Save a massive £120 and get the Google Pixel Tablet and included speaker dock for just £479 in the Amazon Spring Deals Day sale. Save £120 on the Google Pixel Tablet Finally reasonably priced, you can get the Google Pixel Tablet (and included dock) for just £479 in the Amazon Spring Deals Day sale. Amazon Was £599 ...

  • US calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal in draft UN resolution

    Source says wording suggests significant movement in US position as pressure mounts on Israel to halt campaignThe US has drafted a new UN security council resolution calling for an “immediate ceasefire” and hostage deal in Gaza, amid mounting pressure on Israel to halt its military campaign and allow the delivery of substantial amounts of humanitarian aid into the Palestinian territory.The CIA and Mossad spy chiefs, William Burns and David Barnea, were expected to arrive in Qatar on Friday in...

  • US condemns attack in Moscow calling ISIS ‘a common terrorist enemy’: Latest updates

    White House statement offers deepest condolences to those who lost loved ones

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    Trump’s hush money trial was set to begin Monday. Here’s what’s happening instead

    Donald Trump’s first criminal trial was supposed to begin Monday. Instead, his lawyers will get the chance to argue for a lengthy postponement and even a dismissal of the charges. Judge Juan Merchan is holding a pre-trial hearing in New York on Monday to discuss the discovery issues that led to the delay of the trial on charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney related to hush money payments until at least the middle of next month. Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business...

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    Trump’s hush money trial was set to begin Monday. Here’s what’s happening instead

    By Jeremy Herb and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s first criminal trial was supposed to begin Monday. Instead, his lawyers will get the chance to argue for a lengthy postponement and even a dismissal of the charges. Judge Juan Merchan is holding a pre-trial hearing in New York on Monday to discuss the

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    JJ Watt Calls Chiefs Star Chris Jones The NFL’s Best Defensive Tackle

    While speaking on behalf of Miller Lite for a reboot of its classic commercial, JJ Watt also discussed Chris Jones and the Chiefs.

  • Weld County Sheriff’s Office to change response to certain calls amid staffing shortages

    The Weld County Sheriff’s Office has suspended animal control services, and it will assess certain calls on a case-by-case basis to determine whether or not to send a patrol response while deputies are temporarily assigned to the Weld County Jail.

  • Drake Bell Calls Out ‘Ned’s Declassified’ Stars Over Reaction to Nickelodeon Abuse Allegations: ‘Declassless’

    Popular on Variety After opening up about his sexual assault by Nickelodeon dialogue and acting coach Brian Peck, Drake Bell called out the stars of “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide” for joking about the abuse allegations at Nickelodeon. Devon Werkheiser, Lindsay Shaw and Daniel Curtis Lee, who were child stars on Nickelodeon’s “Ned’s Declassified” in the […]

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    US and Japan seek UN resolution calling on all nations to ban nuclear weapons in outer space

    By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a council meeting Monday that placing nuclear weapons in orbit around Earth would be “dangerous, and