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March 24, 2024

Ex-workers at Temu owner PDD suffer surveillance and financial ruin over non-competes

...“They’d follow me from my home, from when I went out in the morning . . . all the way to where I work, and take videos of me entering the building,” he said....

March 11, 2024

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Chinese politics & policy

Chinese TV presenter linked to missing foreign minister had surrogate child in US

...Qin was posted to the UK as China’s chargé d’affaires. They began a closer relationship nearly a decade later in Beijing, several people close to Fu said....

September 26, 2023

Electric vehicles

Beijing’s tougher regulations thwart Big Tech’s electric vehicle dreams

...“But this licensing issue has dragged on too long, everyone is asking about it internally, we’ve been hearing it’d be solved since the start of the year.”...

August 7, 2023

Ireland

Extreme weather threatens Irish potato output

...Only about 50 have been planted so far, Ryan said....

April 21, 2024

FT GlobetrotterTips from the top

Ryan ‘Mr Lyan’ Chetiyawardana’s favourite bars around the world

...Drinks are fittingly summery and nod to iconic songs: my favourite cocktail is the “Good Kid, M.A.A.D Litty” (a riff on the Kendrick Lamar album) made with tequila, hibiscus and lemongrass syrup, guava nectar...

February 27, 2024

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Andrew Ng: ‘Do we think the world is better off with more or less intelligence?’

...I’d be inclined to say it does, but I think I’d have a hard time defending that in a rigorous way. RM: When did LLMs get to the point of understanding? AN: Understanding comes in gradual degrees....

December 19, 2023

The best of TV and streaming this week

Capote vs The Swans TV review — star-studded cast forms a flock of exposed New York socialites

...By the time it was published in Esquire magazine in 1975 as “La Côte Basque, 1965”, the women he’d dubbed his “swans” flocked together against him....

April 17, 2024

ReviewMusic

Humperdinck’s music shines in the Royal Opera’s Hansel and Gretel — review

.... ★★★☆☆ To January 7, roh.org.uk At the Barbican, another Wigglesworth was at work, when Ryan Wigglesworth (no relation) conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the first London performance of his new...

December 18, 2023

FT Magazine

The mystery of the Hampstead mansion and the £1.4bn bitcoin haul

...A few weeks later, Ryan tapped on the window of her Mercedes....

March 20, 2024

ReviewFilm

The Miracle Club — Maggie Smith brings gritty severity to Lourdes pilgrimage comedy

...There’s a complacent cosiness to the whole thing but the acting is as blue-chip as you’d expect from this cast....

October 12, 2023

Oren Cass

How Republicans learnt to love bigger government

...The budget cutting championed by former Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan no longer has an obvious constituency. That’s no great loss....

March 26, 2024

Renewable energy

Wall Street turns to ‘solar grazing’ sheep in its push to go green

...So-called solar grazing represents “the biggest opportunity [the sheep] industry has seen in at least a generation or more”, said Ryan Indart, a fourth-generation rancher from California....

April 10, 2024

Walt Disney Co

Who can run Disney? The four insiders competing for Bob Iger’s job

...She came with deep connections in Hollywood, including hit-making showrunners such as Ryan Murphy (Glee) and Elizabeth Meriwether (New Girl). She has a reputation for having an eye for talent....

April 13, 2024

The Big Read

A hint of thaw in the new cold war

...“President Xi . . . and I agreed that either one of us could pick up the phone, call directly, and we’d be heard immediately.” Xi was equally conciliatory in tone....

November 17, 2023

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Working It

Things can only get better — right?

...I’d love to see Working It readers at these events — do come and say hello 👋. How can managers help staff with mental health disorders?...

February 28, 2024

HTSIThe HTSI Paris special

Serpent à Plume’s Alexander Rash talks taste

...Well, I’d probably start out as a pilot, but a pilot from the 1950s – drinking whisky and smoking in the cockpit. So I’d probably get fired, and then I’d be an antiques dealer....

March 22, 2024

Inside Politics

Sunak’s prisons problem traces back to Home Office reform

...Sajid Javid went on to be chancellor of the exchequer and if the Covid-19 pandemic had reached Europe a week earlier, he’d probably be prime minister now....

April 10, 2024

Energy Source

Why oil prices remain steady even as Middle East tensions escalate Premium

...Analysts estimate Opec+ has about 6mn b/d of spare capacity it can unleash on to global markets to lower prices if they spike into the triple digits to prevent demand destruction....

April 18, 2024

HTSI

Can John and Jack Whitaker make Olympic showjumping history?

...“When I woke up in hospital I said, ‘Where’s my jeans, I’d better get going, it’s Olympia [now LIHS] next week.’...

April 2, 2024

FT SeriesThe battery revolution

Can anyone challenge China’s EV battery dominance?

...“We are way ahead in innovation and we have demonstrated the ability to rapidly transfer R&D to mass production.”...

August 28, 2023

Autumn Statement

AI and quantum research at centre of science and tech announcements

...said Steve Bates, chief executive of the BioIndustry Association....

November 22, 2023

Travel

A deep dive into Australia’s other great reef

...Ryan O’Dea helps me into one. We pull out, passing a vast ship being loaded with cattle, and I notice “Tugg” and “Life” tattooed on Ryan’s feet....

February 13, 2024

Fashion

The story of fashion’s love of literature

...She recounts seeing a picture of Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg and their dog that she’d never seen before....

February 21, 2024

Post Office scandal

Post Office ‘faces £100mn tax bill’ and potential insolvency

...“If I were in HMRC, I’d be arguing these payments [by the Post Office] are not deductible,” she added. However, other tax experts said the matter was not clear-cut....

January 12, 2024

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