This weekend, all over America, hundreds of thousands of Apple enthusiasts will be unboxing their Vision Pros to step into what the company calls a new era of “spatial computing”. They will be immersed into a home cinema mounted on their faces and have their office screens displayed virtually in front of them, controlling everything…
PwC is sending one of its most senior British executives to China with orders to steer the firm’s business in the country through the fallout from its audits of Evergrande, the collapsed property developer. Global leaders at the Big Four professional services group have asked Hemione Hudson, who was on the shortlist to take over…
If you own a Jaguar i-Pace electric car, the next update to its on-board computer is likely to have been born on the racetrack. Data from the carmaker’s Formula E electric motor racing team is making tweaks to improve the road car’s performance. According to James Barclay, the team principal of Jaguar TCS Racing, “software…
For the Princess of Wales, a two-minute video statement revealing she was being treated after a cancer diagnosis should have been enough to put an end to the bizarre and offensive conspiracy theories that have spread about her online in recent weeks. But this weekend, numerous new baseless and conspiratorial posts and videos are circulating…
The private sector economy expanded more quickly than expected last month, but businesses have expressed concerns about possible tax rises in Rachel Reeves’s first budget. The final S&P Global composite purchasing managers’ index (PMI) rose to 53.8 in August from 52.8 in July, well above analysts’ expectations for an increase to 53.4. The figure, a…
1 Labour has promised to cut the record number of people who are economically inactive due to long-term sickness. Liz Kendall, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said British businesses were “desperate to recruit” and pledged better mental health care, improved skills training and more opportunities. 2 Apple has been fined €1.8 billion by European…
I’m chatting with some 14-year-olds — unlikely, I know — and they’re telling me about their hobbies. “Ants!” volunteers Sam. “I have 35 test tubes full of them, and when they’re big enough, they’ll make a nest.” He’s also reading a book about ants and has a blue belt in taekwondo. Imogen says she likes…
ITV and Channel 4 have backed legislation that could force big tech companies such as Google and Meta to pay media groups for news. ITV, led by chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall, has warned that the sustainability of its journalism, which it said costs “well over” £100 million a year to produce, is at risk…
He is just about to launch a device that his company believes will launch a new era of “spatial computing”. So why is Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, so reticent when it comes to predicting the future? Apple releases the $3,500 Vision Pro mixed reality headset in the US on Friday, with thousands…
Many people spend more time at work than with their partners, so why are so few of us in love with our careers? A recent poll found that only 17 per cent of UK employees like their jobs, driving many to consider radical career change. One sector that is benefiting from this is the dating…
Q. We are in the process of downsizing and are likely to suddenly have about £2 million available to invest, though we plan to pass some of it on to our three children. We will top up our Isas and Premium Bonds but what recommendations would you have for the remainder?Robert, 73 It can be…
Warren Buffett famously once said: “Rule No 1, never lose money; rule No 2, never forget rule No 1.” In the sell-off that gripped global stock markets a week ago, avoiding losses was exactly what investors were trying to do. Equities from Japan to Britain to the United States tumbled as fears about the health…
Tesla, the undisputed king of Britain’s electric car market, is within weeks of losing its crown to BMW. Latest industry figures show that, after seven months of the year, sales of electric BMWs in the UK have risen to more than 22,000, firmly in the rear-view mirror of Tesla, the all-electric marque whose sales in…
More often than not, a presidential candidate’s choice of running mate has little effect on the outcome of an election. There are exceptions. Had Lyndon Johnson not been John F Kennedy’s choice of vice-president, the Democratic ticket would not have carried Texas in 1960 and Camelot would never have become a smash Broadway musical. This…
Conglomerates. The dinosaurs of the corporate world, aren’t they? Their ancient bones — in the form of stories about Lord Hanson, the raider who was briefly engaged to Audrey Hepburn, and Greg Hutchings, a lover of company flats and private jets — preserved in the glass cases of newspaper cuttings, to be marvelled at by…