India has wired its villages into the formal banking system. The Finance Ministry told the Lok Sabha that 99.92% of villages now sit within five kilometres of a banking outlet,...
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Lovable CEO Tells Laid-Off Big Tech Workers To Bet on a Startup
Anton Osika, cofounder and chief executive of Lovable, the Stockholm vibe-coding startup last valued at $6.6 billion, used a LinkedIn post this week to tell laid-off Big Tech workers that...
IOC President Kirsty Coventry Rejects Paying Olympic Athletes
Kirsty Coventry, the first woman and first African to lead the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has settled one of sport’s loudest arguments for now. Olympic athletes will not be paid...
Why the Week’s Rave Reviews All Point to Revival
The best new releases this week share an odd family resemblance. A 1930s private eye, a boy-band has-been, an 83-year-old Beatle and a punk band that went quiet 31 years...
Amazon Kills Its AI Leaderboard as Tokenmaxxing Backfires
Amazon has shut down Kirorank, an internal leaderboard that ranked employees by how many AI tokens they burned, after staff started gaming it on purpose. The practice has a name...
Spider-Noir Finale Copies a Classic Orson Welles Mirror Scene
Spider-Noir closes its first season inside a hall of mirrors. In the eighth and final episode, “The Man in the Mask,” lounge singer Felicia “Cat” Hardy guns down mob boss...
Perplexity Gifts Mac Minis as AI Agents Crown a New Status Box
Perplexity has started mailing Mac Minis to tech creators, and the unboxing posts arrived right on cue. The artificial intelligence (AI) search company confirmed it shipped a small number of...
11 War Films That Surpass Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan
Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan has been the war-film benchmark since 1998, yet a run of recent releases has quietly moved past it. The strongest challengers, from All Quiet on...
Julius Yego Bets His Final Throw on Los Angeles 2028
Julius Yego won his sixth African javelin title in Accra this month with a throw of 79.87 metres. The world-leading mark this season sits at 89.37 metres, almost ten metres...
Xiaomi’s Privacy Display Could Be All Software, Not Hardware
Xiaomi is said to be working on a Privacy Display of its own, but the version described in recent leaks would run entirely in software through a HyperOS 4 update...