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The case for putting data centers in orbit, and why it probably does not work yet

A refrigerator-size satellite carrying four Google AI chips reached orbit Oct. 1. It is the first flight test of Google's plan to someday run artificial intelligence data centers in space.

BHP to Cut About 300 Jobs at Pilbara Iron Ore Operations

The cuts come after a record year of production, as the government forecasts further declines in iron ore prices amid growing global supply.

India’s IDBI Bank falls 7% as government announces $5.5 billion stake sale to Canada's Fairfax

The Indian government has been divesting its stake in several state-owned companies this year as it tries to keep its growth engine running amid deepening fiscal pressures.

UK economy grew 0.1% in August, beating expectations

The U.K. is grappling with a cost-of-living crisis sparked by sticky inflation and surging energy costs.

Pretty in pink: the best of PhotoMonth 2026

This year’s London photography festival takes you from the colourful streets of Kolkata to the grim isolation units of Guantánamo Bay

By Design review

A musician becomes obsessed with the haunted seat, but the potentially hilarious premise sleepwalks its way to an unsatisfying conclusion

The Floating World by Ben Eastham review

Following the death of his wife, a critic-teacher takes a job with an art-washing multinational, in a cinematic novel that is full of ideas

The Welsh mountain inn that helped conquer Everest

As a new film about Sherpa Tenzing Norgay is released, we visit Pen-Y-Gwryd, the Snowdonia hotel which served as British ‘base camp’ for the 1953 expedition and where the spirit of adventure lives on

Her royal heilness: Berlin show revisits the artist who turned the Queen into a Nazi

The late Christoph Schlingensief was one of German art’s great provocateurs. Can his B-Movie horror aesthetics still shock us into thinking anew about media power, colonialism, and the far right?

Poland looks to economic heights in a country transformed since Soviet days

In the final part of our series on the country, Poles tell how wages have soared – along with the cost of living

TSMC posts record profit for a sixth straight quarter, beating estimates on AI boom

TSMC reported its third-quarter earnings on Thursday.

South Park takes on looksmaxxing, aura-farming and influencer nonsense with grotesque glee

In the third episode of the latest season, the boys head into Sephora and eventually the Backrooms in a story that makes fun of app-mutated self-care