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  • An Atlantic salmon on a petri dish.

    From petri dish to plate: meet the company hoping to bring lab-grown fish to the table

  • shoes and children's clothes on the ground alongside a child holding a large Palestinian flag

    Workers accuse Google of ‘tantrum’ after 50 fired over Israel contract protest

    Tech giant fired number of people who protested against $1.2bn Project Nimbus, which supports Israeli military and government
  • A view of a computer screen mounted on a dashboard, seen in a car at night.

    Tesla Autopilot feature was involved in 13 fatal crashes, US regulator says

    Federal transportation agency finds Tesla’s claims about feature don’t match their findings and opens second investigation
  • A large white man stooped over a wheeling walker in a suit flanked by other men.

    Disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein hospitalized

    Ex-movie mogul is at New York City department of correction for tests, his lawyer said, and will be transferred to Rikers Island
    • People walk next to a Google logo during a trade fair in Hanover

      Google parent Alphabet hits $2tn valuation as it announces first dividend

    • A silhouetted pithead at an Anglo American Platinum open pit mine in South Africa

      Anglo American rejects £31bn takeover offer from mining rival BHP

    • Microsoft logo on black background

      Microsoft’s heavy bet on AI pays off as it beats expectations in latest quarter

    • person shopping in a supermarket

      Stock markets fall after sharp US growth slowdown

In depth

  • Piers Garrett with an old phone. London, 26/4/24

    The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones

  • a banner reads "Encampment for Gaza! Divest now!"

    Student protesters are demanding universities divest from Israel. What does that mean?

    Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are calling on universities to sell investments in companies they say are complicit in war in Gaza
  • Mondragon Corporation<br>Inside Fagor Arrasate factory, in Mondragon, Spain.

    ‘In the US they think we’re communists!’ The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living

    The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying for the right to share in its profits – and its losses. In return for giving more to their employer, they expect more back

    Around the world

    • Elon Musk gets out of a dark Tesla vehicle

      Elon Musk makes unannounced visit to China

    • A GMB sign saying 'official dispute' on the street outside the Amazon warehouse in Coventry

      GMB launches legal action against ‘out of control’ Amazon at Coventry warehouse

    • driftwood, lots of plastic bottles and other pollution on beach, with two figures on bikes in background

      Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution

    • Cost of living crisis hits low income households, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - 19 Nov 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Amer Ghazzal/REX/Shutterstock (13629913g) A shopper in a supermarket in Adelaide, South Australia. The cost of living crisis has hit low-income households, in Australia according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Cost of living crisis hits low income households, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - 19 Nov 2022

      Australia’s inflation rate slows less than expected to 3.6%, dimming hopes of interest rate relief

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