Sony says PlayStation Plus members will get five-day extension after outage

After the PlayStation Network experienced a global outage that lasted for nearly a day, Sony says it will compensate PlayStation Plus subscribers by giving them an extra five days of service. The outage seems to have lasted from Friday evening until Saturday evening in…Read More

Why Donald Trump’s protectionist zeal has only grown

Lessons from a week of chaos

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Autodesk CTO Raji Arasu calls for diversity in the teams building AI

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. Raji Arasu, the CTO of Autodesk, said that she&#8…Read More

Laurene Powell Jobs joins Amazon in backing nuclear startup X-Energy in $700M round

X-Energy is one of many nuclear startups to have benefitted from the AI-driven data center boom.
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Why Donald Trump’s protectionist zeal has only grown

Lessons from a week of chaos

Read more: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/06/why-donald-trumps-protectionist-zeal-has-only-grown

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Keyboard maker suspends U.S. shipments over Trump tariffs on Chinese goods

The mechanical keyboard maker Qwertykeys announced Wednesday that it has suspended all U.S. product shipments owing to new tariffs levied by the Trump administration. The Guangdong-based outfit cites a February 1 announcement of 10% tariffs on imported Chinese goods as the…Read More

How to invest like a MAGA bigwig

Cannabis, crypto or half of North Dakota?

Read more: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/05/how-to-invest-like-a-maga-bigwig

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Xi Jinping shows how he will return American fire

China’s trade retaliation carries a warning of worse to come

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Apple launches Invites, a new app for creating custom invitations

Apple on Tuesday launched a new app called “Invites” that allows users to create custom invitations for any occasion. With Invites, users can create and share invitations on their iPhone, RSVP, contribute to Shared Albums, and curate event soundtracks. To create an invitation, you…Read More

How Trump’s tariff turbulence will cause economic pain

Mexico and Canada win a reprieve, but firms remain rattled

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Hot Tub, the first native iPhone porn app, arrives in EU

A native pornography app for iOS is coming to the EU via the approved alternative app store AltStore PAL, made possible by Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). On Monday, the AltStore announced the launch of Hot Tub, an aggregator that offers iOS users a way to search and play videos from a…Read More

Trump’s brutal tariffs far outstrip any he has imposed before

Canada, Mexico and China are going to be made to suffer

Read more: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/02/trumps-brutal-tariffs-far-outstrip-any-he-has-imposed-before

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Google’s X spins out Heritable Agriculture, a startup using AI to improve crop yield

Google’s X “moonshot factory” this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data- and machine learning-driven startup aiming to improve how crops are grown.  As the firm noted in an announcement post published Tuesday, plants are incr…Read More