China’s securities regulator has quietly shut the door on a queue of humanoid robot listings. No announcement, no rule change. Just informal “window guidance” to investment banks that the bar for…
Six stories worth an extra minute this morning. One of them is a robot market that turns out to be a research market, and one is an accounting structure that lets the biggest buyers of AI hardware…
Four blue and yellow F/A-18 Super Hornets of the US Navy Blue Angels fly in their diamond, tilted toward the lens so you see the tops of the wings and straight into the canopies. Numbers 1 through 4…
A grey horse clears a single orange and yellow rail in a sand arena, front legs reaching down for the ground, hind legs still folded up under the belly. The rider leans forward in black, a white…
I’ve used the Bocuse crepe batter for years and I’ve changed exactly one thing in it. The sugar is gone. He calls for two tablespoons in a half-litre batter. I put in none at all, and the crepes come…
Every September the ground under the palm looks like this. A carpet of dates, thousands of them, in every colour from green through yellow and orange to a deep red brown, and nobody picks up a single…
Beijing collected $32.3 billion in stamp duty on stock sales from January through August, up more than 80% year over year, with average daily turnover running 72% higher. The tax office is, in effect…
In February 2004 a Guardian writer trying to describe people publishing audio on the web threw out three possible names in a single aside and moved on. Audioblogging. Podcasting. Guerilla media. That…
The piece is small, about nine and a half inches high, and it is obviously a fragment. A man’s head and shoulders, carved in marble in the late first century BCE, broken out of something considerably…
Forty human and animal figures, cut in high relief across seven feet of marble, with Dionysos riding a panther at the centre and the four Seasons standing around him as broad-shouldered young men…