5 h. ago WW3 could be ‘fought between AI robots’ as China takes on US – but it’s not all bad

EXCLUSIVE: If World War Three should break out we're less likely to be in the trenches, but rather watching as an army of AI-powered drones circle overhead, an expert has claimed

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65 h. ago US robot makers hope to beat China in humanoid race. Tariffs could affect their ambitions

Tariffs weren’t on the official agenda of this week’s Robotics Summit in Boston

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7 d. ago Class act: can Harrow sell an elitist British boarding school fantasy to New Yorkers?

The private school will open its first US campus in Long Island. Will it assimilate Americans into the upper crust – or is it more about branding?This fall, the British boarding school Harrow will open its first offshoot in the US: a lush 170-acre waterfront campus in Long Island. For $75,000 a year, parents can wave away their children to the prestigiously named school, renowned for its centuries-old traditions (such as calling teachers “beaks” and bad behaviour “skew”). Classes will take place in the Bourne mansion, the opulent former home of a wealthy American businessman, around which modern facilities will be built.A shiny teaser video paints an idyllic picture of an anglophile life at Harrow New York. “The school is like an oasis,” says Nick Page, former deputy head of Harrow UK, as drone footage pans out over pristine lawns and lakes, where ducklings and deer roam wild. “Yet so close to this huge metropolis of New York.” (The new school is almost equidistant from New York Cit...

Culture

8 d. ago Travel expert reveals the very surprising food you should avoid before you fly

Long-haul flights are rarely comfortable even in the best of conditions. And now a travel expert has warned that eating the wrong food before take-off could make a bad flight even worse.

Transport

1 week ago Elon Musk says Tesla robot production hit by trade war with China

Tesla planned to produce thousands of Optimus robots this year, but are now lacking a key component

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2 w. ago Watch humans face robot competitors for first time in half marathon

Robots have competed against humans in a half marathon for the first time in China.

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2 w. ago Audition by Katie Kitamura review – a literary performance of true uncanniness

An actor’s story becomes a thrillingly radical deconstruction of family relationships and the social roles we playThere is an eeriness to great acting. Studied movements take on life; a living other emerges. Bad acting achieves no such uncanniness. Excessively self-conscious, the failing actor never dissolves into their role. We watch them watching themselves act.Although we rarely see her on stage, the actor narrating Audition, Katie Kitamura’s unnerving, desperately tense fifth novel, never stops watching herself perform. Even passing, offhand phrases seem to fray under the strain of an unsustainable self-awareness. “You might think that people wondered how we did it,” she says, describing the comfortable Manhattan lifestyle she shares with her husband. The perspectives are tortuous, unmanageable. Who is this “you” that might imagine their way into the opinions of unseen others? As the novel progresses, these gazes are experienced as social roles both longed for and resisted. “How...

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3 w. ago The Dark Side of Kidfluencing: The grim story behind Tiffany Smith and Piper Rockelle

Netflix’s new docuseries, ‘Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing,’ takes a look at the ‘disturbing’ tale of influencer Piper Rockelle and her momager Tiffany Smith

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3 w. ago Artist behind 'worst Donald Trump portrait ever' says her life has taken a bad turn

Donald Trump's whining has had a real effect on the career of British-born Sarah Boardman , who says that her reputation has been damaged by the US President's criticism

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