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Google unveils ‘mindboggling’ quantum computing chip
It measures just 4cm squared but it possesses almost inconceivable speed.
Google has built a computing chip that takes just five minutes to complete tasks that would take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years for some of the world’s fastest conventional computers to complete.
That’s 10 septillion years, a number that far exceeds the …
Islamic group that toppled Assad in Syria may be taken off UK terror list
The prime minister’s spokesperson said the developments in Syria were “an evolving situation” and that the government’s proscription regime was …
Domestic issues pile pressure on Iran’s president amid foreign policy setbacks
The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the latest in a string of foreign policy reversals for Iran including the weakening of its allies in Lebanon and Gaza, has coincided with growing domestic frustration over rising executions, planned increases in the price of petrol and a proposed law that imposes …
Margaret Hodge appointed UK anti-corruption champion to tackle flow of ‘dirty money’
Margaret Hodge, a long-term campaigner against global corruption, has been appointed as the UK’s anti-corruption champion.
Her strong track record of campaigning on the issue, including in the UK overseas territories, is a signal of intent by the foreign secretary, David Lammy, that he intends the issue to be at …
Syrian diaspora: share your reaction to the fall of Assad
Crowds in Syria have been celebrating the
end of five decades of dynastic rule
following the fall of the dictatorBashar al-Assad
who has fled to Moscow.People waved the Syrian revolutionary flag and pulled down statues and portraits of the president and his father, Hafez. …
Israel, US and Turkey launch strikes to protect interests in Syria
Bombing raids have hit sites across Syria as regional actors in the Middle East scrambled to defend their interests in Syria after the sudden fall of the country’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, who fled to Moscow on Sunday.
As rebels led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) freed regime prisoners, …
$1 for a ticket to watch the New York Giants suddenly seems a little overpriced
A $1 ticket for an NFL game – or nearly any professional sporting event for that matter – sounds like a phenomenal deal. But most bargains come with a catch and Sunday’s was no exception: you had to
watch the New York Giants play football
.Still, mere …
Monday briefing: How the decade-long war in Syria ended almost overnight
Good morning. It’s been only twelve days since rebel groups in Syria seized 15 villages in Aleppo province under the control of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Yesterday, after an astonishing blitzkrieg campaign that has left the leading group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), commanding seven times as much territory as when …
Tanzania opposition laments its ‘naivety’ over president as repression intensifies
When Samia Suluhu Hassan took office as Tanzania’s president in 2021, many in the east African country hailed what they hoped was a new dawn after the authoritarian and repressive rule of her predecessor John Magufuli.
The signs were positive in her first few years in office: Hassan ended bans …
UK job vacancies fall at fastest rate since pandemic as business confidence slumps
The number of job vacancies in November fell at the fastest rate since the start of the pandemic, as business confidence slumped to its lowest level in almost two years, according to two new reports.
In a damaging blow to the government efforts to boost growth, the latest monthly report …