The Arizona Diamondbacks acquired third baseman Nolan Arenado in a trade with St. Louis on Tuesday, concluding the Cardinals’ year-plus-long effort to deal the eight-time All-Star as they engage in a rebuild. The Cardinals, who received right-handed pitching prospect Jack Martinez in the deal, sent $31 million to the Diamondbacks to help cover the $42…
Zoe KleinmanTechnology editor AFP via Getty Images Large numbers of vast data centres continue to be build around the world One day the mighty data centre could be toppled into obsolescence by the humble smartphone, said Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on a recent podcast. Speaking to host Prakhar Gupta, the AI chief argued that people…
David Grittenand Paul Adams Reuters Armed security forces were deployed at a pro-government rally in Tehran on Monday More than 2,000 people have been killed during the violent crackdown by security forces on protests in Iran, a human rights group has said, as President Trump promised Iranians that help was “on its way”. The US-based…
Fergus WalshMedical editor BBC Oscar Murphy has now finished his CAR-T therapy and is hopeful for his future The first leukaemia patient to receive a breakthrough treatment since it was made available on the NHS has said it was “fantastic” and “very sci-fi”. Oscar Murphy, 28, who has an aggressive form of the blood cancer,…
Days of protest across Iran have left hundreds dead and many more injured. Attempts by Iranian authorities to quell dissent through a near-total internet blackout point to the pivotal role of social media in organizing, spreading and documenting unrest. The Conversation asked Shirvin Zeinalzadeh, an expert on the impact of media in collective action in…
Dilbert comic strip creator Scott Adams, a vocal Trump supporter whose career flagged after a racist rant, died on Tuesday, his former wife said. He was 68. Shelly Miles announced Adams’ passing in an online live stream in which she read a final message from the artist, whose strip lampooned life in the cubicle farms…
Greenland’s prime minister has said his people would choose Denmark over the US if they were asked to make such a choice “here and now”. Jens-Frederik Nielsen’s remark at a joint news conference with Denmark’s prime minister is the strongest by a representative of the semi-autonomous Danish territory since US President Donald Trump renewed his…
Anti-government protests have continued in Iran with thousands feared dead after the government crackdown on demonstrators. One protester, 26-year-old Erfan Soltani, will reportedly be “executed tomorrow”, with the Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights saying they “have never witnessed a case move so quickly”. The protests, which began in Tehran on 28 December, were sparked by…
Kevin Rudd’s premature departure in March from his post of Australia’s ambassador to the United States is a surprise, but perhaps not as unexpected as it might initially appear. Rudd’s term had another year to run. Any extension would have been limited. His old job as president of Asia Society had opened up, giving him…
Mike Krieger, the Instagram co-founder who joined Anthropic two years ago as its chief product officer, is moving to a new focus at the AI startup: co-leading its internal incubator, dubbed the “Labs” team. The Anthropic Labs team started in mid-2024 with just two members; now, the company has decided to expand it, with a…
