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This screen grab from a SpaceX live webcast shows SpaceX's Starship rocket ten minutes before its scheduled launch from South Padre Island, Texas, on July 16, 2026, ahead of an abrupt scrub of the test

SpaceX abruptly scrubs Starship test flight

Skyroot Aerospace's plans to launch India's first privately developed orbital-class rocket before August 4 mark the next major step for the growing Indian space industry

Ambitious goals

India's space sector takes off as private rocket readies launch

Elon Musk's Starlink dominates the global satellite communications sector with thousands of satellites in orbit and operations in dozens of countries

In case of conflict with China

Taiwan lawmakers to remove legal hurdles for Starlink to operate

Since opening the sector to private players in 2020, India has become home to more than 400 space startups

Reshaping ambitions

India's private space industry shoots for the stars

Netflix has been diversifying its content -- most recently with shorter-form video

Netflix shares drop on growth worries

A Boeing 737 MAX 10 fuselage is pictured during the opening ceremony for the company's new North Line assembly line, which will produce 737 MAX aircraft, at the Boeing Everett Factory in Everett, Washington

International airshow

Farnborough to survey the state of Boeing's comeback

The US remains the world's largest air passenger market but analysts expect China to overtake it in the next decade

US still world's biggest air transport market, but growth slows: data

Nationalisation brings British Steel back into government ownership for the first time since 1988

Full public ownership

UK nationalises struggling British Steel

Founded in 2011, Delivery Hero now operates in over 60 markets and is one of the world's biggest food delivery groups

Operations across 60 markets

Germany's Delivery Hero agrees 12.7-bn-euro takeover by Uber

TSMC's net profit for April to June surged 77.4 percent year-on-year to NT$706.6 billion (US$22 billion), smashing analyst estimates of NT$624.4 billion

Following record profits

Taiwan chipmaker TSMC to invest another US$100 bn in Arizona fabs

TSMC's net profit for April to June surged 77.4 percent year-on-year to NT$706.6 billion (US$22 billion), smashing analyst estimates of NT$624.4 billion

Fuelled by massive demand

Taiwan chipmaker TSMC reports record quarterly profit

Shares of Apple rose about four percent, one of several mega-tech companies with large gains, lifting major US indices

US stocks gain after reassuring inflation data, tech giants advance

Elon Musk's X was the target of the first investigation launched under the EU's new digital content rules

Amid ongoing appeal

EU accepts X's plan to fix digital content violations

ASML is looking at a strong year of sales

Semiconductor chip manufacturer

AI demand powers forecast hike, profit gains at tech giant ASML

Germany's flagship auto industry is battling weak demand and Chinese competition

German leader not opposed to Chinese taking over car plants

Ludwigshafen in southwest Germany, the base of chemical titan BASF

Germany's BASF lifts forecasts but Mideast war casts shadow

Twenty-six Meta employees filed a lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using AI to select workers for mass layoffs, a claim denied by the company

Meta employees allege discriminatory AI-driven layoffs

Recent scientific studies suggest there could be harmful consequences to farming out cognitive tasks to AI

Harmful consequences

Generative AI's power sparks fears of dumbing humans down

Australia's prime ministers says new laws will ensure AI data centres don't raise water and power prices for communities

Copyright, natural resources

Australian PM says to enact laws to govern AI

China's surging exports have helped offset weak domestic consumption

Missing expectations

China's economic growth hits slowest pace in more than three years

Kioxia, one of Japan's most valuable companies, is reaping rewards from the global race to build AI data centres

Reaping rewards

AI ignites 'ignored sector' for Japan chipmaker Kioxia

Last month, the UK became the latest to ban social media sites including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook for under-16s

Between midnight and 6am

UK announces social media curfew for older teens

IBM said many of its big corporate customers rushed to buy AI-related hardware to get ahead of expected price increases

Disappointing preliminary results

IBM shares plunge 25% as AI spending boom disrupts business

US data center construction spending has surged in recent years, with tech firms pouring tens of billions of dollars into building out infrastructure

'Higher bills, depleting natural resources'

NY state pauses new large data center projects in US first

Google said it will fully cooperate with the probe

Unfair competition

Swiss probe Google dropping search choice on Android phones

Countermovement

Content creators advise buying less with more intention through 'underconsumption core'

Oil prices rose following fresh Iran-US attacks in the area of the Strait of Hormuz

Oil prices surge on US-Iran attacks; tech shares fall

The powerful IG Metall union organised protests at Volkswagen sites last week after reports emerged of VW's plans to ramp up its job cuts, as well as potentially close four German factories

Volkswagen confirms weighing up to 50,000 more job cuts

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