Every corner of Italy has its own culinary traditions and in Winter Olympics co-host Cortina d’Ampezzo the signature dish is the colorful, stuffed pasta known as casunziei
The Trump administration is expected to unveil its grandest yet plan to rebuild the supply chains of critical minerals for everything from jet engines to smartphones
Italy's art-filled cities have no shortage of tourists, but they haven’t always been welcoming to visitors with visual impairments or other disabilities.
Jorden Reidel, 33, was co-piloting the Bombardier Challenger 600 owned by the Houston-based Arnold & Itkin law firm with his captain, Jacob Hosmer, when it flipped over and burst into flames during takeoff.
What is being reported here is not an incremental update, but an architectural change. According to the latest leak, AMD plans to increase the number of cores per core complex die from eight to twelve in Zen 6. At the same time, the L3 cache per CCD is set to grow from 32 to 48 […]
What would normally be considered a total economic loss has become a long-term experiment with an open outcome. A severely damaged GeForce RTX 5070 Ti with a literal hole in the PCB has achieved a new benchmark world record after months of repair and modding work. Responsible for this is a Brazilian modding team led […]
Apple appears to be on the verge of officially unveiling the previously missing MacBook Pro models with the more powerful M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. After the regular MacBook Pro with M5 SoC was presented in October last year, professional users are still waiting for the traditionally more powerful offshoots of the respective chip […]
Alex Pretti had courage and empathy. This, not Maga’s conception of male power, is what we must teach young men
The first thing that grabbed me about the Rapture’s 2011 song It Takes Time to be a Manwas the warbly, analogue fuzz of its recurring guitar and piano riff. Once that drew me in, what kept me listening were the lyrics’ hard-marriage of masculinity and empathy. In the final verse, Luke Jenner tells us that: “Well there’s room in your heart now / for excellence to take a stand / And there’s tears that need shedding / it’s all part of the plan”.
For the past year, rightwing voices have waged war on empathy. According to Elon Musk, empathy is “the fundamental weakness of western civilisation”. Others go further, calling it “toxic”, “suicidal” and even “sinful”. Certainly, the macho wing of the Maga right sees no place for it amid its (mis)appropriation of medieval history and imagery that is visible everywhere from the face paint and horned headdress of the “QAnon shaman”, convicted for his role in the US Capitol siege,to the tattooed arms and body of Donald Trump’s secretary of war, Pete Hegseth.
And yet, consider the ideal of chivalry held by medieval knights: generosity and suspicion of profit, courtesy, honesty and the bind of your word, hospitality, abiding by the rules of combat and granting mercy to your adversary – whose life a knight takes only as a last resort. I say this not because I think the medieval knight should be the new standard for modern men, but to point out that Maga men would fail, miserably so, to live up to their own ideals.
Alexander Hurst is a Guardian Europe columnist. His memoir, Generation Desperation, is published in January 2026
I live in a country where a woman’s value is often measured by motherhood, but for me and many others fulfilment simply looks different
I booked an online appointment with a gynaecologist in Karachi during the pandemic. I had a severe urinary tract infection and needed immediate relief. Everything felt routine at first: the doctor joined the video call late, held her phone awkwardly and asked about my symptoms. I explained, she prescribed medication, and then came the expected questions: Was I married? For how long? Any children? When I said “no,” her tone shifted as she asked, “Bachay tou chaihiye na aap ko?” (You do want children, right?). It felt subtly menacing – the assumption was clear: not wanting kids meant something was wrong.
What shocked me more was my own response. “Ji, ji, bilkul,” (Yes, yes, of course) I mumbled. Later, I was furious with myself for crumbling under pressure – for not being honest.
Jump of £37bn in budget deficit by 2040 would force government to increase taxes, NIESR predicts
The UK economy would be 3.6% smaller by 2040 if net migration fell to zero, forcing the government to raise taxes to combat a much bigger budget deficit, a thinktank has predicted.
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said falling birthrates in the UK and a sharp decrease in net migration last year had led it to consider what would happen if this trend continued to the end of the decade.
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degrees
The seaside city of Southend-on-Sea, on England’s east coast, looks grey on a winter afternoon in term-time. Its cobbled high street, bordering the university campus, is sparsely populated with market stalls, vape shops and discount retailers, and feels unusually quiet.
“There used to be lots of shops, restaurants and youth clubs around here,” says 23-year-old Nathan Doucette-Chiddicks. Now, the city is about to lose something else that it can scarcely do without.
Une nouvelle étude parue dans « PNAS » montre qu’à force d’utiliser ces micro-organismes pour la fabrication de boissons alcoolisées ou d’aliments, l’humain a contribué à modifier leur cycle de vie, les éloignant des souches sauvages.
Cellules de levure. Image au microscope à balayage électronique, colorée, de cellules de levure de bière ou de boulangerie (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), le 1ᵉʳ octobre 2019.
Intel is significantly expanding its workstation portfolio with the introduction of the Xeon 600 processors, clearly positioning the new generation against AMD’s current Threadripper 9000 series. Codenamed Granite Rapids, the platform is aimed at professional users in areas such as content creation, engineering, scientific simulations, AI development, financial analysis, and other highly parallelized workloads. At […]
LG’s withdrawal from the 8K television market marks the end of a chapter that for years was considered the next big technological leap in the TV segment, but never really caught on in practice. The South Korean manufacturer has completely discontinued the development and production of televisions with 8K panels. This affects both models with […]
Since the first and so far only trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI was released, the focus has been less on the game itself and more on its economic implications. Production budget, development time, monetization, and now increasingly the retail price are becoming the real elephant in the room. The latest report of an alleged […]
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