The microbots are coming – to help us

Tiny sensors with tinier legs, stamped out of silicon wafers, could one day soon help fix your smartphone battery or study your brain

Fashionable exit: The separation of technology and style

The trend of marrying new gadgets with luxury clothing may already be over

Boeing works to manage the 737 Max crisis with unknown costs

Software fix is manageable but will airlines lose confidence in company’s best-selling jet

Airlines still waiting for promised software fix for Boeing 737 Max

Top lawmaker to examine why regulator FAA did not demand more intensive pilot training

Where is the vaccine against anti-vaxxers?

Again and again, assertion there’s a link between MMR vaccine and autism has been debunked

Hanging up: How I consciously uncoupled from my smartphone

My phone began to take over my entire being – it was time to detox and get my real life back

In the end Amazon didn’t win its own subsidy game

Analysis: Amazon will walk away from the largest and most public subsidy auction in history with little to show for it

You flush the toilet – and they made bricks Down Under

Australian team recycling stockpiles of leftover biosolids into bricks could save land and energy

Cooking for one: forget the notion of reheating leftovers forever

Cooking for yourself can be an act of self-care, plus there’s less effort, less time in the kitchen and less food waste

Amsterdam’s plea to tourists: Visit, but behave

New moves include on-the-spot fines for public urination, drunkenness or excessive noise

Instagram’s founders flee Zuckerberg’s Facebook ‘family’

Increasing level of control exerted by Zuckerberg among reasons that led to departures

Rat in soup wipes €163 million off restaurant chain’s value

Video of unexpected hotpot ingredient shared on social media

‘Can we do it in bed?’ Cher asks, smiling slyly. Who would say no?

Cher has never been a huge Cher fan. But she loves being Cher

Volkswagen’s effort to avert more scandals insufficient, report says

Car maker guilty of emissions cheating lacks proper whistleblower scheme three years on

Elon Musk interview: ‘I was not on weed’ when sending fateful tweet on Tesla

Electric car company founder struggles to maintain composure during first interview since tweeting plan to go private

Male critics are harsher than women on female-led films, study says

Study shows female writers give higher rating to films starring women than males do

Inside the mating rituals of brands and online stars

With deals collectively worth billions of euros at stake, the pressure is on advertisers and viral performers on sites like YouTube and Instagram to find the right match

How much will the trade war cost a typical American family? About $60 (so far)

Prices could rise greatly if tit-for-tat escalation drives total of affected goods toward $1tn

What did Frances McDormand mean by an ‘inclusion rider’?

A-list actors can stipulate that ‘the world onscreen looks like the world we live in’

Tennis moving closer to taking the human element out of line calls

ATP World Tour currently testing Hawk-Eye Live – an electronic line-calling device

High-tech broom sweeps through curling at Winter Olympics

SmartBroom sold to eight of 13 national curling teams competing in Pyeongchang

10 monkeys and a rigged Beetle: Inside VW’s campaign for ‘clean diesel’

VW paid for an experiment where monkeys were put in airtight chambers inhaling fumes from a diesel VW Beetle - but the test was rigged

Ursula K Le Guin, acclaimed fantasy and science fiction writer, is dead at 88

Several of the author’s books have been in print for almost 50 years

Vice Media suspends two senior executives after sexual harassment allegations

President Andrew Creighton and chief digital officer Mike Germano placed on leave

US blocks sale of MoneyGram to China’s Ant Financial

US authorities reject $1.2bn deal with Jack Ma’s firm citing national security concerns

‘Oh Dustin’ ... Hoffman publicly questioned on harassment claim

Comedian John Oliver clashes with Hoffman over 1985 groping allegation

We don’t deny Harvey, so why deny climate change?

Nicholas Kristof: We know there’s a link, and there are ways to fight global warming

Intel gears up for driverless car race with Mobileye purchase

Chip giant’s $15.3bn deal brings it industry leader in digital mapping and sensors

US corporations playing Donald Trump’s publicity game

Many blue-chip firms have recently announced plans to create jobs and invest in US

Weekend in . . . Rio de Janeiro

The home of next year’s summer Olympics is undergoing regeneration in advance of the expected influx

Accomable: Lessons from an inspiring start-up

Srin Madipalli and Martyn Sibley saw their disability as a problem to solve – and didn’t give up

New York baby shower shooting leaves four wounded

Residents report hearing more than 20 shots at a Brooklyn hall and four people are in hospital

How much safer would our roads be if robots drove ?

Research suggests dramatic reductions in collisions, and severity of injury, with automated cars

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