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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Croydon was never cool. But growing up there I didn’t realise the extent of its sad-sack reputation until I crossed its boundary line. Peers would sneer about the postcode and nod sympathetically when I
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The chatbot was speaking complete gibberish. “To rev the virgate, it’s enley to instil group danters,” it told one user. “I’m by. I’m in. I’m for, I’m from, I’m that,” it told another.  Some users joked that it had ingested acid — or too much James Joyce. Others found that it spoke like an English
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. So far, the highest-grossing films of 2024 are a sequel derived from an old novel (Dune: Part Two), the fourth in a series (Kung Fu Panda 4) and, in Godzilla x Kong: The New
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Boeing has disclosed a $32.8mn pay award for outgoing chief executive Dave Calhoun, a 45 per cent increase from the previous year even as the aircraft manufacturer struggles to contain a crisis of confidence in
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US employers added 303,000 jobs in March, as a buoyant labour market damped expectations of imminent Federal Reserve rate cuts and boosted president Joe Biden’s re-election bid. The figures released on Friday by the US
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek used compromised intelligence officials in Vienna to spy on European citizens and plot break-ins and assassinations by elite Russian hit squads. He also obtained a Nato government’s cutting-edge cryptography machine
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Rolex Datejust, a self-winding luxury watch that displays the date through its Cyclops magnifying lens, was launched in 1945 and is one of the Swiss company’s iconic models. It has become an emblem of
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Thames Water’s parent company has sent a formal notice to bondholders informing them that it has defaulted on its debt, firing the starting gun on a potentially messy restructuring at the owner of Britain’s largest
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