The financial world’s nervous system is being rewired and it is not America that is doing it.
Two weeks before Christmas, executives from OneConnect, a Chinese technology firm, boarded a plane to New York. They landed in a chilly atmosphere: American legislators were about to bar Huawei, a telecoms giant suspected of spying for Beijing, from s…[Read more]

Even in lockdown, mothers bear the brunt of child care.
FOR ALL the talk about responsible fathering and child care, it is still mothers who spend much more of their time looking after children—even during the pandemic, even when both parents are furloughed and even when both are working from home. That is one of several findings from a study p…[Read more]

Brave builds privacy-focused video chat right into its browser.
Brave, a privacy-focused browser, is adding a videoconferencing feature called Brave Together to compete with services like Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. Testing of the new feature has begun during a hot time for video chat as the coronavirus pandemic pushes work and personal…[Read more]

Why I regret buying my Nintendo Switch Lite. I should have just bought the original and best.
The Nintendo Switch is my favourite video games console. Possibly ever. And considering how much I loved my Super Nintendo, PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360, that’s saying something.
But given my current circumstances — a parent with limited time to do…[Read more]