Are artificial wombs the future?

2024-02-16

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, has died in a penal colony near the Arctic Circle, according to the Russian prison service. Listen to this excerpt on Navalny’s life and career from our podcast series “Next Year in Moscow”.

Original podcast: Producers: Sam Colbert, Pete Naughton, Ksenia Barakovskaya, Lika Kremer; Sound design: Weidong Lin; Original music: Darren Ng; Executive producer: John Shields.

00:00 – Alexei Navalny has died
01:14 – Navalny’s poisoning
07:26 – Returning to Russia
11:40 – His political work
18:50 – Navalny’s prison sentence
21:27 – Alexei Navalny’s legacy

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Obit: Alexei Navalny didn’t just defy Putin—he showed up his depravity:
https://econ.st/3OMDcmq

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2024-02-08

Things look bleak in the Middle East after Binyamin Netanyahu scorned America’s push for an end to the fighting. But in private he’s said to be more flexible. Could diplomacy actually work?

00:00 – The Saudi normalisation deal
00:42 – Israel and Saudi Arabia’s history
01:10 – How to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
02:26 – Will the deal happen?

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To read more on the conflict, visit our Israel and Hamas hub: https://econ.st/3HPfwtU

Israel scorns America’s unprecedented peace plan: https://econ.st/3SO4knJ

How to end the Middle East’s agony: https://econ.st/3OCHrRw

Listen to our podcast on Antony Blinken: the hardest working man in diplomatic business: https://econ.st/3OyKkCQ

America’s shuttle diplomacy to

2024-02-01

What if text prompts enabled anyone to make a blockbuster movie, or even an entire box-set’s worth of TV? That is the promise of AI. This technology could one day prove as transformative to the movie business as sound, colour, or even the camera itself. Generative AI can already make videos in seconds which would normally take a visual-effects artist days to create. However it has yet to master photo-realistic video. The people at the forefront of this tech say it is only a matter of time.

00:29 How does AI-generated video work?
02:43 How long until feature films are generated by AI?
03:57 Can AI-generated videos be photorealistic?
04:36 How revolutionary is AI in film?
05:05 A dystopian threat to jobs or democratisation of the industry?

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2024-01-04

A new wave of artificial intelligence is starting to transform the way the entertainment industry operates. Who will be the winners and losers?

01:07 AI is changing the music business
04:09 How big data revolutionised entertainment industries
05:20 Can AI predict a film’s success?
09:26 How generative AI is creating new opportunities
12:36 What are the risks of generative AI?

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The world wants to regulate AI, but does not quite know how: https://econ.st/477Qb98

Watch our previous film about how AI is transforming the creative industries: https://econ.st/45VBnJU

A battle royal is brewing over copyright and AI: https://econ.st/3QgM5EZ

How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history

2023-12-08

In the days before the October 7th attack short selling of Israeli stocks spiked in New York, making someone a lot of money. How likely is it that a Hamas insider was behind it?

00:00 – Pre-war stock market changes
00:33 – What happened to the stocks?
01:03 – Who was behind it?

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Read our coverage on Israel and Hamas: https://econ.st/46Ka8Cy

Did Hamas make millions trading the October 7th attacks?: https://econ.st/4822Zyd

Inside Hamas’s sprawling financial empire: https://econ.st/483x94b

2023-11-14

Gun crime in American schools is increasing–but does training teachers how to shoot make classrooms any safer?

00:00 – Is arming teachers the solution?
00:50 – Meet the teachers learning to shoot
01:55 – Why they want to learn
03:17 – How effective is the training?

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Read our full investigation: https://econ.st/477yzLd

Inside America’s hoax school shootings epidemic: ?si=L8F1fnhkcR7jAHlE

One response to school shootings in America: arm the teachers: https://econ.st/3u1KzPm

A report sheds light on the deadliest school shooting in Texas’s history: https://econ.st/3FWoe8Z

Guns are the things most likely to kill young people in America: https://econ.st/479FrXN

The spate of gun violence shows American exceptionalism

2023-11-09

Accusations of election manipulation and the mishandling of classified documents are just a few of the criminal charges former President Donald Trump faces across four criminal trials as the race for the White House gets underway. But is he really in jeopardy or will he succeed in turning his legal woes to his political advantage?

00:00 – How much jeopardy is Trump really in?
00:31 – The cases
03:05 – The risks
04:02 – Trump’s campaign

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Donald Trump’s second term would be a protectionist nightmare: https://econ.st/45RSnR7

Part of Donald Trump’s base thinks he is fighting a spiritual war: https://econ.st/45URg31

A Trump Party in the Reagan Library: https://econ.st/3tWB2cv

Donald Trump is found liable for fraud in