British businesses are staring at another energy cost shock after wholesale gas prices jumped around 5 per cent, triggered by Donald Trump declaring the ceasefire with Iran “over” following a fresh wave of US strikes and renewed attacks on tankers in the strait of Hormuz. The benchmark Dutch front-month gasContinue Reading

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Victims of the 2023 data breach at genetics testing firm 23andMe are to share a $46.75m (£35m) payout, after a California bankruptcy court ruled that the company’s new owner must compensate as many as 6.9 million people whose personal information was exposed. The ruling, handed down on Tuesday, draws aContinue Reading

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Dogtooth Technologies, the British pioneer of AI-powered robotic harvesting, has raised more than £14 million to put its fruit-picking robots to work on commercial farms in the UK and overseas, in a deal that says as much about the state of the rural labour market as it does about theContinue Reading

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