The recent surge in gasoline prices suggests we might see a reversal in consumers’ years-long shift towards trucks or sports-utility vehicles (SUV) back to more modest, fuel-efficient vehicles. But don’t expect automakers to go along. We’re not likely to have an adequate supply of the basic gasoline-powered family sedan ever again, thanks to the transition to electric vehicles, continuing supply ...

Perhaps the saying, “There is no such thing as bad publicity,” holds true for controversial technology companies. New York-based Clearview AI has been criticised by privacy advocates for years because of the way it has scraped billions of images from social-media networks to build a search engine for faces used by police departments. It was the subject of a New ...

  Let’s talk about presidenting during a crisis. A crisis, the late political scientist Nelson W Polsby used to say, is “a period where everybody believes that something must be done.” The Russian invasion of Ukraine certainly fits that definition — and it’s both an opportunity and a danger for a presidency. The opportunity side of it is captured in ...