Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Airlines myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. KLM has warned it is at risk of running out of de-icing fluid after Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport was hit by days of severe snowstorms that forced the Dutch airline to cancel hundreds of flights. The airline, … Read more
As shown during CES 2026, the Spino S1 Pro comes with a robotic arm mounted to a docking station that sits at the edge of your pool. When the bot is ready to charge, the Spino S1 Pro uses an underwater communication system to guide itself to the docking station, which lifts the device up … Read more
Tether has introduced a new unit of account tied to its digital gold token, XAUT, in a move aimed at lowering barriers to fractional gold ownership at a time when institutional investors and central banks are accumulating the precious metal at record levels. On Tuesday, the stablecoin issuer unveiled Scudo, a unit of account representing … Read more
Nvidia announced today at CES 2026 that it would help Siemens’ electronic design automation (EDA) software run on its GPUs in an attempt to speed up the chip-design process. Nearly all computer chips today are designed using EDA tools, and as chip features get smaller and transistors more numerous, the process has grown more computationally … Read more
CBS A single improvised line by Kevin Sussman helped reshape Stuart Bloom’s characterization on “The Big Bang Theory,” according to the actor. Stuart, who was first introduced in Season 2, Episode 20, “The Hofstadter Isotope,” started out as a mild-mannered comic book store owner before gradually evolving … Read more
He may be Parisian to the core, but Pierre Mahéo has one arguably un-French trait: even when the headlines are grim, he somehow still manages to see the glass as half-full. “You have to know when to stop listening to the news and focus on the task at hand,” he offered during a showroom presentation … Read more
Mario Götze will go down in soccer history as the player who scored the winning goal that made Germany the 2014 FIFA World Cup champion. But he is also an increasingly seasoned angel investor. Companion M, Götze’s personal investment vehicle, now has a portfolio of more than 70 companies, two of which became unicorns in … Read more
While indirect rates (the money paid for indirects as a percentage of the grant’s value) average about 30 percent, many universities have ended up with indirect cost rates above 50 percent. A sudden and unexpected drop to the 15 percent applied retroactively, as planned by the Trump administration, would create serious financial problems for major … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US is tracking an oil tanker linked to Venezuela, Russia and Iran off the coast of Britain, as Washington builds up military assets in the UK. The Marinera oil tanker, which the US Coast … Read more
He may be Parisian to the core, but Pierre Mahéo has one arguably un-French trait: even when the headlines are grim, he somehow still manages to see the glass as half-full. “You have to know when to stop listening to the news and focus on the task at hand,” he offered during a showroom presentation … Read more