Learning about Target’s 10-4 programme, which aims to improve customer experience, elicits several reactions in quick succession. The first is to fear for the future of humanity https://t.co/py55uYy5xt ...

RT Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie)Tomorrow, all briefs will be in hand for SCOTUS to rule on Trump's emergency plea to deploy National Guard troops. The law does not seem to be on his side. My @TheEconomist analysis https://t.co/F2j7lbLS2C ...

James Watson became the second person to have his genome fully sequenced, publishing the results free online. He believed they never should be patented—his own belonged to the world. Read our obituary of the scientist https://t.co/nguMyFNxsW ...

The main characters are called Allura Grant, Emerald Greene and Carrington Lane, which sound like paint shades—or possibly porn stars—but who are in fact divorce lawyers. You can tell because they sit around board tables and talk about prenups https://t.co/ooYdAaAQiz ...

In 2026, Odysseus the wanderer returns—though this time arriving in cinemas, rather than a ship. Bronze-age Greece is, clearly, not the modern era. But there are parallels https://t.co/k6qboMVUx6 ...

America’s 250th birthday will feature plenty of parades and fireworks. Yet behind the fanfare, the country has become deeply polarised https://t.co/EXtpKPtEZl ...

Generation Z has already made its mark on investing—consider crypto, meme stocks and gamified investing. But, in a less flashy way, it is grandparents who are truly shaking things up https://t.co/qSEZS7ASuR ...

Sarah Perry’s father-in-law died only nine days after doctors diagnosed him with oesophageal cancer. Her book chronicles those nine days https://t.co/92FfGpEhIo ...

Donald Trump is turning to the National Guard not to defend protesters but, ostensibly, to protect federal personnel from protests against his policies. Most courts have been sceptical of his interventions https://t.co/ws3otEVGFQ ...

A former British intelligence official worries the country now faces the very real risk of being cut off in retaliation from some American intelligence. That would be a break from the past https://t.co/Ir2vqZCe1e ...