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How microchip-maker TSMC became the world's most important company
Microchips are in your car, your microwave — there might even be one in your kettle. They run everything.
And the best microchips are made by TSMC, th…
2 years, 4 months ago
The decision that saved Australia from Argentina's 100 per cent inflation nightmare
Inflation in Argentina is at 100 per cent. The government is printing money fast and locals are spending in US dollars because the peso is so unrelia…
2 years, 5 months ago
How a bunch of boxes might land Trump in prison
Donald Trump has been charged with trying and failing to delete CCTV evidence of farcical, and allegedly criminal behaviour.
It's just the latest char…
2 years, 5 months ago
How "General Armageddon" and a bromance almost brought down Vladimir Putin
A bromance is a powerful thing. Lennon and McCartney. Holmes and Watson. Gilbert and Sullivan. Han and Chewy. But occasionally a bromance can nearly …
2 years, 5 months ago
INTRODUCING | If You're Listening
If You're Listening is back, and better than ever. Same espionage, same corruptions, same scandals, but more often.
Not only will we be in your feed e…
2 years, 5 months ago
RUSSIA | S07 E6 - How will the war against Ukraine end?
After ten months of war, a few likely outcomes of the war in Ukraine are emerging.
A win for Vladimir Putin. A win for Volodymyr Zelenskyy. A bitter f…
3 years, 1 month ago
RUSSIA | S07 E5 - Has Putin finally pushed the Russian people too far?
Protest is not allowed inside Russia.
There was little resistance from the Russian people to the invasion of Ukraine, and those who didn’t like it sim…
3 years, 1 month ago
RUSSIA | S07 E4 - Undersea sabotage? The mysterious pipe blasts
On 26 September, a series of underwater explosions destroyed a cluster of natural gas pipelines on the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
The pipes were design…
3 years, 1 month ago
RUSSIA | S07 E3 - Why it’s hard to fight when you don’t know why
What does war look like on the ground, for the soldiers who go off to fight? What’s it like to be sent into the muddy confusion of a battlefield, ask…
3 years, 1 month ago
RUSSIA S07 E2 | Zelensky's big call: run away or stay to fight
Vladimir Putin's plan for a three day takeover of Ukraine relied on a quick strike to take out Volodymyr Zelenskyy - to kill him, to capture him, or …
3 years, 2 months ago