Brave new art world: the app that brings galleries into your living room

ArtPassport lets you take a virtual tour of an exhibition from the comfort of your sofa – part a mission by two brothers to demystify the art world

Apple shares hit record high as iPhone X pre-sales fuel 19% rise in profits

  • Apple worth over $868bn, close to making it world’s first $1tn company
  • CEO Tim Cook: ‘This was our biggest year ever in most parts of the world’

Is Richard Branson’s high-speed train in a pneumatic tube pie in the sky?

First airlines, then spaceships. Now the Virgin boss wants to build Hyperloop One – a high-speed, pneumatic maglev railway. But engineering experts doubt that it will ever leave the station

World petrol demand ‘likely to peak by 2030 as electric car sales rise’

Wood Mackenzie predicts global oil growth will plateau about 2035 – earlier than some previous forecasts