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Former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce secures final $3.8m bonusJonathan BarrettAlan Joyce has secured a final bonus worth $3.8m, two years after the prominent Qantas chief executive left the airline after a series of corporate decisions sparked a reputational crisis.While Joyce’s various incentives were reduced due to several scandals occurring under his watch, the final payout was linked to a 2023-25 incentive plan that is now vesting.The airline’s share price is at record highs, which has lifted the value of the incentive.Qantas was previously found to have illegally sacked more than 1,800 workers, and agreed to pay a $100m civil penalty…

Lululemon shares fell sharply on Thursday after the company warned over the impact on its business of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs and his decision to close a duty-free loophole.The Canadian company says the US levies and the ending of the so-called de minimis exemption will cost it about $240m (£178.4m) this year. The policy had allowed companies to ship online orders worth $800 or less into the US without having to pay import duties.The retailer slashed its outlook, forecasting sales for the next three months of between $2.47bn to $2.5bn, which was lower than analysts had expected.The removal of…

Investors are clearly bullish about former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor’s AI agent startup Sierra. Sierra, which helps enterprises build customer service AI agents, announced it raised a $350 million funding round on Thursday. The round, led by earlier investor Greenoaks Capital, values the startup at $10 billion, according to a company blog post that confirmed an earlier report from Axios on Wednesday. Sierra was founded in early 2024 by Taylor and longtime Google alum Clay Bavor. The company claims to have landed hundreds of customers, including SoFi, Ramp, and Brex, among others, in its 18 months of operation. Sierra has…

Gogglebox will welcome a raft of new faces when it returns with an expanded cast of couch-based TV critics on Friday.The five new sets of cast members include friends from Glasgow, a family from Surrey, and a couple from the Cotswolds. They’ll be joined by sisters from Edinburgh and a mother and daughter-in-law duo from Yorkshire.But one pair of regulars has left the show – Scottish couple Joe Kyle and Roisin Kelly. Roisin has said on Instagram they have been “brutally axed from Gogglebox”.The long-running Channel 4 TV series, narrated by The Royle Family’s Craig Cash, has viewers watching other…

September 3, 20254 min readWhat’s the Smallest Particle in the Universe?The answer to this supposedly simple particle physics question isn’t so simpleBy Gayoung Lee edited by Lee BillingsAn artist’s concept of multiple types of subatomic particles. Mark Garlick/Science Photo LibraryForget about turtles; for all practical purposes, it’s really particles all the way down.Whether as the protons and neutrons that help form chemical elements, the photons that we perceive as light or even the flows of electrons that power our smartphones, subatomic particles constitute essentially everything any of us will ever experience. Ironically, however, because they’re so minuscule, the particles underpinning…

Yet another change is coming to Southwest Airlines flights, but—surprise!—this one isn't terrible.

Source: Google Earth (background image) The New York Times The vintage Lisbon funicular that crashed on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people, lost control when one of its two yellow-and-white carriages hurtled into a building.The funicular, one of Lisbon’s most popular tourist attractions, transports passengers to and from the scenic Bairro Alto neighborhood.The funicular has two interconnected carriages powered by overhead electric cables. The carriages run in opposite directions and are attached by an underground cable system that runs through a pulley at the top of the hill. The weight of the carriage that travels downhill helps lift the other,…

While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day, many great iPad deals are available outside of those times. The day-to-day discounts come and go like changing winds, so there’s often some amount to be saved, particularly on Apple’s most affordable iPad. The most recent iPad Pro and iPad Mini are also regularly discounted, as is the latest iPad Air.It’s difficult to know where exactly you can find the most notable iPad deals unless you’re scouring the major retailers on a daily basis. But that’s often what our deal hunters at…

Inside the NFL will return for the 2025-2026 season, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, but the long-running studio show is getting a wholesale reboot, changing formats, and moving to a new home: X, the tech platform controlled by Elon Musk. Inside the NFL on X will debut its first episode on Sept. 8, with plans to release at least 10 short-form episodes each week leading up to next year’s Super Bowl on Feb. 8. NFL Films will continue to produce the series. Ryan Clark, the ESPN NFL analyst and former safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers, will host the show, though…