THOUSES COLLECTED in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei on May 20 to celebrate the inauguration of William Lai Ching-te, Taiwan’s fifth democratically elected president. Among them were 400 supporters from his hometown, Wanli. “Everyone is very proud,” said one of them, Chen Kuo-lung. Once, the small fishing community on Taiwan’s northern coast was […]

AANI SITTING in silence for most of the car ride from kyiv to Kharkiv, his face contorted with worry. “The Russians are getting closer, getting closer, but he doesn’t listen to me,” she said. Anna made it a point to visit her 75-year-old father regularly, watching over him in the simple brick house he built […]

A banking Trojan impacting Google Android devices, dubbed “Antidot” by the Cyble research team, has appeared, disguising itself as a Google Play update. THE malware displays fake Google Play update pages in multiple languages, including German, French, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Romanian, and English, indicating potential targets in these regions. Antidot uses overlay attacks and keylogging […]

Copper is becoming the next must-have industrial commodity, mirroring oil’s boom in previous decades, a leading commodities analyst said. This time around, new economic forces, namely the advent of artificial intelligence, the data center explosion and the green energy revolution, are driving demand for copper, while the development of new weapons is also added to […]

OpenAI says it will “pause” the use of a ChatGPT voice after users noticed it sounded like actress Scarlett Johansson. THE artificial intelligence (AI) offers five voices that can express the responses generated via its ChatGPT service. Some users noticed that one of the voices, called Sky, sounded like Johansson, who voiced an AI assistant […]

(Bloomberg) — United Parcel Service Inc. sold $2.6 billion worth of investment-grade bonds on Monday as companies race to price new debt before the Memorial Day holiday. Most read on Bloomberg The package delivery company priced the notes with maturities of 10, 30 and 40 years, according to a person familiar with the matter. The […]

Apple would have launched a significant reduction campaign on its iPhone in China. THE brands – up to 2,300 yuan (about $320) on select iPhone models on the company’s Tmall site – as Apple faces increased competition from local tech companies like Huawei, Reuters reported Monday, May 20. Last month, Huawei launched its latest smartphone […]

7 hours ago US markets open mixed U.S. stocks opened mixed on Monday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the key 40,000 level for the first time last week. The Dow was down 0.1% in early trading, while the S&P 500 was up 0.1% and the Nasdaq was up 0.4%. -Karen Gilchrist 8 […]

What do you want to know Samsung has announced the new Snapdragon X-powered Galaxy Book4 Edge in 14-inch and 16-inch sizes. These are Copilot+ PCs with a Qualcomm Hexagon NPU running at 45 TOPS. The laptops feature 2.8K AMOLED touchscreens, a four-speaker sound system with Dolby Atmos, and the Galaxy AI suite of tools. The […]

With the rapid growth of solar panel and electric vehicle industries driving silver demand, the price of the industrial metal is expected to rise to Rs 1 lakh per kg over the next year and up to Rs 92,000 per kg in over the next 3 months. “As silver is an industrial metal, it could […]