A judge at the High Court in London governed Monday (May 20) that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright lied and falsified documents to support his false claim that he was the inventor of Bitcoin. Judge James Mellor ruled in March that Wright’s evidence was not the pseudonym “Satoshi Nakamoto” and gave reasons for that conclusion […]

Microsoft has introduced new software and computers with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, intensifying its efforts to surpass Alphabet’s Google and Apple in the nascent AI era. A new category of AI-focused personal computers (PCs) will be called Copilot+PC, CEO Satya Nadella said during an event Monday at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington. Surface line machines […]

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 […]