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Lai Ching-te inaugurated as Taiwan's president in a transition likely to bolster island's US ties
Lai Ching-te inaugurated as Taiwan's president in a transition likely to bolster island's US ties
One state rolling out new detection technology has shown alarming results in its first month.
Baichuan AI, one of China's four so-called artificial intelligence (AI) tigers, raised about 5 billion yuan (US$687.6 million) in a new funding round that valued the start-up at more than 20 billion yuan, the company said on Thursday. The Beijing-based firm's latest round was backed by some of the biggest names in Chinese technology, including Alibaba Group Holding, Tencent Holdings and Xiaomi, along with some state-backed funds. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. China International Cap
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. The company announced it’s building a tool, Media Manager, that will allow creators to better control how their content is being used to train generative AI models — and give them an option to opt out.
The foldable smartphone market is set for a big boost amid reports that Apple is preparing a clamshell-style model, while Huawei Technologies may soon launch a tri-folding handset. Apple's top-down folding iPhone could come as early as 2026, according to a report by The Information on Wednesday. The US tech giant has reached out to Asian suppliers in recent months to make components for its first foldable handset, according to the report, citing anonymous sources. This would mark Apple's entry i
French authorities have launched a major operation to clean up computers infected by a cyber-espionage programme that has struck millions of users worldwide, a senior prosecutor said Thursday. "On the eve of the Olympics, this operation demonstrates that different players in France and abroad are mobilised to fight against all forms of cybercrime," Paris chief prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement posted on social media platform LinkedIn.She said investigators were targeting a network of
OpenAI’s launch of SearchGPT was a warning shot in the ongoing war to challenge Google and drive out AI upstarts like Perplexity.
BEIJING (Reuters) -Apple's smartphone shipments in China fell by 6.7% in the second quarter of 2024, as the tech giant faced intensifying competition from rivals like Huawei, according to data from market research firm Canalys. Apple's total shipments for the quarter ending in June stood at 9.7 million units, down from 10.4 million units in the same quarter last year, Canalys data shows. In contrast, Huawei's smartphone shipments surged 41% year-on-year to 10.6 milion in the quarter, bolstered by the launch of its new Pura 70 series in April.
The UK, US and South Korea have accused a North Korea-backed cyber group of carrying out an online espionage campaign to steal military and nuclear secrets. The "Andariel" group has been compromising organisations around the globe as it attempts to get hold of sensitive and classified technical information and intellectual property data, according to the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The centre, along with the FBI in the US and South Korea's national intelligence service, have issued a joint warning and advisory note about Andariel's actions.
The "Late Show" host mocked the former president over one curious claim.
With Joe Biden calling Trump’s alleged golfing prowess into question, is the 45th president as good as he claims to be?
Commuters were noticeably annoyed by the disturbance, one man told Yahoo, and were 'shifting away' from the men in question.
"Something about the question mark after 'old and quite weird' is taking me out."
The former president put debate plans on pause, and critics are calling him out over it.
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Hundreds of Aussie tourists are being denied entry into Indonesia’s island paradise for one reason.
The royal staff member reportedly let go is a relative of Queen Camilla.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called in to Fox News Thursday, where he told supporters that presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is a “radical left, not very smart person” who’s part of a massive conspiracy to weaponize the nation’s legal system against him. Harris’ campaign fired back mere minutes later with an email blasting the “78-year-old convicted criminal’s Fox ...
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BGT judge Amanda Holden looked flawless as she holidayed with her mini-me daughters Lexi and Hollie. Take a look inside their lavish Greek getaway…