Health authorities in China’s southwestern Sichuan province are proposing to extend marriage leave up to 25 days and maternity leave up to 150 days, to help create a “fertility-friendly society”…
Organized criminals stole 47 million pounds (US$63.76 million) from Britain’s tax office last year by using phishing tactics to access more than 100,000 customer accounts and falsely claim payments from…
Many shops selling fashion goods, watches and medicines in markets in HCMC and Hanoi have shut down as authorities ramp up raids to root out counterfeits. In HCMC, a large…
Chinese model Haiha Jinxi, wife of actor Li Yapeng, has earned admiration for her support of her husband despite the financial challenges he faces, stemming from a 40-million-yuan (US$5.5 million)…
A British man posed as a wealthy international billionaire has nearly drained an Oregon woman’s life savings in a romance fraud that cost her nearly US$2 million, according to U.S.…
Get the latest info on new preview builds of Windows 11 as they roll out to Windows Insiders. Now updated for Build 27871 for the Canary Channel, both released on…
Android and iOS solved this years ago. What took Microsoft so long? Credit: Geralt Windows 8 might have made waves for its short-lived removal of the beloved Start button, but…
Kent Murphy stepped into a local grilled chicken restaurant in central city of Da Nang and set his daughter Aoife down, letting her toddle a few steps and rush into…
The top 5 most influential billionaires on Instagram, featuring U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and American media mogul Oprah Winfrey, can earn over US$300,000 per post in 2024, a study found.…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has revealed that each of his three children will inherit less than 1% of his fortune, currently valued at over US$100 billion. In a recent interview…
Tech billionaire Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to launch Microsoft, but daughter Phoebe Gates says he opposed her plan to follow his path by quitting college to launch a…
Melinda French Gates has revealed that her ex-husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, did not consult her before deciding to donate 99% of his fortune, which was accumulated by the foundation…
Paula Hurd, 62, is a philanthropist and former tech executive who has been in a relationship with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates after his 2021 divorce from Melinda French Gates. In…
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s upcoming wedding in Venice has sparked outrage, as locals cite tourism disruption and environmental concerns, accusing the Amazon founder of “holding their home hostage.” The…
Elon Musk on Saturday denied a report that he used ketamine and other drugs extensively last year on the 2024 campaign trail. The New York Times reported Friday that the…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is finalizing a lengthy prenuptial agreement to safeguard his US$220 billion fortune ahead of his June wedding to fiancée Lauren Sánchez in Venice. Bezos, 61, and…
The Trump administration has confirmed that it is pulling the nomination of private astronaut Jared Isaacman to lead NASA. First reported by Semafor, the decision appears to have been made…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday updated its immunization schedules for children and adults to partially reflect the abrupt changes announced by health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate…
Google announces a photo editor redesign coming to both Android and iOS. Google Photos is 10 years old, and the search giant celebrated the milestone with a blog post announcing…
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI: The power and the pride…
In April, Paul Graham, the founder of the tech startup accelerator Y Combinator, sent a tweet in response to former YC president and current OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Altman had…
A California-based company called Magrathea just turned on a new electrolyzer that can make magnesium metal from seawater. The technology has the potential to produce the material, which is used…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This benchmark used Reddit’s AITA to test how…
Back in April, OpenAIannounced it was rolling back an update to its GPT-4o model that made ChatGPT’s responses to user queries too sycophantic. An AI model that acts in an…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This giant microwave may change the…
It’s been a little over a week since we published Power Hungry, a package that takes a hard look at the expected energy demands of AI. Last week in this…
Imagine: China deploys hundreds of thousands of autonomous drones in the air, on the sea, and under the water—all armed with explosive warheads or small missiles. These machines descend in…
From large language models (LLMs) to reasoning agents, today’s AI tools bring unprecedented computational demands. Trillion-parameter models, workloads running on-device, and swarms of agents collaborating to complete tasks all require…
The new One UI 8 software will debut on Samsung’s newest foldables this summer, but you can give it a whirl now with some S25 devices. Samsung opened its One…
