Google announces Axion Arm-based chips for energy-efficient computing

Google announces Axion Arm-based chips for energy-efficient computing

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian speaks at the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco, April 9, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google is trying to make cloud computing more affordable with a custom-built Arm-based server chip. At its Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on Monday, the company said the new … Read more

Abrdn CIO slams jabs at company’s rebranded name

Abrdn CIO slams jabs at company’s rebranded name

The abrdn Plc office at St Andrew Square in Edinburgh, U.K. on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. Jonne Roriz | Bloomberg | Getty Images The press making jabs at the current name of asset manager Abrdn, which was rebranded from ‘Standard Life Aberdeen’, amounts to “corporate bullying,” the firm’s chief investment officer Peter Branner said. The … Read more

EU’s von der Leyen echoes Yellen’s calls for tough stance on Chinese overcapacity

EU’s von der Leyen echoes Yellen’s calls for tough stance on Chinese overcapacity

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a press conference,  Nurphoto | Getty Images European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday said that Europe must talk tough with China on its perceived unfair trade practices, echoing calls a day earlier from U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Speaking ahead of German Chancellor Olaf … Read more

Community rallies around Sydney boy diagnosed with cancer as family faces relocation to Singapore for treatment

Community rallies around Sydney boy diagnosed with cancer as family faces relocation to Singapore for treatment

A Sydney boy diagnosed with leukaemia is facing an uphill battle as his family fundraise for potentially life-saving cancer treatment overseas. Max Robinson, 4, and his family need to re-relocate to Singapore for specialised care and treatment. He was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia as a one-year-old in 2021. Despite enduring hours of treatment, the … Read more

Swiss women win historic victory at Europe’s top human rights court

Swiss women win historic victory at Europe’s top human rights court

Protesters hold a banner reading “The climate’s seniors” during a rally before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decides in three separate cases if states are doing enough in the face of global warming in rulings that could force them to do more, in Strasbourg, eastern France, on April 9, 2024. Frederick Florin | … Read more

Appeals court rejects Trump's bid to delay hush money trial over Manhattan venue

Appeals court rejects Trump's bid to delay hush money trial over Manhattan venue

A New York appeals court on Monday denied Trump’s bid to put his hush money trial on pause while he argues the case should be tried outside of Manhattan.  The decision followed arguments at an emergency hearing where Trump’s lawyers contended deep-blue Manhattan is not an appropriate venue for the controversial Republican former president’s criminal … Read more

US Man, 32, Shoots Restaurant Employee Over Guacamole Dip

US Man, 32, Shoots Restaurant Employee Over Guacamole Dip

32-year-old Aaron Brown has been arrested. (Representative pic) A 32-year-old man in the US shot and injured a restaurant employee over the amount of guacamole, an avocado-based dip. According to Fox 2 Detroit, the incident took place on Friday at a Michigan Chipotle. 32-year-old Aaron Brown was arrested and charged with assault to do great … Read more

Middle East crisis live: France raises possibility of imposing sanctions on Israel to get more aid into Gaza | Israel-Gaza war

Middle East crisis live: France raises possibility of imposing sanctions on Israel to get more aid into Gaza | Israel-Gaza war

Israel buying 40,000 tents to prepare to evacuate civilians before Rafah invasion – official An Israeli official has said that Israel is buying 40,000 tents to prepare for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the Associated Press reports. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Monday … Read more