Oppo is the sixth-largest smartphone maker in China, according to Counterpoint Research. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BARCELONA — Chinese smartphone firm Oppo is taking a page out of Apple’s playbook with the launch of a private cloud computing system to keep users’ sensitive conversations separate from its own artificial intelligence products. The company…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, right, speaks as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on during the OpenAI DevDay event in San Francisco on Nov. 6, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Microsoft‘s massive investment in OpenAI is weighing on earnings. Following Microsoft’s quarterly earnings report on Wednesday, CFO Amy Hood said she expects the company to…
John Hinckley Jr. has seen the vile and hateful comments from X users asking him to harm President-elect Donald Trump … and he is telling them to knock it off! As TMZ reported … the would-be Ronald Reagan assassin posted a harmless post to the social media platform on Wednesday, telling followers to check out…
Hrithik Roshan has shared a carousel of pictures as his girlfriend Saba Azad clocked her 39th birthday. Taking to Instagram, Hrithik also posted selfies as they spent time together doing fun activities while travelling. (Also Read | Hrithik Roshan meets ‘Jadu’ who camped outside his home for days, drenched in blue paint; fans say ‘mehnat…
A Samsung Group flag flutters in front of the company’s Seocho building in Seoul. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Samsung Electronics on Wednesday announced that it would acquire all shares of German-based FläktGroup, a leading heating and cooling solutions provider, for 1.5 billion euros ($1.68 billion) from European investment firm Triton. Samsung said…
Getty Images UN biodiversity summits happen every two years – this year in Cali, Colombia Scientists say there has been an alarming lack of progress in saving nature as the UN biodiversity summit, COP 16, draws to a close. The scale of political ambition has not risen to the challenge of reducing the destruction of…
Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images Bitcoin briefly climbed above $70,000 as investors braced themselves for MicroStrategy earnings and counted the days to the U.S. presidential election. The price of bitcoin was last higher by about 3% at $69,925.00, according to Coin Metrics. At about 6:00 p.m. Eastern on Monday, it touched $70,207.02…
William_potter | Istock | Getty Images The U.S. Commerce Department is conducting a national security investigation into imports of semiconductor technology and related downstream products, according to a Federal Register notice put online Monday. The official document — which calls for public comments on the investigation — further confirms that chips and the electronics supply…
EY has been fined almost £5m for “serious breaches of standards” over its audits of Thomas Cook in the years before the travel company’s devastating collapse in 2019. The UK’s audit watchdog, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), said EY and one of its partners, Richard Wilson, had admitted to failings related to their assessment of…
A slump in Chinese consumer confidence is holding Sanlam investments’ Hannah Gooch-Peters back from buying luxury stocks like LVMH. Speaking to CNBC’s Silvia Amaro, the portfolio manager said she would need a “larger margin of safety” before investing in the world’s largest luxury group. “A lot of these European companies were really deriving their growth…
