Customers purchase fruit at a supermarket on December 9, 2024 in Qingzhou, Shandong Province of China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images China’s consumer prices in December edged up 0.1% year on year, in line with expectations, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Thursday, but the slower rise from the previous…
D-Wave Quantum CEO Alan Baratz said Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is “dead wrong” about quantum computing after comments from the head of the chip giant spooked Wall Street on Wednesday. Huang was asked Tuesday about Nvidia’s strategy for quantum computing. He said Nvidia could make conventional chips that are needed alongside quantum computing chips, but that…
EPA Lim Kimya was hit in the chest by two bullets in Bangkok’s royal quarter It had all the hallmarks of a cold-blooded, professional assassination. Next to a well-known temple in Bangkok’s historic royal quarter a man is seen on a security camera video parking his motorbike, removing his helmet, so that his face was…
President Biden said in a new interview published on Wednesday that he was considering pre-emptive pardons for people President-elect Donald J. Trump considered his political enemies, but he added that he had not yet decided what to do. “A little bit of it depends on who he puts in what positions,” Mr. Biden told USA…
Submitted photo Rocky Sickmann met Jimmy Carter the day after he landed in Germany after being held in Iran for over a year Out of the many mourning former President Jimmy Carter, not everyone can say he saved their life. Rocky Sickmann was a 22-year-old US Marine stationed at the American embassy in Tehran, Iran,…
US President Joe Biden has said he thinks he would have defeated Donald Trump and won re-election in November. Speaking to USA Today in an exclusive interview, Biden did, however, add that he was unsure if he would have had the stamina for another four-year term. “So far, so good,” the 82-year-old said. “But who…
Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images An artificial intelligence feature on iPhones is generating fake news alerts, stoking concerns about the technology’s ability to spread misinformation. Last week, a feature recently launched by Apple that summarizes users’ notifications using AI, pushed out inaccurately summarized BBC News app notifications on the broadcaster’s story about the…
“Babaryko is alive!” Those were the words of Viktor Babaryko’s team after seeing the first images of the imprisoned Belarusian opposition politician in more than 630 days. Arrested in 2020 as he tried to run for president against authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko, Babaryko was then held incommunicado behind bars as extra punishment. His political team…
President-elect Donald J. Trump blamed California’s Democratic governor on Wednesday for the failure to contain fires engulfing parts of the Los Angeles area, accusing the state’s government of letting environmental policies run amok. In a post on his social media site, Mr. Trump mocked Gov. Gavin Newsom, calling him “incompetent” and claiming that the governor…
Federal Reserve officials at their December meeting expressed concern about inflation and the impact that President-elect Donald Trump’s policies could have, indicating that they would be moving more slowly on interest rate cuts because of the uncertainty, minutes released Wednesday showed. Without calling out Trump by name, the meeting summary featured at least four mentions…
