Wei Li, chief global investment strategist at BlackRock, says there is a “healthy debate to be had” about the durability of Artificial Intelligence earnings and sees the AI trade as a “space to be selective and active.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Wei Li, chief global investment strategist at BlackRock, says there is a “healthy debate to be had” about the durability of Artificial Intelligence earnings and sees the AI trade as a “space to be selective and active.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Hong Kong Chu Hai College has sued its finance head, along with a company and its director, for allegedly embezzling over HK$25 million (US$3.19 million) by disguising the transfers as academic and administrative expenses. The private institution filed the lawsuit in the High Court on Monday to reclaim what it said were misappropriated funds transferred to finance director Ray Yip Kam‑chun, Ho Chu...
Hong Kong Chu Hai College has sued its finance head, along with a company and its director, for allegedly embezzling over HK$25 million (US$3.19 million) by disguising the transfers as academic and administrative expenses. The private institution filed the lawsuit in the High Court on Monday to reclaim what it said were misappropriated funds transferred to finance director Ray Yip Kam‑chun, Ho Chung-ling and Rivers Design Engineering “under the guise of payroll, autopay and academic...
FEATURE Intel shares were rising early Tuesday. A newly expanded deal with Cadence Design Systems looks like a sign of confidence in Intel’s next-generation chip-manufacturing process. Intel shares were up 1.
FEATURE Intel shares were rising early Tuesday. A newly expanded deal with Cadence Design Systems looks like a sign of confidence in Intel’s next-generation chip-manufacturing process. Intel shares were up 1.
The magazine writes: ‘Resisting Gen-Z socialism is therefore an urgent task.’ That urgency must outweigh any urgency of feeding hungry people A spectre is haunting Europe and America – the spectre of gen Z socialism. That’s the urgent warning from the Economist in a new cover-story editorial, How to fight back against gen Z socialism . Alarmed by a youthful threat to the established order, the mag...
The magazine writes: ‘Resisting Gen-Z socialism is therefore an urgent task.’ That urgency must outweigh any urgency of feeding hungry people A spectre is haunting Europe and America – the spectre of gen Z socialism. That’s the urgent warning from the Economist in a new cover-story editorial, How to fight back against gen Z socialism . Alarmed by a youthful threat to the established order, the magazine is calling for heightened vigilance from defenders of private enterprise. Norman Solomon is the director of RootsAction and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy Continue reading...
In an often chilling new documentary, the chefs of brutal leaders from Idi Amin to Saddam Hussein, talk about their unusual lives behind the scenes Kim Jong-il loved pepperoni pizza. Saddam Hussein couldn’t resist a fish barbecue. Idi Amin reportedly had the capacity for an entire roasted goat. The menus may have differed, but the appetite was the same. For history’s most notorious strongmen, the ...
In an often chilling new documentary, the chefs of brutal leaders from Idi Amin to Saddam Hussein, talk about their unusual lives behind the scenes Kim Jong-il loved pepperoni pizza. Saddam Hussein couldn’t resist a fish barbecue. Idi Amin reportedly had the capacity for an entire roasted goat. The menus may have differed, but the appetite was the same. For history’s most notorious strongmen, the dining table doubled as a stage for power. For the cooks who served them, every meal came with extraordinary stakes. “It goes back to Hannah Arendt’s banality of evil a bit,” says director Andrew Neel. “These everyday things that are beloved to us, like food, can take on an entirely different dimension within the context of a dictatorship.” In his latest film, How to Feed a Dictator, which premieres at the Tribeca film festival this week, five private chefs recount their intimate experiences serving some of the world’s most feared dictators and the ever-present dangers that came with the job. Based on the 2020 book by the Polish journalist Witold Szabłowski, the 95-minute documentary probes the fraught terrain between morality and survival, asking viewers to consider the choices these chefs made – and the choices they never really had. Structurally, the film is something of a tasting menu, serving up sobering morsels of human atrocity within the trappings of a decadent cooking show. It makes for especially uneasy viewing on an empty stomach. Continue reading...
The tournament kicks off on Thursday in Mexico City. Here’s what newcomers can expect from one of the world’s largest and most watched events It is! Every four years the best men’s teams on the planet gather to see who will be crowned world champions. This year’s tournament will be co-hosted by frenemies Canada, Mexico and the United States in 16 cities as different as Vancouver, Kansas City and G...
The tournament kicks off on Thursday in Mexico City. Here’s what newcomers can expect from one of the world’s largest and most watched events It is! Every four years the best men’s teams on the planet gather to see who will be crowned world champions. This year’s tournament will be co-hosted by frenemies Canada, Mexico and the United States in 16 cities as different as Vancouver, Kansas City and Guadalajara . The 48 teams are initially divided into [does arithmetic] 12 four-team groups with each team playing the others in the group once. The top two from each group, along with the eight best third-placed teams – 32 in total – will advance to the knockout stages. Matches from that point on are single-elimination - lose and you’re out. If scores are level at the end of extra-time, the match is decided by a penalty shootout. Continue reading...
Critics say president using well-worn playbook – with loyalists in key positions ready to amplify his message Donald Trump is “inventing fraud” in California’s primary elections, and likely to ramp up unfounded allegations when more races go against him, pro-democracy experts have warned. While the US president has used this playbook for years – from his loss at the Emmys as a reality TV star to h...
Critics say president using well-worn playbook – with loyalists in key positions ready to amplify his message Donald Trump is “inventing fraud” in California’s primary elections, and likely to ramp up unfounded allegations when more races go against him, pro-democracy experts have warned. While the US president has used this playbook for years – from his loss at the Emmys as a reality TV star to his defeat in the 2020 presidential election – election integrity campaigners fear this time could be different. Continue reading...
Sci-fi about the inventor of a device to communicate with aliens, in which scientists spend too much time talking astrophysics at each other Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is not alone in the universe. It is now joined by another sci-fi about Earth’s first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life in the form of a high-concept, low-risk, talky drama from writer-director Jonathan Sobol. It ...
Sci-fi about the inventor of a device to communicate with aliens, in which scientists spend too much time talking astrophysics at each other Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is not alone in the universe. It is now joined by another sci-fi about Earth’s first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life in the form of a high-concept, low-risk, talky drama from writer-director Jonathan Sobol. It stars Isabelle Fuhrman as Dr Annika Cask, a brilliant young computer scientist, already famous for taking the first photograph of dark matter. Predictably for this kind of film, Annika has a tragic backstory (the death in childhood of her sister) which drives her single mindedness and has left her with a deep sense of the fragility of life. She takes a job for brash tech billionaire Dennis Quaid, working on a top-secret project on his private island in the Caribbean. On the helicopter she’s joined by another wonder-kid, electronics engineer Charlie (Josh Hutcherson). The pair have been recruited to keep an eye on the even more brilliant Perry Glassner (David Thewlis), who has invented a device called Littlemouth, a fancy-looking mini-pylon designed to communicate with other life in the universe. Glassner is an unbalanced narcissist, played by Thewlis in style of his character Johnny in Mike Leigh’s Naked: all fear and rage, though channelled this time through a PhD in quantum physics. Here he is on a rant about humanity: “Petty, cruel, prone to self-destruction, hellbent on rage-fucking our habitat out of existence.” Continue reading...
Scepticism is rife about US President Donald Trump’s claims to have reprimanded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu over recent military escalations with Lebanese Hezbollah and Iran despite ceasefires negotiated by Washington. While Netanyahu’s apparent defiance is widely seen as an embarrassment to Trump, analysts say the mercurial US leader has done little more than wag his finger a...
Scepticism is rife about US President Donald Trump’s claims to have reprimanded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu over recent military escalations with Lebanese Hezbollah and Iran despite ceasefires negotiated by Washington. While Netanyahu’s apparent defiance is widely seen as an embarrassment to Trump, analysts say the mercurial US leader has done little more than wag his finger at his ally. In his latest interview with Israeli journalist Barak Ravid for US website Axios on...
A Chinese woman who went to great lengths to access her late brother’s blog has discovered his deep love for her 14 years after his death, moving many people online. Wenwen, 24, from southwestern China’s Sichuan province, had a brother 14 years older than her and her twin sister. In 2012, he died in a car crash with their father on their way to another city for work. He was only 24 years old. Afte...
A Chinese woman who went to great lengths to access her late brother’s blog has discovered his deep love for her 14 years after his death, moving many people online. Wenwen, 24, from southwestern China’s Sichuan province, had a brother 14 years older than her and her twin sister. In 2012, he died in a car crash with their father on their way to another city for work. He was only 24 years old. After they died, Wenwen’s mother worked hard to support the girls’ studies. Both have become...