A university in Hong Kong has launched an Alzheimer’s disease screening programme using a locally developed blood-based testing technology – the first of its kind globally – which will benefit 6,000 underprivileged elderly people over five years. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia, affecting one in 10 Hongkongers aged 60 or above, with prevalence increasing with age, according...
A university in Hong Kong has launched an Alzheimer’s disease screening programme using a locally developed blood-based testing technology – the first of its kind globally – which will benefit 6,000 underprivileged elderly people over five years. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia, affecting one in 10 Hongkongers aged 60 or above, with prevalence increasing with age, according to a Department of Health report in 2025. Announcing the “NeuroCare Community Project” on Monday, Nancy Ip Yuk-yu, president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), said the blood-based multi-protein test, which her team developed in recent years, was moving beyond clinical settings and into the community through this programme. Advertisement “By integrating Alzheimer’s blood biomarkers across multiple biological pathways, this innovative, less invasive technology could enable early detection and provide families with vital time for care planning and treatment, transforming the trajectory of brain health,” she said. Biomarkers are biological indicators used to measure the presence, progression or risk of diseases. Advertisement “The programme will focus on serving the underprivileged elderly with our technology, and strengthening the capacity of their caregivers by raising their awareness of Alzheimer’s disease, subsequently alleviating their stress,” she added.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. faces a crucial hurdle Monday to reaping the benefits of its $14 billion takeover of wireless networking rival Juniper Networks Inc. , as a federal judge considers whether the Trump administration improperly approved an antitrust settlement that a group of states claim was tainted. HPE reached a deal with the US Justice Department in June — on the eve of a trial — o...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. faces a crucial hurdle Monday to reaping the benefits of its $14 billion takeover of wireless networking rival Juniper Networks Inc. , as a federal judge considers whether the Trump administration improperly approved an antitrust settlement that a group of states claim was tainted. HPE reached a deal with the US Justice Department in June — on the eve of a trial — on federal claims that the transaction would harm competition in the market for enterprise wireless equipment used by large companies, universities and hospitals. But the states allege the DOJ only agreed to the terms under pressure from administration officials and a group of well-connected lawyers and consultants. Now the fate of the settlement is up to US District Judge Casey Pitts , who will hold a hearing Monday in San Jose, California. The judge has the power to reject the deal under a Watergate-era transparency law known as the Tunney Act, which requires the government to outline why its in the public interest and allows the public to weigh in. It also requires the companies to detail all their contacts with the executive branch. A rejection would be unprecedented. While several merger settlements — including CVS Health Corp. ’s 2018 acquisition of health insurer Aetna — have been subjected to significant judicial scrutiny, none have ever been overturned by the 1974 law. Still, the dust-up has offered a window into the usually secret negotiations between companies and the government. HPE has already completed its acquisition of Juniper, so its unclear what remedy Pitts would impose if he rejects the settlement. The hearing comes after a monthslong investigation by a group of Democratic state attorneys general, led by Colorado’s Phil Weiser . They’ve been trying to build a case that the settlement doesn’t address the original competition concerns in the federal lawsuit, and instead was the result of improper political influence, after DOJ leaders overruled subordinates...
dgianstefani For gaming they're basically identical too, productivity the 250K is competitive with 9700X as mentioned. Hereticbar It's not as simple as that, price is just but one factor. I mean the 265K has been hovering between $235-275 for almost a year now on Amazon, and it hasn't exactly been flying off the shelves at their fulfillment centers if you go by their Top 10 best sellers list for p...
dgianstefani For gaming they're basically identical too, productivity the 250K is competitive with 9700X as mentioned. Hereticbar It's not as simple as that, price is just but one factor. I mean the 265K has been hovering between $235-275 for almost a year now on Amazon, and it hasn't exactly been flying off the shelves at their fulfillment centers if you go by their Top 10 best sellers list for processors. The 245K (currently selling as low as €178 in my country) is pretty much on par with the 9700X, a bit ahead but with higher power draw in MT, the 9750X could get ahead of the 245K by 2-3% but with heavily degraded temps and power draw.So both Intel CPUs are running away with it.AMD can only keep slashing prices to match Intel's SKUs perf/$ that is if they can afford to do so. Intel being propped up by nVidia money can forfeit their margins just to save face. And it might work, AMD's refreshes (9850X3D, 9750X, 9650X) aren't good value options instead coming across as Raptor Lake style juicers, while Intel's refreshes are shaping up to be value kings.For some people (the informed) it is very simple.The X3D crowd is a separate target demographic (which prioritizes performance over value), so if we talk vanilla CPUs that are good all-rounders and arguably better value options than X3D SKUs even in gaming then yeah the 265K wins every fight: against the 14700K, the 14900K, the 9900X, the 7950X, the 285K.At $/€180 the 245K also murders the 14600K, 9600X, 7700X, 9700X.If you want to correlate CPU popularity with userbase knowledge level (I'm being very polite here) then I think you are going down the wrong road.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country has sufficient energy supplies to meet domestic demand, even as he warned the Iran conflict creates unprecedented challenges for the world’s fastest growing large economy. “Our government’s effort has been to ensure that the supply of petrol, diesel and gas is not excessively disrupted, and that ordinary families in the country face as little t...
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country has sufficient energy supplies to meet domestic demand, even as he warned the Iran conflict creates unprecedented challenges for the world’s fastest growing large economy. “Our government’s effort has been to ensure that the supply of petrol, diesel and gas is not excessively disrupted, and that ordinary families in the country face as little trouble as possible,” Modi said during an address in the lower house of the parliament on Monday. The war in the Middle East, now in its third week, has roiled energy markets, cutting off flows of crude oil and liquefied natural gas to the world and driving up prices. India is a major importer of LNG and other petroleum fuels from the region, and disruptions have already started to hit various industries, from ceramic factories and restaurants to fertilizer makers and oil refiners. Modi said India holds 5.3 million metric tons of strategic oil reserves and is working to expand that to 6.5 million. He added that New Delhi is helping ensure safe transit for Indian vessels stranded in the Middle East. Two Indian-flagged ships carrying liquefied petroleum gas made the passage earlier this month, while two more are currently transiting the Strait of Hormuz, Bloomberg News reported Monday. “Attacks on commercial shipping and any closure of the Strait of Hormuz are unacceptable,” Modi said, adding that India imports about 60% of its LPG needs but is ramping up the production of the fuel widely used for cooking. Hormuz, a vital waterway that connects oil and gas producers in the Persian Gulf with the wider world, has been all but closed since US and Israeli strikes began at the end of February. Authorities are closely monitoring Gulf shipping routes and working to safeguard maritime trade, Modi said, adding that India’s economic strength will help absorb some of the shock. He also said the country has adequate food stocks and assured farmers of government support.
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D just dropped to its lowest-ever price of $419.95 on Amazon, down from $479. The Zen 5 gaming CPU also includes a free copy of Crimson Desert, which adds even more value to one of the fastest gaming processors available. 4 Reviews ← exclude selected types ← exclude selected tags The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D has just dropped to $419.95 on Amazon, after it hit $429 just 10 days ago. Th...
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D just dropped to its lowest-ever price of $419.95 on Amazon, down from $479. The Zen 5 gaming CPU also includes a free copy of Crimson Desert, which adds even more value to one of the fastest gaming processors available. 4 Reviews ← exclude selected types ← exclude selected tags The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D has just dropped to $419.95 on Amazon, after it hit $429 just 10 days ago. This is now its lowest-ever recorded price to date for the Zen 5 gaming CPU. The deal also includes a free copy of Crimson Desert, which adds extra value without increasing the base cost. Price tracking data from camelcamelcamel shows this is the first time the processor has reached this level on Amazon. The chip originally launched at $479, meaning the current deal gets you a $60 drop from MSRP. At a hardware level, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D features: 8 cores / 16 threads Zen 5 architecture Up to 5.2 GHz boost clock 96 MB L3 cache (3D V-Cache) 120 W TDP AM5 platform support This config is more about gaming performance rather than core count, which is AMD’s established X3D approach. According to our testing, the 9800X3D delivers top-tier gaming performance - it maintains a consistent lead over competing Intel desktop CPUs in CPU-limited scenarios. Our review also notes double-digit performance advantages in some benchmarks, although differences become smaller at higher resolutions where GPU limitations dominate for the most part. At the same time, gains over the previous 7800X3D are relatively modest, meaning the upgrade is less compelling for existing X3D users. However, for new builds, the chip is still one of the most performance-centered options in its segment. Also, just like the March 12 deal, you get the newly launched Crimson Desert for zero cost. That game is $70 on its own, and while the reviews are quite divided, it's still one of the biggest releases of 2026 so far. Combined with the CPU pricing, this is a very solid proposition, all-in-all. Buy the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D ...
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Global investors should take a fresh look at China, where rapid technological advancement is converging with declining geopolitical risk relative to other regions, senior investment executives said at the Milken Institute’s Global Investors’ Symposium on Monday. The event in Hong Kong brought together 500 business leaders and senior executives from the investment, banking, finance, technology and ...
Global investors should take a fresh look at China, where rapid technological advancement is converging with declining geopolitical risk relative to other regions, senior investment executives said at the Milken Institute’s Global Investors’ Symposium on Monday. The event in Hong Kong brought together 500 business leaders and senior executives from the investment, banking, finance, technology and consumer sectors under the theme “Capital in a Changing World”. “I think we should seriously think about China, because of its stability [in this geopolitical turmoil], and I do see ‘animal spirits’ coming back,” said Hoi Tung, CEO and chairman of Ping An Overseas Holdings, the offshore investment arm of Ping An Insurance, China’s largest insurer by market capitalisation. Advertisement Tung said the firm was reassessing the level of US exposure in its US$60 billion portfolio, citing the Iran conflict as evidence that the US was “becoming less reliable” and “not really rules-based”, and adding that China could offer investment opportunities amid the volatility. Aaron Costello, head of Asia at Cambridge Associates, a global investment firm, said he had seen a clear revival in investor interest in China’s technological advances after a prolonged lull following Covid-19. Advertisement “Last year on this stage, we were talking about how unloved China [was] and the scepticism that foreign investors had towards it,” Costello said. Now, more clients were discussing whether to visit China to assess opportunities on the ground, he said, adding that sentiment had begun to thaw particularly among European investors while their US counterparts warmed more gradually.
On guidance, for third-quarter fiscal 2026, Microsoft projects total revenues between $80.65 billion and $81.75 billion, suggesting 15-17% year-over-year growth. M365 Commercial cloud revenues are expected to grow 13-14% in constant currency. Copilot monetization and AI infrastructure buildout are the primary drivers. The key challenge remains margin pressure from heavy AI capital expenditure, wit...
On guidance, for third-quarter fiscal 2026, Microsoft projects total revenues between $80.65 billion and $81.75 billion, suggesting 15-17% year-over-year growth. M365 Commercial cloud revenues are expected to grow 13-14% in constant currency. Copilot monetization and AI infrastructure buildout are the primary drivers. The key challenge remains margin pressure from heavy AI capital expenditure, with capex at $37.5 billion in the fiscal second quarter, and capacity constraints expected at least through fiscal year-end in June 2026. On the product front, the company unveiled Microsoft 365 E7 in early 2026, integrating Microsoft 365 E5, Copilot, Entra Suite and Agent 365 into a unified, agentic AI-driven enterprise suite, set for broader availability by April 2026. On Feb. 27, Microsoft and OpenAI reaffirmed their long-term partnership, underscoring continued shared investment in AI infrastructure, models and deployment. Microsoft’s sovereign cloud enhancements, announced on Feb. 24, allow regulated industries to run large AI models even in fully disconnected environments, opening a sizable addressable market in government, defense and finance. Microsoft enters the second half of fiscal 2026 with remarkable forward momentum. Azure, the company’s cloud platform, grew 39% in second-quarter fiscal 2026, and management guided for 37-38% constant currency growth in the fiscal third quarter, supported by demand that continues to exceed available capacity. With commercial remaining performance obligations reaching $625 billion, more than doubling year over year, the visibility into future revenues is substantial. Microsoft’s Copilot AI is no longer a novelty; it is embedded across Microsoft 365, Teams, Dynamics 365 and Azure, with over 90% of Fortune 500 companies already adopting the platform. Let’s delve deep and closely compare the fundamentals of the two stocks to determine which one is a better investment now. Microsoft and Adobe are major software companies driving enter...
Nico O’Reilly has stated Manchester City “smell blood” as they hunt down Arsenal’s nine-point Premier League advantage following Sunday’s 2-0 Carabao Cup final triumph. Two second-half headers by O’Reilly defeated Mikel Arteta’s team at Wembley to give City the season’s first major trophy. Pep Guardiola’s side have a game in hand on the leaders and host them next month at the Etihad Stadium. On CB...
Nico O’Reilly has stated Manchester City “smell blood” as they hunt down Arsenal’s nine-point Premier League advantage following Sunday’s 2-0 Carabao Cup final triumph. Two second-half headers by O’Reilly defeated Mikel Arteta’s team at Wembley to give City the season’s first major trophy. Pep Guardiola’s side have a game in hand on the leaders and host them next month at the Etihad Stadium. On CBS Sports Golazo, the 21-year-old was asked if he smells blood in the water regarding catching Arsenal. He said: “Yeah, 100%. The blood never went – we’ve always smelt blood. We’re confident in ourselves, we know we can do it, they’ve got to come to our place which is a tough place to come to as everyone has seen this season. So we do smell blood and we’ve got to keep going. “It does a lot for us [winning the final], builds momentum and just push on now. Obviously it’s a big blow for them. They were going for everything, just as we were [before Real Madrid Champions League defeat].” O’Reilly admitted that switching from left-back to midfield as he did against Real can be a challenge. “It can be tough, I can have the games where I’m a bit off it as you’ve seen in the first 20 minutes away against Real Madrid in the Bernabéu,” he said. “I got caught out in behind a few times so it is hard to keep switching but to be a world-class player – which I’m trying to aspire to be – you need to be able to switch to different positions and adapt so it’s a good attribute to have.” He described how City created the moves for his headed goals against Arsenal. “It was to find the space in the right with Rayan Cherki,” he said. “We’ve seen the spaces there because [Declan] Rice likes to jump into Rodri or Bernardo [Silva] so we’ve seen Cherki is the free man and that’s where the goals came from – the right side – so it worked. O’Reilly’s teammate Rodri also believes City’s Wembley triumph over Arsenal can have a significant impact on the title race. View image in fullscreen Rodri shows off th...
A new wave of hyper-regional hoagies, subs and pizzas are taking over Manchester’s food scene. But are they really as American as apple pie? It’s just after midday, on a chilly, wind-whipped Friday in central Manchester, and an ever-growing crowd of people in puffer jackets is spilling out from a Chinatown service alley. A few yards away, there’s another huddle of bundled-up figures, dipping into ...
A new wave of hyper-regional hoagies, subs and pizzas are taking over Manchester’s food scene. But are they really as American as apple pie? It’s just after midday, on a chilly, wind-whipped Friday in central Manchester, and an ever-growing crowd of people in puffer jackets is spilling out from a Chinatown service alley. A few yards away, there’s another huddle of bundled-up figures, dipping into capacious paper bags to set up an improvised picnic on the junction boxes outside a corner pub. Fistfuls of crinkle-cut chips are snaffled, cans of pop are sipped, and, despite the pervading scent of bin juice and fried chicken, enormous, truncheon-sized sandwiches are unwrapped and messily dispatched. It looks a little like a staged re-enactment of Covid-era dining practices. Or, perhaps, a group of heavily refreshed, pub-crawling stags, fuelling up with all the restraint and decorum of town-centre pigeons. But if you are even slightly familiar with Manchester and its recent food scene, then you will know that this is a regular sight at Fat Pat’s : a takeaway operation run out of a literal hole-in-the-wall that has turned word-of-mouth, social media virality and a studiedly underground brand identity into one of the city’s biggest success stories. Continue reading...
The Trump administration is embracing violence for the sake of violence It appears that members of Trump’s cabinet get chosen not despite their endorsements of violence, but because of them. Pete Hegseth was primarily known as a dapper TV host willing to defend war crimes. Markwayne Mullin is apparently still proud of challenging a witness to a fistfight at a Senate hearing ; he also refuses to ap...
The Trump administration is embracing violence for the sake of violence It appears that members of Trump’s cabinet get chosen not despite their endorsements of violence, but because of them. Pete Hegseth was primarily known as a dapper TV host willing to defend war crimes. Markwayne Mullin is apparently still proud of challenging a witness to a fistfight at a Senate hearing ; he also refuses to apologize for “understanding” an assault on fellow senator Rand Paul. Never before has an administration so openly glorified outright killing as the current White House propaganda machine does with its obscene snuff videos of the Iran war and the destruction of small boats. Unlike with fascism in the 20th century, there is no attempt to promote or symbolically reward self-sacrifice – it is just video game-style killing at a distance, justified not with strategic objectives, but with seemingly uncontrollable emotions (“fury” and a thirst for vengeance ). And all accompanied by open admissions that basic laws of warfare will be broken. Actual soldiers with longstanding codes of honor, as opposed to the fantasy world Hegseth is creating with his cliche-ridden chatter on TV, would not punch enemies when they are down. Continue reading...