Some 500 guests are expected to attend an Apec finance ministers’ meeting in Hong Kong in October, the first to be held in the city, with authorities set to appoint a team led by two senior officials to oversee planning for the event. Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui Ching-yu told a…
While the main series might be over, Netflix is far from done with Stranger Things. The first spin-off to hit the streaming service will be Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85. The company had said that the animated show would arrive sometime this year and now, alongside a new trailer, it confirmed a release date of…
After weeks of flooding the internet with nonconsensual sexual deepfakes, X has finally reined in Elon Musk’s rogue chatbot Grok. Musk claims Grok obeys local laws and refuses to produce anything illegal — except it hasn’t and it can. My testing shows Grok still readily undresses men and is still churning out intimate images on…
Ring is opening its Search Party pet finder service to non-Ring owners through the free Ring Neighbors app. The service has helped reunite owners with “more than one lost dog a day” since launch, according to the company. Anyone in the US can share a photo of their missing pet after they download and register…
Alibaba Group Holding has joined rivals including Tencent Holdings and Baidu in rolling out Spring Festival red-packet giveaways to drive mass-market adoption of its artificial intelligence apps, committing 3 billion yuan (US$432 million) to spur spending across its ecosystem as it seeks to extend its edge in foundational models to consumer-facing products. The Hangzhou-based e-commerce…
While the office got built, the bonus tax remained and JP Morgan did not, in the end, stop buying gilts, this episode is an incredible live example of the relative power of government and financial markets, of the actual dynamics of the “bond vigilantes”.
Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. The Pixel camera is arguably one of the most powerful smartphone camerasavailable, but like so many of Google’s products, some of the best features require a little digging. I’ve tested almost every Pixel camera to date, and I’ve learned that the best picture quality begins…
