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Hong Kong welcomes 213,000 mainland tourists as 'golden week' break starts
Published on 02/05/2025
» More than 213,000 mainland Chinese visitors flocked to Hong Kong on the first day of the Labour Day "golden week" holiday on Thursday, looking forward to some hiking, treating their taste buds at street food stalls and restaurants, and enjoying a dazzling drone show in the night sky above Victoria Harbour.
AI surge ‘to double data centre power demand by 2030’
AFP, Published on 10/04/2025
» PARIS - Electricity consumption by data centres will more than double by 2030, driven by artificial intelligence applications that will create new challenges for energy security and CO2 emission goals, according to the the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Rory sharpens game, Hovland tweaks
Sports, Published on 28/03/2025
» When it comes to this fickle sport called golf, the old saying 'different strokes for different folks' holds true when it comes to the pursuit of perfection and golfing immortality.
Taiwan condemns China's 'shooting' drills off southwest coast
Reuters, Published on 26/02/2025
» TAIPEI — China's military has set up a drill zone for "shooting training" about 40 nautical miles (74 kilometres) off Taiwan's southwest coast without prior notification, the island's defence ministry said on Wednesday, condemning the move as a provocative and dangerous.
Evacuations underway as Philippine volcano erupts
Published on 09/12/2024
» A volcano erupted in the central Philippines on Monday, sending a huge ash column high into the sky as the government ordered the evacuation of surrounding villages.
Typhoon Usagi threatens Philippines, latest in string of storms
Bloomberg News, Published on 14/11/2024
» MANILA — The Philippines is bracing for its fifth powerful storm in three weeks, with Super Typhoon Usagi set to strike the country’s north on Thursday afternoon before tracking toward Taiwan.
Taiwan signals new openness to nuclear power
News, Published on 23/10/2024
» Taiwan is "very open" to using new nuclear technology to meet surging demand from chipmakers devouring electricity in the AI boom, according to Premier Cho Jung-tai -- one of the strongest signs yet that the government is rethinking its opposition to reactors.
Turning smart glasses into surveillance tools
Life, James Hein, Published on 23/10/2024
» I'm sure most readers are familiar with the Apple Vision Pro, and may have also been witness to someone wearing one out in the real world, because I have. Since then, there has been a new version of the Meta Ray-Bans that look like a pair of nerd glasses from the 1970s. The latter have turned into something from the TV series Person Of Interest by a couple of Harvard undergrads. The pair, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, are known for their punch-activated flamethrower. This time they built a system that allows the Ray-Bans to scan faces of people in view, pass this to an AI system that scans the internet for identification, and builds a dossier that is passed back to the glasses. It's called I-XRAY and challenges the concept of privacy because, if available, it will even provide details like address and social security number.
Japan sends first warship through Taiwan Strait, defying China
Bloomberg News, Published on 26/09/2024
» TAIPEI - Three United States allies sent warships through the Taiwan Strait in a rare defiance of China in those waters, on the same day Beijing fired its first intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean in 44 years.
US nuclear plant revived to help power AI
Published on 20/09/2024
» A unit at the Three Mile Island power plant, the site of the worst nuclear accident in American history, will restart operations to sell power to Microsoft for energy-hungry data centres tapping the boom in artificial intelligence.