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'Salesman' PM Srettha travels world to court investments
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/11/2023
» Srettha Thavisin, a former property tycoon turned prime minister, has spent the two months he has been in office focused on turning around Thailand’s below-par economic performance.
Thailand bets on EVs to draw trillion baht in foreign investment
Bloomberg News, Published on 26/10/2023
» Thailand, renowned as the ‘Detroit of Asia’ for its production of internal combustion engine cars, wants to break into the top tier of electric vehicle (EV) makers as part of a goal to lure 1 trillion baht (US$28 billion) of investments in four years.
The case for flying cars as a climate solution
Bloomberg News, Published on 13/04/2023
» SILICON VALLEY: George Jetson, the character in the animated television series The Jetsons, was born in a fictional 2022. By the time he reaches middle age, forty years later, people are zooming around in flying cars.
AI-generated anime selfies propel beauty app to top in Japan
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/12/2022
» HONG KONG: The ability to turn a user’s selfie into an anime character has turbocharged the Meitu app to the top of Japan’s download rankings over the past week, spurring a big jump in the company’s shares.
Renault, Google to make cars ‘like mobile phones’
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/11/2022
» Renault SA is deepening its collaboration with Alphabet Inc’s Google in a bid to extend capabilities on remote software updates to new models, such as the electric Megane E-Tech and Austral.
Can AI gain sentience?
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/06/2022
» Media coverage of artificial intelligence tends to invoke tired references to The Terminator or 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000 killing a spaceship’s passengers. Hollywood loves a story about a sentient robot destroying humanity to survive.
Southeast Asia travel is catching up at last as Covid curbs ease
Bloomberg News, Published on 30/04/2022
» Southeast Asia is finally, tentatively throwing off the shackles of Covid-19 and reopening for travel, with airlines filling an increasing number of seats as holiday-starved masses arrange overseas vacations for the first time in two years.
Facebook shares collapse after TikTok steals user attention
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/02/2022
» Facebook’s user growth faltered in the latest quarter, the first stagnation in the social network’s history, part of dire earnings that caused Meta Platforms Inc’s stock to collapse 20% in pre-market trading on Thursday, wiping about $200 billion from its market value.
India reports first Omicron case: Virus Update
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/12/2021
» Omicron continued its worldwide spread. India reported its first cases of the variant, but one prominent expert said it may not be as deadly as the earlier Delta surge in the country. Singapore, South Korea, Greece, Finland and Ghana also reported new Omicron cases.
YouTube going to hide 'dislike' counts
Business, Bloomberg News, Published on 12/11/2021
» YouTube will no longer show the number of "dislikes" on videos, an attempt to make the platform more hospitable to creators.