Day: April 11, 2023
Will Trump attend his rape trial? Judge wants to know
Writer E Jean Carroll sued the former president in November, saying he raped her in early 1996 after a chance meeting at the Bergdorf Goodman department store.
South Korea fines Google ~$32M for squeezing out a rival app store by allegedly asking Korean and Chinese firms to release games exclusively in the Play Store (Heejin Kim/Bloomberg)
Heejin Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korea fines Google ~$32M for squeezing out a rival app store by allegedly asking Korean and Chinese firms to release games exclusively in the Play Store — South Korea fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google 42.1 b…
A punch in the face for Xi caricature: Taiwan air force badge goes viral
Taiwanese are rushing to buy patches being worn by their air force pilots that depict a Formosan black bear punching Winnie the Pooh – representing China’s President Xi Jinping – as a defiant symbol of the island’s resistance to Chinese war games.
‘We’re here to stay’: Defiant settlers, hardline ministers march to West Bank outpost
The march to Eviatar, an unauthorised outpost evacuated by the previous Israeli government in 2021, was led by ultranationalist Jewish settlers, among them cabinet ministers.
Alibaba Cloud unveils its ChatGPT-style product Tongyi Qianwen and says it will roll out the AI chatbot into all products starting with DingTalk and Tmall Genie (Sheila Chiang/CNBC)
Sheila Chiang / CNBC:
Alibaba Cloud unveils its ChatGPT-style product Tongyi Qianwen and says it will roll out the AI chatbot into all products starting with DingTalk and Tmall Genie — – Chinese tech giant Alibaba revealed its ChatG…
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 412
As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 412th day, we take a look at the main developments.
People Working In The Office Spend 25% More Time On Career Development
Workers in the office spend 25% more time in career-development activities than their remote counterparts, according to new data from a team of economists who have analyzed working from home since the pandemic began.
Volcano erupts in Russia’s Far East, covering towns in ash
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Commentary: Why Taiwan matters to the world
A dangerous rise in tensions with Beijing is a price worth paying to protect a flourishing Asian democracy, says Gideon Rachman for the Financial Times.