BOSTON (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google is set to go before a federal jury in Boston on Tuesday in a trial over accusations that processors it uses to power artificial intelligence technology in key products infringe a computer scientist’s patents. Singular Computing, founded by Massachusetts-based computer scientist Joseph Bates, claims Google …

KUALA LUMPUR: Six policemen were among seven individuals detained in separate operations last week and Monday after they were suspected of processing and distributing ketum juice. Brickfields district police chief ACP Amihizam Abdul Shukor said four police personnel were arrested by the Bukit Aman Integrity and Standards Compliance Department (JIPS) …

(Reuters) – Sebastien Loeb took stage four of the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as home favourite Yazeed Al Rajhi stretched his overall lead in the car category. Nine-times world rally champion Loeb, racing a Prodrive Hunter for the Bahrain Raid Xtreme team, finished the 299-km stage from …

WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s president posed next to two lawmakers as police were searching for them to put them in prison on Tuesday amid an standoff between the government and the head of state over their status. The pictures, posted on social media platform X by President Andrzej Duda’s office, …

PETALING JAYA: The reassignment of nurses from clinics to wards is a good move to optimise nursing staff amid shortage of staff issues at public healthcare facilities, says Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) president Dr Azizan Abdul Aziz. She said the reassignments could even reduce the workload significantly, especially in hospital …

QUITO (Reuters) – At least four Ecuadorean police officers have been kidnapped by criminals, the police said on Tuesday, and explosions occurred in several cities, a day after President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency. Noboa, a former legislator and son of one of the country’s richest men, took …

TENOM: A witness in the trial of preacher Ebit Irawan Ibrahim Lew, also known as Ebit Lew, told the Magistrate’s Court here on Tuesday that attempts to retrieve deleted conversation messages from a woman’s Whatsapp application on a mobile phone were unsuccessful. Royal Malaysia Police senior audio-video analyst Latifah Abdul …

(Reuters) – Juniper Networks’ shares climbed 23% in premarket trading on Tuesday after reports Hewlett Packard Enterprise was nearing a $13 billion deal for the networking gear maker to capitalize on the boom in artificial intelligence. A deal could be announced as early as this week, a person familiar with …

Rickie Fowler promised his fans “don’t have to worry” about him leaving the PGA Tour behind in favor of LIV Golf in an interview with Golfweek on Sunday. Fowler was the subject of speculation after his longtime sponsors, Farmers Insurance and Rocket Mortgage, disappeared from his hat and shirt during …

KOTA TINGGI: The exceptionally heavy or extraordinary rainfall on Jan 4 and Jan 5, which exceeded the monthly rainfall, has been identified as the cause of floods in the district since Sunday. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who is also the National Disaster Management Committee chairman, …