LAS VEGAS: A Nevada judge was attacked Jan 3 by a defendant in a felony battery case who leaped over a defence table and the judge’s bench, landing atop her and sparking a bloody brawl involving court officials and attorneys, officials and witnesses said. In a violent scene captured by …

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian ringgit and Indonesia’s rupiah are expected to be outperformers in the region in 2024 “on a relative basis,” benefitting most from monetary policy divergence, said Standard Chartered (StanChart). “In terms of relative performance, we expect the IDR (Indonesian rupiah) and MYR (Malaysian ringgit) to outperform and …

Who said Apple isn’t investing in artificial intelligence? The US-based company is working on a multimodal language model that could soon provide a boost to many tools, from its intelligent assistant Siri to Photos. Called Ferret, it is the Cupertino firm’s answer to Google’s recently unveiled Gemini. Artificial intelligence was …

BEIJING: Ban Ruiqi and her family recently took a trip to Harbin in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province. Despite the extremely cold weather there, the tourists from Beijing skied, shopped, and generally had a good time during the three-day New Year holiday. “We went to the Chinese-Baroque Historic Block in the …

MEXICO CITY: A cartel in the embattled central Mexico state of Michoacan set up its own makeshift Internet antennas and told locals they had to pay to use its WiFi service or they would be killed, state prosecutors said Wednesday (Jan 3). Dubbed “narco-antennas” by local media, the cartel’s system …

SEREMBAN: Attempts to topple the administration are highly irresponsible but the unity government does not wish to dwell on them, says Anthony Loke. The Transport Minister said critics of the government, Perikatan Nasional in particular, can keep talking about “Langkah Dubai” (Dubai Move), “Langkah Alor Setar” or even “Langkah Chow …

SHANGHAI: Shares in Tencent Holdings Ltd and its Chinese rivals shrugged off signs Beijing is trying to tamp down a backlash against harsh new regulations that triggered an US$80bil rout. Beijing has removed a top official who helped oversee China’s gaming industry, Reuters and the South China Morning Post reported. …

LOS ANGELES: A US teenager has beaten classic computer game Tetris, forcing it into a game-ending glitch in a feat previously achieved only by artificial intelligence. Willis Gibson, 13, a competitive gamer known as “blue scuti”, became the first human to reach the “kill screen” of the Nintendo version of …

WAJIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Hotel chef Makoto Wakabayashi was among those in Wajima hoping for a banner year as visitors returned to the scenic, seaside town that weathered more than two years of pandemic gloom. Those dreams came apart in minutes of violent shaking on New Year’s Day, when the …

LABUAN: Datuk Wan Mohd Fadzmi Che Wan Othman Fadzilah has been appointed as the chairman of the Labuan Financial Services Authority (Labuan FSA), effective Jan 1, 2023, for a two-year term. In a statement today, the Labuan FSA said Wan Mohd Fadzmi was appointed by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) …