Sony has delayed hosting a showcase event for its next games console. In a statement it did not directly mention the civil unrest in the US, but alluded to it saying “we do not feel that right now is a time for celebration”, adding it wanted “more important voices to […]
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SINGAPORE: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Facebook will launch a nine-month pilot programme to offer new courses aimed at developing local data centre talent. The programme, which starts in August, will offer four specialist certificates and one graduate certificate, said the university and Facebook in a media release on Monday […]
May was the sunniest calendar month on record, and spring was the sunniest spring, the Met Office has said. The UK enjoyed 266 hours of sunshine in May – surpassing the previous record of 265 hours in June 1957. And it is even more extraordinary following a drenching winter, with […]
HONG KONG: Hong Kong had no plans to change its currency’s peg to the US dollar and the Asian financial hub has not seen any “obvious” capital outflows after Washington moved to strip the city of its special status in US law, the city’s finance secretary said. Paul Chan said […]
The discovery of a new breeding pair raises hope for the survival of the world’s rarest primate, the Hainan Gibbon. Ravaged by deforestation and poaching, the ape now lives only in a patch of forest on China’s Hainan island. In the 1950s, there were an estimated 2,000 left in the […]
SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday (Jun 1) it has begun construction of a new domestic production line for NAND flash memory chips, betting on demand for personal computers and servers as the coronavirus prompts more people to work from home. The world’s largest memory chip maker is […]
NEW DELHI: India has ordered its internet service providers (ISPs) to block file-sharing website WeTransfer at a time when hundreds of millions of people are working from home because of a nationwide lockdown to stop the novel coronavirus. The order, dated May 18, from India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT), which […]
ATLANTA, Georgia: Delta Air Lines Inc and its pilots union said on Sunday (May 31) they are working to avoid furloughs of roughly 2,300 pilots following a reshuffling process meant to match staffing to summer 2021 flying. Delta said this month that it would have more pilots than needed as […]
In the 2006 Faisalabad Test, Pakistan’s 588 runs in their first innings was matched by India with their 603 runs, which had a 210-run sixth-wicket stand between MS Dhoni (148) and Irfan Pathan (90). The 2006 Faisalabad Test between India and Pakistan is best remembered by MS Dhoni’s first-ever Test […]
SYDNEY: Google has rejected demands it pay hundreds of millions of dollars per year in compensation to Australian news media under a government-imposed revenue-sharing deal. The company’s top executive in Australia said Google made barely A$10 million (US$6.7 million) per year from news-linked advertising, a fraction of a government watchdog’s […]