Billionaire Bill Gates recommends four books you must read this year
The billionaire Microsoft founder and philanthropist released his recommended summer reading list on Tuesday.
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You’re buying so much from Temu and Shein the air cargo industry can’t keep up
The Chinese e-commerce sites ship the equivalent of 88 Boeing 777 freighters of cargo worldwide every day.
Passenger dies after ‘severe turbulence’ on Singapore Airlines flight—Here’s how rare such casualties are
Flight attendants have accounted for most turbulence-related injuries in recent decades.
Bezos Reclaims World’s 2nd-Richest Title From Musk—As Net Worth Tops $200 Billion
Billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos still trail LVMH magnate Bernard Arnault.
Who is Mohammad Mokhber? Iran’s new acting president was investment leader once sanctioned by US and EU.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed the country’s first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, as the acting president before a new election following the president’s death in a helicopter crash—elevating a longtime ally of Iranian hardliners who once ran the country’s state-related investment firm and oversaw a weapons sale to Russia.
CBA-backed Aussie payments startup Karta bags Visa deal
The company, which says it’s revolutionised the gift card, will become the first-ever non-bank private label issuer in the US to process transactions on VisaNet.
Here’s what an ICC arrest warrant means for Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu – and others, like Putin
The International Criminal Court on Monday confirmed it is seeking arrest warrants for several Israeli and Hamas leaders—including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—over alleged war crimes committed on Oct. 7 and during the ongoing conflict in Gaza, but even if the warrants are approved, there is no guarantee the leaders will ever be arrested or tried on charges.
Ex-Microsoft execs pour $5.1 million into new genAI startup
The new company, SpatialGPT, aims to help organisations transform how spaces are constructed, managed and used.
Inside Quora’s quest for relevance: Why CEO Adam D’Angelo has gone all in on AI
Nearly 15 years after founding Quora, D’Angelo wants to reinvent the question-and answer company around AI—before it goes the way of Yahoo Answers.
‘In disbelief’: OpenAI is pulling ChatGPT voice ‘Sky’ that sounds like Scarlett Johansson
OpenAI has acknowledged Sky, one of five voices for its ChatGPT voice assistant, sounds like Scarlett Johansson but said it belongs to a different voice actress and is “not an imitation.”