RECENTLY there has been a spate of attacks on professional Malaysian footballers, from muggings to even acid attacks, and the public has been left confused as to why our sportsmen are being targetted. Read full story
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will add large fin whales to its list of commercial whaling species, government spokesperson Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Thursday, five years after leaving an international body that regulates the commercial hunt of the marine mammals. Read full story
Alphabet Inc chief executive officer Sundar Pichai says artificial intelligence has been a key focus of the Google parent since 2016, back when ChatGPT-maker OpenAI was in its infancy. After all, Google researchers invented the "T” in GPT (as in generative pre-trained transformer). It was a critical innovation that made conversational search using large language models possible. Read full story
Pichai during an interview on ‘The Circuit with Emily Chang’ at Google's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California, US, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Pichai says artificial intelligence has been a key focus of the Google parent since 2016, back when ChatGPT-maker OpenAI was in its infancy. — Bloomberg
(Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire and damaged several storage tanks at a fuel depot in Russia's Krasnodar region, the region's crisis administration said on Thursday. Read full story
KUCHING: The devolution of education powers to Sarawak should be incorporated into regulations or statutory amendments to ensure continuity, the Sarawak legislative assembly heard. Read full story
(Reuters) - Marine conservationists and government scientists are seeking clues to the mystery of how a 44-foot whale carcass ended up on the bow of a cruise liner, where it was discovered as the ship approached New York City's Port of Brooklyn over the weekend. Read full story
HULU SELANGOR: Perikatan Nasional chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has done more for Umno compared to Pakatan Harapan, says Bersatu vice-president Datuk Seri Ronald Kiandee. Read full story
The trumpet is the first thing to be squished. Then the industrial compressor flattens a row of paint cans, buckles a piano and levels what appears to be a marble bust. In a final act of destruction, it pops the eyes out of a ball-shaped yellow emoji. Read full story
Customers and employees crowd an Apple store in Grand Central Station on Tuesday, on Aug. 1, 2023. Apple’s latest iPad Pro has a more powerful chip inside, but a new ad for the device has been criticised in some circles. — The New York Times
MALAYSIANS often react strongly to news about how the country is doing according to international performance indices in all sorts of areas, from education and press freedom levels to how happy we are. Read full story
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