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‘Western tech dominance fading’ at Lisbon’s Web Summit
Paris (AFP) - Global tech leaders will pack Lisbon's annual Web Summit from Tuesday to talk Artificial Intelligence, robots and...
Asian stocks rise as record US shutdown nears end
Hong Kong (AFP) - Most Asian markets rose for the second day in a row Tuesday as US lawmakers edged...
AI agents open door to new hacking threats
New York (AFP) - Cybersecurity experts are warning that artificial intelligence agents, widely considered the next frontier in the generative...
France moves to suspend Shein website as first store opens in Paris
Paris (AFP) - Shein opened its first physical store worldwide in Paris under the eye of riot police, as the...
From Club Med to Beverly Hills: Assinie, the Ivorian Riviera
Assinie-Mafia (Ivory Coast) (AFP) - Locals in Assinie reminisce about the old days when the now-shuttered Club Med in southeastern...
The AI revolution has a power problem
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - In the race for AI dominance, American tech giants have the money and the...
The AI revolution has a power problem
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - In the race for AI dominance, American tech giants have the money and the...
Big lips and botox: In Trump’s world, fashion and makeup get political
Washington (AFP) - Long, blond, wavy hair, heavy makeup and cosmetic injections: like many women in Donald Trump's orbit, political...
Shein vows to cooperate with France in probe over childlike sex dolls
Paris (AFP) - Asian e-commerce giant Shein Tuesday pledged to "cooperate fully" with French judicial authorities after an uproar over...
UPS, FedEx ground MD-11 cargo planes after deadly crash
Washington (AFP) - Freight carriers UPS and FedEx said they have grounded their fleets of MD-11 cargo planes, after one...
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