TikTok settles for over $100 million in mental health lawsuit, Alabama AG says
The Alabama Attorney General’s Office announced Friday it reached a minimum $100 million settlement deal with TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, days before a state court was set to hear argume...
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ROG’s Xbox Ally X20 and Xreal R1 Edition 20 bundle opens for pre-order at S$3,599
The Xbox Ally X20 comes with quality-of-life improvements including an OLED display and drift-resistant TMR joysticks....
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Appeals court rules against Kalshi, says prediction markets can be regulated like gambling
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the prediction market Kalshi on Friday, determining states can regulate prediction market platforms like gambling in the latest blow to the industry...
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Trump rules out Bessent as AI czar
President Trump said Friday he is ruling out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to serve as his artificial intelligence czar amid speculation the Cabinet member was under consideration. Trump, in a Trut...
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DC appeals court sides with Pentagon on blacklist of Anthropic
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sided with the Trump administration in its blacklisting of the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, allowing the Pentagon to label the AI firm a suppl...
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Palace seeks balanced approach to social media franchise plan
MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Friday called for a balanced approach to a proposal to require social media platforms to obtain a congressional franchise to operate in the Philippines. Palace Pres...
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Hyundai Motor poised to rank No. 3 in US quarterly sales, closing in on Ford
Hyundai Motor Group is poised to overtake Ford Motor in quarterly vehicle sales in the United States for the first time, underscoring the growing presence of the Korean automaker in the world’s larges...
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China routes emerge as key revenue source for struggling Korean LCCs
China is emerging as a critical earnings lifeline for Korea’s struggling low-cost carriers (LCCs), offering them access to fast-growing passenger demand and lucrative business traffic as growth in oth...
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Coupang dispute raises stakes in Korea's $350 bil. US investment talks
Korean regulators’ hardline stance toward Coupang is complicating Seoul’s talks with Washington over the next stages of its planned $350 billion investment in the United States. The latest development...
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Trump: Xi 'seemed to like' calling AI 'super intelligence'
President Trump said on Friday that Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared to like referring to artificial intelligence as “super intelligence” days after Trump announced the U.S. would be using the ne...
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Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Atlas could help researchers find the genetic causes of diseases
AlphaGenome Atlas contains predictions for the molecular effects of all roughly 9 billion possible single-letter changes in human DNA. Researchers can search the database to see how individual variant...
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Software fix for the iPhone 18 Pro’s Face ID freezing and rebooting issue is coming next week
A small number of users are said to be facing issues with their new iPhone’s Face ID system....
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Ecosystem Roundup: Seoul tops AI implementation as Singapore joins the global top tier
San Francisco and New York still lead The Observer‘s inaugural AI Cities Index, but the more consequential finding sits further east. Six of the world’s top 10 AI cities are in East and Southeast Asia...
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Xi at White House, trade-war truce extension, Golden Week travel
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump discussed artificial intelligence (AI) and Taiwan at the White House on Thursday as part of a state visit dominated by pageantry. On AI, Xi s...
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What MARINA’s system failure reveals about government readiness
MANILA, Philippines — In the digital age, it only takes one cyberattack to bring a government service to a halt. When the Maritime Industry Authority’s (MARINA) seafarer document system was hit, the d...
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Xi-Trump dinner puts US tech titans in spotlight – what does it mean for China ties?
If the American guests seated at the head table with President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump at Thursday’s White House state dinner were any indication, Washington now views its relationshi...
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HWZ Tech Awards 2026 Readers’ Choice - Vote and Win!
Voting for the HardwareZone Tech Awards 2026 Readers’ Choice is now open! Stand a chance to win $3,000 worth of Grab Vouchers!...
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UAAP Esports eyes main event status after quick success
MANILA, Philippines – UAAP Esports is no longer content with proving that esports belong in the collegiate sports scene. It now wants to prove that it can draw the same respect, attention, and energy ...
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Altcoins are running on real news, Wall Street is running on fear
Asian stocks and bonds fell as a global bond selloff deepened and inflation fears intensified, with oil prices remaining elevated. Regional indices pointed lower in early trading. Wall Street had fini...
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Lenovo Idea Tab Pro Gen 2 review: The tablet that travels to work
The Idea Tab Pro Gen 2 is the latest mid-range enterprise tablet from Lenovo. Released only this year, it refreshes and refines the specs and functions that came to define its predecessor. At a time w...
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Same failure, better clothes: Matchmade.io on selling Indonesian finance tech in Singapore
There is a particular misery that visits finance departments in the last week of every month. The sales figure on the point-of-sale screen says one thing, the bank statement says another, and somebody...
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Citi, HSBC back iPiD’s US$16M round to make instant payments safer across borders
Hitting “send” on a bank transfer used to come with a cushion of time. A payment might sit in a queue for hours, sometimes days, giving banks and senders a window to notice a mistyped account number o...
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Vision AI expands visibility across remote pipeline corridors
Pipeline operators already receive large volumes of asset data, but physical activity along remote rights-of-way remains difficult to observe continuously. Vision AI is beginning to turn existing infr...
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GoodARCH launches AI foot mapping in Malaysia with US$230K healthtech investment
For many people, foot pain is ignored until it starts changing everyday behaviour. They walk less, avoid stairs, switch shoes, or live with knee and back discomfort that seems unrelated. GoodARCH is b...
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AI made the first draft easier. It didn’t make client decisions easier
A few years ago, the early stages of a video project often began almost from zero. We would talk through the client’s direction, work out a script, develop the visual approach and gradually turn a loo...
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AI vs agtech: How AI is revolutionising agriculture
AI technology is transforming the agricultural industry, changing how the outside world views farming and creating a data-driven system that ensures precision and maximises yields. Imagine a world whe...
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AI will not become your employee. It will change what work has to be managed
Most AI writing about work still frames the shift too narrowly. The conversation often starts with a familiar question: which tasks can AI do? That is a useful starting point, but it misses the more i...
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The most expensive links aren’t really links: What 16,625 publisher price lists tell SEA startups
Founders still ask me the question they asked in 2019: what does a good backlink cost. This September I finally answered it properly. ESBO Ltd, the link building and digital PR agency I run, exported ...
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Zuckerberg, Altman, other Big Tech moguls among attendees at Trump-Xi dinner
President Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House for a state dinner Thursday, whose guest list is full of tech billionaires and some of the world’s most powerful business leaders...
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The founder’s dilemma: Structured serendipity
I was sitting in a cafe in Kuala Lumpur recently, sipping an iced mixed coffee with orange, when I realised that the way I organise for trips is exactly how I used to try to “organise” my startup. I w...
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