Pig butchering scam results in four indictments, two arrests: DOJ

Pig butchering scam results in four indictments, two arrests: DOJ

Las Vegas Review-journal | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Federal prosecutors have disrupted a so-called pig-butchering scheme that cost victims more than $80 million, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. Four men have been indicted and two arrests have been made in one of the most sweeping enforcement actions yet on a type … Read more

Chinese game makers Tencent, NetEase tout ‘social values’ in biggest titles as regulatory crackdown weighs on industry

Chinese game makers Tencent, NetEase tout ‘social values’ in biggest titles as regulatory crackdown weighs on industry

“Tech for Good is one of Tencent’s missions and visions, and League of Legends is adhering to this to make the world warmer,” said Su, adding that the title developed by US subsidiary Riot Games has contributed to more than 10 philanthropic projects covering environmental protection and medical service improvements over the past decade. ByteDance … Read more

Intel 14th-gen Meteor Lake: architecture, specs, performance

Intel 14th-gen Meteor Lake: architecture, specs, performance

Intel’s 14th-gen Meteor Lake processors are here, and they’re ready to compete against some of the best processors for laptops. While they don’t currently — and may never — have desktop counterparts, Meteor Lake chips bring improved graphics performance, AI capabilities, and high core counts to thin and light laptops. What’s new in Meteor Lake, … Read more

Weekend flash deal saves you $200 on the MacBook Air with M2

Weekend flash deal saves you 0 on the MacBook Air with M2

Apple The MacBook Air is probably the most well-known thin and light laptop on the market, and it’s hard to think of any other laptop that comes close besides Dell’s XPS lineup. Still, if you want something within Apple’s ecosystem, then the MacBook Air M2 is the best MacBook to buy if you’re doing so … Read more

Amazon courts sellers at China summit as Temu and Shein gain momentum

Amazon courts sellers at China summit as Temu and Shein gain momentum

Packages move along a conveyor at an Amazon fulfillment center on Cyber Monday in Robbinsville, New Jersey, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is making a fresh appeal to China-based sellers as it fends off growing competition from discount online retailers Temu and Shein, which both have … Read more

Tang Xiao’ou, the CUHK professor and founder of the artificial intelligence giant SenseTime, dies at age 55

Tang Xiao’ou, the CUHK professor and founder of the artificial intelligence giant SenseTime, dies at age 55

SenseTime’s corporate mission – set out by Tang – to create a better AI-empowered future through innovation “will inspire everybody to ascend to the top and complete his unfinished business”, the company added. A logo of SenseTime at the World artificial intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 6, 2023. Photo: Reuters. Tang, who taught … Read more

A Mac gaming renaissance is upon us

A Mac gaming renaissance is upon us

I don’t often get to say this, but this has been a great year for Mac gaming. And I don’t just mean there have been a few positives here and there — I’d go as far as saying it’s been a transformative 12 months for games on Apple’s platform. Of course, things aren’t perfect, and … Read more

How to control your computer from your phone

How to control your computer from your phone

There are plenty of reasons to have a remote control for your computer. Maybe you need a way to access your files from outside your home, or you use a “headless” system without a monitor. Or maybe you just don’t want to get up to turn on your HTPC and would rather your phone did all … Read more

DocuSign shares spike on report company is exploring a sale

DocuSign shares spike on report company is exploring a sale

The Docusign Inc. application for download in the Apple App Store on a smartphone arranged in Dobbs Ferry, New York, U.S., on Thursday, April 1, 2021. Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images DocuSign shares rose as much as 15% and closed up 12% on Friday after the Wall Street Journal reported the e-signature software … Read more

Bilibili’s top bullet comment of 2023 is “ah?” as users expressed surprise 13 million times this year

Bilibili’s top bullet comment of 2023 is “ah?” as users expressed surprise 13 million times this year

Chinese video streaming platform Bilibili’s word of 2023 is a single-character question of shock: Ah? The word, written simply as a in pinyin, was used as an interrogative clause 13.2 million times on the platform this year, flooding viewers’ screens in Bilibili’s famed “bullet comments”, which whisk by in horizontal streams atop videos as people … Read more