JAMES DUNCAN DAVIDSONElon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink livestreamed on Wednesday its first patient implanted with a chip using his mind to play online chess.Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralyzed below the shoulder after a diving accident, played chess on his laptop and moved

COMMONS.WIKIMEDIA.ORGTAIPEI – Taiwan’s top security official said on Thursday he does not currently recommend President Tsai Ing-wen visit the South China Sea given the possible risk to her flight from “interference by relevant countries” given China’s military presence there.Both Taiwan and China claim most of the South China

REUTERSLONDON – Britain’s banks and other financial firms are boosting the number of women in senior management roles, but unless the pace quickens, it will take until 2038 to reach gender parity, the finance ministry said on Thursday.The ministry’s Women in Finance Charter was launched in 2016, with signatory

Army soldier figurines are displayed in front of the Ukrainian and Russian flag colors background in this illustration taken, Feb. 13, 2022. — REUTERS/DADO RUVIC/ILLUSTRATIONBRUSSELS – European Union leaders will discuss a plan on Thursday to use billions of euros in profits from frozen Russian financial assets to buy arms for Ukraine as

STOCK IMAGE | Image by Vectonauta on FreepikSocial media platform Reddit priced its initial public offering at the top of its targeted range of $31 to $34 per share on Wednesday, raising $748 million and giving the ailing technology IPO market a much-needed boost.Reddit and its

STOCK PHOTO | Image by Bob Williams from PixabayBritish pharmaceutical giant GSK said on Wednesday it would cap out-of-pocket costs for all its inhaled asthma and chronic lung disease medicines at $35 per month for eligible patients in the United States, following similar moves by two

SAM BANKMAN-Fried, the founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, arrives at a courthouse in New York, U.S., Aug. 11, 2023. — REUTERS/EDUARDO MUNOZ NEW YORK – Sam Bankman-Fried is delusional in claiming the possibility customers of now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange may recover funds means he did not steal, his successor as

BW FILE PHOTOWASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday recent high inflation readings had not changed the underlying “story” of slowly easing price pressures in the US as the central bank stayed on track for three interest rate cuts this year and affirmed that solid