Foxconn Chairman Liu Young-way told the company’s annual shareholders meeting the firm remained cautious about this year due to monetary policy tightening, geopolitical tensions and uncertainty over inflation, but servers were a bright spot due to surging interest in AI.”More and more people are using ChatGPT,” he said. “You can see the market for AI servers will rise much faster than expected. We expect that in the second half of this year there may be a three digit increase.”The Taiwanese company has a 40% global market share for servers and aims to further increase that, Liu added.In the first quarter,…
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By Linh Le  May 31, 2023 | 04:12pm GMT+7 The husband of Miss Gay Mato Grosso 2023 contestant Nathally Becker, went on stage and destroyed the winner’s crown after his wife was announced as coming second. Oliveira throws the winner’s crown to the floor on May 27, 2023. Photo from Daron Bartlett’s Twitter The event in the Brazilian city of Cuiabá had a freak ending when Matheus Oliveira took to the stage and threw the winner’s crown to the floor, breaking it into pieces, after his wife was announced as the runner-up, according to the DailyMail.Becker, the representative of Cuiabá,…
By Linh Le  May 31, 2023 | 02:24pm GMT+7 People in the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan are seenthing after seeing a durian farm owner chained a dog behind his car and dragged it through the street. “The dog’s paws were bleeding and it had collapsed,” said Rajes Donarow, a poultry farmer who reportedly chased the car on his motorbike and rescued the dog on May 27. A dog is chasing a car. Illustration photo by Pexels “The gravel was also scraping its chest while the man continued driving,” the Strait Times quoted him as saying.According to Donarow, when he…
The new “Chollima-1” satellite launch rocket failed because of instability in the engine and fuel system, state news agency KCNA reported.The flight was the nuclear-armed state’s sixth satellite launch attempt, and the first since 2016. It was supposed to put North Korea’s first spy satellite in orbit.It prompted emergency alerts and brief evacuation warnings in parts of South Korea and Japan. The notices were withdrawn with no danger or damage reported.South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Wednesday the military was conducting a salvage operation to recover what is believed to be parts of the space launch vehicle. The…
The 26-year-old is part of a phenomenon sweeping South Korea known as “Hakpok #MeToo”, where people who were bullied publicly name and shame the perpetrators of school violence — “hakpok” in Korean — decades after the alleged crimes .Made famous globally by Netflix’s gory revenge series “The Glory”, the movement has ensnared everyone from K-pop stars to baseball players, and accusations — often anonymous — can be career-ending, with widespread public sympathy for victims.As a schoolgirl, Pyo says she suffered alone. Teachers told her “to be friendlier” to her bullies and the abuse went unchecked for years, eventually forcing her…
Here, there is scant evidence of India’s fast-growing economy. Bordering what was once Asia’s largest garbage dumping ground, Rafiq Nagar and surrounding areas are home to an estimated 800,000 people, most living in tiny rooms across narrow, dark alleys.The young men and women in the area struggle to find jobs or work, and they mostly dawdle the day away, said Naseem Jafar Ali, who works with an NGO in the area.India’s urban unemployment soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching a high of 20.9% in the April-June 2020 quarter, while wages fell. While the unemployment rate has fallen since, fewer full-time…
By Reuters  May 31, 2023 | 09:34am GMT+7 An employee works on the production line of Nio electric vehicles at a JAC-NIO manufacturing plant in Hefei, Anhui province, China August 28, 2022. Photo by Reuters China’s factory activity contracted faster than expected in May on weakening demand, heaping pressure on policymakers to shore up a patchy economic recovery. The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) was 48.8 from 49.2 in April, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), its lowest in five months and below the 50-point mark that separates expansion from contraction. The PMI also dashed…
May 31, 2023 | 06:11 am GMT+7 Using a phone while going to the toilet can have negative effects on your digestive system, according to a Hanoi specialist. It is not recommended to stay in the toilet for more than 10 minutes. When using a phone, people often stay inside for up to 30 minutes, and a prolonged defecation process can cause many problems.Studies show that people who use their phones when going to the toilet have an increased chance of becoming constipated. Using the phone means sitting longer in the toilet, pushing most of the body’s weight onto the…
By Reuters  May 30, 2023 | 06:13pm GMT+7 LGBT activists take part in a protest against amendments to Russia’s Constitution and the results of a nationwide vote on constitutional reforms, in Moscow, Russia July 15, 2020. The placard reads: “I don’t recognize the authority that keeps me from having a family.” Photo by Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov Russia may ban doctors from performing surgery to change people’s gender under a proposed new bill, the TASS news agency said on Tuesday, citing a copy of the legislation. The bill would prohibit medical workers from “performing medical interventions designed to change the sex of…
Drone attacks deep inside Russia have intensified in recent weeks, with strikes on oil pipeline installations and even the Kremlin earlier this month that Moscow has blamed on Ukraine.Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said two people were injured, one of whom was hospitalized, in the early morning attack. Moscow’s airports remained open. No deaths were reported.Residents in south-western Moscow said they heard loud bangs at around 0200 to 0300 GMT, followed by the smell of petrol. Some filmed a drone being shot down and a plume of smoke rising over the Moscow skyline.”This morning, the Kyiv regime launched a terrorist attack…