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[ad_1] STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Finland’s Nokia has reached agreement in its last remaining major smartphone patent license negotiation, it said on Thursday. “Nokia Technologies – Nokia’s licensing business – will now enter a period of stability with no major smartphone agreements expiring for a number of years,” it said in a statement. (Reporting by Anna…
[ad_1] Julian Birkinshaw has been named the next Dean of Ivey Business School. His five-year appointment is effective Aug. 1, 2024. “We’re delighted to welcome Julian, an internationally renowned scholar in business research and education,” Western President Alan Shepard said. “His expertise on innovation, digital transformation, and the agility of large multinational firms will be…
[ad_1] An Irish woman discovered she had brought an unwanted souvenir home this week, when she found a scorpion in her luggage 12 days after returning from a horse-riding trip to Kenya. The fat-tailed scorpion, common across Africa and the Middle East, was nestled in a women’s bag, having made the 4,000-mile trip to the…
[ad_1] The Senate on Thursday is expected to consider a bill to provide assistance to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan after Senate Republicans rejected a bipartisan border security and foreign aid bill. The scheduled Thursday afternoon vote is procedural, on whether to move to the question of taking up the foreign aid package, and would require…
[ad_1] Source: Blue Planet Studio/Shutterstock CCSC Technology (NASDAQ:CCTG) stock is rising higher on Thursday without any clear news from the Hong Kong interconnect products manufacturer. There are no new press releases or filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that explain why CCTG stock is up today. On that same note, no analysts are offering…
[ad_1] Home » Corn prices drop on South American weather Source: Sosland Publishing Co. Recap for February 7 Corn prices struck a three-year low Wednesday after weather reports indicated competitor Argentina will flip from hot, dry weather to widespread rain. Wheat complex futures were mixed with Chicago soft wheat advancing. Supply pressure stemming from Russia’s…
[ad_1] JAKARTA — Fika Juliana Putri, a 19-year-old shopkeeper in East Jakarta, plans to vote in Indonesia’s presidential election next week for a once-feared former special forces commander. She likes him, she says, because he’s cuddly. A doe-eyed cartoon version of Gen. Prabowo Subianto — produced using generative AI — is emblazoned on billboards across Indonesia. It’s…
[ad_1] If you haven’t been to Warriors games in a minute, let us say it’s quite easy to forget the pregame spectacle that still comes with Stephen Curry’s joyful warmup. His schoolyard routine with longtime Golden State assistant Bruce Fraser draws as many children wielding homemade posters as it does grown men pleading for an…
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO — Google will begin selling access to its most advanced artificial intelligence model, following the example of smaller competitors such as ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, and signaling its intention to put the technology into the hands of more consumers. Google will charge $20 a month for its “Gemini Advanced” AI model, selling it as…
[ad_1] SYDNEY (Reuters) – Meta’s oversight board said on Friday it will examine two cases on how the social media giant handled potentially misleading posts that were shared ahead of the Australian referendum on Indigenous recognition in October last year. The board, which is funded by Meta but run independently, said the cases were selected…