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[TOKYO] Goldman Sachs was among the major global banks to post a lower profit in Japan last year, pulling back from a bumper 2023.  Net income at Goldman Sachs’s local securities arm fell 30 per cent in the year ended Dec 31 to 27.6 billion yen (S$247 million), down from a 14-year high marked in the previous year, a filing showed. Barclays and Deutsche Bank also posted double-digit declines in profit at their Japan investment banking units in a reversal from the previous year’s stellar showings, owing partly to weak fixed-income trading. In contrast, Bank of America’s local arm returned…

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Computex 2025 is about to kick off, and the cavalcade of announcements about the latest chips, laptops, gaming devices and more from leading brands has already begun. The event in Taiwan will kick off Sunday night (US time) with a keynote at the Taipei Music Center from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. There will be a livestream for anyone not attending in person, so you can watch along right here (see NVIDIA YouTube stream embedded below).Huang’s keynote is scheduled for 11PM ET/ 8PM PT on May 18 (11AM on May 19 in Taiwan Time), and we can expect to hear all…

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Melissa Rohlin FOX Sports NBA Writer The Oklahoma City Thunder showed that they’re no fluke. With a trip to the Western Conference Finals on the line in a winner-takes-all Game 7 that pitted the top two MVP contenders against one another in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic, the Thunder proved that their NBA-best record and their top-rated defense weren’t successes confined to the regular season. The youngest team in the postseason not only stood up to a Denver Nuggets team that had won a championship two years ago and routed the LA Clippers in a Game 7 in the first round of…

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Three years after her son’s suicide, Pauline Stuart said she now has a better perspective on who her real friends are. Stuart’s son, Ryan Last, was 17 and a high-achieving high school student in a close-knit family when he took his own life in 2022.   He did so shortly after becoming the victim of a criminal “sextortion” plot. Undated photo of Ryan Last, who was 17 and a high-achieving high school student in a close-knit family when he took his own life in 2022 soon after he became the victim of a “sextortion” plot. Photo provided by Ryan Last’s…

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Apple’s struggles with giving Siri a next-gen AI makeover are pretty well-known at this point, while rivals like Google’s Gemini have flourished on the Android ecosystem. The situation with delays got so bad that Apple had to pull the ads showing Siri’s advanced capabilities that are yet to ship nearly a year later.  As a stop-gap solution, the company integrated ChatGPT within the Apple Intelligence stack on iPhones, letting the OpenAI chatbot handle queries that Siri can’t answer. The company is also said to be in talks to bring more AI chatbots onboard in a similar capacity.  Down the road,…

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Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer at age 82. The former president’s office said he has an “aggressive form” of the cancer, which has spread to his bones.His cancer was categorized as having a Gleason score of 9, which places him in Grade Group 5, the most severe category.Here’s what to know about the disease, its symptoms and treatments:Prostate cancer symptomsMost men are diagnosed with prostate cancer before they start showing symptoms, as early warning signs of prostate cancer are rare, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. The severity of symptoms can depend on the location…

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I’ve been a fan of Google devices since the old Nexus days, aside from a few false steps; they’ve consistently delivered good battery life, comparatively great photography, and really pleasing performance. Our review unit has been in my pocket for nearly four weeks — it’s difficult to deliver a comprehensive reivew in less time — now, and it’s been a typically great Google Experience. The Google Pixel 9a has positioned itself as a compelling mid-range smartphone, offering a blend of performance, camera capabilities, and software support that challenges even higher-priced competitors. With an AU$849.00 price tag for the 128GB model…

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