Year: 2021

To help make China a self-reliant “technology superpower,” the ruling Communist Party is pushing the world's biggest e-commerce company to take on the tricky, expensive business of designing its own processor chips — a business unlike anything Alibaba Group has done before. Its 3-year-old chip unit, T-Head, unveiled its third processor in October, the Yitian…

A man convicted of killing four people in what authorities say was one of the most gruesome crimes in North Dakota history was sentenced Tuesday to multiple life prison terms without the possibility of parole. Isaak, wearing a blue mask, stood still and stared straight ahead as the judge delivered his verdicts. Before learning his…

Cawthorn said an Army captain he met in Russia invited him to a Miami CrossFit competition, which was a ploy for him to meet his soon-to-be ex-wife. Read full article

Yossi Levy has repeatedly booked and canceled his coronavirus vaccine appointment. The 45-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jew recovered from the virus earlier this year, as have his eight children and wife. Levy is among the hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews who have yet to receive their COVID-19 shots. Read full article

Advertisements featuring some Chinese models have sparked feuding in China over whether their appearance and makeup are perpetuating harmful stereotypes of Asians. German automaker Mercedes-Benz and a Chinese food company are the latest to get caught up in the fray. Mercedes Benz also was attacked by some Chinese online who accused it of using a…

Banks and regulators around the world have managed to replace the plumbing of the entire financial system, even as almost nobody has noticed. Driving the news: As of Monday, Libor — the interest rate that once underpinned some $300 trillion in financial contracts from derivatives to corporate credit lines — will effectively be dead.Get market…

On Monday, Lake Tahoe broke a 50-year record when snow totals reached 193.7 inches, nearly 15 inches more than the record from 1970. Read full article

Oprah Winfrey called out her BFF Gayle King for missing a special celebration at her home after the CBS host allegedly failed to complete a four-step COVID-19 “policy” she has for guests. Read full article

The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes left the court Tuesday without reaching a verdict after a fifth day of deliberations. Holmes is facing 11 criminal charges alleging that she duped investors and patients by hailing her company’s blood-testing technology as a medical breakthrough when in fact it was prone to…