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Taiwan’s Foxconn says it plans to build artificial intelligence (AI) data factories with technology from American chip giant Nvidia, as the electronics maker ramps up efforts to become a major global player in electric car manufacturing. Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang jointly announced the plans on Wednesday in Taipei. The duo said the new facilities using Nvidia’s chips and software will enable Foxconn to better utilize AI in its electric vehicles (EV). “We are at the beginning of a new computing revolution,” Huang said. “This is the beginning of a brand new way of doing software…

Coleen Rooney has revealed more details of how she went about her so-called Wagatha Christie investigation in 2019. She famously used social media to identify who was leaking private information about her to the press. Rooney ultimately pointed the finger at Rebekah Vardy, who denied leaking the stories and sued Rooney for libel. Rooney said she suspected Vardy due to her existing relationship with the Sun, and also knew her friends in Liverpool would not work with the newspaper. Vardy, the wife of footballer Jamie, lost her legal case last year and was ordered to pay 90% of Rooney’s legal costs, after…

Britney Spears fans have been speculating over whether her song Everytime contains references to the abortion she had in 2000. The 41-year-old singer revealed in her new memoir that she had a termination after getting pregnant with Justin Timberlake during their relationship. Spears and Timberlake were teenagers when they dated between 1999 and 2002. Excerpts from Spears’ upcoming memoir, The Woman in Me, reveal Timberlake “didn’t want to be a father”. In an extract published in People, Spears also said: “It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family…

A British tourist is among three people killed in a “cowardly terrorist attack” at a national park in south-west Uganda, authorities say. Uganda’s police said the trio were were killed, and their vehicle burned, in the Queen Elizabeth National Park. It said joint forces were pursuing suspected members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel group on Tuesday night. The Uganda Wildlife Authority said the victims were two tourists and a guide. The tourists were from the UK and South Africa while their guide was Ugandan, it added. The ADF is an IS-linked Islamist group which traces its roots to…

India aims to send an astronaut to the Moon by 2040, the government has said. The country’s space goals also include plans for a space station by 2035. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced these ambitions on Tuesday, and also asked scientists to work on missions to Venus and Mars. In August, India became the first country to land a spacecraft on the Moon’s south pole, and in September it launched a rocket to study the Sun. The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is also working on the Gaganyaan project, which aims to send a human crew to an orbit of 400km…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday touted his country’s deep alignment with China as he appeared on stage as guest of honor at a global gathering in Beijing, where Chinese leader Xi Jinping pitched his vision for a reshaped world order. In a previously unannounced speech at the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum, Putin hailed Xi’s flagship foreign policy initiative as “aiming to form a fairer, multi-polar world.” Russia and China share an “aspiration for equal and mutually beneficial cooperation,” which includes “respecting civilization diversity and the right of every state for their own development model” – he added,…

Protests erupted across the Middle East following the deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital, with Israeli and Palestinian officials trading accusations over who was to blame as US President Joe Biden arrived in Tel Aviv. Hundreds of people were likely killed in the blast on Tuesday at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the center of Gaza City, where thousands were sheltering from Israeli strikes, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement. CNN cannot independently confirm what caused the explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital. But the blast marks a dangerous new phase in Israel’s war with Hamas, which threatens to spill over regionally as crowds gathered in major Middle…

The Biden administration is reducing the types of semiconductors that American companies will be able to sell to China, citing the desire to close loopholes in existing regulations announced last year. On Tuesday, the US Commerce Department unveiled new rules that further tighten a sweeping set of export controls first introduced in October 2022. The updated rules “will increase effectiveness of our controls and further shut off pathways to evade our restrictions,” US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in a statement. “We will keep working to protect our national security by restricting access to critical technologies, vigilantly enforcing our rules, while minimizing any…

China’s economy has regained momentum in the third quarter, with gross domestic product (GDP) expanding by 4.9% from a year ago, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Wednesday. That was above the estimate of 4.4% growth from a Reuters poll of analysts, and puts Beijing’s annual growth target within reach. In the first nine months of 2023, the economy expanded by 5.2% from a year earlier. “The growth target of [around] 5% is set to be achieved,” Zhiwei Zhang, president and chief economist for Pinpoint Asset Management in Hong Kong, said in a research note. On a quarterly basis, the economy grew…

Workers and their employers are paying a lot more for job-based health insurance this year. The annual cost of family health insurance coverage at work soared to an average of nearly $24,000 this year, according to KFF’s Employer Health Benefits Survey, released Wednesday. That’s up 7% from last year. Employees are shelling out an average of $6,575 for their share of the premium, up almost $500, or close to 8%, from last year, the annual survey found. Their companies are footing the rest of the bill. “We have a huge premium increase this year. There’s just no other way to cut it,”…