Mark Zuckerberg just impressed everyone by showing off during a Q&A session at the Tsinghua University in Beijing where he decided to speak in Mandarin. If you remember, a few years back, in 2010 more exactly, Zuckerberg decided that his aim for the year was to learn to speak Mandarin. He has since set a lot of similar goals for himself. In 2011, he vowed to eat animals only if he had killed them, which received a mixture of backlash ...
OTTAWA — The normally bustling streets near Canada’s Parliament were transformed Wednesday as thousands of government workers were kept inside their buildings for hours while police and military officers in combat gear swept the area, fearful that shootings that morning had been part of a larger plot. Anxious workers pressed their faces against the windows of nearby offices, trying to figure out what had happened in a city so peaceful that ...
Gone are the days when Linux was considered just “a cancer” by Microsoft’s big honchos, as the new CEO of the Redmond-based company says the open-source platform is quickly gaining ground on its Azure platform. Speaking at a cloud event in San Francisco, Nadella has suggested that “Microsoft loves Linux,” pointing out that the company is working to offer support for more Linux distributions through its Azure cloud service. Nearly 20 percent ...
A big week ahead in the markets, where the emergence of an unexpected correction has seen volatility return with a bang. The focus within the US markets will be geared towards the CPI release in the wake of the disinflationary worries that have dominated affairs in recent weeks. Meanwhile the UK GDP figure is likely to push forward talk of whether rates should move despite tumbling inflation. On the other hand, the eurozone has a somewhat quiet week, where a whole raft of PMI figures look set to ...
You would do well to clear your schedule this weekend, in preparation for the biggest free game weekend that digital distributor Steam has ever put together so far, offering a massive number of 10 games for players to enjoy at their leisure. Steam's free weekend promotions are certainly a nice thing, especially when you're on the fence regarding a certain title from the recent past and would like to try it out for a little while before ...