Hong Kong — China has clinched the top spot on a list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, overtaking the United States for the first time since 2017 with a model powered by homegrown chips amid an intense race for tech supremacy between the two superpowers.
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John Liu,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
Earlier this month, Adani briefly became Asia’s richest person, overtaking both Ambani and Softbank founder Masayoshi Son.
As a result, innovation is outrunning supervision.
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Hersh Shefrin,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
The Times reported that Dela Rosa had been in hiding for months but that he was seen publicly on Monday in the Senate building when surveillance cameras captured footage of him outrunning agents seeking to arrest him.
Australia is accelerating efforts to protect frontline troops from the growing threat of small drones, awarding a contract to defense technology firm OpenWorks under the Australian Defence Force’s Land 156 counter-drone program.
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Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
18 June 2026
ReelShort is accelerating its Southeast Asia expansion with a new strategic partnership with Philippine telecommunications giant Globe, even as founder and CEO Joey Jia says the future of the company extends far beyond microdramas.
While Microsoft says that demand is outstripping supply, that’s likely because production has plummeted due to these costs.
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Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
According to a report released in April by the Council of Economic Advisers, from 2000 to 2023, home prices in real terms went up by 82%, far outstripping the 12% rise in household incomes.
When a fire tore through Kantamanto that January, devouring eight acres, or nearly 60 percent of the market’s retail-facing side, the community of 30,000 retailers, traders and vendors all but lost hope in a business model that was already buckling under fashion’s ever-quickening pace.
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Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
8 June 2026
Anti-Semitic violence in the Western world is quickening in tempo and intensifying in lethality.
Sweden’s Hien had no idea how to stop Brobbey’s darting runs when looking to connect with crosses from out wide and the striker routinely bullies bigger boys before either scoring or creating for others.
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Carl Anka,
New York Times,
20 June 2026
The Griz constantly pumps the rod to get his bait darting forward and then dropping back.
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