The A.I. Election, Bitcoin’s Wall Street Debut and TikTok’s Doodad Era

Peek-AI-boo! At Paris haute couture fashion week on Monday, Schiaparelli’s creative director, Daniel Roseberry, wowed viewers yet again with his mind-boggling, futuristic collection featuring an extra-terrestrial flare — even introducing a microchip-encrusted baby doll. The spring ’24 line served as an ode to the turn of the century — several pieces paid homage to the…

Story highlights Latest craze in Moscow is war game in which players race to find nuclear codes Russian officials are playing on fears, staging a mass nuclear drill CNN  —  “Attention! Attention!” blares the Russian voice from a loudspeaker. “The nuclear bombs will be launched in one hour.” Inside a room styled as a Soviet-era…

Samsung Electronics latest premium smartphones, unveiled on Wednesday, will have multiple AI functions, such as simultaneous translation of foreign language phone calls, in the company’s latest push to challenge Apple. Apple topped Samsung in 2023 smartphone shipments, according to data provider International Data Corporation, dethroning Samsung for the first time since 2010 as demand for premium devices — a segment Apple dominates…

See photos of November’s supermoon — the brightest in nearly 70 years.

Super Micro Computers’ stock surge has pushed its founder and CEO, Charles Liang, into the billionaire ranks. Liang, a 66-year-old Taiwan native, decided 30 years ago that Super Micro would begin designing motherboards, according to the company’s website. Now a Silicon Valley resident, Liang’s bet on motherboards, complex circuit boards that have become increasingly important…

Jan. 19: This article was updated to include information from a news conference the day after it was first published. A spacecraft that was headed to the surface of the moon has ended up back at Earth instead, burning up in the planet’s atmosphere on Thursday afternoon. Astrobotic Technology of Pittsburgh announced in a post…