Former executives at video-game firm Ubisoft Entertainment SA face a sexual harassment trial in France over allegations they made “crude sexual remarks in public”. The company and its chief executive officer, Yves Guillemot, were named in the complaint plaintiffs lodged in 2021 but will not faced trial in Bobigny, north of Paris. “We are therefore unable...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The New Zealand government on Friday withdrew a bill that would have allowed sixteen year olds to vote in local government elections if it had passed. New Zealand's highest court ruled in late 2022 that the country's current voting age of 18 was discriminatory, forcing parliament to discuss whether it should be lowered. The...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican appeals court on Tuesday convicted a priest of sexually abusing a fellow student while they were both attending a school for papal altar boys. Partially overturning a first instance ruling from 2021, judges sentenced Father Gabriele Martinelli to two and a half years' imprisonment, according to a copy of their...
RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco stopped 75,184 people from illegally migrating to Europe in 2023, up 6% compared to a year earlier, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. The figures reflected "the resilience of border and coast surveillance apparatus," the ministry said in response to Reuters emailed questions. Morocco and Spain have strengthened their cooperation in addressing illegal...
(Reuters) - A California startup using artificial intelligence (AI) and satellites to spot fire and weather risks on power lines, AiDash, reported on Tuesday it had raised $50 million in new funding, reflecting Silicon Valley efforts to create products that help energy companies adapt to climate change. Power utilities are under pressure to cut risks of...
(Reuters) - A recovery in the global video-game market is expected to pick up pace this year on the back of strong sales of Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation 5 consoles, according to research firm NewZoo. The market is set to grow 2.8% to $189.3 billion in 2024, after it rose around 0.6% last year and...
ZURICH (Reuters) - Logitech International is facing 30-day delays in getting its products from its factories in Asia to Europe due to the Red Sea crisis, the computer peripheral maker's CEO said on Tuesday. The maker of computer keyboards, mice, speakers and webcams is the latest company to warn of the impact of attacks by Houthi...
LONDON (Reuters) - Apple on Tuesday asked a London tribunal to throw out a mass lawsuit valued at around $1 billion brought on behalf of more than 1,500 app developers over its App Store fees. The case, worth up to 785 million pounds ($998 million) and one of several faced by the tech giant in the...
LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin has fallen over one fifth since its peak earlier this month, hit after the United States approved its first spot bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF), as investors who had bought in expectation of the approval sold after the confirmation. The world's largest crypto currency was last at $38,900, down 20.6% from around...
(Reuters) - Microsoft's search engine Bing, brower Edge and advertising services are likely to be out of the purview of Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA), Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. European watchdogs concluded that the products are not dominant enough to be regulated as part of a five-month-long investigation into...
