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NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge on Monday upheld a Long Island county’s law banning transgender women from playing on female sports teams at county-run parks and recreational facilities.In a decision in a suit brought by a roller derby league, Judge R. Bruce Cozzens wrote that Nassau County’s ban is designed “to protect women and girls” and that transgender athletes can still play in coed sports leagues at the county’s facilities. “The Court agrees that this Local Law is narrowly tailored to achieve the objectives and does not categorically exclude transgender individuals from athletic participation,”…

At least one in four PCs sold by the US computer maker are AI-enabled and that could grow as customers upgrade[SINGAPORE] The lockdowns stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic drove the revenues of many tech companies as people who were forced to remain at home rushed to upgrade their tech, be it for work or for leisure. Then the unveiling of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022 helped drive growth for tech companies again.Much of that artificial intelligence (AI)-fuelled growth, though, has benefited companies involved with making the chips that power AI applications. However, there are now signs the generative AI-led boom…

JAKARTA :Indonesia is looking at the possibility of moving government funds of between 5 trillion rupiah ($302.48 million) and 10 trillion rupiah to regional banks, its finance minister said on Tuesday. Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa said the regional bank of Jakarta, as well as East Java’s Bank Pembangunan Daerah Jawa Timur, currently have the capacity to use the funds. In September, the minister transferred 200 trillion rupiah kept at the central bank to several state banks, including Bank Mandiri, Bank Negara Indonesia, Bank Rakyat Indonesia, Bank Tabungan Negara and Bank Syariah Indonesia. The move was aimed at boosting economic growth, which…

[LONDON] After years of facing requests from startups to help them stay private for longer, JPMorgan Chase’s clients are starting to sing a different tune. “A lot of these companies that said ‘private for longer, private for longer,’ are now saying ‘private for a little bit longer – let’s start thinking about that IPO process,’” JPMorgan’s Matt Gehl said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Tuesday (Oct 7). “And maybe it’s not 2026 but its probably going to be 2027 or 2028.”Gehl’s comments come after a trio of recent initial public offerings are giving London a chance to prove…

Sixteen Conservative councillors have now defected to Reform this morning – on the Tories’ third day of their conference.Leader Kemi Badenoch has defended her record amid the defections, saying the Conservative Party is “shedding a lot of the baggage of the last 14 years”. She told ITV: “Just last year, we had MPs jumping to Labour because Labour was doing well in the polls. They’re not doing so well now.”There are some people who will leave because all they want to do is win elections. They don’t know what they’re winning the elections for.” This breaking news story is being…

Judicial Commissioner Mohamed Faizal finds that Lee Si Ye and Ju Xiao had breached their duties as directors of Envy group of companies[SINGAPORE] A director of the insolvent Envy group of companies at the heart of the billion-dollar nickel trading scam has been declared bankrupt, following a court order for her and eight others to repay almost S$900 million.Another former director, who was also ordered to make the repayment, has applied for bankruptcy as well.Lee Si Ye was declared bankrupt on Sep 18, a bankruptcy search by The Business Times showed. The 37-year-old had applied for her own bankruptcy on Aug 12,…

Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons Few planes have left their signature on the jet age as indelibly as the Boeing 727. Designed in an age of cutthroat competition and continuous innovation, the tri-jet was a global workhorse overnight. It bridged the gap between the glamorous early jetliners of the 1950s and the fuel-efficient twin-engine aircraft that would go on to conquer the skies. Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons By the beginning of the 1960s, Boeing’s long-haul 707 was a hit, but the competition was fast catching up. Douglas had launched the DC-9, a short-to-medium…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Michael Jordan stood on the steps outside a federal courthouse and acknowledged he was willing to settle an antitrust suit against NASCAR. The judge hearing the case months ago admonished both sides to come to a resolution. The biggest names in NASCAR — Roger Penske, Rick Hendrick, Joe Gibbs and Richard Childress — have called for a settlement. The likelihood of finding some sort of peace agreement seems slim, though. Just last week, the attorney representing the two teams suing NASCAR said he was looking forward to a December trial. What the non-suing…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to protect Google from a year-old order requiring a major makeover of its Android app store that’s designed to unleash more competition against a system that a jury declared an illegal monopoly.The rebuff delivered in a one-sentence decision by the Supreme Court means Google will soon have to start an overhaul of its Play Store for the apps running on the Android software that powers most smartphones that compete against Apple’s iPhone in the U.S. Among other changes, U.S. District Judge James Donato last October ordered Google to give its competitors access to…

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced efforts to help its supply chain and a partial restart of operations following August’s crippling cyber attack.The company said “qualifying” supplier companies would be eligible for early payments due to the disruption caused by the temporary shutdown of its factories over a month ago. At the same time, it said the phased restart of its manufacturing sites would begin at its Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre and its Battery Assembly Centre in the West Midlands from Wednesday.Money latest: Biggest pension regrets of retirees revealed”JLR colleagues will also begin to return on Wednesday to the company’s…