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Total deposits held with Hong Kong’s authorized institutions rose 0.1% in June from the previous month, as growth in Hong Kong dollar deposits offset a decline in foreign currency deposits, while bank lending continued to strengthen, official data showed. Figures released by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) showed Hong Kong dollar deposits increased 0.9%…

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. How is a text-to-speech voice made? – Sarah G٫ age 11٫ Seguin٫ Texas When you talk to computerized assistants like Siri or Alexa, they reply in voices that sound very…

Seven years ago, nobody was talking about popcorn buckets as a business. Now AMC says they’ll bring in $100 million this year alone, nearly double what the theater chain made in 2023, the New York Times reports. Limited-edition, movie-themed buckets are the stars here, not the buttery popcorn. They can sell for as much as…

Investors don’t seem to care about record AI profits anymore.

Apple Inc.’s Jennifer Bailey, the longtime head of Pay and Wallet services, is retiring after more than two decades at the company, adding to a sweeping changing of the guard at the iPhone maker. Processing Content Apple services chief Eddy Cue announced her departure in a staff memo seen by Bloomberg News. Bailey, who has been vice…

Retail spent two years bolting chatbots onto websites that could field a shopper’s specific questions but never close a sale. Voice agents built on models like OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime are changing that, holding real sales conversations, asking the same probing questions a floor associate would and adapting as a shopper’s needs shift, all without a human…