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Noel Quinn, chief executive officer of HSBC Holdings Plc, speaks during the Global Financial Leaders Investment Summit in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter, which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. Hong Kong CNN   — Diversification away from China is increasing, and it doesn’t just affect foreign companies, according to HSBC CEO Noel Quinn. Speaking at the Bloomberg New Economy forum in Singapore on Wednesday, Quinn said the head of one of HSBC’s units had recently reported a 70% jump “in activity in helping Chinese clients diversify their business model outside of the land mass of China. So that’s an interesting shift.” Quinn, who was appointed CEO in 2020, said data showed there was more activity on “Chinese clients going out of China at this point in time than there is activity into China.” He was responding to a question on firms de-risking from ...

What it’s like to work with ADHD AJ Willingham, senior culture writer at CNN, sits in her home office. CNN   —Editor’s Note: AJ Willingham is senior culture writer for CNN.   “When you move again, you are going to go downstairs, and you are going to collect the clean clothes from the dryer.”   This is what I tell myself as I sit at my desk and stare out the window, paralyzed by the mounting weight of this simple task. It’s the end of the workday, and my 3:30 p.m. Adderall is coursing through my veins like blue lightning. If I don’t try to move now, I could find myself staring vacantly at a computer screen for the next two hours. I don’t want that. I want to go downstairs and gather the laundry that’s sitting in the dryer, because laundry is one of those things that I, a functional person, should be able to do with basic fluency. “And, while you’re there,” my brain adds, “you can get a trash bag.” A trash bag, to bring to my home office where I work as a se...

 A physicist in the UK has published research that he says provides some support to the theory that the universe is essentially a giant computer simulation.   A physicist in the UK has published research that he says provides some support to the theory that the universe is essentially a giant computer simulation. - Copyright Canva Dr Melvin Vopson published the research in AIP Advances which suggests that the universe behaves just like a computer, ordering and deleting unnecessary information. What if everything we experience in the world was nothing more than an elaborate simulated reality? The simulation hypothesis isn’t a novel idea and it’s enjoyed some mainstream appeal through movies like The Matrix and high-profile proponents like Elon Musk. Now a physicist working at the University of Portsmouth in the UK has published research in the AIP Advances journal that he says provides support to the strange theory. “I don't want to paraphrase Morpheus from The Matr...