[ad_1] Image: Getty Images Every now and then, someone in power has a sook about a bad experience on social media. Then, as regular as a cuckoo clock, there’s a call for every social media user to be identified, because they reckon anonymity is the problem. Right now the cuckoo is the Australian government, and […]
Read More[ad_1] Pre-open Session: LIVE market updates: The BSE Sensex ended the pre-open session, with a loss of 91 points at 60,045. The NSE Nifty 50 index was down 30 points at 17,916. NTPC was the top gainer in the Sensex 30 stocks, up 1.5 per cent followed by TCS, HCL Technologies, PowerGrid […]
Read More[ad_1] Image: Getty Images Google has countersued Epic Games, accusing the games developer of breaching its contract when it introduced a new payment system to sidestep the Play Store’s payment systems and in-app purchase commissions. In the counter complaint [PDF], Google alleges Epic willfully breached the terms of a contract that allowed Fortnite to reside […]
Read More[ad_1] Samsung said on Tuesday it has begun mass production of 14nm DRAM, with extreme ultra-violet (EUV) lithography applied during its production. The South Korean tech giant said it applied EUV to five layers of the DDR5 DRAM. This increased productivity per wafer by 20% compared to the previous generation, Samsung said. Power consumption per […]
Read More[ad_1] When you go to the Google homepage, you’ll most likely know what you’re about to type into the search box – whether you’re checking in on the weather forecast, looking for a business or service, or want to find out where you recognize that actor from. (Unless you’re “feeling lucky,” that is.) You enter a […]
Read More[ad_1] The World Bank on Monday warned of a significant 12% rise in the debt burden of the world’s low-income countries to a record $860 billion in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and called for urgent efforts to reduce debt levels. World Bank President David Malpass told […]
Read More[ad_1] Woolworths CIO John Hunt on Tuesday described fulfilling online orders during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly during the first two months, as like “Christmas Eve volumes every single day”. Speaking during the virtual Fujitsu ActivateNow 2021 event, Hunt highlighted the challenge that came with fulfilling online grocery orders had nothing to do […]
Read More[ad_1] The International Monetary Fund’s executive board will issue a statement of support for Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva after a thorough review of allegations that she pressured World Bank staff to alter data to favor China, sources familiar with the decision said. (Only the headline and picture of this report may have been […]
Read More[ad_1] Image: Microsoft Nvidia and Microsoft have teamed up to create the Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model, which the duo claims is the “most powerful monolithic transformer language model trained to date”. The AI model has 105 layers, 530 billion parameters, and operates on chunky supercomputer hardware like Selene. By comparison, the vaunted GPT-3 has […]
Read More[ad_1] Demand remains strong in India, but there are supply-side headwinds in areas like chips which is bothering the auto sector and coal shortages which threatens to put parts of the country into darkness, a Japanese brokerage said on Monday. With power demand likely to rise amid the continued economic normalisation and […]
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