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3 days, 17 hours ago

Americans rush to buy cars, appliances before Trump's new tariffs

NEW YORK -- Americans are scrambling to stock up on cars, appliances and other big-ticket imports in anticipation of new tariffs from the Donald Trump administration, a spending spree that could reignite the very inflation buyers are hoping to avoid, reported The Washington Post on Thursday. "President-elect Trump has vowed to enact widespread tariffs as soon as he takes office …

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3 days, 18 hours ago

Glitches happen, what next?

Times of India

Imagine planning for an 8-day trip and ending up stuck for 8 months. She and her teammate Butch Wilmore went to the International Space Station for a quick mission, but technical problems kept them up there way longer than planned. It wasn’t even something bad done on purpose, just a normal update gone wrong. Here’s the thing: we depend so …

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4 days, 17 hours ago

Screen time before bed negatively affects children's sleep and behavior

NL Times

Dutch youth doctors are increasingly concerned about the quality of sleep among elementary school-aged children, citing excessive screen time before bed as a significant contributor to poor sleep. "Looking at a screen right before bed can make it much harder for children to feel sleepy," said Margreet Harskamp of AJN. However, 59 percent think screen time has no effect on …

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5 days, 9 hours ago

Congo Files Complaints Against Apple Over Conflict Minerals

Deccan Chronicle

The Democratic Republic of Congo filed complaints against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium for allegedly the tech giant of using conflict minerals in its supply chain. According to a report by Reuters, the complaint allege Apple laundering of tainted minerals, handling stolen goods, and carrying out deceptive commercial practices to assure consumers supply chains are clean. Congo, major source …

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6 days, 10 hours ago

Intelligence secrets revealed; study says smart people's brains work like internet

Hindustan Times

Intelligence varies from person to person. A study published in PNAS Nexus revealed new insights into how the brain’s connectivity patterns, rather than specific, localised areas, contribute to intellectual abilities. The brain’s contribution to intelligence is not confined to certain areas. Intelligence seems to arise from how different regions work together across vast neural networks, much like how the internet …

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6 days, 10 hours ago

Is Google’s Willow really a ‘wow’ moment for quantum computers?

Live Mint

“Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum-computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field," Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in an X post on 9 December. Unlike conventional computers that use binary digits, quantum computers use ‘qubits’ and are therefore that much more powerful. According …

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1 week ago

Preparing for Windows 10 End of support. What all you need to know?

Live Mint

Attention Indian startups and small businesses. Move with less downtime : Reduce downtime and ensure that your personal files, settings and applications are securely moved from Windows 10 to Windows 11 exactly as you had them saved with Windows Backup. Here is a quick look at these tools: Microsoft offers App Assure, a service to help with any Windows 11 …

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1 week ago

IIT Madras hosts ICIIS 2024 with workshops on quantum computing and 5G/6G tech

India Today

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras and IEEE are jointly hosting the 18th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems from December 21 to December 23, 2024, at the IIT Madras campus. A key feature of the conference is a workshop on ‘Programming with Quantum Computers’ and ‘5G/6G Wireless Networks’, scheduled for December 21, 2024. "We aim to foster awareness …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Google says it accessed parallel universes with its new supercomputer

Daily Mail

Google's quantum computing breakthrough on Monday has left the physicist who heads the project a believer in 'the idea that we live in a multiverse.' Calling Willow's performance 'astonishing,' the leader and founder of Google Quantum AI team, physicist Hartmut Neven, said its high-speed result 'lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes.' Willow is …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Telangana Police busts fake currency racket in Kamareddy, arrests six accused

India TV News

In a major success, Telangana Police busted a fake currency racket and arrested six people in connection with the case in the Koyya Gutta area under the Banswada Town police station limits of the Kamareddy district, officials said on Saturday. According to the police, the arrested accused have been identified as Kadapatri Rajagopal Rao, Hussain Peera, Kolavar Kiran Kumar, Kesrole …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Mint Primer | Google’s Willow: Quantum computing’s next big leap?

Live Mint

Two normal computer bits can exist in four possible states—00, 01, 10, or 11. A quantum computer allows two quantum bits to represent the four states at the same time due to ‘superposition’ and ‘entanglement’ properties, akin to running four computers. A quantum computer’s power grows exponentially with more qubits but it also induces errors, making the system like a …

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1 week, 3 days ago

India signs Rs 13,500 crore deal for advanced indigenous Su-30MKI jets

India Today

In a major push to strengthen its air power, India has inked a Rs 13,500 crore deal with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited for 12 indigenous Su-30MKI fighter jets. The agreement, signed on December 12, 2024, marks a significant step towards self-reliance under the Aatmanirbhar Bharat initiative and bolsters the Indian Air Force's operational capabilities. The new Su-30MKIs, featuring 62.6% indigenous content, …

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1 week, 4 days ago

‘AI has the potential to enslave or annihilate us’, says pop historian Yuval Noah Harari

The Hindu

For the longest time, Yuval Noah Harari did not have a smartphone. This is part of my information diet.” The need for an ‘information diet’ captures the essence of his latest book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. “Many proponents of this naive view sit in Silicon Valley and firmly believe that the …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Beijing prosecutors target enterprise cases to strengthen market order

China Daily

Beijing prosecutors have intensified efforts to address cases involving enterprises, aiming to foster a sound business environment and maintain market order. The Beijing People's Procuratorate reported Thursday that since the beginning of the year, prosecutors across the city have handled a total of 8,231 cases related to businesses, including 2,717 criminal cases involving data security, fraud, and other offenses. In …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Willow: What Google’s error-correcting chip means for quantum computing

Hindustan Times

Google has just announced a new quantum chip, Willow, and the breakthrough needs to be read right in order to understand its implications. The idea is to incorporate error correction codes in “logical qubits”, each created across a number of “physical qubits”. Logical qubits make quantum computing even more complex since they are built across a number of physical qubits. …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Yearender 2024: From Microsoft to IRCTC, millions affected by major service outages this year

India TV News

As 2024 comes to a close in just a few days, it’s a year that many will remember for a mix of good and bad experiences. Major tech companies like Microsoft, Google, Meta, and X experienced outages that led to major inconveniences for users and financial losses. Here’s a look at some of the significant service interruptions that occurred in …

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1 week, 5 days ago

WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook nearly back after global outage; Meta doing last checks

India Today

Social media platforms WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook were down for thousands of users globally, disrupting communication and social media activities on Wednesday. Meta said it was working to resolve the technical issue and said it was doing some last-minute checks as most users reported that they could use the social media applications again. According to the outage tracking website DownDetector, …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Mint Primer | Can right to repair make modular phones popular?

Live Mint

What’s HMD Fusion’s offer all about? HMD’s new smartphone claims to offer an “easy" way to change a broken display—a common mobile phone damage—and repairs in India and abroad. Previous modular phones have attempted to make various elements easily replaceable—in some experiments, the processor itself. Many have looked at modular phones as a way to reduce e-waste volumes, too, while …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Behind Bitcoin’s rally is a simple fact: Supplies are limited

Live Mint

Bitcoin investors celebrated last week after the price of the world’s largest cryptocurrency hit $100,000 for the first time. The computer code behind bitcoin imposes a hard cap of 21 million bitcoins. Most analysts say it is unlikely that such a change could ever happen—especially since lifting the cap above 21 million could depress the price of bitcoin, by opening …

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1 week, 6 days ago

What Google’s Willow means for supercomputing and you

Firstpost

Google has claimed that ‘Willow,’ its new quantum computing chip, can solve a math equation in five minutes that the fastest supercomputers would take 10 septillion years to do. Experts say that though supercomputers could potentially revolutionise fields such as medicine, battery technology, materials science, financial modelling and Artificial Intelligence in the future, their benefits are years if not decades …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Google's new quantum chip is mindboggling, dwarves the fastest supercomputers we have today by miles

Firstpost

Google’s Willow quantum processor claims to solve problems in 5 minutes what the world’s fastest super computer will take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. Image Credit: Google Google has unveiled its groundbreaking quantum chip, Willow, which claims to solve a problem in just five minutes that would take the world’s fastest supercomputers a staggering ten septillion years—that’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years, if you were wondering …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Google unveils Willow quantum chip, cracking computing challenge with new chip

The Hindu

Google on Monday said that it has overcome a key challenge in quantum computing with a new generation of chip, solving a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more time than the history of the universe. Like other tech giants such as Microsoft and International Business Machines, Alphabet's Google is chasing quantum computing because it …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Google's Willow solves billion-year problems in minutes: Quantum computing explained

India Today

Google has made a significant leap in quantum computing with the unveiling of its new chip, Willow, which promises to revolutionise the field. Google envisions future quantum computers tackling challenges in various fields, including medicine, battery technology, and artificial intelligence—areas where classical computers struggle to provide solutions. As researchers continue to explore the potential of quantum computing through innovations like …

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2 weeks ago

Impersonators are claiming laptops at Apple stores before real owners can pick them up

LA Times

Customers shop at the Apple store at the Glendale Galleria in November 2023. Apple computer buyers are reporting that impostors have been using fake IDs and QR codes to steal their laptops before they can pick them up at several Apple stores across Southern California. The crime, reported to several media outlets in Southern California, occurs when consumers order Apple …

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Americans rush to buy cars, appliances before Trump's new tariffs

Glitches happen, what next?

Screen time before bed negatively affects children's sleep and behavior

Congo Files Complaints Against Apple Over Conflict Minerals

Intelligence secrets revealed; study says smart people's brains work like internet

Is Google’s Willow really a ‘wow’ moment for quantum computers?

Preparing for Windows 10 End of support. What all you need to know?

IIT Madras hosts ICIIS 2024 with workshops on quantum computing and 5G/6G tech

Google says it accessed parallel universes with its new supercomputer

Telangana Police busts fake currency racket in Kamareddy, arrests six accused

Mint Primer | Google’s Willow: Quantum computing’s next big leap?

India signs Rs 13,500 crore deal for advanced indigenous Su-30MKI jets

‘AI has the potential to enslave or annihilate us’, says pop historian Yuval Noah Harari

Beijing prosecutors target enterprise cases to strengthen market order

Willow: What Google’s error-correcting chip means for quantum computing

Yearender 2024: From Microsoft to IRCTC, millions affected by major service outages this year

WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook nearly back after global outage; Meta doing last checks

Mint Primer | Can right to repair make modular phones popular?

Behind Bitcoin’s rally is a simple fact: Supplies are limited

What Google’s Willow means for supercomputing and you

Google's new quantum chip is mindboggling, dwarves the fastest supercomputers we have today by miles

Google unveils Willow quantum chip, cracking computing challenge with new chip

Google's Willow solves billion-year problems in minutes: Quantum computing explained

Impersonators are claiming laptops at Apple stores before real owners can pick them up