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Huawei, Kenya National Computer and Cybercrime Coordination Committee sign MoU

By Edith Mutethya in Nairobi, Kenya | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-12-20 20:35 Huawei Technologies Kenya and the National Computer and Cybercrime Coordination Committee on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at creating a framework for collaboration to improve Kenya's cyberspace including cybercrime prevention and other cybersecurity initiatives. Omollo said Kenya has already faced instances of critical service disruptions including …

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3 days, 22 hours ago

Computer scientist who falsely claimed to be Bitcoin founder avoids jail in UK

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A computer scientist who falsely …

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5 days, 11 hours ago

Apple celebrates Computer Science Week, onboards 4 new Indian institutes to Distinguished Schools programme

Firstpost

Apple’s impact on India’s tech ecosystem goes beyond schools. A standout project was a mental wellbeing app prototype designed by Grade 9 and 10 students, combining coding with empathy and problem-solving Apple’s impact on India’s tech ecosystem goes beyond schools. To celebrate Computer Science Week, Apple welcomed four new Indian institutions, including Mount Litera School in Mumbai and Trio World …

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6 days, 2 hours ago

Apple celebrates computer science week, empowering future innovators

Deccan Chronicle

Apple is once again at the forefront of driving digital literacy and empowerment by celebrating Computer Science Week. As part of its commitment to fostering a tech-savvy future, ApApple is once again at the forefront of driving digital literacy and empowerment by celebrating Computer Science Weekple has continued its efforts to make coding accessible to everyone, from students to professionals, …

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6 days, 7 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

Indian students opt for tech-driven courses in US over engineering

India Today

Indian students in the United States are increasingly moving away from traditional engineering courses, favouring computer science and mathematics instead. In the 2023-24 academic year, 24.5 percent of Indian students in the US pursued engineering courses, a significant drop from 29.6 percent in 2021-22. GROWING TREND IN COMPUTER SCIENCE In contrast, computer science and mathematics have witnessed a meteoric rise, …

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1 week 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

Unbelievable! Man in Gujarat chops off his four fingers to avoid working as computer operator in family’s diamond firm

Live Mint

In a bizzare incident, a man from Gujarat cut off his own fingers to avoid working as a computer operator in a firm. The man, identified as Mayur Tarapara, chopped off four fingers from his left hand with a sharp knife to be termed unfit for the role of a computer operator at the family's diamond firm, reported ANI on …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Lokesh Hosts 51st Praja Darbar, Addresses Public Concerns

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada: Education, IT and electronics minister Nara Lokesh hosted the 51st Praja Darbar at his residence in Undavalli of Vijayawada on Friday, assuring those who gave representations that he will work towards resolving their issues. Representatives of the Computer Teachers Welfare Association requested Minister Lokesh to give priority to former computer teachers who served from 2002 to 2008 when filling …

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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, 5 days ago

Supreme Court Asks BCI To Allow Visually Challenged Students To Give Answers In Computer For All India Bar Exam

Live Law

The Supreme Court today warned that if the 5 visually impaired law students, who wish to appear in the upcoming All India Bar Examination scheduled on December 22, are not given adequate facility to answer the questions on a Word document on the computer, it will not let the exam take place. 3 is a 100 percent blind law graduate …

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1 week, 5 days ago

This Free App Can Back Up Your Computer to Any Cloud Service

Wired

Backing up your files, ideally in multiple locations, is essential if you don't want to lose any data. The problem is that paying for a dedicated backup service feels silly if you're already paying for cloud storage. Duplicati is a free and open source application that lets you back up any computer to cloud services like Microsoft OneDrive and Google …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Google says it has made a chip that can be more than a billion times faster than the fastest supercomputers

The Independent

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1 week, 6 days ago

Google announces quantum computing chip breakthrough

Raw Story

Google on Monday showed off a new quantum computing chip that it said was a major breakthrough that could bring practical quantum computing closer to reality. A custom chip called "Willow" does in minutes what it would take leading supercomputers 10 septillion years to complete, according to Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven. Neven's team of about 300 people at …

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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 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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Google's new quantum chip solves in 5 minutes what would take a classical computer billions of years

India Today

Google announced on Monday a significant advancement in quantum computing as it unveiled its next-generation chip called Willow. This new chip, developed at the company’s quantum lab in Santa Barbara, California, was able to solve a complex mathematical problem in just five minutes — a task that would take classical computers longer than the history of the universe. “Willow performed …

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1 week, 6 days ago

What is Google Willow quantum chip? Here is everything you need to know

India Today

Google has taken a major step forward in the world of quantum computing with the introduction of its new Willow quantum chip. But what exactly is a quantum computing, Willow quantum chip and what will it be used for? Google has positioned its Willow quantum chip as a big breakthrough in the journey toward large-scale quantum computing. Hartmut Neven, who …

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D Gukesh vs Ding Liren Game 12 Highlights, World Chess Championship 2024: Ding beats Gukesh in Game 12, levels score 6-6

Firstpost

World Chess Championship 2024 Game 12 Highlights, D Gukesh vs Ding Liren: Indian GM D Gukesh was beaten after 39 moves in game 12 as world champion Ding Liren bounced back in the match and levelled the scores 6-6 in World Chess Championship 2024. Resorts World Sentosa, the venue where the 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship is taking place, was …

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2 weeks ago

Google says it has cracked a quantum computing challenge with new chip

CNN

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 IBM, Alphabet’s Google is chasing quantum computing because it promises computing …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Erasmus shooter says "a computer in his head" told him to kill

Dutch News

Fouad L, who murdered his neighbour and her daughter and went on to kill a lecturer at the Erasmus teaching hospital in September 2023, was “ told to kill by a computer in his head”, a court was told on Monday. Monday’s hearing was attended by a great many friends and relatives of the victims, and some 150 colleagues of …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

LEAD Group Launches ’Code.AI SuperTeachers Contest’ to Empower Educators and Nurture India’s Future Tech Innovators

Live Mint

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India This World Computer Literacy Day, LEAD Group, India’s leading School Edtech innovator, proudly announces the Code.AI SuperTeachers Contest, a first-of-its-kind initiative to celebrate and empower Computer Science educators across India. Sumeet Mehta, CEO and Co-Founder, LEAD Group, said, "On World Computer Literacy Day, we're excited to launch the Code.AI SuperTeachers Contest. The Code.AI SuperTeachers Contest celebrates Computer …

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3 weeks ago

Erasmus medical student who killed 3 in Rotterdam blames imaginary computer in court

NL Times

Fouad L., the suspect accused of a deadly shooting spree in Rotterdam last year, appeared in court for the first time on Monday. Fouad L. is accused of murdering his 39-year-old neighbor Marlous, her 14-year-old daughter Romy, and 43-year-old Erasmus Medical Center lecturer and physician Jurgen Damen. Psychological assessments conducted at the Pieter Baan Center revealed that L. claimed to …

RRB NTPC 2024 Exam Dates Live: UG, Graduate level posts exam dates awaited

Hindustan Times

RRB NTPC 2024 Exam Dates Live: Railway Recruitment Boards will announce RRB NTPC 2024 Exam Dates in due course of time. The exam schedule for NTPC Undergraduate and Graduate Level posts will be out on the official websites of RRBs. For undergraduate posts there shall be two stage Computer Based Test followed by “Computer based Typing Skill Test wherever applicable” …

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Huawei, Kenya National Computer and Cybercrime Coordination Committee sign MoU

Computer scientist who falsely claimed to be Bitcoin founder avoids jail in UK

Apple celebrates Computer Science Week, onboards 4 new Indian institutes to Distinguished Schools programme

Apple celebrates computer science week, empowering future innovators

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

Indian students opt for tech-driven courses in US over engineering

Google says it accessed parallel universes with its new supercomputer

Unbelievable! Man in Gujarat chops off his four fingers to avoid working as computer operator in family’s diamond firm

Lokesh Hosts 51st Praja Darbar, Addresses Public Concerns

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

Supreme Court Asks BCI To Allow Visually Challenged Students To Give Answers In Computer For All India Bar Exam

This Free App Can Back Up Your Computer to Any Cloud Service

Google says it has made a chip that can be more than a billion times faster than the fastest supercomputers

Google announces quantum computing chip breakthrough

What Google’s Willow means for supercomputing and you

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

Google's new quantum chip solves in 5 minutes what would take a classical computer billions of years

What is Google Willow quantum chip? Here is everything you need to know

D Gukesh vs Ding Liren Game 12 Highlights, World Chess Championship 2024: Ding beats Gukesh in Game 12, levels score 6-6

Google says it has cracked a quantum computing challenge with new chip

Erasmus shooter says "a computer in his head" told him to kill

LEAD Group Launches ’Code.AI SuperTeachers Contest’ to Empower Educators and Nurture India’s Future Tech Innovators

Erasmus medical student who killed 3 in Rotterdam blames imaginary computer in court

RRB NTPC 2024 Exam Dates Live: UG, Graduate level posts exam dates awaited