Evan Neumann fled the US on pretence of a business trip and travelled through Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Poland and Ukraine.An American who faces criminal charges for participating in the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol is seeking asylum in Belarus, the nation’s state TV reported on Monday – a sign of heightening tensions…
Albury’s Mercy Place aged care facility is not allowing any visitors — except for compassionate end-of-life visits — as they try to manage a COVID-19 outbreak that has claimed nine lives.Key points:Nine residents at Mercy Place Albury have died, three over the weekend from COVIDMost residents are vaccinated, although some have chosen not to beNo visitors are…
Hey there. It’s Brady. Once, years ago, an editor based in New York told me that the overarching sentiment in many newsrooms in the United States is that people in China don’t care about their privacy. With so much surveillance that goes on, the logic went, why would they bother? At the time, I could see the reason…
Baidu has released a metaverse app, allowing users to explore virtual environments through smartphones, personal computers, or VR goggles, at a time when Chinese tech companies of all scales are developing applications to shape the next phase of the internet. The metaverse app, called Xirang (“Land of Hope”), allows users to create avatars and chat…
November 8, 2021 4:40 PM How do we balance risk and reward using AI in financial processesImage Credit: Things / Shutterstock A majority of global executives who have implemented artificial intelligence in some form in their business report that the new-age technology has been instrumental in driving financial and cultural benefits at the team and…
November 8, 2021 4:40 PM Image Credit: metamorworks // Getty Images Enterprise adoption of AI technology is increasing, but there is still a substantial amount of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) among the knowledge workforce that could hamper its deployment and perhaps the ultimate success of key initiatives. Resistance to new software and new processes…
November 8, 2021 4:35 PM Santa Clara, California-based company, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), says its “Milan-X” AMD EPYC processors with 3D V-Cache, to launch in early 2022, will deliver a “50% average uplift” to technical computing workloads. It also said its Instinct MI200 GPUs, to also launch in early 2022, will boost high-performance computing (HPC)…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa attends a press conference after the G20 Compact. Photo: Filip Singer – Pool/Getty Images One of the biggest risks to South Africa’s power system is the fact that the country is largely reliant on a single generator of electricity – Eskom, says President Cyril Ramaphosa.Ramaphosa said that he has been…
Taliban take measures during a march as women take part in to support Taliban in Kabul. Bilal Guler/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Afghanistan on Monday launched a nationwide polio immunisation campaign – the first since the Taliban returned to power – aiming to protect about 10 million unvaccinated children from the crippling disease, a top…
Alec Baldwin Photo: Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images for National Ge Alec Baldwin fired a gun on the set of the film, Rust, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.”Every film/TV set that uses guns, fake or otherwise, should have a police officer on set, hired by the production, to specifically monitor weapons safety,” Baldwin…
