Dinesh Gundu Rao, a former minister of the state, also tweeted the news, saying that nearly 10,000 jobs will be created because of this production unit. As per the New Indian Express, Apple will have to give 70% of the jobs at the factory to locals; it has already hired more than 2,000 people for the project. More investment to flow in & nearly 10,000 jobs maybe created.#China’s loss to be #India’s gain....
If true – and Kuo has a strong track record with Apple rumors – it could be one of the most important hardware changes Apple has made to its camera system since it added a second camera with the iPhone 7 Plus. Most optical image stabilization systems on smartphones work by moving a lens element; when your hand moves, the optics move to compensate for it. This is also the case for many high-end cameras such as Canon and Nikon DSLRs, where only certain lenses have image stabilization built-in....
The fine comes from the Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Prevention (DGCCRF), a competition and fraud watchdog. It accused the company specifically of failing to warn users that iOS versions 10.2.1 and 11.2 would slow down the 6, 7, and SE models. The DGCCRF released an announcement revealing that Apple had agreed to pay the fine. The French Apple site also displays an announcement about the ruling: Credit: Apple [Read: Apple starts replacement program for faulty iPhone battery cases] We’ve known for almost three years that the company deliberately throttles older iPhones via these power management features....
However, working from home doesn’t mean staying in your hometown. More and more people are taking advantage of this new opportunity and using it to explore different cultures, new cities and other continents. If you’d like to start living as a digital nomad this year, here are the best places to visit. Portugal Portugal ticks lots of boxes for tech nomads. It’s an expat-friendly country, the internet is excellent, the food is amazing and the weather is sunny and pleasant year-round....
The future victims are memorialized on a website called Future Wake. None of them, however, are real people. Each identity and story is generated by AI. Yet the predictions about their deaths are based on historical events. Future Wake was funded by Mozilla and created by two artist-technologists called Oz and Tim. They hope the project stirs debate about both predictive policing and fatal encounters with cops. “By turning around predictive policing, we also want to turn around how data is talked about and how these tragedies are talked about,” Oz told TNW....
The team’s findings are published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. Proxima b, an exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star, was initially detected four years ago by an older spectrograph, HARPS, as a disturbance in the star’s orbit, which suggested the presence of another body. These measurements were followed up by the more sophisticated ESPRESSO instrument, currently the most powerful spectrograph on Earth — designed by the same team from Geneva, and essentially HARPS’ successor....
Starting with an Irish missionary’s report of a monster in the River Ness in 565AD, repeated sightings in the modern era have kept Scotland’s greatest myth alive. The most famous of which is a grainy photo from 1934 which appears to show the shadowy outline of a long-necked creature, bobbing on the water’s surface. Until now, such glimpses were all people had to go on. But a new technique allows scientists to sample all the life contained within Loch Ness by gathering environmental DNA, or e-DNA as it’s known....
In fact, the amount that traders have sent to major cryptocurrency exchanges is now on par with the total being taken off-exchange, reports Delphi Digital in analysis shared with Hard Fork. “It’s clear there were significant net outflows during the big rally in the second quarter of 2019, as bullish sentiment really started picking up and individuals were moving Bitcoin off exchanges because they had no intention of selling in the immediate future,” said the firm....
In the latest episode, vigilante hacker Elliot Alderson codes a program for “cleaning coins” with a “crypto tumbler.” Presumably, he’s looking to steal some Bitcoin, and wants to cash it out without being caught. Elliot’s mixer is likely to make tracking Bitcoin more difficult, much like popular BTC solution CoinJoin, which allows multiple users to shuffle coins with each other to hide their history. These programs have grown in popularity in response to the rise of analytic firms like Elliptic and Chainalysis over the past year....
Bad actors assumed a majority of the network’s processing power (hash rate) to re-organize the blockchain twice between Thursday and Friday last week: the first netted attackers 1,900 BTG ($19,000), and the second roughly 5,267 BTG ($53,000). Cryptocurrency developer James Lovejoy estimates the miners spent just $1,200 to perform each of the attacks, based on prices from hash rate marketplace NiceHash. This marks the second and third times Bitcoin Gold has suffered such incidents in two years....
According to BBC Sounds podcast, Business Daily, Georgia is now the world’s third largest miner of Bitcoin, behind China and Venezuela. However, it’s not good news for some. David Chapashvili from Green Energy, an environmental pressure group, criticizes the practice for how much electricity it consumes. Bitcoin mining is Guzzling up electricity Documents shown to Business Daily by the environmental group report that one Bitfury-owned Bitcoin mining farm is “guzzling” up 4 percent of the country’s electricity....
But now, the small British company Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) has developed a new, eco-friendly commercial airship that promises to significantly reduce air travel CO2 emissions, The Guardian reports. Credit: Hybrid Air Vehicles The Airlander 10 can carry up to 100 passengers and will offer short distance trips between cities such as Liverpool – Belfast, Barcelona – the Balearic Islands, Oslo – Stockholm, and Seattle – Vancouver. Although blimps fly at a lower speed, the company says that the journeys would take roughly the same amount of time as airplane travel....
As part of an attempt to drive awareness of the cause among its users, Estonian ride-hailing app Bolt has added an emission free, no cost option to its service. It’s called walking. The app’s co-founder Martin Villig took to Twitter earlier today to tout the news. Try walking today and consider more emission friendly transport methods in the future ?? ?☘️?#climatechange #sustainability #planetearth #BOLT pic.twitter.com/vn6Om81QRP — Martin Villig ?? (@waldec) September 21, 2020 It seems that users are able to select the option to walk, instead of taking a conventional Bolt taxi, when booking a ride on the app....
According to a press release from British Airways, the trials are part of the company’s involvement with the Valuable 500 Pledge, a business-to-business initiative urging corporate leaders to provide better services for disabled people. Ricardo Vidal, British Airways’ Head of Innovation, said: The autonomous wheelchairs are designed to be as simple to operate as possible. Users simply sit in the chair, tap a button to indicate where they’d like to go, and they’re off....
Conventional wisdom on what constitutes effective engagement with prospective buyers will have to be revisited if the automotive industry is going to effectively pivot to support the nascent — though growing — EV market. To advance and meet projected electric vehicle (EV) production and sales volumes, a significantly higher level of engagement and education must take place during the presale period. Shoppers considering an EV purchase often do not have a solid understanding of what it means to own and “live with” this new category of vehicle....
Caffeine, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a streaming site that’s designed to be a hybrid of the other sites out there. It’s designed to offer more than just individual livestreamers as entertainment, and also touts its lack of ads. It’s also backed by 20th Century Fox (and now its new owners, Disney), which invested $100 million in the platform last year and promised to bring live music and sports to it exclusively....
Video production. The words instantly make any content creator get anxious. They aren’t usually overly worried about creating the video itself. They’re worried about the time and money that go into such an event. While Hollywood blockbusters and the high cost of video production suites like the Adobe Creative Cloud have many fearful they’ll end up footing the bill for a $200 million James Cameron-style spectacular, there are still plenty of smart, even cost-effective ways of delivering a brilliant digital video quickly and painlessly....
Scientists typically use supercomputers to crunch data at the cosmological level, but a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon recently figured out a way to use the same machine learning technology used to teach AI to paint or create music like a human to run advanced simulations on graphics processing units (GPUs). Yes, the same hardware and neural networking technology that powers “This Person Does Not Exist” can now simulate our universe at high resolution....
The Salesforce roll just keeps on rollin’. Over 20 years, the San Francisco-based company has become the unquestioned leader in software focused on helping businesses engage and better serve their customers. Already a $126 billion behemoth, Salesforce is continuing to expand their client management empire, acquiring customer service company ClickSoftware and data visualization leaders Tableau within the past three months. If you work in customer relations, it’s likely only a matter of time before you’re working in a Salesforce-driven environment....
The move comes after President Widodo expressed a preference to include professionals and millennials in his second-term team to boost the country’s economy. Although it’s not clear what position he will hold, local reports said the 35-year-old could assume a role in the newly created digital economy ministry or in education. To fill the spot left vacant by Makarim, Gojek Group President Andre Soelistyo and co-founder Kevin Aluwi will take over as the startup’s co-CEOs, the company said in a statement....
