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In the sprawling labs of Google's Mountain View, California, headquarters, hundreds of server racks slog through multiple aisles, performing tasks far less common than running the world's largest search engine or running workloads for millions of Google Cloud customers.Instead, they run their tests on Google's own microchip called a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU).Originally trained for internal workloads, Google's TPUs have been available to cloud customers since 2018. In July, Apple revealed that it was using TPUs to train the AI ​​models underlying Apple Intelligence, and Google also uses TPUs to train and run its Gemini chatbot.”There's a fundamental idea out…

I was 22 when I first went to India. It was the late 90s, and the hippie highway from Agra to Jaipur to Rishikesh was still teeming with backpackers. Germans, Israelis, and Australians were travelling around India in elephant-print harem pants and prayer beads, feasting on banana pancake breakfasts and cannabis-infused bhangrashi. My boyfriend had seriously studied the Indian subcontinent, and he came armed with maps, train schedules, and a prestigious fellowship, with a plan to experience India differently. We would dress respectably, live on a local budget (less than $5 a day), and visit places other backpackers would miss.…

I've been reviewing mobile phones for over a decade, but in 2024 I find myself doing all sorts of things I wouldn't normally do when testing a mobile device: coming up with photo ideas that don't exist yet, calling people who speak a different language and having an AI translate the conversation in real time, and lining up group photos using holographic-like digital representations of my friends even when they're not there. I'm talking about features in Google's Pixel 9 series and Samsung's Galaxy phones, which are the result of both companies aggressively building AI into their flagship products. Apple,…

Work Medical Technology Group, Inc.HANGZHOU, China, Aug. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — WORK Medical Technology Group LTD (the “Company”), a Chinese medical device supplier, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 2,000,000 common shares (the “Offering”) at a public offering price of US$4.00 per common share. The common shares have been approved for listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market and are expected to begin trading on August 23, 2024 under the ticker symbol “WOK.”The company expects to receive aggregate proceeds from the offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and other related expenses, of $8.0 million. In addition, the…

On August 6, Ukraine took the world by surprise with its bold and daring invasion of Russia's Kursk region. This surprise attack by a small country against a nuclear-armed state shattered Russian President Vladimir Putin's carefully crafted narrative of greatness and invincibility. While Western observers focused primarily on the tactical advance of the Ukrainian military, the attack also revealed deeper strategic vulnerabilities in Russia's so-called great power status. Notably, even Russia's closest allies within the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan — have not supported it militarily or politically, leaving Moscow isolated in the…

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FRIDAY, Aug. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A federal court has ruled that people with HIV can no longer be turned away from joining the U.S. military.A ruling this week by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkma said the Defense Department's ban on HIV-positive people from serving in the military “reinforces the continuing stigma surrounding people with HIV and actively hinders the military's own recruiting goals.””Modern science has revolutionized the treatment of HIV,” Judge Brinkema wrote in his ruling. “HIV-positive service members who remain on treatment and have undetectable viral loads and are asymptomatic are able to perform their full military…

Get your free copy of Editor's DigestFT editor Roula Khalaf picks her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.When the Dutch navy sailed up the Thames estuary and launched a surprise attack on the British fleet in 1667, First Lord of the Admiralty and diarist Samuel Pepys panicked, saying, “The whole kingdom is fallen.” He sent his wife and father from London to bury the gold coins he had kept as part of his fortune in the garden.Today's Chinese and Indian jewelry and bullion buyers aren't the first to trust gold as a means of financial protection. Gold doesn't pay dividends…

It was at a conference on hunger in September 2022 where President Joe Biden scanned the crowd and called out, “Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?” No response. “I think she was… she was going to be here.”Jackie Walorski, one of the conference organizers, had died in a car crash the previous month. After her death the White House sent condolences in Biden’s name, saying how he “appreciated her partnership” in setting up the conference.Karine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary, explained Biden’s asking for Jackie by saying that she was “top of mind” for the president at the conference. She…

In recent years, as the College Football Playoff has expanded the CFB schedule, it has become increasingly common to schedule games a week earlier than normal to allow for flexibility later in the season. In 2024, the college football schedule for Week 0 will consist of four games, including two FBS vs. FBS matches. The matchup kicks off at noon ET on Saturday, with the No. 10 ranked Florida State Seminoles taking on the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in the 2024 Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin.The Seminoles were left out of the CFP despite being undefeated ACC champions…