Spread the love Cyclonic storm Arnab has made landfall along the southeastern coast of India, striking the Andhra Pradesh and Yanam (Puducherry) coasts with sustained wind speeds of 125 to 135 kmph and gusts up to 150 kmph. NEW DELHI: Cyclonic storm Arnab continued making landfall along the Andhra Pradesh coast on Wednesday morning, bringing heavy rainfall, strong winds and...
Microsoft employees in India can now opt for a buyout: Who qualifies and what it pays
Spread the love After layoffs, Microsoft offers employees a buyout Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 employees, more than a quarter of its global workforce, and India is one of just four countries where the offer applies. Chief people officer Amy Coleman announced the Voluntary Exit Offer (VEO) in a memo to staff on Monday, pitching it as a...
‘Raped by Rohingya refugees’: Landlord finds woman held captive for 5 months
Spread the love Image Used For Representational Purpose Only HYDERABAD: An 18-year-old Rohingya refugee woman, allegedly trafficked from Bangladesh to Hyderabad, was confined to a rented house for five months and repeatedly raped by four men, including a man who allegedly married her without disclosing that he was already married.The case came to light only after the landlord broke open...
Amazon updates AI usage rules for engineers in new memo
Spread the love Amazon engineering leaders have updated the role guidelines for Software Development Engineers (SDEs) to reflect that real-world results matter a lot more than specific tools. A company memo by Terk Terkowitz, vice president and distinguished engineer at Worldwide Amazon Stores, outlined leadership’s vision to move towards “Renaissance Developers” that combine human judgement and artificial intelligence, or AI....
Upset Palmer Luckey is not leaving California over ‘Billionaire tax’
Spread the love Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus and Anduril Industries. Palmer Luckey is not joining billionaires leaving or planning to leave California over the proposed billionaire wealth tax. Founder of Anduril Industries, one of America’s biggest defence technology companies, has made it clear that he is very much staying in the state, Wealth Tax or no Wealth Tax. Speaking...
Bibi claims ‘decisive majority’ for right-wing bloc, despite inconclusive exit polls
Spread the love Israeli Prime Minister and Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that his right-wing bloc secured a “clear, decisive majority” and called for a “right-wing, national, strong government”, even as exit polls suggested that neither his camp nor the opposition led by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot had secured the 61 seats...
Karnataka voter roll drops by nearly 1 crore, Gen Z makes up 20% of electorate
Spread the love The special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Karnataka resulted in a reduction of 99.76 lakh electors BENGALURU: The special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka concluded Tuesday, with the final electoral rolls showing an overall reduction of 99.76 lakh electors from the pre-SIR rolls, with the electorate shrinking from 5.54 crore on June 16...
Abhishek Sharma scripts history, breaks Rohit Sharma’s all-time world record
Spread the love Abhishek Sharma and Rohit Sharma (Agency Image) Abhishek Sharma produced a stunning display of power-hitting to rewrite the record books during India’s third T20I against New Zealand in Wellington on Tuesday, setting a new world record for the most sixes by a batter from a Full Member nation in a calendar year.The left-hander took his tally to...
‘Ball was still seaming’: Iyer ‘mind-boggled’ by Abhishek, Sooryavanshi’s blitz
Spread the love Abhishek Sharma- Vaibhav Sooryavanshi India T20I captain Shreyas Iyer was left amazed by the explosive batting of Abhishek Sharma and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi after the duo powered India to a record six-wicket victory over New Zealand in the third T20I at Wellington’s Hnry Stadium on Tuesday.Abhishek‘s 113 and Sooryavanshi’s 45 set the tone for India’s dominant chase, with...
Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s study data downloaded over 50 million times
Spread the love (Image credit: michaeljfox.org) When the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research launched a major study in 2010, the objective was to help scientists better understand the disease and identify markers that could improve the process of diagnosis and subsequent treatment. Sixteen years later, the initiative has grown into a global research resource. With its data downloaded...
