The foreign policy of India is under the toughest test in recent years due to a political crisis in the Maldives which is better known for its picturesque travel destinations. Armed troops have been requested to be sent to the island nation from India by the former leader of the Muslim-majority nation that is under…
The giant artificial intelligence systems at Google are powered by special computer chip developed by the technicians of the company a few years ago. the chip is able to take care of large and complex processes deemed to be the key for the future of artificial intelligence. While that was a closed thing for Google…
The global energy sector is not able to achieve its targets for tackling of climate change because of the shortage of women employed in energy companies, according to the warnings of a leading industry watcher. The notion that the energy industry is not very open to new ideas especially the ones that could lead to…
There was an outcry by the Congressional officials in the United States after there was a report in January in The Verge that claimed that U.S. support to the International Space Station (ISS) was being planned to be stopped by the Trump administration by 2025. And according to a new report published in The Washington…
There have been questions raised over the rules and regulations for import of meat into the U.K. from the U.S. following some new data that has revealed that about five-fold more antibiotic medicines is used in the U.S. in comparison to the U.K. in livestock that are raised for food there. With respect to the…
A number of scientists engaged at a top-secret Russian nuclear warhead facility were arrested on allegations that they were engaged in cryptocurrency mining by Russian security officers. According to media reports, one of Russia’s most powerful supercomputers was attempting to be used by the suspects for mining Bitcoins. The incident took place at the Federal…
The manner in which the U.S. has been ravaged by influenza this year is comparable to scenarios where there is appearance of the completely new strain of virus which impacts an entire vulnerable population even before such a population has managed to find out a way to create defenses against it. This latest health phenomenon…
Allegations against Uber that it had stolen trade secrets of the self-driving firm Waymo have bene settled. Stake worth approximately $245m (£177m) or 0.34 per cent in Uber is being given to Waymo under the agreement. Even though Uber had maintained it never made use of Waymo’s technologies, the agreement also saw Uber pledging never…
While there was a stalling of the overall growth of users due to a clampdown on fake accounts, the first quarterly profits in its 12-year history was reported by social media platform Twitter. A string of cost cutting measures at the San Francisco-based social network company resulted n the company reporting a net profit of…
Fraedom, a company that offers the technology of Software-as-a-Service and provides solutions for payments and transaction management for clients including financial institutions and other corporate customers would be acquired by Visa. The latter made announcement recently. Visa IntelliLink Spend Management which is a core platform that caters to the needs of Visa’s commercial and small-business…
