Apple lost a long-running court battle with the European Union on Tuesday, resulting in the company being forced to pay EUR 13 billion ($14.4 billion or roughly Rs. 1,20,903 crore) in back taxes to Ireland, as part of a wider crackdown on so-called “sweetheart deals”. What Happened In 2016, the European Commission’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager
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Microsoft-backed G42, an Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence (AI) technology company, unveiled a Hindi large language model (LLM) for India on Tuesday. Dubbed Nanda, the AI model is said to be trained with large volumes of datasets in both Hindi, English, and Hinglish languages. The generative AI model was developed in collaboration with MBZUAI and Cerebras
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A groundbreaking study from the National University of Singapore has revealed that it is possible to reverse the ageing process in mouse egg cells, offering new hope for fertility treatments. Researchers, led by Dr Rong Li, Director of the Mechanobiology Institute, have discovered a method to rejuvenate ageing mouse oocytes by placing them into younger
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Apple Watch Ultra 3 — the company’s purported third-generation flagship smartwatch model — might not be unveiled at the ‘It’s Glowtime’ hardware launch event that will be held today. Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman claimed in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that Apple will update the Watch Ultra 2 model that was launched alongside the
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The threat actor known as CosmicBeetle has debuted a new custom ransomware strain called ScRansom in attacks targeting small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, while also likely working as an affiliate for RansomHub. “CosmicBeetle replaced its previously deployed ransomware, Scarab, with ScRansom, which is continually improved,” ESET researcher Jakub
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iPhone 16 series was launched at Apple’s “It’s Glowtime” event with much fanfare on Monday. During the event, the company showcased several hardware and software upgrades the new generation of iPhone devices come with. However, it appears the company’s wordings of “faster USB 3 speeds” might have been taken out of context, and the tech
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Australia plans to set a minimum age limit for children to use social media citing concerns about mental and physical health, sparking a backlash from digital rights advocates who warn the measure could drive dangerous online activity underground. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his centre-left government would run an age verification trial before introducing age
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Sep 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Espionage A trio of threat activity clusters linked to China has been observed compromising more government organizations in Southeast Asia as part of a renewed state-sponsored operation codenamed Crimson Palace, indicating an expansion in the scope of the espionage effort. Cybersecurity firm Sophos, which has been monitoring the cyber
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Antarctica, now a vast frozen continent, was not always covered in ice. Around 34 million years ago, during the Eocene-Oligocene boundary, the continent was ice-free. According to Eric Wolff, a paleoclimatologist from the University of Cambridge, Antarctica resembled northern Canada with tundra and coniferous forests before it froze. The shift to ice began due to
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