India's thriving scam industry: Americans lost over $10 Billion to fraudsters in India in the past year... No clear law or policy or regulation has been actively discussed or implemented to curb this menace.
TSMC’s 3nm Conundrum, Does It Even Make Sense? Density improvements are 56%, with a 40% cost increase. This results in an 11% cost per transistor improvement, the weakest ever scaling for a major process technology in 50+ years. Most chip designs will not achieve the 56% density improvement, but instead a much lower ~30%. This would imply a cost per transistor increase
Ideal for mountain warfare: For mountain war against China, is India’s LCH helicopter superior to AH-64E Apache? .. Against armor on open ground, Apaches would devastate Chinese and Pakistani tanks. But in the Himalayas, where terrain and climate conspire to limit troop deployments, a flying arsenal probably isn’t needed. Just an armed helicopter that can fly above the mountains.
India-Pak rivalry plays out in South Caucasus: Azerbaijan, Turkey and Pakistan conducted a joint exercise named 'Three Brothers' last year in the name of Islam. India's military assistance to Armenia comes against the backdrop of Pakistan's bonhomie with Azerbaijan
However, in spite of these developments, an interesting fact is that India has stronger economic ties with Azerbaijan than with Armenia. ONGC has also invested heavily in Azerbaijan's gas sector.
Fewer awards will rust scientific temper: In one silent stroke, the Union govt has decided to do away with over 200 awards, including scholarships, fellowships and internal awards for scientific excellence.
What will India gain from this FTA? The proposed India-UK free trade agreement is likely to be watered down amid controversial remarks by UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman on visas.
NOT white man's burden: UK defies climate warnings with new oil and gas licences. The decision is at odds with international climate scientists who say fossil fuel projects should be closed down, not expanded.
Stay away from WhatsApp: Telegram founder warns users to stay away from WhatsApp yet again. "It doesn't matter if you are the richest person on Earth - if you have WhatsApp installed on your phone, all your data from every app on your device is accessible".
The first laptop with a RISC-V processor goes on sale: The laptop is the result of a partnership between China’s DeepComputing and Xcalibyte, and it’s powered by a new Alibaba T-Head TH1520 processor. It features four 2.5 GHz Xuantie C910 64-bit RISC-V processor cores, a neural processing unit with up to 4 TOPS performance, and an Imagination GPU.
Why you might be missing your commute: The daily commute acts as a transitional buffer. It gives you time and space to think about the upcoming work role. “It’s not as easy as switching from one role to the next. When you go into work and you’re still in your home role, you often have conflict between the home and work-related identities”
Home-made disinfectant: Make your own hypochlorite solution. HClO prepared by this method will be mixed with metal ions during the process, so not to be used for medical use. Just for disinfecting the fruits & vegitables or work surfaces. For food disinfection, rinse with water after disinfection. . . . . "Does It Work?" YES!
Chinese espionage in Africa: By requiring African nations to use Chinese contractors to build the infrastructure, Beijing provides itself with a unique opportunity to implant Chinese surveillance technology into the projects from the ground up.. Servers installed by Huawei in the African Union headquarters were daily uploading their content to servers based in Shanghai, China. An inspection of the building—built by the state-owned China State Construction Engineering Corporation—also uncovered listening devices hidden throughout the building. . . . Anti-Chinese sentiment growing in Africa.
Professors around America have been caught selling secret research to the Chinese Communist Regime.
The national media won't cover it, so here's a thread of those who have been caught so far:
Pursuit of profit: Facebook says it’s cool with lies in political ads
Addicted generation: Sleep deprivation from bingeing on Netflix, Amazon Prime causing health decline in India.
China roundup:
- Peaceful rise: China tried to threaten Taiwan by weaponizing tourism.
- Han espionage: Chinese “tourist” accused of espionage in the US.
- See no evil: Pope keeps silent on persecution of Uighurs.
- Corporate espionage: 5G is where China and the west finally diverge.
- EUV tech: US pressed Dutch hard to cancel China chip-equipment sale
Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker: "When I was a child I dreamed of becoming a vet. Instead, I ended up working in a slaughterhouse. Cows being brought in would get scared and panic, which was pretty terrifying for all of us too. There were countless occasions when,
despite following all of the procedures for stunning, slaughterers would
get kicked by a massive, spasming cow as they hoisted it up to the
machine for slaughter.".
Snuggling with cows should convince everyone out there that cows deserve love, compassion, and consideration. Not confinement, harm, and to end up on someone's dinner plate. 🧡 [@julianasfarm Sanctuary] pic.twitter.com/EYph2zPUyi
‘Green measles’ problem: Fragmentation of India's forested zones with no corridors connecting them. Many of these reserves, like Panna, had no tigers left in them.
N Ram has company: Twitter ran paid ads from China's state news media criticizing the Hong Kong protests . . . . .
China also ran a covert disinformation campaign using fake social media accounts to target Hong Kong protests. Twitter,
Facebook are blocked in the mainland, but not in Hong
Kong.
Chinese telecom firms are security risk: “China today controls a significant section of India’s telecom networks even though information dominance is at the core of China’s military strategy, posing an unacceptable security risk”.
Sydney think tank: China missiles could overwhelm U.S. military in Asia in ‘hours’, says think tank
Entrenched and entitled: Card payments group Visa is critical of the India’s move towards no-fee debit card transactions
And now, plant-based eggs: Mung bean based liquid egg product, JUST Egg, is the second-best performing in the category.
Fermented rice or Pazhaya saadam: Increase healthy gut bacteria. High in vitamins like B12 lacking in other vegetarian sources... Use only organic milk free of antibiotics
