Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mr DeJoy testified to Congress about delays in delivery The head of the US Postal Service has said the agency is “fully capable and committed” to handling the nation’s mail-in votes for November’s election. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told lawmakers that postal votes would […]
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Premiums of Rs 17,011 crore in July have been amassed, witnessing a hike from the collection last year in the same period. Premiums paid on non-life insurance viz automobile, health and homes hiked in July even as the country continues to see a spike in coronavirus cases. Non-life insurers, which […]
#IBMCodePatterns, a developer’s best friend. #IBMCodePatterns provide complete solutions to problems that developers face every day. They leverage multiple technologies, products, or services to solve issues across multiple industries. Click here to know more Advertisements The government of India has launched the “Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge” under the aim […]
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland drew a sharp distinction between her support for the office of the Governor General and its current occupant, Julie Payette, in the wake of reporting by CBC News showing unusual spending to meet Payette’s demands for privacy. Payette is also under fire over claims she’s created a toxic […]
In a socially distanced ceremony at a Delaware high school this week, presidential hopeful Joe Biden introduced Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate in the 2020 election. Like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Biden’s own campaign staff, Harris has a long relationship with Silicon Valley that includes fundraisers and […]
After Ghislaine Maxwell argued this week that she should be moved into the general population at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, federal prosecutors said in a court filing on Thursday that the Bureau of Prisons won’t grant the request. Her attorneys had claimed in a motion that she is […]
CLOSE The husband-and-wife owners of a Korean restaurant in Sterling Heights have been charged with evading more than $165,000 in sales tax, according to the Michigan Attorney General’s Office. Ki Yon Ahn, 73, and Seo Jong Yoo, 62, were charged with filing false tax returns and with possessing a “zapper” […]
A report surfaced earlier today about an Apple Store in the heart of downtown Montreal being closed until further notice due to COVID-19. In an email to CTV News, Apple would not officially confirm if there was an outbreak of COVID-19 at the store. Apple’s general statement noted that […]
As your organization embraces the cloud, you may find that the dynamism and scale of the cloud-native stack requires a far more complicated security and compliance landscape. For instance, with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes gaining traction, developers and devops teams have new responsibility over policy areas like admission control […]
Five years ago this week, the first general-purpose blockchain went live on a mainnet. Ethereum paved the way for a whole new use case for blockchain technology untethered from Bitcoin’s original vision as electronic cash. CoinDesk marked the milestone with a special series of stories, live-streamed conversations and even a […]
Neither the spy agency, Asio, nor the Australian federal police have compelled tech companies to provide assistance under the country’s controversial anti-encryption laws that have been in force for nearly two years, a parliamentary inquiry has heard. Both agencies said on Friday they had so far secured voluntary cooperation from […]
Democratic senator Tom Carper was caught on a hot mic uttering a string of profanities during the Senate’s remote questioning of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Friday morning. Because of the coronavirus pandemic and the current Senate recess, DeJoy, a Republican fundraiser, fielded questions about the United States Postal Service’s financial […]
The U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force each have their own secure information-sharing combat network technology programs. But what if those programs were combined? Why not merge them into one multi-domain military network able to optimize and combine coordinated land, sea and air attacks? The question represents current Pentagon thinking […]
The Australian Computer Museum Society has held its Annual General Meeting, at which the entire management committee was replaced. New President is iTWire Associate Editor Graeme Philipson, who was founding President when the Society was formed in 1994. “I left after a few years because I thought there was too […]
Experiencing 2020 from the POV of a rational-minded person is exhausting and scary. It sometimes feels as though we’ve ended up in the worst timeline of a badly-scripted parallel universes story. While everyone has their own tried-and-true coping mechanisms, we’d like to suggest a science-based remedy for the pandemic blues: […]
The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Aug 10, 2020 (CDN Newswire via Comtex) — The latest report entitled Global General Surgery Devices Market 2020 by Manufacturers, Regions, Type and Application, Forecast to 2025 is well documented to present a crucial analytical review of […]
Fidelity Investments, Volkswagen, Enel, University of Waterloo, Rahko, and Qu & Co among organizations using Amazon Braket
Updated at 11:20 a.m. Aug. 10 to reflect the correct pay for election officials. © Nathan J Fish/Sun-News A vote here sign sits in the Doña Ana County Clerk’s Bureau of Elections Warehouse in Las Cruces on Thursday, June 4, 2020. LAS CRUCES – Election officials are being sought for […]
If Intel’s view of the future is right, you may one day be shopping for a compute device that’s custom-tailored for you, rather than a device that’s one-size-fits-all. The company detailed its long view of the future of computing devices called “Client 2.0” where the monolithic core and multi-die approaches […]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — In a significant advance in the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), the Brain Simulator II neural simulator successfully tested one billion neurons on a desktop computer comprised completely of off-the-shelf components. From a performance perspective, the system processed three billion synapses per second. Brain […]