IBM in November unveiled a quantum processor of 127 qubits, or quantum bits, while startup QuEra, created by MIT and Harvard, announced an even more powerful machine of 256 qubits. This quantum leap for quantum computing far exceeded the power of previ…
The Turkish lira had dropped off yet another cliff, reaching a new record low exchange rate and losing a quarter of its value opposite the U.S. dollar only since Nov 15. In the past three months. One lira was only worth 8 cents as of Dec 1 market open….
In what can be seen as another step towards stricter regulation of the business practices of tech giants, the UK’s Company and Market Authority (CMA) ruled that Meta’s acquisition of Giphy for $400 million be unwound due to concerns over competition re…
Biodiversity decline is a real problem around the globe. While for European audiences, the word normally conjures up images of rare orchids or reptiles in the world’s rain forests, there is also biodiversity loss that hits a lot closer to home with a s…
After years of unabated growth, Black Friday and Cyber Monday online sales dipped for the first time this year, as many shops spread out deals over the entire Thanksgiving week or even further. “With early deals in October, consumers were not waiting a…
Password, 123456, qwerty – while passwords which appear on the list of the most common passwords should definitely be retired from use, even a more unique password can be easy to crack if a computer program is tasked with systematically breaking it.As …
EasyJet reported it’s final results for the year ending 30 September 2021 today, revealing another massive loss exceeding £1 billion. This is on the back of a 52 percent drop in revenue even when compared to the already catastrophic 2020 figure. Back t…
Following Jack Dorsey’s resignation as Twitter CEO and the appointment of former CTO Parag Agrawal as his successor, many people on Twitter pointed out that several of the world’s largest and most well-known tech companies are now run by Indian-born CE…
Indian-born CEOs have been a force to be reckoned with on the U.S. tech scene. The ascent of Parag Agrawal as CEO of Twitter is only the latest in a string of nominations of Indian executives to the top position in high-profile U.S. tech companies.As o…
When the incredibly fast spread of the coronavirus forced numerous countries around the world into their first of many lockdowns in March 2020, Covid not only dominated the headlines but was also what worried people around the world the most by a consi…
