Month: November 2021
Vietnam new class of billionaire entrepreneurs
Thao College is a marker of a significant shift. As recently as 2012 Vietnam was a land without dollar billionaires. Today six are thought to have joined the club, A surging stockmarket means the list is likely to get longer. Whereas American and Chinese billionaires are in the cross-hairs from their respective governments, Vietnam’s wealthy
Virtual Real
An entertainment metaverse will delight music fans, influencers will flock to a fashion metaverse to flaunt digital clothes, and there is even a shark metaverse. For example “enterprise metaverse” which is essentially a digital carbon copy of the physical economy. Building living, interactive blueprints that replicate the physical world might, in time, come to shape
Costly in Training AI Machines
According to Moore’s law, the industry’s master metronome, predicts that the number of components that can be squeezed onto a microchip of a given size and thus, loosely, the amount of computational power available at a given cost doubles every two years. For many comparatively simple ai applications, that means that the cost of training
Covid-19 Spillovers
in 2020 the World Health Organisation reported that sars-cov-2 had spilled over in Denmark from human beings into farmed mink, and was thereafter transmitted from animal to animal to create a separate veterinary epidemic. The spillovers of most concern to people are those from other animals to Homo sapiens. These may then go on to
Blockchain Businesses
There is going to be more change in the next 5 years than we have seen in the last 30 years in the financial system, With the rapid rise of bitcoin, which this year reached an all-time high of $64,000, the number of companies aiming to capitalize on the original digital asset has surged. What
Discovery of 366 New Planets
An algorithm has helped astronomers find some 366 possible new exoplanets. The new collection of distant worlds include a variety of different planetary systems, including one that includes a star and two gas giant planets that are located strangely close to each other. The discoveries were powered by a new algorithm that looks through data
China’s New Nuclear Reactor
China is developing a nuclear reactor to help its missions to the Moon and Mars. The reactor can generate one megawatt of electricity and is claimed to be 100 times more powerful than a similar device Nasa is working on. Nasa’s fission power source would be used to support permanent human life on the Moon,
Google Competition Investigations
Search engine giant Google has offered new proposals on the way it uses customer data following an intervention by the competition watchdog. The search engine has been investigated over concerns competition could be hit when third-party cookies are phased out. Investigators raised concerns that plans by Google to hide data – in the name of
EE data plans for gamers
EE has unveiled two new monthly plans aimed at gamers, offering access to Xbox’s Game Pass Ultimate streaming service, unlimited gaming data and an Xbox console .Users will be able to get an Xbox Series S console as part of the bundle for an additional upfront cost of £10, then pay £21 a month for
boosters feature on social networks
Facebook, Instagram and TikTok are launched new features to encourage people to get their coronavirus booster jabs. Facebook, Instagram and TikTok users can now add stickers to their profiles to show their vaccine status. It follows on from people previously being able to show they have had their first and second jabs on certain social