Month: July 2024
Nvidia Chips in AI Industry
The chips have become one of the hottest commodities in the tech world, with cloud computing providers competing with one another to get access to them. Nvidia has drawn the attention of regulators since becoming the biggest beneficiary of the artificial intelligence spending boom. Its graphics processing units or GPUs are prized by data centre
Apple blocks Epic Games’s alternative apple store
Epic has been battling Apple for years for a means of reaching its customers on the iPhone without having to pay commissions on in-app purchases. The company took the case to the courts in the U.S., where it ultimately lost on most fronts, having failed to prove Apple was a monopolist. Fortnite maker Epic Games
China Seizes Taiwan’s fishing boat
Chinese Coast Guard personnel seized the fishing boat near Taiwan’s Kinmen Islands Tuesday night, detaining two Taiwanese citizens and three Indonesians.Taiwanese officials Wednesday said China seized one of their fishing boats this week under a new protocol that allows the Chinese coast guard to take vessels that operate under its maritime borders. The fishing boat
Turkmenistan and Iran to supply natural gas to China
The former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan relies heavily on the export of its vast natural gas reserves. China is the country’s main customer for gas and Turkmenistan also is working on a pipeline to supply gas to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Turkmenistan is heavily reliant on revenue from sales of the gas in its vast
U.S. Deports Chinese Migrants
In the 2023 fiscal year, more than 24,000 Chinese migrants were temporarily detained on the U.S. southern border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection more than in the preceding 10 years combined. The United States sent a group of migrants back to China on the first large deportation flight there since 2018. The deportation,
Intesified attacks on Kharkiv
Moscow has intensified attacks against Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, as well as Kharkiv Oblast, with the use of missiles, glide bombs, and drones, destroying energy infrastructure and killing civilians. Russia’s attack on a postal depot in Kharkiv with a guided aerial bomb on June 30 killed one person and injured nine others. A residential area
Google data centre expansion
As Big Tech giants including Google, Amazon and Microsoft have outlined plans to invest tens of billions of dollars into AI, climate experts have raised concerns about the environmental impacts of the power-intensive tools and systems. Google’s greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48 per cent in the past five years due to the expansion of
Binance Executive’s health in Nigerian Jail
Nigeria’s money laundering trial against Binance and two executives was adjourned until July 5 following the cross-examination on Monday of the first witness from the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission. Gambaryan, the crypto exchange’s head of financial crime compliance, has been detained in the most populous African nation since February and is being held in
Iran vows to back Hezbollah
Tehran’s involvement in Jerusalem’s fight in the Gaza Strip has increasingly drawn international concern.Iran vowed on Tuesday to back the terrorist organization Hezbollah “by all means” against Israel if Jerusalem launches an offensive in neighboring Lebanon.Speaking to the families of Palestinians killed during the fight in the Gaza Strip on Monday, Brigadier General of the
Lithuania Protests to Moscow Over civil aircraft
The Pobeda airline aircraft entered Lithuanian airspace over the Baltic sea for a minute on Sunday evening, on its way from Moscow Vnukovo airport to Kaliningrad airport. Lithuania’s foreign ministry on Tuesday said it had made a diplomatic protest to Russia after a Russian civilian aircraft entered its airspace without permission. Is Lithuania officially a