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'The Voyage' kicked off Samsung's CES 2021. The melody captures the firm's brand identity and will be the first time that it will be communicating with its consumers via a brand sound.

In a joint effort by multiple countries with help from Europol, authorities arrested an Australian citizen linked to DarkMarket and proceeded to shut down over 20 site servers in Ukraine and Moldova.

The recent privacy policy updates from WhatsApp have garnered substantial criticism and sparked privacy concerns. Following this, Turkey has now launched an antitrust probe into WhatsApp and Facebook.

DALL·E, a distilled version of GPT-3 with 12 billion parameters, is a transformer model that produces images from a given caption. The results are impressive with the model capturing minute details.

In a first, the California DMV approved Nuro to operate its autonomous delivery services in the streets of California. Nuro plans to kickstart its service in two counties with a fleet of Priuses soon.

According to a report, dozens of journalists - mostly from Al Jazeera - had their iPhones hacked via an Israeli firm's spyware. Four attackers have been linked to the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Starship SN8 executed an almost perfect high-altitude flight test before plummeting towards the earth at a velocity greater than the intended threshold. SpaceX and Musk extolled the test as a success.

U.S. Lawmakers wrote to Intel and Nvidia inquiring them about the export of their technology that has potentially been used by China to carry out surveillance of Uyghurs in Xinjiang region.

Amazon's quantum computing service has been integrated with PennyLane to speed up the development of quantum-hybrid algorithms. It also has a new tensor network simulator that supports 50 qubits.

In the path towards improving data flow and networking in data centers, Intel showed off key advances like the tight coupling of CMOS technologies with photonics and miniature micro-ring modulators.

At Intel Labs Day 2020, Intel showed two robots running on its neuromorphic Loihi chip. Mercedes-Benz, Lenovo, and others have joined the INRC. A next-gen neuromorphic chip is also in the pipeline.

Tested on temperatures as low as 4K, Intel's new 22nm Horse Ridge II SoC not only allows the manipulation of qubit states but also the control of gate potentials to entangle qubits.

Trained on over 1-billion unlabeled lines of production-quality code, ControlFlag is a machine programming system that detects coding patterns, stylistic choices, and notorious code.

Carriers will be barred from installing new Huawei equipment from September next year while the purchase of new equipment will be banned earlier in January. Existing equipment can be overhauled.

CEO of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, said that the firm's divorce with its budget smartphone brand, Honor, will cut off all ties between the two companies, hopefully allowing Honor to regain U.S. tech.

If the mission is successful, China will become only the third country to collect and bring back rock samples from the Moon to the Earth—a feat that has not been attempted for the past four decades.

Lawmakers are pushing for banning the installation of Huawei equipment as early as September next year. Violation of the ban would result in heavy fines and taking cuts from sales proceeds.

The Intel OFS aims to increase the adoption of FPGAs in the industry by providing an open-source platform that enables code modularity and reusability when developing and deploying on FPGAs.

Intel's latest offering in its lineup of eASICs, the N5X boasts 50% lower core power and lower cost compared to FPGAs. It will be geared towards accelerating 5G, AI, cloud, and edge workloads.

After accruing five consecutive quarters of profit, Tesla will be added to the S&P 500 index on December 21. It will edge out JPMorgan Chase as the tenth-biggest member of the index.

After igniting its upper stage eight minutes after liftoff, the Vega rocket lost nominal speed and went on a degraded trajectory, taking with it the Spanish and French payload onboard.

Mispology's FPGA-based Zebra AI inference accelerator outperformed Nvidia A100, V100, Tesla T4, AWS Inferencia, Google TPUv3, and others, on the ResNet 50 architecture in ML inference efficiency.

The ARM-powered MacBook Air clocked 1687 in single-core and 7433 in multi-core tests on Geekbench, showcasing results similar to the 2019 Mac Pro and beating the higher-end 16-inch MacBook Pro.

The two giants have agreed to collaborate on Confidential Computing whereby they will be enhancing and extending the security of AI and HPC workloads on their hybrid cloud offerings.

Dragon and the Falcon 9 become the first NASA-certified system in over 40 years for regular manned trips to the ISS. The approval echoes SpaceX's success in the Commercial Crew program.

Japanese software development firm OKI IDS will be combining its expertise with Mipsology's field-programmable gate arrays to bring high-quality machine learning applications to Japan.

Sony has launched Airpeak, a project with which the Japanese giant will be bringing its imaging and sensing technology to the drone space to help photographers, videographers, and content creators.

The new P4d instances will house eight Nvidia A100 GPUs and 96 Cascade Lake Xeon vCPUs and offer 2.5x times the deep learning performance compared to the last generation, lowering costs up to 60%.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently working on a new region in Switzerland. Dubbed AWS Europe (Zurich), it will consist of three availability zones and is expected to launch somewhere in 2022.

Alphabet CFO said that the firm expects to obtain the "necessary regulatory approvals to hopefully complete the transaction by the end of this year. But the time frame may extend beyond that."

Mark Zuckerberg announced that WhatsApp is now delivering around 100 billion messages a day. Userbase has grown considerably to two billion users now, compared to 500 million back in 2014.

AWS Nitro Enclaves provide highly isolated EC2 instances without persistent storage, administrator or operator access, or external networking. These Enclaves will be tailored to data processing tasks.

Dubbed Crew-1, the Crew Dragon's second manned flight to the International Space Station is scheduled for next month on November 15, weather permitting, with four astronauts on board.

With titles like Asphalt 9 and WWE SuperCard, Facebook has launched an array of 'cloud-streamed' games that can be played on Android phones and PCs. But support for iOS and iPadOS is missing.

C3 AI CRM is the first enterprise-class software integrated with Dynamics 365, Adobe Experience Cloud, and C3.ai's industry-specific AI models, to build a comprehensive CRM solution for firms.

At QCE20, Intel will be presenting four papers highlighting its efforts in developing commercial-grade quantum computers. Here's an all-encompassing guide describing what you can expect.