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Addressing the SemiconIndia conference virtually, Jaishankar said, “It is not surprising that CETs should now emerge as one of the important metrics of power. Who invents, who manufactures, what are the market shares, where are the resources, who has the skills, where is the talent pool — these are increasingly the crucial questions.”He noted: “The depiction of a Chip War may be somewhat overstated, but it has more than a fundamental kernel of truth. To a considerable extent, concerns in the CET field are influenced by how market shares and production dominance was leveraged in other areas”.The external affairs minister…

The index was 0.7 per cent higher at 3008.61 points on Friday. Since the beginning of 2023, the MOEX has increased by about 40 per cent. The stock market has demonstrated consistent growth since a collapse following the announcement of partial mobilisation in September, 2022.Analysts told Russian business daily Kommersant that the rally had occurred due to a dropping ruble, rising oil prices, and the dividend policy of the country’s corporate sector. Experts expect the MOEX index to reach 3,500 points by the end of the year, RT reported.In the latest trading session, shares in LUKOIL, Rosneft, Tatneft, Gazprom Neft,…

According to cybersecurity software company Trend Micro, both malware uses the same network infrastructure and certificates, indicating the same threat actors created them.The malicious apps are distributed through a variety of channels, including social media, phishing websites, and shopping apps on Google Play.CherryBlos malware was first seen spread in April 2023 in the form of an APK (Android package) file marketed on Telegram, Twitter, and YouTube as AI tools or cryptocurrency miners.The names used for the malicious APKs are GPTalk, Happy Miner, Robot999, and SynthNet, according to the report.The downloaded malware CherryBlos (AndroidOS_CherryBlos.GCL), named because of the unique string used…

The ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ singer and outspoken human rights activist said witnessing the reality TV star voted in as US president as well as racist outrages such as the police killing of George Floyd made her want to see a public uprising against corrupt leaders.She ranted in Ireland’s Hot Press magazine in 2020 in what is thought to be one of her last long interviews about how she was convinced Trump was the real incarnation of Satan, “I actually do believe Donald Trump is the biblical Devil, the f*****, reports aceshowbiz.com.”I know this may sound extreme – I don’t…

Bridgetown (Barbados), July 30 (IANS) India head coach Rahul Dravid has defended the decision to experiment excessively with the team combination in the ongoing ODI series against West Indies and the call to rest skipper Rohit Sharma and fellow experienced batter Virat Kohli in the second match, which visitors lost at the Kensington Oval, here on Saturday. After rejigging their batting line-up in the first ODI, India continued their experimentation as they rested Rohit and Kohli for the second ODI and the move backfired as the Caribbean team cruised to a six-wicket triumph that squared the series at 1-1 on…

Bridgetown (Barbados), July 30 (IANS) A disciplined bowling effort led by three-fers from Gudakesh Motie (3/36) and Romario Shepherd (3/37), followed by a fine half-century from Shai Hope (63 not out) helped West Indies draw level the three-match series 1-1 with a convincing six-wicket win over India in the second ODI, here on Saturday. Opener Ishan Kishan (55) struck his second successive half-century but India failed to capitalise on a good start on a difficult pitch that offered variable bounce to be all out for 181 in 40.5 overs.In reply, West Indies chased down the target in 36.4 overs with…

Warsaw (Poland), July 30 (IANS) German tennis player Laura Siegemund rallied past her compatriot Tatjana Maria 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the Warsaw Open final on Saturday night. After Maria had two breaks to win the opening set 7-5, Siegemund, who had finished her quarterfinal a few hours earlier, managed to turn the game into her favor with strong service and won three consecutive games to make it 1-1 in sets.The third set was proven to be very tight, but it was Siegemund who led 5-4 and broke Maria to reach the final, Xinhua reported.The other semifinal was suspended due…

San Francisco, July 30 (IANS) The big X logo on the Twitter building with a strong lighting scheme here has left people residing in nearby buildings perplexed as they are unable to sleep in the night with all those bizarre lights on. The Elon Musk-run company has put a huge X logo on its headquarters in the city which emits strong lights throughout the night. Now, people living around are looking to purchase window blinds to block out the light coming from X logo.”Imagine no more. This is my life now,” a person living next to the X HQ posted…

New York, July 30 (IANS) NASA’s spacecraft Voyager 2 is experiencing an unplanned ‘communications pause’ and is currently unable to receive commands or transmit data back to Earth.Voyager 2 was one of two probes launched in the 1970s to explore planets in the outer solar system.Voyager 1, which is almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometres) from Earth, continues to operate normally, NASA said in a statement.”A series of planned commands sent to NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft inadvertently caused the antenna to point 2 degrees away from Earth. As a result, Voyager 2 is currently unable to receive commands or…

This romance continued even after the physicist married German-born Katherine ‘Kitty’ Oppenheimer, a biologist, card-carrying communist and alcoholic prone to accidents, played by Emily Blunt in Christopher Nolan’s film.The affair was with his fellow scientist, Jean Tatlock, played by Elizabeth Pugh. It disgraced Oppenheimer in US political circles, ruining his image and his life. And this is how it happened.Tatlock and Oppenheimer met at a house party in 1936 when she was a student at Stanford Medical School and he was a physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. The two had a 10-year age gap, but Tatlock was…