Monday 3 August 2020

IRAI Titbits -- 200701

IRAI Titbits -- 200701


IIT Madras, India’s top technical institute offers the world’s first online BSc Degree program in Programming and Data Science. More info at  https://www.onlinedegree.iitm.ac.in/

According to  the recent survey by Kaspersky, parents in the Asia Pacific region are more worried about their kids or family members watching over their online activities than hackers and give more time in hiding their private data from partners than cybercriminals. Surprisingly,  cybercriminals are their least concern with only 3.1 per cent.

Infraud was founded in Ukraine in 2010 and become a premier destination on the web for purchasing goods with counterfeit or stolen credit card information, according to US authorities, touted itself with the slogan "In Fraud We Trust."

Swiggy’s annual report on the country’s food ordering habits revealed that Indians ordered an average of 95 biryanis per minute, or 1.6 biryanis per second, in 2019. According to the startup Biryani By Kilo (BBK),  the biryani market in India is estimated to be approximately Rs 1,500 crore in the organised sector, and Rs 15,000 crore in the unorganised sector.

Indian office workers estimate that they waste an average of 53 minutes a day due to outdated and inefficient technology, according to the Salesforce APAC Employee Engagement report

According to Nasscom, India  has 1,300 captive centres of American and other multinational companies and they employ over 10 lakh workers

The Halol, Gujarat-based startup manufactures nanofiber-based masks called 4S SHIELD, and covers the four sensory organs of the body – eyes, nose, ears, and mouth.

SoftBank was one of Alibaba's earliest backers, making a $20 million investment in the company two decades ago that was worth $60 billion by 2014.

Amazon is launching a new service called Honeycode that enables AWS customers to build apps for their business without any coding experience.

Facebook will now warn users if they're sharing an old news story with a pop-up, TechCrunch reports. The pop-up will appear if you try to share a story older than 90 days.

The AR market is predicted to be worth $60.55 billion USD by 2023, and it's likely to be led by some of the biggest names in tech: Google, Samsung, HTC, and Microsoft. 

As per latest Top 500 report, The fastest supercomputer in the world is Fugaku, which is installed at RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan. Fugaku is powered by Fujitsu’s 48-core A64FX SoC, the first number one system on the list to be powered by ARM processors. Fugaku gave a High Performance Linpack result of 415.5 petaflops, which is 2.8 times faster than Summit (148.8 petaflops) -- the second fastest supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee

China dominates the TOP500 with 226 supercomputers. US is second with 114 systems and Japan is third with 30.


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