At least nine reports are expected, covering everything from political decision-making to vaccines. Publishing the first of these, inquiry chair Baroness Hallett said the UK was “ill-prepared for dealing with a catastrophic emergency, let alone the coronavirus pandemic”. “Never again can a disease be allowed to lead to so many deaths and so much suffering,” […]
Dell XPS 13 (9350) was launched by the company on Tuesday as one of the first laptops to be equipped with the newly unveiled Intel Core Ultra 200V ‘Lunar Lake’ processors. It will be sold alongside the XPS 13 (9345) and XPS (9340) models that are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and Intel’s older […]
Intel Core Ultra 200V series — codenamed Lunar Lake — was unveiled by the chipmaker on Tuesday ahead of the upcoming IFA 2024 event. The company’s second-generation artificial intelligence (AI) processors will compete with chipsets from rivals AMD and Qualcomm and Intel claims that they deliver a total of 120 trillion operations per second (TOPS) […]
Qualcomm could soon announce a new variant of the Snapdragon X series chipset at the Internationale FunkAusstellung Berlin (Berlin International Radio Exhibition) 2024 event on Tuesday. The new Snapdragon X Plus X1P-42-100 model, is said to power the “second wave” of AI PCs, also known as Copilot+ PCs. This chipset will reportedly provide 45 trillion operations […]
Samsung Galaxy Book 5 Pro 360 is expected to make its global debut later this year. The purported 2-in-1 laptop is likely to be a part of the South Korean technology conglomerate’s Galaxy Book 5 lineup. Although Samsung hasn’t confirmed the existence of the device, the specifications of the Galaxy Book 5 Pro 360 have […]
“Waqf” means the permanent dedication of movable or immovable property for the purposes enshrined in Islam as pious, religious, or charitable. The administration of waqf institutions was entrusted to different entities at different times in India. During the Muslim Rule in India, the waqf administration was decentralised and controlled by provincial and district officers, such […]
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) feature Recall, which is yet to be available to the public, reportedly cannot be uninstalled from Windows 11. Recently, it was said to be available to Windows Insiders in the 24H2 version of Windows 11 in preview. Interestingly, that version allowed users to uninstall the feature. However, as per a report, […]
In the ocean food chain, large sharks generally only have to worry about keeping orcas at bay — but a new study suggests the apex predators may have to watch out for their own. Researchers have discovered evidence pointing to the first known case of a porbeagle shark — which can grow up to 12 feet […]
Mahatma Gandhi speaks with Jawaharlal Nehru in Bombay, in 1946. Both Gandhi and Nehru represented a tradition of “thinking-in-action” or “thinking-in-politics” that characterised Indian political thought during the anti-colonial movement. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Yogendra Yadav took a dig(Indian Express, August 26) at practitioners of modern political thought and theory in India by pronouncing […]
Into his third term as Prime Minister, Narendra Modi continues to make much of his “Neighbourhood First” policy, but India’s public is not aware that it has been a debacle. The tendency of New Delhi commentators to hew close to the line set by North Block and South Block means India’s citizens do not get […]
