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World's richest person Elon Musk turns 51
Musk, born on June 28, 1971, often remains in the news for his updates on his ventures such as SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Co. He is also known to comment on politics, pop culture and world events. His fans and followers poured birthday wishes for him on the microblogging site Twitter. "Happy birthday @elonmusk. You are my superhero. I hope you will succeed in the mars mission," a user wrote.
Where is Elon Musk as America faces biggest issues of its times
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who made a whopping $44 billion deal, has been quiet on the social media platform since last tweeting on June 21, the Street reported. Musk, the world's richest man, often remains in news for his updates on his ventures such as SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Co. He is also known to comment on politics, pop culture and world events.
Entry-level MacBook Pro M2 has slower SSD speed than M1 model: Report
According to a MacRumors report, YouTubers Max Tech and Created Tech tested the 256GB base M2 model worth the $1,299 and discovered the SSD's read speeds are around 50 pre cent slower than M1 MacBook Pro with same storage. The SSD's write speeds are also reportedly around 30 per cent slower.
Apple set to launch several devices with flagship M2 chip
In fact, the M2 chip will power most of new Apple products, including M2 Mac mini, M2 Pro Mac mini, M2 Pro / M2 Max 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros, as well as an M2 Ultra/M2 Extreme Mac Pro, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. These devices will be launched between this fall and the beginning of next year.
Spotify 'Community' feature to let users see friends' real-time activity
The feature will also allow mobile users to see what playlists their friends have recently updated in a dedicated place in the app, reports TechCrunch. While not publicly surfaceable in the app at this time, mobile users can access this new Community feature by typing in "spotify: community" in the Safari browser on their iOS device, the report said.
Google to use only first 15MB of webpage for Search rankings
Google specified in the help document that "any resources referenced in the HTML such as images, videos, CSS and JavaScript are fetched separately". "After the first 15 MB of the file, Googlebot stops crawling and only considers the first 15 MB of the file for indexing," Google said. "The file size limit is applied on the uncompressed data," it added.
Tesla employees' electric dream meets sudden crash in mass layoffs
The electric car-maker started laying off salaried employees after Musk announced last week to cut the workforce, which would result in reducing Tesla's total headcount by roughly 3.5 per cent. Tesla employs more than 100,000 people across its facilities. In a LinkedIn post, Iain Abshier said that he had "a gut punch" that he would be included in the Tesla layoffs after just two weeks of work.
Hackers steal $100 mn in crypto from Harmony Blockchain bridge
Harmony admitted that a malicious attack happened on its proprietary Horizon Ethereum Bridge and multiple transactions occurred that compromised the bridge with 11 transactions that extracted tokens stored in the bridge. "The estimated value at the time of the attack was approximately $100 million," the US-based company said in a statement late on Friday.
Tesla Enhanced Autopilot now available in US, China
According to Teslarati, in the US, Enhanced Autopilot costs $6,000. Meanwhile, in China, it costs approx 31,970 yuan ($4,779). The features included in Enhanced Autopilot are Navigate on Autopilot, Auto Lane Change, Autopark, Summon, and Smart Summon. Earlier this month, Tesla released Enhanced Autopilot in New Zealand and Australia.
India must accelerate digitisation via chip design, innovation: Rajeev Chandrasekhar
After inaugurating Intel India's state-of-the-art design and engineering centre here, he said that Intel's critical contributions and relentless quest to advance innovation in design and engineering in the country over the past two and half decades highlights the design opportunity India offers to the world. "The inauguration of Intel's new state-of-the-art design facility in Bengaluru is a testament of its commitment to contribute towards bolstering India's technology leadership," the minister told the audience.
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