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Addressing attendees at the launch event of the Indus App store by PhonePe, Vaishnaw revealed that the government is poised to greenlight 2-3 semiconductor plants imminently.

In a letter shared with the employees, Krishna stated that the company's focus for months has been on looking after the safety and security of IBMers and their families in impacted regions. The company suspended operations back in March but kept employees on the payroll. "We chose to suspend operations so that we could evaluate longer-term options while continuing to pay and provide for our employees in Russia," the CEO wrote in the letter.

The Frontier supercomputer at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the first to achieve an unprecedented level of computing performance known as exascale, a threshold of a quintillion calculations per second. Frontier features a theoretical peak performance of 2 exaflops, or two quintillion calculations per second, making it 10 times more powerful than ORNL's Summit system.

mFine, which raised $48 million (over Rs 356 crore) in Series C funding co-led by Moore Strategic Ventures and BEENEXT with participation from existing investors like Prime Venture Partners in September last year, has let go half of its total workforce and the fired staff is from operations, product and marketing verticals, according to sources.

In some users' case, the spam link forwarded them to Channel One Russia, a Russian state media network, reports The Verge. Verizon, however, said "we have no indication that this fraudulent activity is originating in Russia." What initially appeared a random, spoofed spam message started to look like a focused effort targeting Verizon Wireless.

 Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced to start showing people in Ukraine a message at the top of feed to connect them to high-quality, timely information to stay safe, find family and friends, and locate support services like housing and immigration assistance.

Since the start of the Ukraine invasion, the Russian App Store has lost nearly 6,982 mobile apps as several companies decided to pull off their apps and games from the Apple App Store. According to data by app intelligence firm Sensor Tower and shared with TechCrunch, those apps had been downloaded around 218 million times in Russia, representing around 3 per cent of their total 6.6 billion installs globally.

Responding to a photo of the woman in the aftermath of Wednesday's attack, the Embassy had tweeted: "She has some very realistic make-up. She is also doing well with her beauty blogs. Plus she could not be in the maternity house at the time of the strike, as it has long been taken by the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion who told all the staff to clear the place." The micro-blogging platform immediately deleted the tweet.

Sony's gaming division Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that it would stop hardware shipments and software launches in Russia, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The company will also pause shipments of the new racing game Gran Turismo 7 to the country. As per report, Sony has announced a $2 million donation to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the NGO Save the Children to support those affected by the invasion.

Apple has reportedly suspended Search Ads service on the App Store in Russia until further notice. According to an email shared with developers, Apple Search Ads ads, that allow developers to run advertising campaigns on the App Store, have now been placed on hold in Russia amid Ukraine invasion, reports TechCrunch. No new Search Ads campaigns will be eligible to run on the App Store in Russia for the duration of the suspension, the email read.