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WorldPosted THIS VIDEO CONTAINS FLASHING IMAGES. The EU-Belarus migrant crisis is continuing to spiral on their borders. But Russian President Vladimir Putin, Belarus's chief ally, may be signaling that a recent threat from Belarus against Russian-European gas supplies went too far. Matthew Larotonda reports. Read More

Cosmostation, an enterprise-level validator node infrastructure & end-user app provider, announced today it has joined the Cudos ecosystem as a validator Cudos is a layer-one blockchain and layer-two computation and oracle network designed to ensure decentralized, permissionless access to high-performance computing at scale. With the partnership, Cosmostation will enhance the…

A new buzzphrase crossed your correspondent's desk: "Computing First Networking." WTF is it? According to a brief from analyst firm Gartner, it's "an emerging networking solution that provides services for computational tasks by sharing computing resources from multiple edge sites" and "a new type of decentralized computing solution that optimizes…

V ladimir Putin dispatched two nuclear bombers to patrol Belarusian airspace on Wednesday in a show of support for its close ally, as tensions flared over the migrant crisis at the Polish border. It came as the European Union accused Belarus of mounting a “hybrid attack” by pushing migrants across…

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The European Union accused Belarus on Wednesday of mounting a “hybrid attack” by pushing migrants across the border into Poland, paving the way for widened sanctions against Minsk in a crisis that threatens to draw in Russia and NATO.  Russia took the rare step of dispatching two nuclear-capable strategic bombers…

Bosnia-Herzegovina has faced new secession threats which could turn into a global crisis for the EU and the US and an opportunity for Russia and China, recent reports have revealed. Separated into two regions (the Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-Croat Federation) which share a joined army, top judiciary and tax…

Michelle Bachelet urges de-escalation; German chancellor Angela Merkel asks Putin to press Belarus on ‘inhumane instrumentalisation of migrants’ Thousands of people trapped in freezing weather at the border, where presence of troops from both sides has raised fears of a confrontation Topic |   Belarus E3B1C256-BFCB-4CEF-88A6-1DCCD7666635 Published: 7:32am, 10 Nov, 2021 Updated:…

E. coli thrives in our guts, sometimes to unfortunate effect, and it facilitates scientific advances—in DNA, biofuels, and Pfizer’s covid vaccine, to name but a few. Now this multitalented bacterium has a new trick: it can solve a classic computational maze problem using distributed computing—dividing up the necessary calculations among…

November 8, 2021 4:35 PM Santa Clara, California-based company, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), says its “Milan-X” AMD EPYC processors with 3D V-Cache, to launch in early 2022, will deliver a “50% average uplift” to technical computing workloads. It also said its Instinct MI200 GPUs, to also launch in early 2022,…