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On the evening of June 27th, in eastern Ukraine, four friends of mine stopped for dinner at the Ria Lounge, a restaurant attached to a shopping center in the city of Kramatorsk, in the embattled Donetsk region. They had spent the previous two days travelling around the area, speaking to…

The Visor XR headset looks closer to a pair of sunglasses than a typical XR headset. (Source: Immersed)Immersed has launched its first headset it is calling the Visor XR. Like the Apple Vision Pro, it is focused on the new spatial computing paradigm but is focused not on entertainment, but…

Key PointsPutin critic Alexei Navalny has 19 years added to jail term.Navalny says charges are politically motivated and bogus.West declares extension to Navalny's sentence 'unjust'Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny had an extra 19 years in a maximum security penal colony added to his jail term in a criminal case…

News Aug 04, 20233 mins Amazon Web ServicesCloud Computing Top company executives believe that the enterprise shift toward AI workloads is critical to getting back on the high growth trajectory. Revenue growth at Amazon’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, continued to slow in the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 as…

On Thursday, Alibaba’s cloud computing arm opened sources for its two AI models based on the company’s large language model Tongyi Qianwen, becoming the first among Chinese tech giants to do so. This move is expected to further intensify global competition around open-source large models. The two public-sharing models, Qwen-7B…

A video posted on social media on Tuesday shows a mother pleading with Russian President Vladimir Putin to provide her with information about her soldier son, who she was told had been killed while fighting in the war in Ukraine. Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's minister of Internal Affairs,…

A forthcoming announcement about the expansion of BRICS is set to take place at the summit in South Africa. Some member nations have pushed back against the potential expansion of the political alliance. Bloomberg reported that the leaders of Brazil, China, India, Russia, and South Africa will make an announcement…

VLADIMIR Putin's evil thugs brutalised Ukrainians with electrocution and sexual violence in horrifying torture chambers, an investigation found. Never-before-seen photos reveal the chilling derelict buildings where hundreds of captured Ukrainian soldiers, teachers and medics faced barbaric abuse. 10 The eerie corridor of a detention centre on Pylypa Orlyka Street in…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law amendments in the tax code in the energy sector which will narrow the discount of Russia’s flagship Urals crude to Brent to $20 per barrel from September from a $25 discount now. The amendments in the tax code will also halve the…

Half of Americans think China poses the greatest threat to the United States, according to a new survey that found a stark partisan difference fueled by conservative Republicans who no longer see Russia as the greatest danger to the nation. Almost three-quarters, or 74%, of conservative Republicans named China as…