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India added 71 megawatt IT data center during Jan-Jun, demand projected to be strong: Savills

While major absorption has been recorded in hyperscalers across major cities, colocation services followed closely witnessing significant growth. This shift, as per Savills, can be attributed to factors such as high capital expenditure and operating expense.




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US utilities signal booming demand from data centers as AI takes root

Ameren signed a supply deal with a data center with a power capacity of 250 megawatt (MW). It has also received expansion commitments and executed new contracts for more 85 MW of additional load for smaller data centers and other industries across Missouri and Illinois.




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Meta Platforms strikes geothermal energy deal to power US data centers

Geothermal power is a renewable energy source that uses the Earth's internal heat to produce electricity and heat water. One-hundred and fifty megawatts is roughly enough electricity to power 38,000 homes.




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Data centre emissions are soaring - it's AI or climate

AI models consume a lot of electricity, and the World Economic Forum estimated in April that the computer power dedicated to AI is doubling every 100 days.




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Data centers make compelling case for investment: Report

The investment banking company expects the data center market to undergo significant structural changes, through the introduction of new business models and new investment profiles. Cloud computing is likely to remain the main driver of expansion for the data center industry.




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Enroute GCC: How Amadeus India is leading the shift to high strategic projects

With 40% of Amadeus’ product development happening in India, Sreejith A. R, Head of Creation Platform and Shared Services- APAC, details the factors that work for GCC, and the role of AI in making GCCs more efficient.




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We practice digital at the fore, human at the core: Shalini Warrier, Federal Bank

In an interview with ETCIO, Shalini Warrier, Executive Director, Federal Bank shares how their Digital CoE fosters a multi-disciplinary approach to banking, how it works together with the business to identify new opportunities, tenets of a bank-fintech partnership and how technology is at the fulcrum of every banking innovation.




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Democratizing health insurance: The transformative role of technology

Expanding access to insurance is crucial for strengthening our country’s social safety net, addressing inequality, and building a more resilient society.




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Navigating safer roads in the new era of smart solutions

​Government policies and regulations play a crucial role in fostering technological adoption. Initiatives like the National Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) policy and collaborations with technology companies are steps in the right direction




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NASA catches Tropical Depression 19W nearing Vietnam after formation

Early on Sept. 12 Tropical Depression 19W formed east of Vietnam. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the South China Sea and captured a visible image of the storm that had quickly started moving over Vietnam.

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Manipulation of liquid crystals could help control drug-delivery process

Liquid crystals are strange substances, both fish and fowl. They can flow like a liquid, but have the orderly molecular structure of a crystalline solid. And that internal structure can be changed by small cues from outside.

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  • Physics & Chemistry

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Light tames lethal heart disorders in mice and virtual humans

Using high-tech human heart models and mouse experiments, scientists at Johns Hopkins and Germany's University of Bonn have shown that beams of light could replace electric shocks in patients reeling from a deadly heart rhythm disorder.

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  • Health & Medicine

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NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP finds powerful storms in Tropical Storm Malakas

NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite measured cloud top temperatures as it passed over Tropical Storm Malakas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean and found strong storms.

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  • Earth & Climate

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NASA sees formation of Central Atlantic Tropical Storm Ian

The low pressure area known as System 94L developed into Tropical Storm Ian on Sept. 14. NOAA's GOES-East satellite data was made into an animation that showed the development of the central Atlantic storm.

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  • Earth & Climate

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All bad technology decisions are made in good times

A CIO talks about the need to make judicious technology spends in the good times.




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India's digital lending market likely to grow $515 bn by 2030 : Report

Given the low base and huge demand, the digital lending industry remains in an expansive phase. According to a recent report by IIFL FinTech, the digital lending market is expected to grow to a whopping USD 515 billion by 2030.




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Germany's Scholz to meet Intel CEO amid intensive talks on chip plant

Germany is in intensive discussions with Intel, the economy ministry said on Friday, without commenting on how much state funding the company is set to receive for the project.




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Internet companies mail dissent note against IAMAI’s stand on digital competition bill

Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) had submitted its views to the CDCL opposing the prescription of ex-ante regulations for digital companies, saying that ex-ante measures “may limit growth not only of the market in question but the digital economy altogether”.




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Australia plans huge fines if big tech fails to tackle disinformation

Under the proposed legislation, the owners of platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter, TikTok and podcasting services would face penalties worth up to five percent of annual global turnover -- some of the highest proposed anywhere in the world.




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Meta may release a ‘commercial version’ of its language model for businesses: Report

Meta announced the LLaMA in February this year in several sizes (7B, 13B, 33B, and 65B parameters) so it can be used by a range of users and companies. At I/O 2023, Google also talked about multiple LLMs that are suited to companies of different sizes.




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Bank of Maharashtra revamps tech platform, appoints BCG for digital transformation

Services that have been automated include issuance of health & general insurance policies, RE-KYC, nomination facility, and online bill payment.




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Case Study : GSK Nutritional Healthcare: Market leader makes customer care miles better

Care isn’t just part of the name at GSK Nutritional Healthcare. It’s at the heart of its customer help lines. But Ashley Thomas knew that the company’s legacy telephone technology was becoming a bit of a hindrance. Keen to boost customer service with new technology, a review of the market led Ashley to BT Cloud Contact




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85% industry leaders call for major investments in quantum computing: Report

The survey, gathered insights from 200 senior executives and CXOs, reveals that sectors such as cybersecurity, healthcare, and artificial intelligence could witness unprecedented advancements through quantum computing.




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OpenAI and rivals seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations

TECH-AI-OpenAI and rivals seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations




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Baidu bolsters AI lineup with text-to-image generator, no-code app builder

The country's leading search engine company is among tech firms shifting their focus to the commercialisation of large language model (LLM) applications after nearly two years of heavy investment in research and development in models that they tout as alternatives to OpenAI's GPT.




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Amazon offers free computing power to AI researchers, aiming to challenge Nvidia

AWS said researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California, Berkeley, are taking part in the program. The company plans to make 40,000 of the first-generation Trainium chips available for the program.




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Even handicraft marketplace Etsy needs AI to compete, says CEO

On Tuesday. Etsy was founded in 2005 as a platform exclusively for handmade goods - though that claim has long been scrutinised.




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Security at Mahakumbh to feature advanced technology including AI: UP DGP

Prashant Kumar on Tuesday said the security arrangements at the Mahakumbh Mela will be equipped with advanced technology, including the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). After a review meeting on preparations for the Mahakumbh Mela with Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar Singh, the DGP told reporters, "Our control room will have data of around 1 million suspicious individuals, and we will closely monitor all types of anti-social elements."




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AI, automation, and resilience is Oracle’s vision for supply chain management: Derek Gittoes

In this exclusive interview with ETCIO, Derek Gittoes, Vice President of Supply Chain Management Product Strategy at Oracle, shares valuable insights into the current trends shaping the future of supply chain management.




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CCTV cameras to be must at city homes soon: Sarma

The government of Assam is planning to pass a law that will require residents in the city of Guwahati to have closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras installed in their homes and in apartments. The purpose of this law is to help the police detect crime, similar to the system in Hyderabad. The police also decided at a review meeting that family members of police personnel killed in terror attacks will be given government jobs.




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Apple TV users may need an iPhone or iPad to accept iCloud terms and conditions

Previously, users were able to access Apple TV without needing any other Apple hardware. Users were allowed to set up the Apple TV, install apps, and make purchases completely independently. Sometimes users needed a web browser on a PC to perform the typical Apple ID management duties (if its necessary).




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Users can now mark messages as important or urgent in Microsoft Teams

Navigate to the "Mark as important" button which is present beneath the compose box and select either the "Important" or "Urgent" option depending on the level of attention the message requires.




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Oppo aims to make GenAI accessible to 50 mn users in 2024, collaborates with Google, Microsoft

Oppo aims to make generative artificial intelligence accessible to 50 million users by 2024 through collaborations with Google and Microsoft, joining other handset makers like Samsung and Xiaomi in leveraging AI for sales growth.




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Demand for design professionals in semiconductor GCCs dips in July-Sep: Report

Semiconductor design global capability centres (GCC) account for approximately 4 per cent of India's total GCCs, with a growth rate of about 7 per cent in the last two decades.




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Qualcomm chip sales to Chinese smartphone makers fuel strong results

Qualcomm's derived 46% of its revenue in its most recent fiscal year from customers with headquarters in China. Trump has floated second-term plans for blanket tariffs of 10% to 20% on virtually all imports as well as tariffs of 60% or more on goods from China, in a bid to boost US manufacturing.




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India's smartphone market estimated to grow 7-8 pc this year

India's smartphone market is estimated to grow 7-8 per cent this year, driven by strong demand for premium, 5G and AI smartphones, according to a new report.




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Crab from the Chinese pet market turns out to be a new species of a new genus

Shimmering carapaces and rattling claws make colourful freshwater crabs attractive to pet keepers. To answer the demand, fishermen are busy collecting and trading with the crustaceans, often not knowing what exactly they have handed over to their client.

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  • Biology & Nature

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Humans may be uniquely identified by the proteins in their hair

Unique protein markers in hair could be used alongside DNA profiling for human identification, according to a study published September 7, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Glendon Parker from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA, and colleagues.

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  • Biology & Nature

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Critical information needed in fight to save wildlife

With global temperatures rising, an international group of 22 top biologists is calling for a coordinated effort to gather important species information that is urgently needed to improve predictions for the impact of climate change on future biodiversity.

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  • Biology & Nature

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Yellow or black, large or small? Ant color and body size respond strongly to environment

A University of Liverpool study of ants across three continents has revealed that their colour and size is strongly influenced by their environment, and that the dominant colour and average body size can change from year to year as temperatures vary. This finding has implications for how ant communities will cope with rising global temperatures.

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  • Biology & Nature

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A cinematic approach to drug resistance

In a creative stroke inspired by Hollywood wizardry, scientists from Harvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have designed a simple way to observe how bacteria move as they become impervious to drugs.

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  • Biology & Nature

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Male chemistry primes females for reproduction -- but at a cost

A research team led by a Northwestern University scientist has discovered that male animals, through their invisible chemical "essence," prime female animals for reproduction but with the unfortunate side effect of also hastening females' aging process.

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  • Biology & Nature

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Training human antibodies to protect against HIV

During HIV infection, the virus mutates too rapidly for the immune system to combat, but some people produce antibodies that can recognize the virus even two years after infection. With an eye towards developing a vaccine, in four related papers from multiple groups publishing September 8 in Cell and Immunity, researchers describe a multi-step method for "training" the immune system to produce these antibodies in genetically engineered mice.

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  • Biology & Nature

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Seek and you shall find -- bees remain excellent searchers even when ill

Honeybees are hardwired to efficiently search the landscape enabling them to continue working for the greater good of their hives even when they are sick, according to new research co-authored by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

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  • Biology & Nature

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Study reveals how ionising radiation damages DNA and causes cancer

For the first time, researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have been able to identify in human cancers two characteristic patterns of DNA damage caused by ionising radiation. These fingerprint patterns may now enable doctors to identify which tumours have been caused by radiation, and investigate if they should be treated differently.

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  • Biology & Nature

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New AI-enabled Outlook app to replace Mail, Calendar apps on Windows 11

On existing devices, users can switch to the new Outlook for Windows from a toggle in the Mail and Calendar applications.




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Zoox headcount grows as Amazon's self-driving unit expands testing in Vegas

Amazon's shares were 1.2% higher at $128.84 in early afternoon trading.




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US lawmaker urges labelling, restrictions on AI content

In the letter to the chief executives of OpenAI, which released ChatGPT, and its partner Microsoft among others, Bennet said it was especially important for Americans to know when AI was used to make political content. US senator Bennet noted that some companies - including OpenAI and Alphabet's Google - have begun marking some content as AI- generated but added that those companies' policies are "alarmingly reliant on voluntary compliance."




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Mark Zuckerberg vs Elon Musk: Meta’s Twitter clone Threads sees 5 million signups in 4 hours

In just four hours of its launch, the social media platform has recorded over five million signups, Zuckerberg announced on Thursday.




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IT hardware makers push for faster BIS certification to boost local production under PLI scheme

Industry executives have informed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) about the extended timelines for acquiring BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) certification. This is due to the mandatory separate tests for battery packs installed on laptops, after running viability tests for making the products with local contract manufacturers.