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Ladakh: Kargil Police solve 26-yr-old quadruple murder case

By www.ibtimes.co.in
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:59:55 +0530

The long arm of law has caught up with perpetrators of a quadruple murder committed 26 long years ago in Ladakh's Kargil district.

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EIA increased its U.S. natural gas consumption forecast for the first quarter of 2024

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Published On :: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 12:00:00 EST

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that U.S. natural gas consumption reached a record high in January at 118 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d). A burst of cold weather increased demand for heating and reduced natural gas production, which led to high inventory withdrawals.

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Instagram is lowering video quality for unpopular videos

By techcrunch.com
Published On :: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 20:25:17 +0000

The popularity of an Instagram video can affect its actual video quality: According to Adam Mosseri (the Meta executive who leads Instagram and Threads), videos that are more popular get shown in higher quality, while less popular videos get shown in lower quality. In a video (via The Verge), Mosseri said Instagram tries to show […]

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Square is changing its name to Block

By techcrunch.com
Published On :: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 21:48:32 +0000

The fintech giant Square is changing its name to Block, effective December 10. The name change, which has been in the works for over a year, is intended to house the company’s various products — including music streaming service Tidal, Cash App, TBD, and of course, Square — under one brand. This announcement comes just […]

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Square’s Better.com name Block is Butter-y smooth

By techcrunch.com
Published On :: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. It’s Friday, which means the whole crew was aboard for this particular episode. We had Grace and Chris behind the scenes, and Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex on the mics. And, frankly, we […]

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Square now supports Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhones

By techcrunch.com
Published On :: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:50:14 +0000

Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, now supports Apple’s Tap to Pay for iPhone feature for merchants. Existing Square users or new businesses wanting to use Square can now use their iPhones to receive payments while using the fintech company’s financial management software. The Jack Dorsey-led company said that merchants can open the […]

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Square says it has resolved daylong outage

By techcrunch.com
Published On :: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:35:24 +0000

Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a daylong outage left small business owners unable to process payments. The Block-owned company had, up until Friday morning on the U.S. West Coast, been battling a prolonged outage that had downed its services since Thursday afternoon. In a new posting on its status […]

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Square says daylong outage caused by DNS error

By techcrunch.com
Published On :: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:20:06 +0000

Square said there was “no evidence” a cyberattack caused an outage that left customers and small businesses unable to use the payment giant’s technology on Thursday through early-Friday. The payments technology giant said in a post-mortem of the daylong outage that the outage was caused by a DNS issue. DNS, or domain name system, is […]

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Square’s new AI features include a website and restaurant menu generator

By techcrunch.com
Published On :: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:00:02 +0000

Square, the financial services platform, is embracing generative AI in a very visible way. After announcing earlier this year that it would bring AI features to drive retail sales, Square this morning took the wraps off of new 10 — count ’em, 10 — generative AI capabilities focused on customer content creation, onboarding and setup. […]

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Block lets Square merchants convert a part of their daily sales to bitcoin

By techcrunch.com
Published On :: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:00:45 +0000

Block, the company behind Square, Cash App and other services, announced a new program today allowing merchants using Square’s solutions to convert a percentage of their daily sales to bitcoin. The feature, rolling out in the U.S. starting today, will transfer 1-10% of Square sellers’ daily sales to their personal Cash App account. This amount […]

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PwC named a 2015 Employer of Choice for Gender Equality - 6 Nov

By www.pwc.com.au
Published On :: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 09:00:00 +1100

PwC Australia is pleased to announce it was selected by The Workplace Gender Equality Agency WGEA as one of 90 organisations in Australia as an Employer of Choice in 2015.

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Quantum Machines and Nvidia use machine learning to get closer to an error-corrected quantum computer

By techcrunch.com
Published On :: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000

About a year and a half ago, quantum control startup Quantum Machines and Nvidia announced a deep partnership that would bring together Nvidia’s DGX Quantum computing platform and Quantum Machine’s advanced quantum control hardware. We didn’t hear much about the results of this partnership for a while, but it’s now starting to bear fruit and […]

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"Combining Indian Hospitality With Swiss Quality": CEO On New Noida Airport - NDTV

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Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:08:34 GMT

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Student Loan Forgiveness: The Borrowers Who Now Qualify

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Published On :: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 10:30:00 GMT

WSJ higher-education reporter Melissa Korn breaks down the select groups of borrowers who are currently eligible for student debt relief and what borrowers can expect next year. Photo: Getty Images

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Principal Reduction: A Mortgage Quandary With No Easy Answers

By blogs.wsj.com
Published On :: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 19:34:59 +0000

Pretty much ever since he took the helm in January 2014, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Melvin Watt has been under pressure from housing advocates and some lawmakers to allow mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to reduce the mortgage principal on at least some home loans.

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Cuba Earthquake: ദക്ഷിണ ക്യൂബയിൽ രണ്ടു ഭൂചലനങ്ങളിൽ വൻ നാശനഷ്ടം

By zeenews.india.com
Published On :: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:18:11 +0530

Cuba Earthquake Updates: ആദ്യത്തെ ഭൂചലനത്തിന് ഒരു മണിക്കൂറിനു ശേഷമായിരുന്നു രണ്ടാമത്തെ ഭൂചലനം ഉണ്ടായത്

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Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit 2024: How to Wach the Keynote Live? Snapdragon 8 Elite Launch, and More

By www.gizbot.com
Published On :: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:18:23 +0530

The Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit 2024 is set to kick off in a couple of hours. The chipmaker is all geared up to unveil the next generation Snapdragon flagship system-on-chip during the first keynote. As mentioned before, Qualcomm will ditch the Snapdragon

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Intel’s Lunar Lake Processors Set to Arrive in Q3 2024 to Take On Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Series Chips

By www.gizbot.com
Published On :: Tue, 21 May 2024 12:46:56 +0530

Intel has unveiled the release window for its next-generation Lunar Lake processors, arriving in Q3 2024. These chips are specifically designed to power Microsoft's new "Copilot Plus" PCs, aiming to deliver a significant leap in AI performance and battery life for

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Intel's Lunar Lake Debuts: Next-Gen CPUs, Xe2 GPU, and NPU 4 – Can It Beat Qualcomm's X Elite?

By www.gizbot.com
Published On :: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:25:11 +0530

Intel has unveiled Lunar Lake, its next-generation processor for laptops, promising significant improvements in performance, efficiency, and AI capabilities. Here's a breakdown of the key changes: Core Architecture Redefined Lunar Lake ditches the "little core, big core" design and opts for

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Qualcomm Unveils New 8-Core Snapdragon X Plus Processor for Affordable Copilot+ PCs at IFA 2024

By www.gizbot.com
Published On :: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 08:00:39 +0530

Qualcomm has unveiled the new Snapdragon X Plus 8-core SoC for Copilot+ PCs, following the release of a 10-core version this year. This announcement was made ahead of the IFA 2024 event. The Snapdragon X Plus 8-Core is powered by an

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Tips For Buying Good Quality Mattresses, How You Can Choose Right One For Yourself

By www.boldsky.com
Published On :: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 17:55:19 +0530

Most of do not pay much heed while buying mattresses, but they are extremely essential if you are planning to have a perfect and consistent good night's sleep. If your mattress is old and lacks quality, then you may suffer from

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Uttarakhand Earthquake : 21 મિનિટમાં એક પછી એક ભૂકંપના ત્રણ આંચકા, લોકોમાં ભયનો માહોલ

By gujarati.oneindia.com
Published On :: Sun, 05 Mar 2023 08:48:59 +0530

Uttarakhand Earthquake : ઉત્તરાખંડના ઉત્તરકાશીમાં શનિવારની રાત્રે ત્રણ ભૂંકપના આંચકા આવ્યા છે. આંચકા આવતા લોકો ઘરની બહાર નીકળી ગયા હતા. હાલમાં જાનમાલનું નુકસાન થયું હોવાના કોઇ સમાચાર નથી. પહેલો આંચકો 12:40, બીજો આંચકો 12:45 અને ત્રીજો આંચકો 01:01 પર આવ્યો હતો.

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Classification and quantitative characterisation of the excited states of π-conjugated diradicals

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Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,107-129
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00055B, Paper

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Lujo Matasović, Hugo Bronstein, Richard H. Friend, Felix Plasser
A detailed classification scheme for the excited states of diradicals is presented highlighting the connections between the states of closed-shell and open-shell molecules.
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Rapidly convergent quantum Monte Carlo using a Chebyshev projector

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Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,429-450
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00035H, Paper

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Zijun Zhao, Maria-Andreea Filip, Alex J. W. Thom
We present a series of algorithmic changes that can be used to accelerate the MR-CCMC algorithm in particular and QMC algorithms in general.
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Spiers Memorial Lecture: Quantum chemistry, classical heuristics, and quantum advantage

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Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,11-52
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00141A, Paper

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Garnet Kin-Lic Chan
We describe the problems of quantum chemistry, the intuition behind classical heuristic methods used to solve them, a conjectured form of the classical complexity of quantum chemistry problems, and the subsequent opportunities for quantum advantage.
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Delhi air pollution: No relief for Delhi-NCR as air quality remains in 'very poor' category; AQI breaches 400-mark in...

By www.dnaindia.com
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 01:49:00 GMT

Some of the areas worst affected by air pollution included Wazirpur (AQI at 421), Jahangirpuri (419) and Anand Vihar (403), where the air quality dropped to 'severe' levels.

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Delhi-NCR's air quality turns 'very poor', situation likely to worsen till...

By www.dnaindia.com
Published On :: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:23:00 GMT

The Air Quality Index (AQI) in Delhi's Anand Vihar has been recorded at 334, which is classified as 'very poor'.

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Delhi AQI update: Air quality worsens to 'very poor' level at 349, becomes 'severe' in these areas

By www.dnaindia.com
Published On :: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 02:49:00 GMT

In some areas of the national capital, the air quality dropped to the severe category, with an AQI in the range of 400.

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Delhi's air quality deteriorates to 'very poor' category, likely to worsen after festival

By www.dnaindia.com
Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:05:00 GMT

Delhi's air quality continued to deteriorate, remaining in the "very poor" category on Diwali, with levels expected to worsen to the "severe" category due to bursting of firecrackers at night.

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Erosion of rigid plastics in turbid (sandy) water: quantitative assessment for marine environments and formation of microplastics

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1847-1858
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00122B, Paper

Ali Al-Darraji, Ibukun Oluwoye, Christopher Lagat, Shuhei Tanaka, Ahmed Barifcani
Mechanical degradation (erosion) of plastics in the marine environment has been reported in many literature studies but without quantitative information. Therefore, this study quantified the erosion of some plastics in the marine environment.
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Combining a tunable pinhole with synchronous fluorescence spectrometry for visualization and quantification of benzo[a]pyrene at the root epidermis microstructure of Kandelia obovata

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1879-1886
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00443D, Paper

Bingman Lei, Yaxian Zhu, Yong Zhang
Establishing a method to reveal the distribution and retention of benzo[a]pyrene at the root epidermis microstructure of Kandelia obovata.
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Pollution characteristics and risk assessment of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in surface water of national (freshwater) aquatic germplasm resource reserves in Guangdong Province

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1898-1911
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00425F, Paper

Tao Zhou, Jie Li, Weizhen Zhang, Yanyi Zeng, Yuan Gao, Haiyan Li, Wanling Yang, Yongzhan Mai, Qianfu Liu, Caiqin Hu, Chao Wang
EE2, E1, BPA, NP, and E2 were identified as high-risk substances based on comprehensive ecological risk evaluation and fish are the most sensitive organisms.
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Quantitative read-across structure–property relationship (q-RASPR): a novel approach to estimate the bioaccumulative potential for diverse classes of industrial chemicals in aquatic organisms

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Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00374H, Paper

Prodipta Bhattacharyya, Pabitra Samanta, Ankur Kumar, Shubha Das, Probir Kumar Ojha
The Bioconcentration Factor (BCF) is used to evaluate the bioaccumulation potential of chemical substances in reference organisms, and it directly correlates with ecotoxicity.
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