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Music Title: Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High) Signer: Tove Lo Release Date: 20/11 Official Youtube Link: Informations About The Signer:- Your Opinion About The Track (Music Video): I love this song!

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The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is a favorite among mainstream productivity consumers and business users, thanks to its lightweight design, amazing keyboard, and long battery life. As we enter Black Friday season (yes, it’s a season now), we’re eagerly watching deals on one of the best ultrabooks you can buy. That’s why we’re making a page dedicated to deals on the two newest ThinkPad X1 Carbon models, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 and ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8. The Gen 9 is the most recent and packs your choice of 11th Gen Intel processors. The Gen 8, meanwhile, has 10th gen processor options. These are two of the most powerful Intel low-power processor options available right now, so both are still plenty relevant. Both the Gen 9 and Gen 8 X1 Carbon laptops have also been out long enough that we’re seeing deals on both. If the X1 Carbon isn't your style, check out the best Black Friday Dell XPS deals or our general best laptop deals hub. Best ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 Deals The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 is the most recent ThinkPad X1 Carbon model on the market, and has 11th gen Intel G-series processor options starting from Core i5. That’s as powerful as you’re going to get for an Intel low-power series processor, and it packs integrated graphics. That’s great, because this laptop also has display options ranging from FHD to 4K. And that low-power chip should also save you some battery life, with the Gen 9 hitting over 15 hours on our benchmark. Core i5-1135G7, 256GB SSD - ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9: was $2,459, now $999 at Lenovo The Intel Core i5-1135G7 version of the X1 Carbon Gen 9 with Integrated Iris graphics, 8GB of LPDDR4x 4,266 MHz RAM, a 256GB SSD and a 1920 x 1200-pixel IPS display is currently down to under $1000 on Lenovo's website. Use the coupon THINKHOLIDAYS to get this price. Best ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 Deals The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 came out just over a year before the X1 Carbon Gen 9, but is still plenty relevant and has a cheaper starting point for its deals. It has 10th gen Intel U-series processor options starting from Core i5, which is still pretty powerful. It also uses Intel UHD graphics and has display options ranging from FHD to 4K. At 10:45, its battery life is somewhat shorter than its successor, but is still plenty useable and might be worth a price drop for some. ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 with Linux: was $2,220 now $1,221 at Lenovo This Linux-armed version of the Gen 8 X1 Carbon sports an Intel Core i5-10210U CPU, the Workstation Edition of the Fedora 32 OS, 8GB LLPDDR3 RAM and a 256 GB SSD — all in a sleek, stylish chassis and a $999 discount. Use the coupon THINKHOLIDAYS to get this price.

Musician Name: Stacy Ann Ferguson Birthday / Location: March 27, 1975 (age 46) Hacienda Heights, California, USA Main instrument: Rapper Composer Stylist Television presenter fashion designer actress Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations:- Best Performance: - Other Information: Fergie (born Stacy Ann Ferguson, Hacienda Heights, March 27, 1975) is an American rapper, songwriter, stylist, television presenter, fashion designer and actress. She became famous for being the female voice of the group The Black Eyed Peas. Fergie joined the group in 2003 on the album Elephunk, before being part of the group Wild Orchid. In 2006, she released her first solo album, titled The Dutchess, which was a hit. The album landed 5 top 5 singles on the world's biggest singles chart, the Billboard Hot 100, making The Dutchess the seventh album by a female artist to hit 5 top 5 hits. The album has also earned triple platinum certification. by Media Traffic. In 2013, Fergie began the process of changing her name, now renamed Fergie Duhamel. The singer hadn't used the name Stacy for years, and for that reason she adopted her stage name along with then-husband Josh Duhamel's last name. In September 2017, Fergie released her second solo album, pop/rock and Contemporary R&B genre, Double Dutchess, which reached the top of the UK R&B Chart for best R&B album of the year, receiving platinum certification for its debut single. Fergie is an eight-time Grammy Award winner, the largest music award in the world and has an important commercial name, having been representative of globally influential brands such as: Pepsi, Chevrolet, Avon, C&A, HP and Motorola, of which she was an ambassador .

Live Performance Title: Timmy Trumpet & Savage - Freaks (Tomorrowland 2017) Signer Name: Timmy Trumpet Live Performance Location: Provinciaal Recreatiedomein De Schorre, Boom, Belgium Official YouTube Link: Your Opinion About the Track (Music Video):-

Music Title: Redfoo - New Thang (Official Video) Signer: Redfoo Release Date: 19/11 Official Youtube Link: Informations About The Signer:- Your Opinion About The Track (Music Video): Nice Song

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Xiaomi 12 Ultra is said to be the company's next high-end Android smartphone, and a new leak has tipped the camera specifications of the upcoming smartphone. The Mi 11 Ultra successor will reportedly feature a 50-megapixel primary sensor and be powered by the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (or Snapdragon 898) chipset. Xiaomi is yet to reveal any details about the device, but the leak has tipped two codenames for the device, saying that the company could also be working on a Xiaomi 12 Ultra Enhanced. While details of the Xiaomi 12 were first leaked back in August, a report by website Xiaomiui suggests that the company could be working on two new devices, codenamed Loki and Thor, corresponding to Xiaomi 12 Ultra and Xiaomi 12 Ultra Enhanced smartphones, respectively. The Xiaomi 12 Ultra and Xiaomi 12 Ultra Enhanced could both be powered by the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (or Snapdragon 898) SoC that is expected to power most flagship devices in 2022, according to the report. On the camera front, the Xiaomi 12 Ultra is said to be equipped with a 50-megapixel Samsung GN5 sensor, as part of its quad-camera setup. The leak also says that the Xiaomi 12 Ultra would feature a 48-megapixel camera with a 2x zoom, a 48-megapixel camera with a 5x zoom, and a 48-megapixel camera with a 10x zoom. For comparison, the Mi 11 Ultra features a 50-megapixel primary sensor, with a 48-megapixel ultra-wide angle lens and a 48-megapixel telephoto lens. According to the report, the Xiaomi 12 Ultra could be a China-exclusive device and could arrive in the second quarter of 2022. The timeline suggested by the leak is in line with the release date of the Mi 11 Ultra. However, Xiaomi has neither confirmed the devices nor revealed any details about their specifications at this time.

The latest version of Microsoft Edge has been unveiled with a strong focus on ecommerce for one of the busiest shopping periods of the year, including the latest Black Friday 2021 deals. The browser has added features that will help users compare prices, save money, check out reviews of products, and more. Shopping at any time of year means having to keep checking sites to make sure that the price hasn't changed on the products you want or need. If you're tracking multiple products across multiple online stores, it can be hard to remember quite what has happened with prices since you last checked - but Edge says it is now able to help. The price comparison and price history features are now available in the Andro8d versions of Edge (with iOS support promised soon), meaning that even when shopping on your mobile, you can be sure of getting the best price. In addition to saving money, Edge – in conjunction with Bing – can be used to earn rewards while shopping online, gaming, or even just searching the web. To help you keep track of your rewards, it is now possible to pin Rewards to the Microsoft Edge tool bar – just enable the Microsoft Rewards button under Appearance in Settings. Save money and power Saving money is something that just about everyone can get onboard with; no one likes spending more money than they have to, after all. But the latest version of Edger can help you to make savings in other ways too. Efficiency mode is a fabulous feature of the browser that help you to stay online for longer, even when your battery is running low. What's great about efficiency mode in Microsoft Edge is that you don't need to do anything to take advantage of it – it's all entirely automated. When your laptop battery starts to run low, Edge's efficiency mode will kick in to maximize how long you can keep using it. By reducing CPU and RAM usage, the browser uses fewer system resources and is less of a drain in your battery. Analysis: making savings that matter For all of the progress Microsoft has made with Edge and the shift to the Chromium engine, the company is still having to work hard to shake off the reputation that it earned itself with Internet Explorer. It's fair to say that Edge is a far superior browser to IE, and the rapid development cycle has helped the browser to build up a dedicated following. It is still a relatively small following when compared to the likes of Chrome, but it is a growing one. Microsoft has learned what people want, and it has learned to give it to them. The company knows that people like to save money, that they want speedy performance, and that they want to eek out the most possible usage from their laptop between charges, With Edge, Microsoft is in a rare position of being able to address all of these things, and it is doing so withy increasing panache. Check out our guide to the best password managers around

Chinese supercomputers have recently attracted much attention from the hardware and high-performance computing (HPC) communities following sanctions imposed by the U.S. government. Back in October, at least two Chinese supercomputers broke the so-called exascale barrier. And during the SuperComputing 21 (SC21) conference, reports alleged that another Chinese exascale supercomputer is under development. However, there seems to be a significant catch with these machines. Three Exascale Systems David K. Kahaner, an HPC expert and founder of the Asian Technology Information Program (ATIP), presented on modern supercomputers in China at SC21. Thankfully, parts of that presentation were published by Koji Uchikawa in a Twitter post (via ComputerBase). He revealed that Tianxia has multiple 100 – 500 PFLOPS systems online based on homegrown technologies or commercially available AMD, Intel, and Nvidia hardware. He also reiterated that two exascale-class systems exist in China and that another system in development has been delayed. As previously reported, the highest-performing Chinese supercomputer is the Tianhe-3 system located in the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, China, according to ATIP. The machine uses Armv8-based Phytium 2000+ (FTP) processors for traditional HPC workloads with full FP64 precision. It relies on Matrix 2000+ (MTP) DSP accelerators for emerging workloads like AI that do not require FP64 precision at all times. ATIP says that the system is rated at around 1300 PFLOPS (1.3 EFLOPS). China's second highest-performing supercomputer is the Sunway Oceanlite, located in the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology (NRCPC). It uses proprietary hybrid 390-core Sunway processors that derive from the Sunway SW26010 CPUs. ATIP estimates that the sustainable performance of the machine is around 1050 PFLOPS (1.05 EFLOPS). The National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen also proposed an EFLOPS-class system several years ago. That supercomputer was set to be designed by Sugon and was due to be delivered in 2022. However, Sugon's Hygon processor division no longer has access to AMD's technologies (including Zen CPU microarchitecture for its Dhyana processors and AMD compute GPUs for accelerators) due to restrictions from the U.S. government. So it is unclear how the company plans to deliver the system. Experts from ATIP believe that the NSCC and Sugon will need to find a new exascale-capable hardware platform to deploy the supercomputer. Meanwhile, the key message here is that China clearly wants another high-performance supercomputer. It's All About Precision It is necessary to point out that supercomputing specialists, such as Top500.org, measure the compute performance of supercomputers in the number of double-precision (64-bit) floating-point operations per second (FLOPS), or in FP64 FLOPS, using the LINPACK benchmark. While processors can execute FLOPS with lower precision faster, the common standard for HPC performance is FP64 FLOPS achieved in LINPACK. When we reported about the two Chinese exascale systems last month, we said that both were tested using the LINPACK benchmark (which means that the results were by definition in FP64 FLOPS), just as NextPlatform described their performance. Neither supercomputing sites submitted performance numbers to Top500.org, but some observers believe that they wanted to protect their suppliers from sanctions by the U.S. government. But while the Chinese supercomputer specialists were too shy or cautious about submitting their results to the renowned supercomputer performance tracker, researchers from NRCPC submitted results of the Sunway Oceanlite machine for another major supercomputing award, the Gordon Bell prize, reports NextPlatform. To get the Gordon Bell trophy, a system has to simulate the 53-qubit Sycamore circuit (Google's quantum architecture introduced several years ago), and the Sunway Oceanlite did so in 304 seconds. Meanwhile, a team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) estimated that the Summit supercomputer (a 200 PFLOPS machine) would have taken around 10,000 years to simulate Sycamore. By contrast, the 53-qubit Sycamore machine did the task in 200 seconds. As it turns out, to get the spectacular result, engineers from NRCPC reduced the precision of the simulation, which is called cheating in the world of PC benchmarks. "In their Gordon Bell Prize-winning work, the Chinese researchers introduced a systematic design process that covers the algorithm, parallelization, and architecture required for the simulation," Dmitry Liakh, a developer from ORNL, told NextPlatform. "Using a new Sunway Supercomputer, the Chinese team effectively simulated a 10x10x (1+40+1) random quantum circuit (a new milestone for classical simulation of RQC). Their simulation achieved a performance of 1.2 EFLOPS (one quintillion floating-point operations per second) single-precision, or 4.4 EFLOPS mixed-precision, using over 41.9 million Sunway cores." While rigging the Sycamore simulation is one deplorable thing, it reveals that the Sunway Oceanlite system is capable of 1.2 FP32 EFLOPS performance in this particular algorithm. For obvious reasons, we cannot compare results allegedly obtained in LINPACK and results obtained in the Sycamore simulation. However, we can only wonder how a system that supposedly hit 1.05 FP64 EFLOPS in one benchmark could only achieve 1.2 FP32 EFLOPS in another. Such inconsistencies in performance numbers cast doubts whether the initial LINPACK performance numbers for the Oceanlite and the Tianhe-3 supercomputers were correct. Summary While Chinese companies can design HPC hardware for petascale systems, it does not look like they can build an exascale machine with acceptable power consumption. Yet, China obviously wants to show its supercomputing prowess, which is why NRCPC did not shy away from allegedly rigging a quantum simulation benchmark result. Right now, Chinese processors and accelerators may not be as fast as their competitors designed in the U.S. However, if China manages to produce them in high volumes, it can build more 100 – 500 FP64 PFLOPS machines to advance its scientific proficiency. Furthermore, if it needs exascale-like performance at no matter what power, it can try and scale-out its existing designs to get there. Meanwhile, the problem is that both Sunway and Phytium CPU developers are on the U.S. blacklist, which makes it extremely hard for them to develop and build processors. It is ironic that out of three proposed exascale designs, the one that could hit 1 FP64 EFLOPS performance (and which had to be canceled) was to be based on a combination of AMD Zen-based Hygon CPU and an AMD Instinct compute GPU.

Musician Name: Roberto Carlos Braga Birthday / Location: April 19, 1941 (80 years old) Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Espírito Santo Main instrument: Iê-iê-iê rock and roll soul romantic music bossa nova MPB Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations:- Best Performance: - Other Information: Roberto Carlos Braga OMC (Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, April 19, 1941) is a Brazilian singer, composer and businessman. Known in Brazil and Latin America as "Rei", Roberto Carlos began his career in the early 1960s under the influence of samba-canção and bossa nova. With his own compositions, usually made in partnership with his friend Erasmo Carlos, he founded the bases for the first rock movement made in Brazil. With his fame, he starred alongside Erasmo and Wanderléa in a program on RecordTV called Jovem Guarda, which would give name to the first musical movement in Brazilian rock, and which elevated Roberto to the status of idols of the generation. In addition to his musical career, he starred in films inspired by the formula launched by the Beatles - such as Roberto Carlos in Ritmo de Aventura (1968), Roberto Carlos eo Diamante Cor-de-rosa (1970) and Roberto Carlos at 300 Kilometers per Hour (1971). By the turn of the 1970s he had become a primarily romantic singer-songwriter, something he hasn't changed since then. Soon, he also changed his target audience, which went from being young people to adults. Between 1961 and 1998, Roberto released an unpublished album per year. Currently, he continues to perform frequently, and annually stars in the special entitled Roberto Carlos Especial, shown during Christmas week by Rede Globo. Dozens of artists have already re-recorded his songs, including Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa and Maria Bethânia. According to Pro-Música Brasil, Roberto Carlos is the solo artist with the most albums sold in the history of Brazilian po[CENSORED]r music, having sold more than 140 million copies, including recordings in Spanish, English, Italian and French, in several countries.

Live Performance Title: The Chainsmokers - Live @ Ultra Music Festival 2016 Signer Name: The Chainsmokers Live Performance Location: Bayfront Park, Miami, Flórida, EUA Official YouTube Link: Your Opinion About the Track (Music Video):-

Music Title: #SELFIE (Official Music Video) - The Chainsmokers Signer: The Chainsmokers Release Date: 18/11 Official Youtube Link: Informations About The Signer:- Your Opinion About The Track (Music Video): Love this song

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Most developers are still opting to work from home despite many businesses looking to re-open offices following the worst of the pandemic, a new survey has found. As part of its annual Octoverse survey, Github polled over 40,000 developers on its platform that boasts of over 73 million users, and discovered that 2021 only helped cement the paradigm shift to remote and hybrid work environments. When asked about their work environment preferences before and after the pandemic, only about 11% of the respondents expected to go back to working in a collocated environment, translating into a 30% drop from 41% working in an office before. In with the new Respondents who were in the office either full or part-time dropped from 41% before the pandemic to a mere 10.7% now. Correspondingly, hybrid working, with team members distributed between office and home, registered a jump from 28.1% to 47.6%. Another indication of the shift in the developers’ work environment is the increase in the number of fully remote teams from 26.5% to 38.8%. “Last year, our approach to remote work reflected a lack of familiarity. We were juggling competing needs in our personal lives and at work while trying to maintain the same levels of productivity before the pandemic. During 2021, we’ve begun to evolve from merely compensating while hoping for a return to the “old normal” to truly metamorphosing our processes with the awareness of remote work needs,” sums up GitHub. Working remotely? These are the best tools for a hybrid work environment

TeamGroup today announced a pair of new PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD solutions under its "Industrial" branding. The new M.2 2280 SSDs (N75A-M80 and N75G-M80) are marketed as having industrial-grade resilience and patented cooling technologies for performance and reliability in 24-hour, high-workload environments. TeamGroup only announced three available capacities for the Industrial N75A-M80 and N75G-M80 SSDs: 128 GB, 256 GB, and 512 GB. Based on 3D TLC NAND, the SSDs feature a DRAM cache, although TeamGroup doesn't quantify it in their marketing materials. Both the reduced capacity and PCIe 3.0 interface are responsible for this card's sequential 3,500 MBps read and 2,100 MBps write speeds, but remember that these are built for performant reliability. These speeds are nothing to scoff at, even if they aren't best available in our Best SSDs of 2021 picks. Cooling systems between both SSDs differ in their capabilities. The N75A-M80 carries a tall aluminum fin heatsink, while the N75G-M80 is fitted with a graphene copper foil heatsink that's one 1 mm high. TeamGroup says these patented cooling systems are proven to reduce operating temperatures and improve reliability in the harshest operating conditions. The company claims a 23.8% temperature reduction in the N75A (the one with the tall aluminum fin) and an 8.3% temperature reduction for the N75G (graphene copper foil). The Industrial's reliability is asserted by multiple MIL-Spec certifications. Both SSDs are rated for up to 50G / 11ms shock resistance (compliant with MIL-STD-202G Test condition A) when operational, and for up to 1,500G / 0.5ms (compliant with MIL-STD-883K Test condition B) while non-operational. Vibration certifications are also present: operational capability is maintained up to 7.69 Grms, 20~2,000 Hz / random (compliant with MIL-STD-810G General); while non-operational, the Industrial SSDs can sustain vibrations of up to 4.02 Grms, 15 ~ 2,000 Hz / sine (compliant with MIL-STD-810G General). Operating temperatures for both Industrial SSDs can range from -40 degrees Celsius up to 65 degrees celsius with no loss in operational capability. Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) is set at 3 million hours + (around 342 years, give or take). Operational energy consumption is quoted at 4.27 W Max and 0.82 W Min for the 512 GB version. Considering how TeamGroup expects their Industrial SSDs to be mainly picked up by industries such as automotive systems, aerospace equipment, military, and AI machines, support for AES256 bit encryption / TCG Opal 2.0 is also included, paired with error correction algorithms. Interestingly, TeamGroup is only offering a 3-year limited warranty with its Industrial SSDs. No word on pricing was available at time of writing.

Musician Name: Antonio Damião da Silva Birthday / Location: Dom Silverio, Minas Gerais Brazil Main instrument: cheesy, gospel Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations:- Best Performance: - Other Information: Tony Damito (Dom Silvério — Camboriú, April 2004) was a Brazilian singer-songwriter. He is best remembered for his song "No Vá Although", which was his most successful song, becoming known throughout Brazil. The album that contains "No Vá Although" sold around 2 million copies. He became po[CENSORED]r between 1970 and 1980, singing cheesy-style songs. His first single was released in 1969 by the Caravelle label. During the 1980s, he was a frequent guest of programs such as “Programa do Chacrinha”, “Programa Silvio Santos”, “Clube dos Artistas”, “Domingão do Faustão”, “Programa do Gugu”, “Programa Raul Gil”, and “Globo de Gold". More than 500 compositions by Tony were recorded by various artists, such as Waldick Soriano, Lourenço and Lourival, Nalva Aguiar, Lindomar Castilho, Chitaozinho and Xororó, etc. In 2000, his song "Gut-gut" was parodied on the Hermes & Renato show. In 2013, Sérgio Reis recorded the song "Meu Lugar", by Tony Damito and Meirecler, released on the album Questão de Tempo (Radar Records). After years of career, Tony Damito became an evangelical, even recording a gospel album in 2004. He died in the same year.

Live Performance Title: MKTO - "Classic" (Live at JITVHQ in Los Angeles, CA 2018) #JAMINTHEVAN Signer Name: Mikto Live Performance Location: Los Angeles, CA 2018 USA Official YouTube Link: Your Opinion About the Track (Music Video):-

Music Title: MKTO - Classic (Official Video) Signer: Mikto Release Date: 17/11 Official Youtube Link: Informations About The Signer:- Your Opinion About The Track (Music Video): Nice Song

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Vivo X80 range is reported to be in the works. A fresh report says that the Vivo X70 series successor is likely to launch in India sometime early next year. The Vivo X80 series is likely to include three models – Vivo X80, Vivo X80 Pro, and Vivo X80 Pro+. Leaks in the past suggest that the phones may be powered by MediaTek Dimensity chipsets and come with 120Hz refresh rate displays. The Vivo X80 series will likely also see upgrades in the camera department as well. 91Mobiles cites its industry sources to report that the Vivo X80 range may be unveiled in India next year. The report suggests that the range may be unveiled sometime in January or February. An exact launch date has not been reported. The launch event next year will not see the launch of the base model – Vivo X80 – but will instead see other models get unveiled first. This is likely going to be the Vivo X80 Pro and Vivo X80 Pro+. Vivo may launch the Vivo X80 a little bit later. Details regarding the three handsets – Vivo X80, Vivo X80 Pro, and Vivo X80 Pro+ - are rather scarce, given that the launch is still months away. However, a leak last month suggests that the Vivo X80 may feature a full-HD+ display with 120Hz refresh rate. It is likely to be powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 2000 SoC. The Vivo X80 is tipped to feature a 50-megapixel main sensor with support for 5-axis stabilisation. There is also expected to be a 12-megapixel telephoto lens integrated with 2x zoom. Other details about the phone and the Pro models are not known at the moment. The Vivo X80 series will be the successor of the Vivo X70 range unveiled in India in September. Back then, only the Vivo X70 Pro and Vivo X70 Pro+ models were launched. The Vivo X70 model is yet to be unveiled in the Indian market.

Microsoft Edge has revealed a new tool that it hopes can help shoppers enjoy even more bargains this Black Friday. Microsoft's browser has teamed up with third-party payments firm Zip (previously known as Quadpay) to offer a "buy now, pay later" option built directly into Edge for users looking to spread the cost of payments when shopping online. Users will be able to split any purchase between $35 - $1,000 made through Microsoft Edge into four installments over six weeks. Microsoft Edge BNPL Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services have skyrocketed in po[CENSORED]rity in recent years as customers look for more options on how to shop and pay online. "Buy now, pay later,” or BNPL, lets shoppers break their purchases into equal installment payments, often interest-free, which can allow shoppers to get their purchase upfront, instead of having to wait until it’s paid in full," Microsoft wrote in a blog post announcing the news. "On top of coverage, we also aim to 1) meet you where you are. 2) simplify the application process." The new option will appear at the checkout phase when a user makes a purchase, appearing as an alternative choice when filling in a credit or debit card number. Other shoppers will be able to access BNPL when they enter the checkout page. You'll need a Zip account to use the feature, but this can then be linked to the Microsoft account used for Edge, which Microsoft says can be done with just a click, meaning you don't have to go through a long sign-in process each time. The new BNPL feature is currently available in the Microsoft Edge Canary and Dev channels, with the company hoping to offer it by default to all users in Microsoft Edge release 96. This should mean users around the world can benefit from it soon, although there's no concrete release date just yet. These are the best ecommerce platforms around today

Long-term supply agreements are nothing new in the semiconductor industry. Both fabless chip designers and contract makers of chips prefer stable supply and demand, respectively. But in a world with severely constrained supply, chip developers are willing to pay for their integrated circuits well in advance, which is a boon for foundries. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world's largest foundry, disclosed in a filing that it received temporary receipts of around $3.825 billion (NT$106,33 billion) from customers as of September 30, 2021. Temporary receipts from TSMC's customers are payments received to retain its capacity. To put the number into context, TSMC earned some $14.926 billion (NT$414.67 billion) in Q3 2021, so $3.825 billion is a sizeable sum for the company. These advance payments are made under agreements with specific terms and conditions. As a result, TSMC does not immediately recognize these payments as revenue, whereas its clientele does not recognize them as current inventory. Meanwhile, "when the terms and conditions set forth in the agreements are subsequently satisfied, the treatment of temporary receipts will be determined by mutual consent." TSMC did not disclose its customers willing to pay in advance, but big companies like AMD and Nvidia are likely suspects. "We have placed non-cancellable inventory orders for certain products in advance of our normal lead times, paid premiums and provided deposits to secure normal and incremental future supply and capacity and may need to continue to do so in the future," a statement by Nvidia reads. As of August 1, 2021, Nvidia had $195 million in prepaid expenses, up from $142 million on January 31, 2021. Nvidia does not disclose whether it made advance payments to TSMC or Samsung Foundry, but all contract makers of semiconductors are likely accepting such payments these days. AMD also made substantial prepayments in its long-term supply agreements. As of September 25, 2021, its prepayments totaled $355 million, up from $299 million a year before. AMD has supply agreements with TSMC and GlobalFoundries. Qualcomm does not disclose how much it pays for chips in advance. Yet, the company recently confirmed that it "entered into several" and expected "to enter into additional, multi-year capacity purchase commitments with certain suppliers of our [ICs]" in a bid to "secure commitments for future supply." Without a doubt, the semiconductor industry is now in a very challenging position, with chip designers desperate to pay in advance for capacity. Likewise, foundries are willing to pay in advance for manufacturing tools. In this situation, it is not surprising why chips are getting more expensive.

Musician Name: Taylor Alison Swift Birthday / Location: December 13, 1989 (31 years old) West Reading, Pennsylvania Main instrument: Pop country rock synth-pop country pop Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations:- Best Performance: - Other Information: Taylor Alison Swift (Reading, December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Her narrative compositions, often inspired by her personal experiences, have received widespread media coverage and critical praise. Swift moved to Nashville at the age of 14 to become a country music singer, signing a songwriting contract with Sony/ATV Music Publishing in 2004 and a recording contract with Big Machine Records in 2005. Her 2006 self-titled debut became the 2000's longest-running album to remain on the Billboard music chart, the Billboard 200. Her third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest singer-songwriter to reach the number. one on Billboard Hot Country Songs. Swift's second studio album Fearless (2008) won four Grammy Awards and produced the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me". It became the best-selling album of 2009 in the United States and was certified platinum by the RIAA. Swift's self-written third album, Speak Now (2010), spawned the Grammy-winning single "Mean", the album received many positive reviews from music critics, averaging 77 approval points on the Metacritic review aggregator . Her fourth studio album, Red (2012), gave her her first number one single on the Billboard Hot 100, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together". On its first day of sales, it took over the leadership of the iTunes Store in several countries, including Brazil. Their fifth studio album and first all-pop project, 1989 (2014), released the number one Billboard Hot 100 singles "Shake It Off", "Blank Space" and "Bad Blood", and won three Grammy Awards - including Album of the Year - making Swift the first woman to hit #1 on the Hot 100 and the first woman to win Album of the Year twice as lead artist. Her sixth, hip-hop-influenced studio album Reputation (2017) made her the first and only artist in music history to have four albums selling over a million copies in her first week in the US and spawned her fifth single number one on the Hot 100, "Look What You Made Me Do". Her seventh studio album Lover (2019) broke the Hot 100 record for simultaneous entries by a female artist and became the best-selling studio album of 2019. Lover and her singles received three 2020 Grammy Awards nominations, including Best Pop Vocal Album, this being the singer's third consecutive nomination in the category, after 1989 and Reputation. The day before release, Taylor announced her eighth studio album, Folklore (2020), which became, according to Guinness World Records, the most-reproduced album by a female artist on her first day on Spotify, and three of the its tracks reached the top 10 of the official charts in eight countries. Evermore, the singer's ninth studio album, was released on December 11, 2020, on Republic Records, just a few months after the release of her eighth album. All 15 tracks on the album entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the same week, led by the first single, "Willow", over a million copies of Evermore were sold globally in its first week. Having sold over 50 million albums and 150 million singles worldwide, Swift is one of the world's best-selling music artists of all time. Her awards include 10 Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award and seven Guinness World Records records; she is the most awarded artist and woman at the American Music Awards (29 wins) and the Billboard Music Awards (23 wins), respectively. She has been included in several rankings, such as Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world (2010, 2015 and 2019), Rolling Stone magazine's 100 greatest songwriters of all time (2015), the Forbes Celebrity 100 ( first place in 2016 and 2019), Billboard Magazine's Best Chart Artist of All Time (in eighth). She has been named Global Recording Artist of the Year twice by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) (2014 and 2019), Woman of the Decade (2010s) by Billboard Magazine, and Artist of the Decade (2010s) by the American Music Awards.