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Video conferencing company Zoom has revealed it is set to acquire live translation startup Kites GmbH for an undisclosed fee. The company will help develop machine translation (MT) solutions that allow Zoom users to communicate in real-time with colleagues and partners from around the world, irrespective of the languages they speak. “We are continuously looking for new ways to deliver happiness to our users and improve meeting productivity, and MT solutions will be key in enhancing our platform for Zoom customers across the globe,” said Velchamy Sankarlingam, President of Product and Engineering at Zoom. “With our aligned missions to make collaboration frictionless - regardless of language, geographic location, or other barriers - we are confident Kites’ impressive team will fit right in with Zoom.” Kites was founded in 2015 by two academics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, Dr. Alex Waibel and Dr. Sebastian Stüker. The company’s small twelve-person team will be integrated into the Zoom engineering department, but will continue its work on advancing machine translation technology. “Kites emerged with the mission of breaking down language barriers and making seamless cross-language interaction a reality of everyday life, and we have long admired Zoom for its ability to easily connect people across the world,” said Waibel and Stüker. “We know Zoom is the best partner for Kites to help advance our mission and we are excited to see what comes next under Zoom’s incredible innovation engine.” The work of Kites will expand upon an existing Zoom feature, called Simultaneous Interpretations, that allows businesses to arrange for live human translators to join meetings in the background. The feature dials down the volume of the speaker and dials up the volume of the translator, allowing for near real-time communication between speakers of different languages.

Colorful unveiled its flagship graphics card, the iGame GeForce RTX 3090 KUDAN, a few weeks ago and the first samples have already been delivered to select reviewers. The RTX 3090 KUDAN is the most expensive Ampere gaming graphics card ever made with a retail price of $4999.99 US and it also boasts the most insane design out of all custom variants in the market. Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 3090 KUDAN Graphics Card Tear Down Reveals Monster PCB & Cooling Design, Tests Show Up To 15C Lower Temperatures The Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 3090 KUDAN is as high-end as it gets in all senses, performance, power, pricing, cooling, you name it. As such, there are high expectations from this card which will only land in the hands of 1000 lucky owners who are willing to dish out 5 grand for this insanely powerful product. The heatsink is one chunky boy with 6 different layers that comprise six 6mm high-performance heat pipes and a brand new iGame Vacuum Copper Plate Technology. You can see that the G6X DRAM modules on the iGame GeForce RTX 3090 KUDAN are directly covered by the copper plate, providing higher heat dissipation. The same is true for the backplate which incorporates an alloy-based design for faster thermal conduction. The Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 3090 KUDAN also comes with a full coverage backplate and is powered by a triple 8-pin connector configuration allowing for higher GPU power limits for OC enthusiasts. Coming to clocks and power details, the iGame KUDAN has a boost clock rated at up to 1860 MHz and has a graphics OC power of up to 500W (420W by default). As for the PCB, the card makes use of a 26 phase (14+8+4) phase solution and the board itself is an overclockers paradise.

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On 30 June 2020, China introduced the National Security Law (NSL) in Hong Kong in response to massive pro-democracy protests that had swept through the city the previous year. The controversial law reduces Hong Kong's judicial autonomy and makes it easier to punish demonstrators and activists. It criminalises secession, subversion and collusion with foreign forces and carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. Since it was enacted more than 100 people - including protesters, pro-democracy politicians and journalists - have been arrested under its provisions. China's new law: Why is Hong Kong worried? Beijing insists that the law is needed to bring stability to the city, but critics say it violates the "one country, two systems" principle under which the former British colony was It allowed holders of British National (Overseas), or BNO, passports, which were issued to Hong Kong residents before 1997 - when Hong Kong was handed back to China - to apply for a special type of visa that puts them on a fast track to settlement and citizenship. Sander decided to move to Manchester under the scheme when he opted to resign instead of taking an oath that would require all civil servants to swear allegiance to the Hong Kong government. He says he was worried that civil servants would have to carry out political tasks against their conscience to serve an increasingly authoritarian government. "The national security law is to purge all the people Beijing doesn't like, including the pan-democrats and the Hong Kong people who don't support the Chinese Communist Party," he said.

The new Renault 5 electric hatchback is set to cost around £18,500 when it goes on sale in 2024. The revived nameplate will be part of a major new plan to revive the French firm's fortunes, and will sit on Group Renault's new CMF-BEV platform for small electric cars. Speaking during a Renault electropop event, company boss Luca de Meo said that the use of the new platform and revamped battery tech would enable the firm to sell the 5 for about 33% less than a current Zoe. With an entry-level Zoe costing £27,505, that suggests a target starting price for the 5 of around £18,500. The firm has also confirmed the new 5 will use new powertrain technology and Nickel, Manganese and Cobalt (NCM)-based batteries that it says will dramatic reduce the cost per kWh to around £58 by 2030. Renault added that the 5 would have a range of around 400km (248 miles). The Renault 5 Prototype takes styling and design cues from the Clio’s predecessor that Renault produced from 1972 to 1996. It's set to be one of 14 new models – including seven fully electric vehicles – that the French brand will launch by 2025. It will also be joined by a new version of the Renault 4 supermini, called the 4ever. The French firm originally revealed the new 5 concept during the unveiling of the ‘Renaulution’ strategic plan devised by new boss Luca de Meo this morning. The 5 Prototype city car will be a key part of Renault’s push for 30% of its sales to be of electric vehicles by 2025.

Stars like Sir Elton John should help the government persuade European Union countries to relax their rules on letting British musicians tour, Brexit minister Lord Frost has said. British acts are no longer guaranteed visa-free travel in the EU and face large fees to tour in some countries. Many, including Sir Elton, have warned the restrictions could "threaten the future success of British music". Lord Frost said the government would benefit from their assistance. He said it would be "extremely helpful" if musicians and music industry bodies could "use their relationships" within the EU "to encourage those governments to be less restrictive". "I said that to Elton John and I will say it to others," he told a committee of MPs on Tuesday. "We need that sort of help and support, and I'm convinced it would make a big difference to help improve the situation."

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IN THE EARLY months of the pandemic it was common to hear that Africa had been spared the worst of covid-19. Experts pointed to low official rates of illness or death and speculated about whether they were a result of youthful demographics, Africa’s experience of dealing with infectious diseases such as Ebola and HIV, or something else entirely, perhaps underlying immunity. The premise was shaky, however. Most African countries test tiny numbers of people. Only a few keep good track of deaths. One that does, South Africa, has suffered one of the world’s highest levels of excess mortality during the pandemic. The sanguine view also neglected how, even if Africa’s waves really were less deadly than elsewhere, there might also be more of them because of low vaccination rates. Today there is little sign of a continent being spared. As of June 27th the seven-day rolling average of confirmed cases in South Africa was 254 per million people, more than five times the global average, and rising steeply. Almost a quarter of tests are positive, suggesting that many cases are going undetected. “The latest surge threatens to be Africa’s worst yet,” says Matshidiso Moeti, the head of the Africa region for the World Health Organisation (WHO). Cases are rising especially quickly in 12 countries, she says, though “health systems are already pushed to breaking point” in many more. In Namibia, Uganda and Zambia, among other places, oxygen is running out and hospital beds are full. The WHO calculates that, within weeks, the Africa-wide caseload of the third wave will surpass the peak of the second, which in turn was higher than the first. Dr Moeti highlights two reasons for the strength of the latest wave. The first is public fatigue. In rich countries covid-19 was seen as a once-in-a-lifetime event to be borne until vaccines arrived; in many African ones it is another burden among many, with no sign of relief. Governments have been slower to impose lockdowns this time around. They have no money to pay people to stay at home, fear for the effects on commerce and note the lack of public clamour for restrictions. "The third wave has come with severity that most countries were not prepared for,” adds John Nkengasong, the director of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), a continent-wide public-health body. The second is the arrival of new variants. Not every African country can sequence virus genomes. But more than half have reported the alpha variant first detected in Britain and the beta variant initially spotted in South Africa, according to Africa CDC. Nearly a quarter have reported the delta variant linked to India’s catastrophic second wave. Those countries include Congo and Uganda. Neither has many confirmed cases. Congo, a country of 87m, has officially had 40,000, fewer than Glasgow, a Scottish city of 630,000 people. But, in an indication of its true spread, 32 of the country’s 600-odd MPs have died from the disease. In Uganda more than 200 MPs and parliamentary staff have tested positive for covid-19 in the past few weeks. This is part of a broader trend. As of February, Africa accounted for 17 of the 24 government ministers or heads of states who are reported to have died from covid-19, noted a recent paper in the British Medical Journal. South Africa is at the centre of the continent’s third wave. On June 27th President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a partial lockdown, warning that cases would surpass previous peaks. Gauteng, the province that is home to Johannesburg and about a quarter of South Africans, accounts for more than half of recent cases. The week to June 19th saw the third-highest number of weekly deaths in the city since records began. The toll will worsen as bodies move from wards to morgues. Hospitals are overwhelmed. Ambulances drive around looking for beds. In the absence of a government plan, doctors use WhatsApp groups to find out if peers in other hospitals have space. Even the best-resourced private hospitals are wrestling with grim decisions about who gets a spot in intensive-care units—in other words, with who lives and who dies. “It’s real ‘Who gets the parachute?’ stuff,” says another doctor.

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TEAMGROUP is the first manufacturer to have its mainstream consumer DDR5 memory hit online retail outlets such as Amazon and Newegg. The Elite series DDR5 memory kit was announced this month and is now listed by several retailers. TEAMGROUP ELITE DDR5-4800 & 32 GB Memory Kit Goes On Sale - Already Sold Out While No Supported Platform Exists The TEAMGROUP ELITE DDR5-4800 memory kit was listed in stock briefly by US retailers but even though there aren't any mainstream platforms that support it right now, the kit has already gone out of stock with Newegg stating 'High Demand' as a reason. Both Amazon and Newegg listed the memory kit for a price of $310.99 US which is much lower than $399.99 US which the manufacturer had originally stated during the announcement It's possible that users are getting ready in advance for their new PC builds with the news about Intel's Alder Lake platform coming out soon. There's a very likely scenario that users are trying to avoid any potential shortage of DDR5 memory at launch and hence going after whatever stock is available right now. The other likelihood is that scalpers are once again grabbing new hardware just so they can sell them at inflated prices in the used marketplace once demand rises which is what we saw happen with GPUs, HDDs, and even TPM modules (with the recent Windows 11 OS announcement). The product page for the TEAMGROUP DDR5 ELITE series lists down 16 GB capacity per module, DDR5-4800 transfer speeds, and twice the number of memory banks compared to DDR4. The DDR5 memory module will also operate at an ultra-low voltage of 1.1V. The DDR5 memory modules also feature on-die ECC support PMIC (Power Management IC) which increases efficiency. From the renders, it can be seen that the Elite series DDR5 memory is very basic, featuring a black PCB and no heatsink.

Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a new version of the Windows software powering most of the world's computers, opening the door to apps tailored for Google-backed Android operating system. The US technology titan said Windows 11 will be available this holiday season as a free update to its predecessor. "Today marks a major milestone in the history of Windows," Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said in a streamed presentation. "It's the beginning of a new generation of computing; we are reimagining everything." Windows 11 features touted by Microsoft included bringing Android apps to Windows for the first time by letting personal computer users get them through the Amazon App Store. The selection would be limited by Android apps offered by Amazon, meaning some po[CENSORED]r apps wouldn't be available. Microsoft chief product officer Panos Panay demonstrated the change with a TikTok app, saying it is a favorite of his. "Imagine recording and posting a video from TikTok or using Khan Academy Kids for virtual learning right from your personal computer," Panay said. Microsoft overhauled its shop on Windows for apps and other digital content to make it more inviting, and said developers will be able to use their own commerce platforms to avoid paying any commissions to the tech giant. The move comes with Apple under fire for the bite it takes of transactions at the App Store that serves as the only gateway for content on its iPhones and other devices. Along with simplifying the Windows design in a bid to make the user interface cleaner and quicker, Microsoft integrated it further into its Xbox cloud gaming service. Windows 11 boasts features designed to ramp up video game play with rich graphics and more, according to a presentation. The operating system also continued a trend of Microsoft opening its computers to devices powered by rivals while bringing in revenue from services or software hosted in the cloud. An early version of Windows 11 was to be shared with people taking part in an "insiders program" to glean feedback in the months leading up to its public release.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Chief Andy Alvarez said a "frantic effort" was underway to reach any air pockets where people could have survived. No one has been pulled alive from the site since Thursday, when the building in Surfside, north of Miami, collapsed. At least 11 people have died. More than 150 people are still missing, and officials say they are refusing to give up hope. "We're going to continue and work ceaselessly to exhaust every possible option in our search," Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told media. "The search-and-rescue operation continues." Miami collapse: What happened? A visual guide In pictures: Rescuers search rubble of Miami building Rescuers are searching through the rubble in sweltering heat and high humidity. Initial efforts were slowed by several fires in the debris. US emergency crews have now been joined by teams from Israel and Mexico to help in the painstaking, round-the-clock operation. Machinery has moved large slabs, and a trench measuring 125ft (38m) long and 40ft deep has been built to help them reveal any potential air pockets in the wreckage of the 12-storey building. Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett previously described how the building had "pancaked", with spaces that were 10ft or more reduced to "just feet". Mr Alvarez told ABC News that a number of voids had already been found. He said the huge cranes which had been brought to the site were now helping them "to laminate this building, almost like an onion, so that we can get inside and, again, find those voids that we know might possibly be there and rescue those people". Sniffer dogs and listening devices are also being used to search for signs of life. But as yet, they have not revealed any survivors. "We hear falling debris, twisting metal," Maggie Castro, a paramedic with the Miami-Dade county fire department, told AFP news agency. "We have not heard human sounds."

The row had started outside his village store but carried on inside, ending in the older, taller, customer punching the teenage target of his anger. Mr Puntambekar managed to evict the aggressor and help the younger man, promising to report it to the police. He did so - but nearly 12 months later, nothing has happened. Mr Puntambekar is one of thousands of shop owners and workers who feel they are being let down by the police, according to a new report on violence against retailers by the Home Affairs Committee. The report has found that violence against retail employees has escalated over the past five years, increasing further through the pandemic. Violence against shop staff increasing, survey says Shop worker abused 'every day for a year' Only essential retailers have been allowed to stay open during periods of lockdown, but both small and larger firms gave evidence to the committee, detailing extensive verbal and physical abuse. Supermarkets Morrisons and Sainsbury's told MPs their staff had been threatened with knives, firearms and even syringes. The Home Affairs Committee is now asking the government to consult on a standalone law that would make it a criminal offence to assault retail workers in England and Wales. It said that the problem is "becoming endemic in British society and the policing response is failing to match the scale of the problem". It cites a survey of shop workers conducted by the Association of Convenience Stores, which found that only one in five who reported incidents "were satisfied with the response from the police". "When the police fail to attend or follow-up serious incidents, it undermines trust and confidence in them, discourages reporting, and weakens the deterrent for repeat offenders," the report said. Assistant commissioner Alistair Sutherland, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for business crime, said: "Individual forces will have different tactics available to them and will use crime prevention initiatives most suited to the issues they are facing. "We take reports of all types of retail crime very seriously, particularly those involving violence, and will seek to prosecute anyone who breaks the law in this regard." He added: "We recognise however, that there is more that we must do to encourage reporting and provide a better service and assurance to victims."

Hundreds of mundane classics will converge on Grimsthorpe Castle at the end of July for the Festival of the Unexceptional – Britain’s biggest celebration of ordinary motors. Later this year, Beaulieu will showcase Forgotten Favourites at the annual International Autojumble. We’ve assembled 20 cars that would be eligible for the Festival of the Unexceptional, either this year as a spectator, or next year as an entrant. These pre-1997 classics are in relatively good supply and should cost less than £5000. To keep things interesting, we’ve selected no more than one model per marque.

“THIS IS one of the healthiest buildings in San Francisco.” Giving a tour of the new headquarters of Uber on a recent afternoon, Michael Huaco, the ride-hailing giant’s global head of “workplace and real estate”, does not hide his pride. And he has plenty to be proud of. Employees make their way to their work stations up a wood-panelled staircase, then through a sun-filled atrium which doubles as the conduit for the building’s natural ventilation. Meeting rooms and nooks with couches abound; desks are scarce. This being tech central, there is, naturally, a juice bar and a yoga studio. There is only one niggle. Many Uber employees may prefer to keep working from home and come in only a couple of days a week, if at all. “No one really knows,” concedes Mr Huaco. His firm is not alone. Up and down Silicon Valley technology companies are wondering what will happen when they fully reopen after the summer break. Where they go, others often follow. How tech solves its HQ conundrum may therefore once again blaze the trail for new work spaces and practices in other industries, says Charlton Hutton of M Moser Associates, a design agency. When it comes to offices, Silicon Valley has been an odd, some would say ridiculous, place. For an industry whose avowed goal is to digitise all of life by having software “eat the world”, most big firms’ work practices looked remarkably analogue. Before the pandemic, daily presence in the office was expected. Many spent hundreds of millions of dollars on headquarters to accommodate a large part of their workforce. Uber’s new San Francisco digs reportedly cost $130m to build; the company has told investors it will spend $1bn over 20 years on leases in the city. Salesforce, a business-software giant, is paying the developer of Salesforce Tower nearly $560m over 15 years to lease 30 of its 61 floors. Apple’s spaceship-like base in Cupertino, which can accommodate up to 13,000 people, cost $5bn, or $385,000 per employee. Tech is not the first to suffer from the “edifice complex”. From the Chrysler Building and Sears Tower to the Bank of China’s iconic Hong Kong headquarters, companies have always erected monuments to their success. Technology firms have reasons beyond self-aggrandisement to covet posh quarters. Fancy workplaces help such businesses, which live and die by the quality of their human capital, to attract employees, in effect becoming a key part of the pay package. They enable teamwork, which most founders believe, rightly or wrongly, to be indispensable for innovation. And since many fast-growing startups lack a long history, offices where everyone congregates can help imbue the troops with the corporate mission. It may be no coincidence that Airbnb’s feel like a high-end Airbnb. Even so, tech temples had begun to seem anachronistic before covid-19 washed up on California’s shores. Traffic was making the daily commute an insufferable two-hour ordeal. Most computer programmers came to the office but really worked elsewhere—in the cloud, managing projects with Trello, on Zoom and Slack. Designed to be lively, tech offices were often eerily quiet. Realising this, companies began to open more of them beyond the Valley, and into the virtual realm. The pandemic then gave the shifting equilibrium a shove, notes Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University. Although it is hard to predict where exactly all the bits will land, the contours of tech HQs of the future are coming into view. For starters, most will be smaller. As in many other sectors, tech firms will blend remote and office work. When Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture-capital firm, recently asked its 226 portfolio companies to describe work in the future, two-thirds said “hybrid”. Uber is reportedly trying to lease out a third of its new headquarters to other tenants. Offices will also look different. Firms are throwing out desks and creating spaces for employees to socialise and collaborate. Okta, a digital-identity manager, is becoming a “dynamic working” space. In its remodelled headquarters most rooms will be easy to reconfigure, and let people gather more easily. M Moser Associates expects the pre-pandemic ratio of half of office space reserved for individual work and less than a third for meetings to flip. The daily battle for meeting rooms, legendary in tech, will be less fierce.