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Semiconductor equipment supplier Applied Materials forecast better-than-expected second-quarter revenue on strong demand for advanced chips used in artificial intelligence and a recovery in the personal computer market, sending its shares up 12% after the bell on Thursday.Strong spending from cloud computing service providers and the rise of AI-embedded personal computers are driving demand for more advanced chips and by extension, for chip making equipment too.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill…

The publisher Bloomsbury has lifted its annual profit forecasts after the latest novel from the fantasy author Sarah J Maas topped bestseller lists across the world, aided by fans recommending her books on TikTok.The British publishing company told investors that its profits for the year would be ahead of December expectations, attributing much of this to the release of Maas’s latest book, House of Flame and Shadow.The novel, which was released on 30 January, is the third book in Maas’s series that follows Bryce Quinlan,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Ghana's urban population has more than tripled in the past three decades, from 4 million to nearly 14 million people. Competition for land in cities has increased among various land uses. These trends have led to encroachment in ecologically sensitive areas such as wetlands. Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city, has a…

What could be the propelling force of an equity market that has almost doubled in value in eight months when other key macroeconomic indicators like inflation, exchange rate, and lending rates are pretty much grim? What magic wand does the Nigerian Exchange wield to merit the prestige of being the world’s best-performing stock exchange this year, yielding 35.3 per cent in January alone, when foreign capital inflow, once the lifeblood of the market, is now significantly low? Stocks are having their moment in…

Fika Juliana Putri, a 19-year-old shopkeeper in East Jakarta, plans to vote in Indonesia's presidential election next week for a once-feared former special forces commander. She likes him, she says, because he's cuddly.A doe-eyed cartoon version of Gen. Prabowo Subianto - produced using generative AI - is emblazoned on billboards across Indonesia. It's reproduced on sweatshirts and stickers, and featured prominently on #Prabowo-tagged posts that have some 19 billion views on TikTok.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with…

ISRO's Aditya-L1 Solar Observatory has the 6-metre boom carrying 6 magnetometers while in orbit around the L1 point. The magnetometer boom is designed to study the low-intensity interplanetary magnetic field in space. A…

As the digital dust settles from a turbulent 2023, the crypto market is exhibiting renewed hope this 2024. Many crypto fans are waiting for the Bitcoin-halving to happen this April. And beyond the recurring top cryptocurrencies, a wave of innovative crypto coins, like Sei and ApeMax, are quietly carving out their own path in the digital coin frontier. After detailed research into market trends and a close look at some trending crypto coins, this article looks closely at seven cryptocurrencies generating buzz…

Will 2024 be a boom or a bust for big tech? By one estimate, there have been more than 7,500 layoffs in the sector since the start of the year – a dispersal of pink slips that many hoped would have ceased after the deep job cuts of 2023.However, as the US’s big tech earnings season gets under way this week, some analysts are predicting strong numbers. This batch of quarterly financial results may show that the industry has cleared out its pandemic-era overhiring and reorganised itself around cloud computing and AI -…

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 U.S. edutech platform Coursera added a new user every minute on average for its artificial intelligence courses in 2023, CEO Jeff Maggioncalda said on Thursday, in a clear sign of people upskilling to tap a potential boom in generative AI.The technology behind OpenAI's ChatGPT has taken the world by a storm and sparked a race among companies to roll out their own versions of the viral chatbot. "I'd say the real hotspot is generative AI because it affects so many people," he told Reuters in an interview at the World…