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Photo: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg (Getty Images)Last week, it was revealed that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had been buying up lots of land in Hawaii at an accelerating clip. Benioff, who is worth billions and billions of dollars, has procured approximately $100 million in land parcels throughout the Big Island via a series of nondescript LLCs. He’s been quite cagey about what most of this land is for and was more than a little bit hostile with the NPR journalist who broke the story about it. Now, in what really seems like…

After more than two weeks of hammered servers and lengthy queues, Helldivers 2 players and developer Arrowhead have a reason to collectively sigh in relief. Helldivers 2 server issues seem to have finally let up during the weekend, and now the studio is ready to go back to the “original plan” and prep new content. That’s not to say that the weekend was quiet, oh no. Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt predicted on X (Twitter) that divers would reach the 800,000 player cap over the weekend. It may have accomplished just…

Maria Diaz/ZDNETCopilot has proven to be a worthy ChatGPT competitor, boasting the same features as OpenAI's chatbot with extra perks, including GPT-4, internet access, and footnotes. As a result, working professionals and students can greatly benefit from using the chatbot, and this update makes it possible for them to do it safely. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced its "next wave of commercial data protection availability," allowing more users with eligible work or student Entra ID accounts to access commercial data…

The ministry noted that the action has been taken in larger public interest from the perspective of airspace safety, efficiency of operations and passenger satisfaction. (Representative Image)In a detailed statement issued late on Tuesday, the ministry said the airport operator should have proactively taken steps to streamline and regulate the air traffic movements to address the congestion issueThe civil aviation ministry on Tuesday said flight restrictions have been imposed at the Mumbai airport to ease congestion,…

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Back in the 1980s, Steve Reich abandoned writing for symphony orchestra, disheartened by conductors and classical musicians who simply didn’t get his uniquely challenging vibe. The opening concert in the Hallé’s three-day Reich mini festival was a chance to hear both 1985’s The Desert Music – the work that broke the camel’s back, so to speak – and 2018’s Music for Ensemble and Orchestra, the octogenarian composer’s bounce-back piece, encouraged by a new generation brought up on his intricate rhythms and distinctive sound…

Google Pay and National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) will work together to expand Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the instant payments system widely used in the country, to international markets, Google and NPCI confirmed Wednesday. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Google Pay India and NPCI subsidiary, NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL), to bring the instant payment functionality to other countries. UPI has become a widespread mode of digital payment throughout India in recent…

The singer-songwriter offered a glimpse at his favorite new musical practice: Playing the harmonium and singing whatever comes out Shawn Mendes offered fans a glimpse at the musical exercise he’s embraced during moments of “extreme anxiety or fear” over the past year. The singer-songwriter shared a clip on Instagram of him playing a harmonium and allowing himself to just sing whatever he wants “with full trust.” It’s a practice, he noted, that went a long way toward helping him “ease the pain.”…

The stock prices of Chinese video game companies rebounded Wednesday after investors seized on signals that the government was having second thoughts about proposed regulations on gaming.Since the weekend, regulators have attempted to calm the market after shares of the two largest video game companies, Tencent and NetEase, plunged Friday.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For ManagersVisitIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data…

Mumbai: The Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association, or IVCA, is reportedly in discussions with central government officials to help ease the wide-ranging curbs the banking regulator imposed earlier this week on Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), potentially choking institutional fund flows to a high-risk and hitherto lightly regulated investment vehicle experts believe could be misused to evergreen doubtful corporate loans. SIDBI, which loans funds to small industries, and various AIFs are simultaneously…