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The graphics processing units approved under the IndiaAI Mission will be made available in the next 18-24 months, a top government official said on Friday. While speaking on the sidelines of Tie-Con Delhi-NCR, Electronics and IT Secretary S Krishnan said that the government will invite bids from the industry under the mission and provide viability gap funding for GPU-based computing infrastructure. "The entire GPU approved under the mission will be made available in the next 18-24 months," Krishnan said. Elevate Your Tech…

US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo said on Monday most chips companies seeking government subsidies will get significantly less than they have sought, since the government received requests for more than double the $28 billion it plans to award.Raimondo said companies in leading edge chips manufacturing have requested more than $70 billion. She said the department is engaged in tough ongoing negotiations with individual companies.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian…

Image Source : PIXABAY Tablet EPIC Foundation (Not-for-profit) has launched the first Indian-designed tablet for education which is AI-enabled. The indigenously manufactured education tablet has been designed by VVDN Technologies in collaboration with MediaTek India and CoRover.ai, the tablets come embedded with unique features of repairability and come with the…

WASHINGTON —  The House voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, with the Republican majority determined to punish the Biden administration over its handling of the U.S-Mexico border after failing last week in a politically embarrassing setback.The evening roll call proved tight, with Speaker Mike Johnson’s threadbare GOP majority unable to handle many defectors or absences in the face of staunch Democratic opposition to impeaching Mayorkas, the first Cabinet secretary facing charges…

Alejandro Mayorkas is the first Cabinet secretary since 1876 to be impeached by the House House Republicans have voted to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, after botching their first attempt last week.  Despite Republicans in the lower chamber finally delivering on their long-standing promise to impeach Mayorkas, there is little chance the DHS secretary will actually be convicted by the Democrat-controlled Senate. On Jan. 31, Republicans in the Homeland…

House Republicans opposing sweeping reforms to the nation’s immigration law tried — and failed — to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday over his handling of border security. Republicans, who hold a razor-slim majority over Democrats, could only afford to lose two votes on the resolution accusing Mayorkas of presiding “over a reckless abandonment of border security and immigration enforcement, at the expense of the Constitution and the security of the United States.” The vote was…

By now, you have probably seen that video of the guy driving a Cybertruck while wearing Apple Vision Pro and, if it wasn’t already clear enough, the US government has confirmed it does not want you to do that. The Apple Vision Pro launched just last week — a mixed-reality headset that allows you to control apps, call friends, and browse the web with nothing but your fingers and eyes. In response to a viral video of a man using the headset in a Cybertruck, Pete Buttigieg, the US Secretary of Transportation, has reposted…

Walmart-backed digital payments major, PhonePe, has inducted new members to its board of directors, in a bid to strengthen its governance as the company prepares itself for a public listing. The company has roped in former revenue secretary Tarun Bajaj on its board and appointed him the chairman of its risk committee. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For…

While India has a design talent pool for semiconductors, it needs a talent pool for manufacturing, and a supply chain, said S Krishnan, secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY). He was speaking at an event by the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) on Wednesday in Bengaluru. "Do we have significant parts of the value chain that brings manufacturing into India? The chief executive of Micron said we have a huge talent pool as far as design is concerned but as it is setting up a manufacturing…

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s attempt to justify his ludicrous threat to have President Joe Biden removed from the state’s electoral ballot spiraled into chaos over the most basic of questions: “How so?” During a Monday interview with CNN’s Boris Sanchez, the Republican was asked how he justified his threats to have Biden removed from the state’s ballot in retaliation for recent attempts to remove Trump from state ballots on grounds that his actions in the aftermath of the 2020 election constitute…