The UK government on Friday designated Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle as “critical third parties”, bringing their cloud service operations under direct regulatory oversight to safeguard the country’s financial system.The designation, which takes effect on July 13, covers Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd, Google Cloud EMEA Ltd, Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL and Oracle Corporation UK […]
A routine cab ride in Hyderabad has turned into a viral story after a passenger discovered her driver had walked away from a job at Amazon to work full-time as an Uber driver.The woman shared her experience online, describing how the conversation during the ride revealed a major career shift. The driver, she learned, had […]
A new species of spider from the Ecuadorian Amazon: Taczanowskia waska. Credit: David Diaz-Guevarra Researchers exploring Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest thought they had spotted a small mushroom clinging to the underside of a leaf during a night survey. A closer look revealed something far stranger. It was a spider that had disguised itself so convincingly as […]
Trump Jr could benefit from new ruling that aides GrabAGun Last year Donald Trump Jr helped take an online firearms retailer known as the “Amazon of guns” public. Now, GrabAGun, where the president’s son is a shareholder and board member, could benefit from a proposed rule change that would make it easier to ship guns […]
Following the impressive success of its first season, the heartfelt rural drama TVF’s Gram Chikitsalay Season 2 was released globally on June 23 and is winning audiences’ hearts. The show has emerged as a success, securing its place among the Top 10 Most-Watched OTT Properties in India with 3.5+ million views. TVF’s Gram Chikitsalay Season […]
AI’s Every time you use ChatGPT to write a 100-word email, roughly 519 millilitres of water is consumed, nearly the volume of a standard water bottle. That figure comes from a peer-reviewed 2025 paper published in Communications of the ACM by Pengfei Li, Shaolei Ren, and colleagues at the University of California, Riverside. It accounts […]
Amazon has reportedly shut down its internal leaderboard that tracked employees’ use of AI. According to a Financial Times report, the development comes after Amazon workers tried to boost their scores with unnecessary activity that increased the company’s computing costs. Citing people familiar with the matter, the report said: “Employees at the $2.9tn group were […]
For thousands of Indian tech workers in US, losing a job now means more than just unemployment. It can also trigger a 60-day countdown that may decide whether they can continue living in the country with their families.As AI-driven restructuring sweeps through Silicon Valley, layoffs at companies such as Meta, Amazon and Oracle are leaving […]
Amazon’s UK chief has said young people should not be blamed for rising unemployment levels, arguing the education system is failing to prepare them for work.John Boumphrey, Amazon’s UK country manager, said businesses across the country were struggling to recruit workers with the skills they need despite nearly a million young people in Britain being […]
Prime Video India, in collaboration with Warner Music India, has released ‘Bulletproof’, a high-energy hip-hop track from its upcoming original series Lukkhe. The song, composed by King, Amira Gill and Karan Kanchan, is now available across music streaming platforms. King calls ‘Bulletproof’ track a personal milestone ahead of Lukkhe Positioned as a bold anthem, Bulletproof […]
