[ad_1] MICROSOFT CORP. It reported Tuesday that its Azure cloud computing services grew 50%, the second quarter of acceleration in a business that had begun to slow down as the global pandemic benefited the software maker’s investment in working and learning from home. The company’s shares rose 5% in extended …
Read More »Back to Starting Point: When Big Economies Will Hit Pre-Virus GDP
[ad_1] REUTERS IN CHINA, IT HAPPENED. The United States should get there in the second half of this year. But Italians and South Africans may have to wait until 2023, or even longer. Those are the dates when production in some of the world’s major economies will return to the …
Read More »PhilHealth funds liquidated does not mean they are ‘legally disbursed’ – Lacson
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – Liquidated funds do not mean they have been “legally disbursed.” Senator Panfilo Lacson said Wednesday after Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) Chairman Dante Gierran said 92 percent of the P15 billion allegedly “stolen” has already been settled. “The settlement is different than the audit,” Lacson said …
Read More »Microsoft patented a chatbot that allowed you to talk to dead people. It was too disturbing for the production.
[ad_1] A patent granted to Microsoft (MSFT) last month he detailed a method for creating a conversational chatbot inspired by a specific person: a “past or present entity … such as a friend, a relative, an acquaintance, a celebrity, a fictional character, a historical figure,” according to filing with the …
Read More »Senate passes resolution to ratify treaty banning nuclear weapons on second reading
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – The Senate adopted a resolution Wednesday at second reading that would express the House’s agreement on ratifying the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). No senator objected when the Senate Majority Leader, Juan Miguel Zubiri, proposed to adopt Senate Resolution No. 620, expressing the …
Read More »Melecio, Oftana enter the PBA Draft; Baltazar stays in La Salle
[ad_1] Former La Salle guard Aljun Melecion. FILE PHOTO FOR CONSULTATION MANILA, Philippines – A pair of La Salle standouts made contrasting decisions just before Wednesday’s deadline for the 2021 PBA Rookie Draft application. Guard Aljun Melecio has decided to give up his last year at UAAP with the Green …
Read More »Cirilito Sobejana is the next head of AFP – Palace
[ad_1] (FILE PHOTO) Chief of the Army, Lieutenant General Cirilito Sobejana. INQUIRER Mindanao file photo / JULIE S. ALIPALA MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte has elected Lieutenant General Cirilito Sobejana as the next head of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Malacañang announced on Wednesday. “The Palace confirms …
Read More »IMF raises global growth forecast for 2021, but still sees ‘exceptional uncertainty’
[ad_1] IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath said the world economy could earn $ 9 trillion between 2020 and 2025 if faster progress were made to end the health crisis, and advanced economies clearly have a stake in helping. the poorest countries to recover. – Image via Reuters WASHINGTON – The …
Read More »‘Bottlenecks decimated the Brazilian city’s health network’
[ad_1] São Paulo, Brazil Brazil’s health minister said Tuesday that the collapse of the health network in the capital of Amazonas state was due to “decade-long bottlenecks” and differences in contamination rates possibly caused by the new P1 variant of new coronavirus. “Apparently, it is a strain that pollutes more, …
Read More »Biden pledges to vaccinate 300 million in the US in late summer or early fall, as it happened | US News
[ad_1] An expanded list of prohibited persons. New crimes put on the books. Greater use of the death penalty. These are some of the ways that politicians, experts, and law enforcement want to prevent a repeat of the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill. But a renewed national security push …
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