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Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS ) reportedly seems set to roll out chip-based e-passports by the end of the year. According to a report in Economic Times (ET), TCS is also setting up a new command and control centre with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) as well as new data centre to support the backend requirements of the project. Earlier this year, the ministry renewed its 10-year PSK deal worth over Rs 6,000 crore with TCS. This is part of the second phase of the passport project that the company bagged from the government. This passport project is said to be the country's largest mission-critical e-governance programme till date. Here's a ready reckoner on e-passports and the recent updates on the rollout. What is an e-passport At first glance, an e-passport looks just like a regular passport. However, an e-passport comes fitted with a small electronic chip, something similar to as seen on a driver’s licence. The microchip stores all the information that … [Read more...] about tcs: TCS to rollout chip-based passports by the end of this year: What are e-passports and all that will change

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is demanding answers from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) after video recently surfaced of an employee brutally beating a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran at a VA clinic in Atlanta, Georgia, according to a letter first obtained by Breitbart News. Roy wrote to VA Secretary Denis McDonough in a letter sent on June 27 about the assault, which occurred at the McPherson VA Clinic: “This vile display of behavior is horrifying and antithetical to the VA’s critical mission of caring for ‘those who have borne the battle’ in defense of our nation.” The assailant, Lawrence F. Gaillard, Jr., is a VA patient advocate, according to Stars and Stripes . Gaillard was arrested and charged with a felony for the assault, but was ultimately released on $10,000 bond. He was suspended without pay, according to the VA. I've obtained by FOIA surveillance video of the brutal beating of elderly Vietnam vet by a VA employee at an Atlanta VA clinic. @2Investigates was 1st to … [Read more...] about Exclusive: Chip Roy Demands Answers from VA on Vietnam Vet Beating

Intel has reportedly delayed plans to build its $20 billion semiconductor factory in the US over the Chips Act . The chip-maker said that it's not going ahead with the groundbreaking of Ohio facility as of now due to the ongoing delay of the Chips Act. "Unfortunately, Chips Act funding has moved more slowly than we expected and we still don't know when it will get done," Intel said in a statement. The chip giant, however, clarified that it still plans to begin construction on the project this year, and manufacturing should start by 2025. What is Chips for America Act Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (Chips) Act is a $52 billion funding package for US' domestic chip manufacturing. The US Senate passed a version of the bill in 2021, but it has yet to get approval from the US President Joe Biden . This is the summary of the bill as per US Congress website: * The bill establishes investments and incentives to support US semiconductor … [Read more...] about intel: Explained: What is the US Chips Act over which Intel has ‘delayed’ plans to build $20 billion factory

Passport s can be updated with a variety of information, such as changes to a resident's address, their contact information, or other documentary information. When you get married or divorced, you can also add or remove your spouse 's name from the passport. You must apply for a "reissue" of the passport and have the required change in personal information made in order to endorse the spouse's name on the passport. Here’s how to do it. Required documents: Original passport Passport’s first and last page copies Observation page ECR or Non-ECR page (Emigration Check Required) If your passport has a short validity, the validity page must be submitted. 1. Register yourself on the Passport Seva online portal (https://www.passportindia.gov.in/AppOnlineProject/welcomeLink) 2. Log in with your ID and password. 3. Click on “Apply for a fresh passport/re-issue” 4. Fill in all the required information and … [Read more...] about How to add spouse name in passport online using these 2 methods

Anyone under the age of 18 in India is regarded as a minor when submitting a passport application. As per the new guidelines issued by the Indian government, a child must have his own passport, and it is no longer acceptable to have his name added to his father's passport. A 36-page passport booklet is provided to minors. A minor's passport cannot be issued without the permission of either the parent or the legal guardian. Required documents: residential address proof. Proof of date of birth. 1. Register the minor on the Passport Seva website (https://www.passportindia.gov.in/AppOnlineProject/welcomeLink) 2. Register as a new user and create a login ID and password. 3. Fill in the application form with all the details of the minor. 4. Submit the form and make the payment required. The passport of a minor is valid for five years or until he/she turns eighteen, whichever occurs first. However, minors between … [Read more...] about How to apply for a minor’s passport online

A handful of chipmakers including Micron and AMD have signaled waning demand as red-hot inflation squeezes consumer and corporate spending, while easing a two-year global semiconductor shortage that was exacerbated by supply-chain disruptions. Micron Technology Inc, a maker of memory chips, forecast on Thursday much worse-than-expected revenue for the current quarter and said the market had "weakened considerably in a very short period of time." Chip stocks fell on Friday including those of Taiwan's TSMC and MediaTek, Dutch chip-gear maker ASML, Franco-Italian firm STMicroelectronics and Germany's Infineon. Through the pandemic, chipmakers were overwhelmed trying to meet big orders from makers of smartphones and personal computers (PCs) that saw a surge in demand from people working from home. The resulting chip shortage led companies, including automakers, to slash production, delay shipments and pay steep premiums for key chips. Recent COVID-19 … [Read more...] about micron: Chip stocks fall as Micron outlook signals easing demand

"What a strange-looking MacBook." That was my first thought when I first saw the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the new M2 chip at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino during WWDC 2022 . There wasn't anything particularly strange about it -- it looked like the last several models of 13-inch Apple laptops, both Pro and Air. But in the Apple Silicon era, I've become far more used to the company's new design language, which is built around flat, constructivist designs with sharper angles and a studied minimalism. That same design has since been applied to the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops, the 24-inch iMac and soon, the new 13-inch MacBook Air . The M2 Air, with a bigger screen, better webcam and newer design is said to be arriving sometime in the next month. As both 13-inch laptops have the same M2 chip and a similar price, I won't consider this a complete review until I can test and compare the two systems side by side. MacBook Pro (M2, 2022) $1,299 at Amazon … [Read more...] about Apple M2 MacBook Pro 13-inch Review: Familiar Design, New M2 Chip

Intel has delayed the groundbreaking ceremony for its new Ohio plant referred to by the company’s CEO as the start of a “Silicon Heartland” due to worries over a proposed law designed to support U.S. semiconductor production. The Wall Street Journal reports that Intel has told lawmakers and officials that it is indefinitely delaying the groundbreaking ceremony of its planned multibillion-dollar chip-making facility in Ohio due to frustration over the uncertainty surrounding proposed legislation that would support U.S. chip manufacturing. Pat Gelsinger Intel CEO (Web Summit/FLickr) Employees working in a microchip factory. (KAZUHIRO NOGI /Getty) The ceremony was previously scheduled for July 22nd; Intel has since informed Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) and members of Ohio’s congressional delegation that it is delaying groundbreaking “due in part to uncertainty around” the proposed legislation, called the Bipartisan Innovation Act. However, Intel hasn’t pushed back … [Read more...] about Intel Delays Groundbreaking on Ohio’s ‘Silicon Heartland’ over ‘Uncertainty’ on Federal Chip Legislation

Apple’s mixed reality headset has been shrouded in rumors for months now, and a new report from Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman indicates that it could come with Apple’s flagship M2 processor . According to Gurman, Apple’s most recent version of the device, which is reportedly capable of delivering augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences, includes a base M2 chip and 16GB of RAM. This deviates from supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo’s previous prediction that Apple’s headset will have one processor with the capabilities of an M1 chip and an additional lower-end processor dedicated to handling data from the device’s sensors. While Gurman doesn’t mention the purported secondary chip in this report, a multiple chip setup has also been rumored in an earlier report from The Information . If Apple was originally planning to use the M1 as the headset’s primary processor, it only makes sense for the company to swap it out for the most recent iteration of its … [Read more...] about Apple’s mixed reality headset will reportedly come with an M2 chip

Audio player loading… Cerebras Systems, maker of the world’s largest processor , has broken the record for the most complex AI model trained using a single device. Using one CS-2 system , powered by the company’s wafer-sized chip ( WSE-2 ), Cerebras is now able to train AI models with up to 20 billion parameters thanks to new optimizations at the software level. The firm says the breakthrough will resolve one of the most frustrating problems for AI engineers: the need to partition large-scale models across thousands of GPUs . The result is an opportunity to drastically cut the time it takes to develop and train new models. Cerebras brings AI to the masses In sub-disciplines like natural language processing (NLP), the performance of the model correlates in a linear fashion with the number of parameters. In other words, the larger the model, the better the end result. Today, developing large-scale AI products traditionally involves spreading … [Read more...] about The maker of the world’s largest chip has made a major AI breakthrough