Annually on 28 January, Data Privacy Day is commemorated to raise privacy awareness.
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The day is observed as “an international effort to raise awareness about the need of respecting privacy, fostering trust, and protecting data.”
Individual privacy is a means of safeguarding everyone’s online safety.
As more people are forced to spend time in the virtual world due to the covid-19 pandemic, it has become a hot issue of conversation in the digitally connected world.
Ijmuiden, Amsterdam, Netherlands, has opened the world’s giant canal lock.
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Ijmuiden, a small port city in the Port of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, has opened the world’s giant canal lock.
King Willen-Alexander of the Netherlands opened the sea lock. The sea lock at Ijmuiden is 500 meters (1,640 ft) long and 70 meters broad.
The major project began in 2016 and was supposed to be completed by 2019. It also exceeded the budget by roughly 300 million ($338 million).
Facebook parent company Meta’s new ” supercomputer” will be the fastest across the planet by the center of the year 2022.
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Meta introduced the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) on January 24, 2022. It’s believed to be among the fastest AI supercomputers running today.
Currently, AI can perform tasks like translating text between languages and help in identifying potentially harmful content.
However, the development of the next generation of AI would require powerful supercomputers capable of quintillions of functions per second.