Wipro Limited announced on Thursday it will join forces with Intel to enable Wipro’s LIVE Workspace, the company’s digital workspace solution with the Intel vProplatform. This joint collaboration will help customers drive business continuity by enabling remote IT support and solutions, as they seek to keep employees productive amid social distancing boundaries and other remote-work limitations that have become the new normal, a Wipro statement said.

Publication: ET CIO 

An anonymous hacker has broken into chip maker Intel, publishing a link on the social media to a 20GB data containing confidential intellectual property (IP) related to key chip engineering. Many of the files in the 20GB folder allegedly “have NOT been published ANYWHERE before and are classified as confidential, under NDA or Intel Restricted Secret.” According to a report in Tom’s Hardware quoting Swiss IT consultant Till Kottmann, the password-protected zips in the folder may be accessed using either “Intel123” or “intel123” as the password, which may have been set by Intel itself.

Publication: ET CIO 

US-based manufacturer of semiconductors, software, and wireless technology Qualcomm said the government’s recently announced production-linked scheme is timely and smart and will help global companies move their manufacturing to India, which is the world’s second-largest handset market

Publication: Free Press Journal 

T services major Wipro on Thursday said it has partnered Intel to enable its LIVE Workspace solution with the latter’s vPro platform that will help customers drive business continuity by enabling remote IT support and solutions. Wipro integrated the Intel vPro platform into LIVE Workspace, a suite of digital workplace services to provide remote manageability of devices, a statement said. This extends to users at home or in the office and provides enhanced protection and security against firmware-level attacks, it added.

Publication: Pioneer

AMD announced the availability of new AMD Radeon™ Pro 5000 series GPUs for the updated 27-inch iMac. The new GPUs power a wide variety of graphically intensive applications and workloads, unleashing creativity and productivity for consumer and professional users alike. The new AMD Radeon Pro 5000 series GPUs are built on industry-leading 7nm process technology and advanced AMD RDNA™ graphics architecture. They feature up to 40 compute units and up to 16GB of high-speed GDDR6 memory while delivering up to 7.6 teraflops of single-precision (FP32) computational performance

Publication: Cell IT 

As they spend a large part of their waking hours interacting with their colleagues, it is only natural that they seek meaningful friendships at work. This makes workplace friendships a positive influencer in driving an organization culture. It is observed that good camaraderie goes a long way in boosting employee satisfaction, contribution, and commitment to the organization. It creates a sense of belonging, makes it fun to come to work, and positively impacts employee well-being. People who have strong, positive workplace relationships tend to be more involved, more productive and enjoy a higher state of well-being.

Publication: YourStory 

Several interesting questions have got thrown up over the past few weeks when it comes to big tech firms. There are, in the US, the hearings on whether Big Tech—a Facebook, Apple, Amazon, or Google (FAANG, without Netflix)—needs to be broken up. And in India, the issue of curbing data monopolies is a live one with, as it happens, the government inviting suggestions—August 13 is the last date for submissions—on the report on sharing of non-personal data.

Publication: Financial Express 

Intel and MediaTek partnership is finally bearing fruit with the new 5G chipset. Both the companies joined hands in 2019 to build 5G chipset for laptops, and the first product is ready for rollout. As you might be aware, Intel is not making 5G chipsets anymore. This is why its partnership with MediaTek was seen as a smart move. Also Read – LG Velvet phone with MediaTek Dimensity SoC spotted online

Publication: BGR India 

Asus’ ROG line and great performance go hand-in-hand. The decision to opt-out of Intel’s 10th-gen chipsets was a calculated one. AMD had been bragging about bringing its Zen 2 architecture from PCs to a mobile version and the Zephyrus G14 is one of the first to implement it. Powered by the octa-core 4000-series Ryzen 9 4900H with 16 threads, the G14 is one of the most processor-heavy laptops in its price range. Combined with 16GB of DDR4 RAM and 1TB of PCIe SSD, almost no task seems too big for the laptop. In the graphics department the thin chassis packs in an NVIDIA RTX2060 Max-Q GPU with 6GB of VRAM.

Soon, Intel will be launching their 11th Gen Intel processors, rumored to be on September 2nd, these CPUs will still be based on 10nm++ process with some improvements over last-gen, obviously. New leaks have started coming out about these processors and thanks to @TUM_APISAK for the new Core i3-1115G4, which does seem underwhelming. One of the reasons why AMD is now deepening its notebook market because of Intel’s astronomically high prices on notebook processors.

Publication: TechnoSports

Finally, the time has come and the Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5 is now available in India on Amazon Prime Day at just ₹ 56,990. Lenovo is just not stopping by launching the Ideapad Slim 5 but also bringing its best-selling 2-in-1 laptop in the US to India finally. Yes, all the Indian AMD fans had been waiting for this 2-in-1 budget laptop for quite a long time now and it seems now we have a lot of AMD Ryzen 4000U laptops now in India.

Publication: TechnoSports

The Taiwan giant has announced its brand new 2-in-1 laptop in the US, powered by the latest AMD Ryzen 4000U processors to compete with the best-selling Lenovo Flex 5. There’s no doubt that people have gone crazy for these revolutionary AMD processors based on 7nm Zen 2 architecture and wish for more options in the near future. In India, too Asus has launched the same laptop, and in the US its already available via Amazon, ASUS Store, and Newegg. You’ll get to choose between the Ryzen 5 4500U and Ryzen 7 4700U APU options, rest all the specs remain the same for both the variants.

Publication: TechnoSports

The recently launched AMD Ryzen powered Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop is selling after a discount of Rs 29,000 during the Prime Day Sale and is available for purchase at Rs 93,990. Buyers can also get an additional discount of Rs 2,000 upon using the coupon from the listing page.

After Microsoft blamed Apple for not letting its Cloud gaming service to appear on the App Store, Facebook has criticized the iPhone maker, saying the company prevented the social network from launching its gaming app on iPhones and other devices. Apple rejected Facebook Gaming app on the iOS App Store, as it was a direct threat to the Livestream gaming service Apple Arcade.

Publication: Telangana Today 

ASUS’ new Zephyrus G14 laptop comes with a very unique kind of display called ‘AniMe Matrix’. It’s essentially an LED display on the laptop’s lid and it’s lit. For those of you who don’t know the ‘AniMe Matrix’ display consists of 1,215 Mini-LEDs that support 256 levels of brightness each and can be used to show any kind of animated GIFs or images. Using it is also fairly simple.

Publication: MensXp

Everyone, especially millennials, are familiar with Pinterest. A social networking site, it allows users to share and discover new interests by posting (also known as ‘pinning’) images or videos to their own or others’ boards. They can also browse what other users have pinned. The platform is focused on the concept of allowing users to share their tastes and interests with others and discovering those of like-minded people. Launched in 2010, the app was touted as a rival to social media giant Facebook.

Publication: Financial Express 

Acer recently announced a new budget laptop in India in the Aspire 5 lineup. The Aspire 5 arrived in a new Magic Purple colour with a chameleon effect; the unique colour changes hues when seen from different angles. The new notebook is powered by the 10th Gen Intel processor. The Aspire 5 in Magic Purple is priced starting from Rs 37,999. The Aspire 5 will be available on the Acer E-store.

Publication: Moneycontrol

According to tipster @KOMACHI_ENSAKA, RDNA 3 (the architecture likely to power AMD’s purported third-generation Navi graphics cards) will feature GCDs (graphics complex dies) and MCDs (memory complex dies) as key functional units. The nomenclature strongly suggest that Navi 31 and the RDNA 3 architecture itself, is chipset-based, unlike existing monolithic GPU architectures.

Publication: Notebook Check 

The Red team seems to make something for the future of its mobile computing as the US patent uncovered by the tipster @Underfox3 shows that AMD is working on a hybrid computing design. This is quite similar to ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture, wherein the high-performance cores are paired with power-efficient, low-performance cores.

Publication: TechnoSports

Virtual is a new reality, precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has brought about long-lasting behavioural changes. Technologies, such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) will be embraced more than they would have in a pre-pandemic world and extended or XR technologies are impacting companies across sectors from healthcare and hospitality to education and retail. In an interview, Rekha M. Menon, chairperson and senior managing director, Accenture in India, decodes the potential of XR in India.

Publication: Mint

Not many people are aware that even tech firms are hiring eco nomists. Gone are days when economists were just restricted to academia or government sector or worked with the stock market. Today we have a new breed of economists known as tech economists. In 2019, as per a Harvard Business Review, Amazon had hired more than 150 economists. This was even higher than the Federal Reserve (the central bank of the USA) which is considered as the largest employer for economists in the USA. Various other tech firms such as Facebook, eBay, and Microsoft along with Airbnb and Uber have large teams of PhD economists.

Publication: The Times of India 

Till 2018, in India and elsewhere, a degree programme in Data Science was only available at a graduate or masters level, primarily in the USA. Graduate students (Masters and PhD), over there, would be taking specialized courses on Big Data Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Machine Learning (ML), Data Mining, Statistics to gain an understanding of shifts in innovation that is getting powered by Data Science.

Publication: The Times of India