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Source: Live Mint In 2023 Apple released the iPhone 15 Pro, powered by the a17 bionic chip, with 19bn transistors. The density of transistors has doubled 34 times over 56 years. That exponential progress, loosely referred to as Moore’s law, has been one of the engines of the computing revolution. As transistors became smaller they…
Source: Live Mint The central government on Wednesday, September 4, approved a proposal for a Centralised Pension Payment System (CPPS) for the Employees Pension Scheme (EPS), 1995. The move is expected to benefit more than 78 lakh people. The Centralised Pension Payment System will be an important shift by establishing a national-level centralised system that…
Source: Live Mint Sending your child abroad for higher studies is no mean task, as it costs a lot. Today, affordable options like Ukraine, Russia, and China are under a cloud due to geopolitical reasons. Studying in the US and UK has always been costly, and other popular destinations like Canada, New Zealand, and Australia…
Source: Live Mint Ganesh Chaturthi 2024: As we kick off the festive season of 2024 with Ganesh Chaturthi, reflecting on the Initial Public Offering (IPO) market reveals some astounding numbers. In essence, IPOs have become the talk of the town following the record highs of Nifty 50 and Sensex, capturing attention not only in the…
Source: Live Mint The Bombay High Court has granted interim relief to singer Arijit Singh in his copyright suit against artificial intelligence (AI) platforms and others for violating his personality rights. Justice RI Chagla noted that Singh’s name, voice, image, likeness, persona and other traits are protectable under his personality rights and right to publicity….
Source: Live Mint I’ve taken a two-year leave of absence from my job to travel and indulge in my interests. My revenue from mutual fund redemptions last year was ₹5.1 lakh; all of these were long-term holdings. The approximate long term capital gain was ₹2 lakh. Is there going to be any tax due this…
Source: Live Mint Wockhardt on Saturday, September 7, refuted all allegations levelled by Congress that it made rental payments to Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch through its affiliate Carol Info Service. The company also denied any connection with the orders passed by the capital market regulator in connection to…
Source: Live Mint Have you ever wondered what can you do if you want to open a fixed deposit account but do not have access to a large sum. Is this possible to accumulate the deposit money in tranches? Well, Bank of Baroda offers systematic deposit plan (SDP) to those depositors who want to start…
Source: Live Mint The internet provided not only the images, but also the resources for labelling them. Once search engines had delivered pictures of what they took to be dogs, cats, chairs or whatever, these images were inspected and annotated by humans recruited through Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing service provided by Amazon which allows people…
Source: Live Mint But first, what’s a portfolio investment scheme? It’s an arrangement introduced by the Reserve Bank of India to enable NRIs to invest in the stocks of Indian companies, and allows for both repatriation and non-repatriation of profits. But there are differences in PIS and non-PIS accounts that you need to consider before…
