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Europe in ‘collective denial’ over the state of the COVID pandemic, former WHO official says

Europe in ‘collective denial’ over the state of the COVID pandemic, former WHO official says

A recent view of Milan. (Mairo Cinquetti/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) BARCELONA, Spain — A report released Friday morning by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) found that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the continent was improving compared with the spikes of new cases and hospitalizations experienced in December. But experts who spoke with Yahoo News painted a much less encouraging picture, saying the ECDC “Country Overview Report” is based on… Source link

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Justice Department official cleared to oversee Google probes -source

Justice Department official cleared to oversee Google probes -source

WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – The Justice Department’s top antitrust official recently won approval from the department to oversee investigations involving Google parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), a person briefed on the matter told Reuters. The Wall Street Journal earlier reported the decision to allow Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust, to oversee matters involving the search engine and advertising company. The Justice Department and Google declined to comment… Source link

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Justice Department official cleared to oversee Google probes -source

Justice Department official cleared to oversee Google probes -source

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Justice Department’s top antitrust official recently won approval from the department to oversee investigations involving Google parent Alphabet Inc, a person briefed on the matter told Reuters. The Wall Street Journal earlier reported the decision to allow Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust, to oversee matters involving the search engine and advertising company. The Justice Department and Google declined to comment… Source link

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Google proclaims official Android RISC-V support

Google proclaims official Android RISC-V support

Google has officially announced that Android will support the RISC-V instruction set architecture. The announcement is from the RISC-V Summit held last month. For those unfamiliar, RISC-V is the Reduced Instruction Set Computer V architecture – an open, free-to-use standard without licensing or royalty fees. Essentially, it’s a competitor to ARM and x86 architectures on which companies can build chipsets. Particularly companies that aim to make lower-cost processors or reduce their… Source link

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Google announces official Android RISC-V support

Google announces official Android RISC-V support

Google has officially announced its support for the RISC-V architecture, an alternative ISA without licensing fees. Android, the operating system developed by Google, currently supports a couple of different instruction set architectures (ISAs), such as Arm and x86. Most devices that use Android, including smartphones, tablets, TVs, and smartwatches, use Arm-based chipsets. Intel stopped producing CPUs for phones, and support for MIPS was removed in NDK… Source link

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