Workspace Individual, an enhanced version of the suite, was released at the same time to attract you into paying the company money. With its expanded storage space, Workspace Individual has become a little more appealing. Last year, Google made its Workspace productivity application free to all users.
Thanks to a recent Google update, new capabilities are now available in Workspace Individual. The most significant is expanded cloud storage without an increase in pricing. Previously, 15GB of space for individual accounts—equivalent to a basic Gmail account—was offered, but this has since been extended to a dependable 1TB of online storage.
Individual users are immediately upgraded from 15GB to 1TB. Simply sit back and wait for it to appear in your bank account, assuming you have one.
Google increases ‘Workspace Individual’ free storage from 15GB to 1TB: Research Editorial
Expanding firms, according to the corporation, require as much storage as feasible. Furthermore, Google Drive allows users to access their data “securely from any device,” according to Google. Furthermore, the idea that Workspace Individual clients would not use other services (like as OneDrive or Dropbox) since they already have so much storage doesn’t harm. When it comes to purchasing additional storage, the search engine behemoth plans to be the frontrunner.
Individual Workspace is still fairly local, at least for the time being. Recently, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Greece, and Argentina were granted access.
What exactly is Google Workspace?
It is a single, integrated service from Google that provides everything in one place – Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Meet, and more.
You may use Google Chat to set up a secure collaboration space to keep everyone up to date, discuss ideas, and keep track of all your vital information in one spot, from videos and photos from your last vacation to a Google Sheet of your family’s annual budget. Whether you’re drafting a message in Gmail to the entire group or booking a meeting invite in a shared Calendar, smart suggestions let you bring in recommended files and swiftly include the right people using @-mentions.
An earthquake hit west Nepal’s highlands early Wednesday, killing at least six people who were sleeping in their homes, according to a government official.
The tremor was felt as far away as New Delhi, India’s capital, which is around 400 kilometres (250 miles) west of the epicentre.
According to Kalpana Shrestha, the chief officer of Doti district, six people were killed when their dwellings in a remote, sparsely populated mountain community were crushed. Five more people were hurt.
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the lower Himalayan region early Wednesday morning, November 9, causing tremors to tear through north India and portions of Nepal and jolting people out of their sleep in dozens of cities and villages. Strong earthquake shocks were felt in Delhi and the nearby areas of Ghaziabad and Gurugram, as well as in Lucknow, jolting people awake. Here are some recent developments:
Earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes rocks western Nepal: ResearchEditorial
The earthquake, which struck at 2:12 a.m. local time, frightened people in mountain communities, forcing many to spend the night outside, according to Shrestha.
She stated that security forces had been sent to the rural communities to assist with the rescue effort. There were reports of houses being damaged in various areas, but no fresh casualties were reported.
Videos released on social media showed residents moving debris by hand to find casualties buried by earthquake-damaged buildings, as well as shining cell phone lights to shift the heaps of wood and stones used to build dwellings in most mountain villages.
The majority of the mountain settlements can only be accessed by foot, and there are no highways to transport heavy equipment to aid in the rescue.
In a statement, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said he has directed government authorities to provide urgent support to victims and their families, as well as all necessary medical care to those injured.
The preliminary magnitude was 6.6, according to Nepal’s National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Center. The early data of a 5.6 magnitude earthquake with a depth of 15.7 kilometres (9.8 miles) and an epicentre 21 kilometres (13 miles) east of Dipayal were released by the US Geological Survey.
Earthquakes are widespread in Nepal’s hilly terrain, which is home to the world’s tallest peak. In 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed 9,000 people and injured thousands more.
Nvidia Corp., the world’s most valuable chipmaker, has begun manufacturing a processor for China that complies with new laws intended at limiting that country’s access to artificial-intelligence computing.
Nvidia announced in a statement Monday that the A800 GPU, or graphics processing unit, entered into production in the third quarter and will be an alternative to the A100 model. “The A800 fulfils the US government’s explicit test for reduced export restriction and cannot be programmed to exceed it,” stated the chipmaker based in Santa Clara, California.
Nvidia announced in a statement Monday that the A800 GPU, or graphics processing unit, entered into production in the third quarter and will be an alternative to the A100 model. “The A800 fulfils the US government’s explicit test for reduced export restriction and cannot be programmed to exceed it,” stated the chipmaker based in Santa Clara, California.
Nvidia shocked investors earlier this year when it announced that it would be banned from selling the A100 and upcoming H100 devices to Chinese consumers unless special US government approval was obtained. The adjustment jeopardised hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. According to Nvidia in an August regulatory filing, the US is afraid that the CPUs would be used by the military.
Last month, the Biden administration tightened the limits, raising tensions between the two countries and creating new obstacles for US chipmakers already facing a fall in demand. Nvidia has lost more than half of its value this year, after three years of growth.
Data centres rely on graphics hardware from companies like Nvidia to conduct AI tasks and process massive amounts of data. The US government’s limits on China exports limit the speeds at which such chips may communicate with one another, limiting their utility.
According to Reuters, Nvidia has began selling the A800.
According to a Center for Strategic and International Studies analysis, “the White House is attempting to limit the controls to chips that are designed to be networked together in data centres or supercomputing facilities that train and run large AI models by only targeting chips with very high interconnect speeds.”
Elon Musk recommended on Monday that voters support Republican candidates for US Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, suggested on Monday that voters choose Republican candidates for the United States Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Elon Musk recommends Republicans to vote in the US midterm elections
“To independent-minded voters: Shared authority restrains the worst excesses of both parties; therefore, provided that the presidency is Democratic, I urge voting for a Republican Congress,” Musk wrote on Twitter.
Since Musk’s purchase of Twitter, human rights organisations have attacked the Tesla CEO’s content moderation attitude over his absolutist free speech stance, which they believe would increase the volume of disinformation and hate speech on the platform.
According to nonpartisan election analysts and surveys, Republicans have a very strong probability of winning a House majority, with control of the Senate likely to be fought more closely.
Musk has previously stated that he will vote for Republicans, but he also supports moderates on both sides of the political line.
“Hardcore Democrats and Republicans never vote for the other side, so independent voters actually decide who’s in charge!” Musk wrote on Twitter.
GSK’s blood cancer medicine Blenrep failed to meet the primary goal of a late-stage research designed to demonstrate that it was superior to an existing treatment on the market, the company announced on Monday.
GSK’s shares plummeted 3% after its comments, which raised concerns that Blenrep’s regulatory licence may be revoked. Oncology is a significant area of concentration for GSK as a separate prescription pharmaceutical and vaccine business.
GSK said that Blenrep did not reach the primary endpoint of “progression-free survival,” or the time a person lives with the disease without it worsening following therapy, in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
The business decided to buy Sierra Oncology in April, acquiring access to its primary experimental medicine for a rare blood cancer and complementing GSK’s Blenrep.
GSK’s blood cancer medicine Blenrep failed to meet the primary goal of a late-stage research designed to demonstrate that it was superior to an existing treatment on the market
The medicine obtained accelerated approval in the United States in 2020 and is currently approved as a therapy for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have had at least four prior therapies.
Blenrep was compared in the experiment to a combination of pomalidomide and low doses of the steroid dexamethasone. Celgene, which is now part of Bristol-Myers Squibb, developed pomalidomide, which was authorised as a therapy for multiple myeloma in 2013.
J.P.Morgan analysts noted in a note that findings from the so-called superiority trial termed DREAMM-3 may put into doubt Blenrep’s existing approval, adding that several regulatory scenarios now exist, including existing licences being revoked or authorities waiting for additional evidence.
“Overall, given these evidence putting into doubt Blenrep’s approvability in the current environment and the likelihood of success in previous treatment lines, we expect the market to price in the possibility that Blenrep authorisation is revoked,” they said.
GSK stated that results from the trial will be shared with health authorities, and that conversations are presently underway, with future Blenrep trials continuing as scheduled.
The medicine is part of a promising class of treatments known as antibody drug conjugates, which are designed antibodies that bind to cancer cells and then release cell-killing chemicals.
(In Bengaluru, Pushkala Aripaka and Amna Karimi contributed reporting, and Rashmi Aich, Uttaresh.V, and Susan Fenton edited the piece.)
According to a new Wall Street Journal article, Meta, the parent corporation that owns Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, may begin major layoffs as soon as this week. While it’s unclear how many of Meta’s around 87,000 employees may lose their employment, the new report says it’s in the “thousands.”
Meta has a massive global reach, with over 2.7 billion Facebook users and 2 billion WhatsApp users. According to the Wall Street Journal, the corporation has been on a hiring binge over the previous three years, with over 37,000 new jobs since the beginning of 2020.
The layoffs would be the first in the company’s history, as it just relaunched as Meta in an effort to focus on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s grand vision for the metaverse. However, that ambition has not been properly achieved, according to stories from behind the scenes, where Meta’s product developers refuse to even use the metaverse. According to the Wall Street Journal, most visitors to Horizon Worlds do not return.
Meta is to lay off thousands of employees beginning this week, according to a report
According to September reports, Meta expected to cut spending by around 10%, although it’s unclear how much of that would come in the form of layoffs. When it was still known as Facebook, Meta had a market cap of almost $1 trillion in September 2021. The company’s current market capitalization is under $240 billion.
In recent weeks, the US tech sector has experienced significant layoffs, with Stripe laying off 14% of its 8,100 employees and Twitter terminating around 50% of its employees when Elon Musk took over. In recent months, Netflix, Spotify, and Shopify have all experienced significant personnel reductions.
Despite low unemployment, the United States, like the rest of the world, has been battling with high inflation, causing businesses to fret about the prospect of a recession. The Federal Reserve has been boosting interest rates in an attempt to increase unemployment in the hope of slowing inflation.
Meta did not respond to an early Monday comment request. If we receive a response, Gizmodo will update this article.
Twitter Inc. let off more than 90% of its employees in India over the weekend as part of Elon Musk’s global layoffs, significantly depleting its engineering and product personnel in a prospective growth region.
The company employed slightly over 200 workers in India, and the cuts reduced it to about a dozen employees, according to persons familiar with the situation, who asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the situation.
India is an important growth engine for global internet companies like Twitter, Meta Platforms Inc., and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which rely on its vast potential pool of new online users. However, the companies are also subject to more stringent content laws aimed at limiting the country’s large digital firms.
According to one source, over 70% of the employees lost in India were from the product and engineering team, which worked on a worldwide mandate. Positions were also reduced in functions such as marketing, public policy, and corporate communications, according to the sources. Globally, the San Francisco, California-based company Twitter cut its workforce by approximately half, or 3,700 employees.
Twitter Inc. let off more than 90% of its employees in India over the weekend as part of Elon Musk’s global layoffs
Twitter did not respond immediately to an email requesting comment
On Twitter, India has one of the most heated political debates, with rival parties frequently hurling accusations at each other and accusing each other of spreading misinformation. On the service, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has over 84 million followers. It’s unclear how Twitter plans to manage that debate with its newly decreased employees in the country, which speaks more than 100 languages.
Twitter’s India offices are in New Delhi, Mumbai’s financial capital, and Bengaluru, India’s southern IT hub.
According to Bloomberg News, the company still employs approximately 3,700 people worldwide. Musk is pressuring those who remain to produce new features swiftly, and in some cases, employees have even slept at the office to fulfil new targets.
US Midterm Elections 2022: Democrats reduced the polling gap throughout the summer, hoping for a much closer race.
For much of the year, the US midterm elections were considered as a landslide victory for Republicans, with President Joe Biden’s favour ratings plummeting amid spiralling inflation, record migrant arrivals, and escalating violent crime.
The Democrats closed the polling deficit over the summer and were anticipating for a much closer race after a string of legislative victories and lower gas costs, but momentum appears to have shifted back to the right shortly before the November 8 elections.
The midterm elections do not receive the attention that presidential elections do, but they are critical in determining which party controls Congress – and hence the power to advance or stymie the president’s agenda.
All 435 House of Representatives seats (the lower chamber) are up for grabs, while one-third of senators are running for re-election.
The upper chamber, with its statewide constituency and six-year terms, is regarded more powerful and prestigious, and is controlled by Democrats courtesy to Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote.
At least eight of the 35 Senate races are considered competitive, but the battle for control of the chamber will most likely be decided in five important states.
US Midterm Elections 2022: Democrats reduced the polling gap throughout the summer, hoping for a much closer race.
Pennsylvania
Democrat John Fetterman’s strong advantage over Republican celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz has all but vanished, turning the contest into a squeaker.
Fetterman is recovering from a stroke suffered in May, and his weak performance in the campaign’s only debate has slowed his momentum even further.
The two are competing for the seat of a retiring Republican, which remains Democrats’ top aim for flipping a seat.
Democrats have painted Oz as an opportunistic New Jersey carpetbagger with shaky local ties and a penchant for gaffes that show he is out of touch.
Meanwhile, Fetterman is under examination for his health and has been chastised for his law enforcement record as lieutenant governor, which opponents claim was too lenient.
Nevada
In Nevada, the country’s tightest contest for some time, Republican candidate Adam Laxalt leads Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto by 0.6 points in the RealClearPolitics polling average.
Democratic strategists have raised concerns about turnout, with many Latinos vowing to boycott the election despite Cortez Masto being the first Latina woman elected to the United States Senate.
“It’s what keeps me awake at night,” said Melissa Morales, president of the pro-Cortez Masto Somos PAC.
“What I’m interested in is whether or not Latinos vote this year. We will win in Nevada if there is a large turnout.”
In the summer, the National Republican Senatorial Committee released Spanish-language ad messaging emphasising the Democratic candidate’s criminal justice record as the state’s attorney general.
Georgia
In Georgia, Republican contender Herschel Walker appeared to be the GOP’s best shot to defeat incumbent rookie Democrat and pastor Raphael Warnock.
Despite a series of gaffes, Walker’s name recognition as a former football star has kept him in the race, and he leads Warnock by 1.4 points in the polling average.
Warnock has prioritised lowering prescription drug costs, tackling climate change, and assisting in the restoration of abortion rights.
Walker has concentrated on the economy and anti-abortion rhetoric.
However, his campaign has been dogged by allegations of past domestic abuse, an overstated resume, fathering children outside of his marriage, and paying to have the pregnancies of two former girlfriends aborted.
Ohio
The battle to replace retiring Republican Rob Portman was previously thought to be the Democrats’ greatest chance for a pickup, but Republican J.D. Vance has held a solid, if tiny, advantage since a shaky start to his campaign.
Democrat Tim Ryan, who has represented the Buckeye State in the US Congress for the last two decades, has won only two of 15 major surveys against the Silicon Valley venture entrepreneur and author, who leads by an average of two points.
Economic issues are at the top of the list of voters’ concerns, as they are across the country, with inflation and the cost of living energising Ohioans the most, followed by abortion.
“Right now, it’s considerably better to be a Republican candidate than a Democratic candidate,” said Brent Buchanan of polling firm Cygnal.
“Voters are scrutinising the issue landscape and their candidate alternatives, emphasising topics that directly touch them, which is driving more undecided voters to the (Republicans).”
Wisconsin
In Wisconsin, Republican Senator Ron Johnson battled during the summer but moved ahead of Democratic rival Mandela Barnes in mid-September and is now leading by 3.3 points in a poll average of the latest 16 polls.
Barnes, like Fetterman, is a lieutenant governor who has been accused of being soft on crime, especially due to his lobbying for less stringent bail terms.
“Wisconsin has released 784 violent offenders back into our community under Mandela Barnes,” Johnson tweeted.
“There have been 270 murders and attempted murders. Mandela Barnes’ policies endanger our neighbourhoods. He’s too far out for Wisconsin.”
In the final days of the campaign, former President Barack Obama criticised Johnson as someone who “understands granting tax benefits for private planes more than he understands ensuring that seniors who’ve worked all their lives can retire with dignity and respect.”
Elon Musk announced on Sunday that any Twitter account that impersonates another will be permanently suspended.
The platform’s new owner issued the warning after some celebrities changed their Twitter display names — not account names — and tweeted as ‘Elon Musk’ in response to the billionaire’s decision to offer verified accounts to all comers for $8 per month while also laying off a large portion of the workforce.
“Any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly mentioning “parody” will be permanently suspended going forward,” Musk tweeted. While Twitter previously offered warnings before to suspensions, now that “widespread verification” is being implemented, “there will be no warning.”
In fact, “any name change at all” would necessitate the temporary loss of a confirmed checkmark, according to the world’s richest man.
Kathy Griffin’s account was terminated on Sunday after she changed her screen name to Musk. She admitted to a Bloomberg reporter that she had used his profile photo as well.
On Friday, November 4, 2022, people walk outside Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. On Friday, Twitter employees were braced for mass layoffs as new owner Elon Musk overhauled the social platform. Jeff Chiu/AP Photo
Bertinelli noted the original purpose of the blue verification tick prior to the prank. It was given away for free to those whose identities Twitter workers confirmed, with journalists making up a large share of the receivers. “It just meant that your identification has been validated.” Scammers would have a more difficult time imitating you,” Bertinelli observed.
“That is no longer true. “Best of luck out there!” She continued.
Musk believes that the $8 verified accounts are his approach of democratising the service. Users who “sign up now” for the new “Twitter Blue with verification” can obtain the blue check next to their names “exactly like the celebrities, companies, and politicians you currently follow,” according to a Twitter update for iOS devices featured on Apple’s app store on Saturday.
It stated that the service would first be available in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. However, it was not available on Sunday, and no timetable was provided. Esther Crawford, a Twitter employee, told The Associated Press that it will be available “soon but not yet.”
On Sunday, Twitter did not respond to an email requesting comment on the verified accounts issue and Griffin’s suspension.
Musk later tweeted, “Twitter must become by far the most accurate source of global information.” That is our goal.”
If the firm removes blue checks from current verified users — which has not happened — this might encourage disinformation on the platform during Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Following layoffs that occurred on Friday that apparently affected roughly half of Twitter’s 7,500-employee workforce, some Twitter users, like Griffin, have already begun migrating away from the platform — Counter Social is another popular option. They are concerned that a breakdown in moderation and verification will result in a free-for-all of disinformation on what has been the internet’s primary channel for accurate communications from government agencies and other institutions.
Many businesses have delayed advertising on the platform for fear of it becoming more unruly under Musk.
In a Friday message, Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety and integrity, attempted to allay such fears. He claimed that the employment reduction had the least impact on the company’s front-line content moderation team.
Musk tweeted late Friday that there had no alternative but to terminate workers “when the firm is losing over $4M/day.” He did not disclose specifics on the daily losses at Twitter, but said staff who were let go were given three months’ pay as severance.
Suryakumar Yadav and KL Rahul each hit fifty in India’s 71-run victory over Zimbabwe in the final Super 12 match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup on Sunday at the MCG in Melbourne.
Suryakumar Yadav smashed another stunning 61* from 25 deliveries to help India reach a mammoth score of 186/5.
Zimbabwe’s Early Collapse:
Zimbabwe needs a strong start to come anywhere near the lofty goal of 187. Instead, they experienced an early collapse, losing half of their team for only 36 runs. All of the Indian pacers were on fire, taking full advantage of the circumstances to extract swing and movement. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammed Shami contributed with their experience, while Arshdeep Singh shone once more.
Suryakumar Yadav becomes the first Indian and only the second player in history to score 1000 T20I runs in a calendar year..
India defeats Zimbabwe to go to the semi-finals against England: T20 World Cup Super 12
Suryakumar Yadav becomes the first Indian and only the second player in history to score 1000 T20I runs in a calendar year.
India will face England in the T20 World Cup semi-finals after defeating Zimbabwe by 71 runs in Melbourne.
Following South Africa’s loss against the Netherlands earlier in the day, India has already qualified for the semi-finals. However, their victory over Zimbabwe helped them finish first in Group 2 and set up a semi-final match against England in Adelaide on November 10.
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