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Voltas Ltd has signed a technology licencing deal with Vestfrost Solution of Denmark

Voltas Ltd has signed into a Technology License Agreement with the India market to develop, make, distribute, and service medical refrigeration and vaccine storage equipment such as ice coated refrigerators, vaccine freezers, and ultra low temperature freezers.

In India, for the manufacture and sale of medical refrigeration and vaccine storage equipment.

Vestfrost Solutions, founded in 1963 in Esbjerg, Denmark, is a global developer and manufacturer of innovative and efficient refrigerators and freezers in the Bio Medical and Cold Chain industries, and will provide the technology and know-how for the products to be manufactured at Voltas’ facilities in India.

Voltas’ strong brand presence and extensive sales and distribution network will be leveraged in this collaboration. Voltas has been the undisputed market leader in domestic air conditioners in India for more than a decade, and it also leads the market in Commercial Refrigeration equipment in India.

Vestfrost Solutions will bring strong R&D and manufacturing capabilities, as well as a diverse product line and global sourcing capabilities. These products will be designed in accordance with Vestfrost’s global best practises and will meet the needs of the medical industry.

*Vestfrost Solutions, founded in 1963 in Esbjerg, Denmark, is a global developer and manufacturer of innovative and efficient refrigerators and freezers in the Bio Medical and Cold Chain industries*

Pradeep Bakshi, CEO of Voltas, stated that it was a timely product addition for the company. “The combination of Vestfrost’s strong technological competence and Voltas’ production and distribution skills will enable us to provide more distinctive and differentiated goods to the Indian market,” he said.

Vestfrost Solutions’ sales director, Thomas Jrgensen, stated that the rapid increase of India’s concentration on medical advancements presents a huge opportunity for our company.

Voltas is a leading provider of air conditioning and engineering solutions, as well as a project specialist. The company is a subsidiary of the Tata Group. Its portfolio includes, in addition to room air conditioners, air coolers, air purifiers, water dispensers, water coolers, commercial refrigeration, and commercial air conditioning products.

Voltas has been the market leader in household air conditioning and commercial refrigeration products in India for over a decade. Through a collaboration, it has also entered the home appliance industry, including refrigerators, microwave ovens, washing machines, and dishwashers.

In Q2 FY23, the company reported a consolidated net loss of Rs 7.41 crore, compared to a net profit of Rs 103.61 crore in Q2 FY22. In the quarter ended 30 September 2022, revenue from operations increased 4.2% year on year to Rs 1,739.12 crore. The stock has dropped 0.61% to Rs 824 on the BSE.

The company is broadly classified into two categories: projects and products. Domestic Projects Group (DPG) and International Operations Business Group (IOBG) comprise the project business (IOBG). Meanwhile, the products business is divided into three divisions: the Unitary Products Business Group (UPBG), the Mining & Construction Equipment Division (MCED), and the Textile Machinery Division (TMD) (TMD).

Building market leadership with innovative cooling solutions

Today, Voltas continues to stand at the forefront of re-engineering the future through innovative thinking and smart engineering. As India’s largest air conditioning company, Voltas is also one of the most reputed engineering solution providers, specialising in project management.

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Success! NASA’s CAPSTONE mission has arrived at the moon

Success! NASA’s CAPSTONE: The historic journey to the moon of a tiny NASA spacecraft has completed. NASA officials said in a brief statement that the milestone came after a successful engine burn that finished at 7:39 p.m. EST (0039 GMT on Nov. 14).

The CAPSTONE probe, weighing 55 pounds (25 kilogrammes), enterćd orbit around the moon on Sunday evening (Nov. 13), becoming the first cubesat to visit Earth’s nearest friend.

The manoeuvre placed CAPSTONE (short for “Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment”) in a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the moon, a highly elliptical path that NASA’s Gateway space station will also occupy.

NASA intends to launch the first components of Gateway, a critical component of the Artemis moon mission programme, in 2024. But first, the agency wants to understand more about lunar NRHOs, which is where CAPSTONE comes in: During a six-month mission, the microwave-sized spacecraft will test the suspected stability of this orbit, which no spacecraft has ever flown in before.

CAPSTONE will also conduct communication and navigation tests, some in collaboration with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been orbiting the moon since 2009.

CAPSTONE, on the other hand, isn’t quite ready to get started; it still has to fine-tune its path around the moon.

NASA officials said in a brief statement that the milestone came after a successful engine burn that finished at 7:39 p.m. EST (0039 GMT on Nov. 14).

“Two smaller correction manoeuvres will take place this week to guarantee the spacecraft is verified into the difficult lunar orbit,” Advanced Space officials, who own CAPSTONE and manage the cubesat for NASA, said in an update Sunday night.

CAPSTONE’s journey to lunar orbit was not without incident. On June 28, the probe was launched atop a Rocket Lab Electron launcher, beginning a 4.5-month journey that followed gravitational curves.

On July 4, the CAPSTONE team lost touch with the probe, shortly before it separated from Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft bus. They immediately detected and resolved the issue, an incorrectly formatted command, and got CAPSTONE back on track the next day.

Two months later, CAPSTONE came into more problems. On Sept. 8, the probe experienced a problem during a trajectory-correcting engine burn, causing it to tumble and enter a precautionary safe mode.

The mission team traced this problem to a wonky valve in CAPSTONE’s propulsion system, troubleshot it, and got the probe back on course for its historic lunar arrival.

CAPSTONE revealed in lunar Sunrise: CAPSTONE will fly in cislunar space – the orbital space near and around the Moon. The mission will demonstrate an innovative spacecraft-to-spacecraft navigation solution at the Moon from a near rectilinear halo orbit slated for Artemis’ Gateway.

CAPSTONE is a lunar trailblazer, but it is not the first cubesat to travel beyond Earth orbit. That honour goes to NASA’s MarCO-A and MarCO-B probes, also known as Wall-E and Eva, which launched in May 2018 alongside the agency’s InSight Mars lander. Six months later, the two cubesats assisted in beaming home data from InSight’s Red Planet touchdown and also managed to photograph Mars.

Mike Wall is the author of “Out There,” a book about the search for alien life (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate).

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Elon Musk: ‘I have too much work on my plate’

Tesla, billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday that he was working “at the absolute greatest amount… from sunrise till night, seven days a week.” When asked about his recent acquisition of Twitter and his leadership of automaker

After purchasing the social networking platform, the millionaire claims to be working from morning to night.

“I certainly have too much work on my plate,” Musk said via video link to a business conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali.

Musk, the CEO of both firms, arrived lighted by candles, wearing a batik shirt provided by the organisers, and stated that he was speaking from a location that had recently lost electricity.

The question of whether Tesla (TSLA) will suffer as a result of Musk’s Twitter obsession has become a focal point for investors and experts.

Indonesia has been attempting to reach an agreement with Tesla over battery investment and maybe with Elon Musk’s SpaceX aerospace business for the development of a rocket launch site.

Musk made no commitments to either, but said Indonesia has a significant role to play in the electric vehicle supply chain and that having many launch ports around the world would make sense “long term” for SpaceX.

On Monday, he became embroiled in an online debate about free lunches for Twitter employees.

According to the New York Times, the company cafeteria’s free meals are being discontinued, and Mr Musk tweeted that “almost no one came to the office” and that the “estimated cost per lunch served in the past 12 months is more than $400.”

Mr Musk responded by claiming that Twitter spends $13 million a year on food service at its San Francisco headquarters.

He tweeted, “There are more people making breakfast than enjoying breakfast.” “They don’t bother serving dinner because no one is in the building.”

Meanwhile, Mr Musk stated on Saturday that Twitter Blue will most likely “reappear at the end of next week.”

Twitter paused its recently launched $8 blue check membership service on Friday, citing an increase in bogus accounts.

Twitter employees have been pushed to work 84-hour weeks and managers have slept at the office over the weekend in order to meet Elon Musk’s strict deadlines.

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Google increases ‘Workspace Individual’ free storage from 15GB to 1TB

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.

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Nvidia to Sell New Chip in China: Says Meets US Export Ban

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 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.”

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Meta is to lay off thousands of employees beginning this week, according to a report

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.

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Review of ‘God of War Ragnarok’ – Lightning Strikes Twice

God of War Ragnarok, unlike its predecessor, is not a completely transformative installment in the series. It couldn’t possibly be, at least not in the same way.

The transition from the original God of War games to a totally new format with the release of the blockbuster remake in 2018 proved impossible to reproduce precisely. So Ragnarok will have to settle for being an amazing sequel to arguably one of the best games of the previous generation. And that should suffice for everyone.

The 2018 relaunch of the long-running PlayStation action franchise God of War as a more contemplative, open-world adventure raised some questions at first, but the astounding quality of the finished game dispelled any doubts. God of War Ragnarok, the sequel, is not the revelation that the original was, but “more of the same” is a nice treat when “the same” is so very, very excellent.

Following are spoilers for God of War (2018) and the first two hours of this game. If you haven’t played the first, stop right now, take a sick day, and begin!

***The transition from the original God of War games to a totally new format with the release of the blockbuster remake in 2018 proved impossible to reproduce precisely***

The original game ended on an emotionally high note and with an intriguing cliffhanger, with Kratos and son Atreus ultimately scattering the ashes of wife and mother Faye in Jotunheim while also learning that Atreus was known to the now-disappeared Giants as Loki.

This isn’t “DLC,” which was a popular criticism directed at Ragnarok in early previews by some, citing similar zones and animations. This game is just as broad and massive as the original, even if the previous game does offer it certain old realms and soaring Leviathan axe moves. My usual “Give Me Balance” hard playing lasted slightly over 30 hours, which includes a lot of exploration rather than focusing on the main story. But, because I reserved some sidequests, optional monsters, and challenges for the end, I was able to complete practically everything in 37 hours or less. A hundred percent the game would take a few minutes longer than that (there are so many dang Odin ravens to discover), and all of this would take much, much longer on higher levels.

I’ve put in around 18 hours so far, and while I’m thoroughly enjoying Ragnarok, I haven’t been as regularly shocked by the landscape, combat, or cutscenes as I was in the first game. To be sure, there have been fantastic moments and breathtaking landscapes, but I wasn’t gawking at the screen like I was when I first saw Jormungandr or Freya’s turtle house. Of course, fewer surprises are to be expected in a direct sequel, but God of War’s expanding scale from its humble beginnings, as well as the diversity of the realms you explored, was a significant part of its allure.

The good news is that as you leave the initial handful of regions, things start to differentiate, so if you think of them as a “coming up to speed” thing rather than the first actual set of pieces, you’ll have a better experience. Ragnarok has its own identity, but it takes some time to emerge.

It’s still incredibly fantastic in terms of story, concepts, and acting, yet there’s a sense of “what am I doing here exactly” that bugs me while I play, which was never really the case previously. Taking Faye’s ashes to the highest peak in the realms was a convenient movable goalpost, but everything was still in service to it – as Kratos was constantly emphasizing to Atreus, they didn’t even want to get involved in the gods’ affairs.

God of War Ragnarok does not exceed the high water mark set by its predecessor in 2018, but it also does not fall below it. And what begins as more of the (great) same eventually diversifies and addresses some of the first game’s few flaws. This stunning and innovative game is easy to suggest to any PlayStation owner (I played on PS5), and no doubt it will be among the best-selling titles this year as it makes its way into varied holiday plans.

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Marvell US chipmaker has announced some job cuts in China’s R&D sector.

Marvell Technology Group Ltd (MRVL.O), a US, Santa Clara, California -based manufacturer of microchips, announced on Thursday that it is eliminating some of its research and development positions in China.

In a written answer to inquiries from Reuters, Marvell’s vice president of corporate marketing Stacey Keegan stated, “In China, we will focus our R&D spending on local clients and the China market.”

“Several of our business divisions and functions are announcing adjustments to their global location strategy as part of this reorganization, which will eliminate roles in China.”

According to iJiwei, an online news portal monitoring the semiconductor industry, Marvell once employed 1,000 workers in China, with roughly 800 of them working in its research and development facility in Shanghai.

Marvell omitted to say how many employees will be impacted by the layoffs.

According to unnamed industry insiders cited by domestic Chinese media outlet iJiwei late on Wednesday, Marvell intended to fire a sizable section of its Chinese R&D team.

*US chipmaker Marvell has announced some job cuts in China’s R&D sector.*

Slowing Chip Demand:

The company’s decision is being accompanied by chipmakers’ preparation for a decrease in demand after a surge at the height of a global chip scarcity.

Due to sluggish demand, Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported a 31% decline in profit and predicted that it would remain low until early 2023.

After Samsung, SK Hynix, and Advanced Micro Devices released gloomy estimates for the near future, chip stocks have fallen this month.

Recent Developments stated by Quintile Insights in their published study:

o In September 2021, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation launched a new M4G Group of Arm Cortex-M4 Microcontrollers for high-speed data processing products in the TXZ+TM Family Advanced Class.

o In February 2020, Toshiba Electronic Devices and Storage Corporation launched TC78H670FTG, the latest addition to its micro-stepping integrated circuit portfolio. This new IC will drive a 128 micro-stepping motor within the power range of 2.5V to 16V.

Nikon’s Z9 Firmware 3.0 Update Available with Nearly 20 New Features

The second major update system’s free 3.0 firmware available for download, which adds improvements to video and photo capture, autofocus, operability, general usability, and much more, is the second significant update provided for the device this year. The most recent major update was likewise so large that it almost qualified as a brand-new camera.

According to Jay Vannatter, Executive Vice President of Nikon Inc., “Firmware 3.0 not only highlights Nikon’s dedication to meeting our customers’ needs, but also our continuous support to update products to their maximum potential for the benefit of our users.”

However, Firmware 3.0 adds more to the system than only the points mentioned above. This update also adds vertical image playback, timecode synchronization, UltraSync Blue, which adds timecode across multiple Z9 cameras controlled by a single wireless remote control, and ATOMOS’ UltraSyncBlue support over Bluetooth. High-frequency flicker reduction, which was previously available for photos in version 2.1, is now available for video.

The upgraded display and operability (including custom buttons/controls), the new High-Res Zoom function that provides additional optical zoom for 4K video, and the new C60 High-Speed Frame Capture that enables 60 frames per second still shooting in DX-format are some of the more notable features. The autofocus system improvements add 0.5 EV with improved accuracy in low-light and low-contrast conditions.

**Research Editorial:** Nikon’s Z9 Firmware 3.0 Update

In addition, the new update brings an automatic continuous playback feature that allows you to view images from the same series of burst shots after the first image is displayed on playback, more buttons can be customized, and the camera display can be Improved, improved focus display and file information. , and improvements Flash Workflow View Mode (Photo Lv) that allows users to choose whether or not to reflect the effect of exposure settings when a flash or remote trigger is attached. This feature allows you to check the background exposure before shooting to see the resulting background exposure.

The 3.0 firmware for the Nikon Z9 system also adds full format functionality for supported CFExpress cards, the ability to reset focus distance during focus-shift shooting, support for FTPS protocol for faster and safer encrypted file transfers, and the ability to “override other cameras” to enable simple switching between master cameras.

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