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Google Diversity Head Removed Over Anti-Semitic Blog Post

Kamau Bobb wrote in a now-deleted 2007 blog post that Jews had an "insatiable appetite for war". Read more

B&M Discount Chain Doubles Its Annual Profits

The retailer reports group pre-tax profits of £525.4m, thanks to strong trading during lockdowns. Read more

China Reveals Plan To Pump Out Positive News About Itself. Let's See What Happens When That Lands With Social Media Fact-checkers

Xi Jinping says it’s time the world learned Marxism works, socialism is good, and China is really nice, but some 90s ... Read more

Japan To Dangle As Many Yen As It Takes To Lure Chipmakers To Its Shores, Because Everyone Else Is Doing It Too

National growth strategy also prioritises low power distributed data centres Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga has... Read more

Mezcal Producers Hope To Toast Brighter Future

Makers of the Mexican spirit mezcal have had a tough lockdown, but hope to see sales rise again. Read more

Bull In A Cosmos Shop: Edinburgh Uni Boffins Strike Deal With Atos For BullSequana Supercomputer

Time running out for secrets of cosmos to remain hidden Boffins at the University of Edinburgh will soon be able to get... Read more

South Korea Rounds Up Chipmakers And Hyperscalers To Build AI And Server Processors

Data center companies and chipmakers have signed an agreement as the government seeks to deglobalize their supply chain... Read more

Amazon Warehouse Workers Are Seriously Injured More Frequently Than Those At Similar Companies – Unions

Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks Amazon warehouse workers sustain serious injuries more frequently than... Read more

CEO Secrets: 'Have A Plan B In Case Things Don't Work Out'

Make a contingency plan for your business at the start, says teeth-whitening boss Natalie Quail. Read more

Nvidia Refreshes GeForce RTX GPUs: More CUDA Cores, Crippled Crypto Mining

3070 Ti, 3080 Ti available this month ... well, in theory Computex  Nvidia announced two more GPUs this week: the GeFo... Read more

AWS ECS Anywhere Goes Live. Is It Worth The Amazon Fee?

Amazon's container service running on-premises: a turnaround for a company that once scorned hybrid cloud ECS Anywhere,... Read more

UK's BT Starts Trials Of New Hollow-core Optical Fibre Networks

Promises lower latencies, higher power thresholds BT has started trials of hollow-core fibre optical networks to test i... Read more

Xiaomi Touts Hypercharge 200W Charging Tech, Claims 4,000mAh Battery Goes From 0 To Full In 480 Seconds

One of the few differentiators left in the smartphone arena Chinese mobile maker Xiaomi has demoed its latest charging ... Read more

Leaving Spark Behind, Databricks Enters New Territory As It Eyes 2021 IPO

Will its vision for unified analytics fly? Databricks, the commercial company founded around the popular Apache Spark d... Read more

Why Electric Cars Will Take Over Sooner Than You Think

The BBC's Justin Rowlatt explains why we are accelerating towards an electric car future. Read more