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Facebook to Invest $1 Billion in First Asian Data Centre in Singapore

September 10, 2018 Loknath Das'First, 1, Asian, Billion, Centre, Data, Facebook, In, Invest, Singapore, to

HIGHLIGHTS The data centre is slated to open in 2022 Facebook’s facility will be located in the west of the island Data centre isn’t country specific to where users are located: Facebook Facebook said on Thursday it will invest more than $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,100 crores) to build its first data centre in Asia in Singapore, slated to open in 2022. Facebook’s facility will be located in the west of the island, near where Google is expanding its Singapore data centres in an $850 million (roughly Rs. 61,000 crores) investment as mobile…

Labour reveals its $4 billion education plan

July 21, 2017 Loknath Das4), Billion, Education, Its, Labour, Plan, Reveals

Labour will pour an extra $4 billion dollars into the education sector over the next four years if it’s voted into Government this election. It’s promising to pump $1.8 billion into the industry to deliver more teachers and resources, provide better professional development and help the sector meet rising costs. Labour leader Andrew Little said “After years of underfunding for education including a funding freeze there’s no question that the teaching profession, the schools, the education system is under pressure.” As part of the party’s education manifesto early childhood centres…

IBM’s New Tech Squeezes 30 Billion Transistors Into Fingernail-Sized 5nm Chip

June 8, 2017 Loknath Das30, 5nm, Billion, Chip, Fingernail-Sized, IBM's, Into, New, Squeezes, Tech, Transistors

IBM and its chip manufacturing partner companies Samsung and Globalfoundries still believe in Moore’s Law, and have just announced a new procedure to make silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5-nanometre chips. Furthermore, the technology can be deployed to affix 30 billion transistor switches into a single chip equal to a fingernail in size. The process details will be presented at the 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits conference to be held in Japan, IBM says. The world’s first 7-nanometre chip was introduced in 2015 by IBM in a…

Huge Study Finds a Billion People Suffer From High Blood Pressure

November 17, 2016 Srijitaa, Billion, Blood, Finds, From, High;, huge, People, Pressure?, Study, suffer

The number of people with high blood pressure has almost doubled in 40 years to over 1.1 billion worldwide, scientists said on Wednesday, with the burden of the condition shifting from the rich to the poor. In the largest study of its kind analyzing blood pressure in every nation between 1975 and 2015, the scientists said that it has dropped sharply in wealthy countries – possibly due to healthier diets and lifestyles – but risen in poorer ones. The increases are especially significant in Africa and South Asia, the researchers…

2 Billion Children Breathe Toxic Air Worldwide, UNICEF Says

November 2, 2016 Srijita2, Air, Billion, Breathe, Children, Says, Toxic, UNICEF, worldwide

As Indians wake Monday to smoke-filled skies from a weekend of festival fireworks, New Delhi’s worst season for air pollution begins — with dire consequences. A new report from UNICEF says about a third of the 2 billion children in the world who are breathing toxic air live in northern India and neighboring countries, risking serious health effects including damage to their lungs, brains and other organs. Of that global total, 300 million kids are exposed to pollution levels more than six times higher than standards set by the World…

BlackRock’s $2.5 Billion Sale: sign Of existence For Singapore’s workplace market

June 6, 2016 Srijita$2.5, Billion, BlackRock's, existence:, for, Market, of, Sale:, sign, Singapore's, workplace

Singapore: BlackRock Inc said it might promote a forty three-storey Singapore workplace tower for $2.five billion – certainly one of at the least 3 workplace building deals in the last months for a market gripped by way of worries approximately oversupply and rising vacancies. The sale to Qatar investment Authority, a sovereign wealth fund, is Singapore’s biggest workplace transaction. it is also the largest unmarried-tower actual estate deal in Asia-Pacific, according to BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager. The selling rate of S$2,seven hundred ($1,980) in step with square foot…