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With eye on China, and U.S. ties, Japan’s universities to screen foreigners

Japan is asking universities for greater scrutiny of foreign students and scholars to prevent technology leaks to places like China, partly for its own national security but also to safeguard exchanges with U.S. and European universities. While many Western countries have measures to prevent espionage on their campuses with strict screening and penalties for

MongoDB performance on Arm Neoverse based AWS Graviton2 processors

In this post, we explore the Out of Box performance of MongoDB on AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 R6g instances. We show how the R6g instance achieves up to 117% higher throughput than the Intel Xeon-based R5 instance. The R6g instance also costs 20% less than the R5 instance,

How to Work with the File Provider API on macOS To implement functionality that allows your macOS

What is File Provider and can we use it in macOS? File Provider is a system extension that helps applications access files and folders synchronized with a remote server. It was first introduced by Apple for iOS 11. This API lets developers build applications like iCloud, Dropbox, and

Detailed explanation on how shebang “#!” ( script ) binary format works in Linux

Probably you have seen many scripts starting with “!#/usr/bin/env”. You might be curious to know what is that “#!” and what it does. The operating system is responsible for loading user programs coming in different formats. The most popular binary format in the Linux world is ELF

MongoDB performance on Arm Neoverse based AWS Graviton2 processors

In this post, we explore the Out of Box performance of MongoDB on AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 R6g instances. We show how the R6g instance achieves up to 117% higher throughput than the Intel Xeon-based R5 instance. The R6g instance also costs 20% less than the R5 instance,

News on Twitter: Consumed by Most Users and Trusted by Many

News plays a prominent role on Twitter. Overall, 23% of Americans use Twitter, and roughly seven-in-ten U.S. Twitter users (69%) say they get news on the site, according to a new Pew Research Center study that surveyed 2,548 Twitter users from May 17 to 31, 2021. For most

11 advanced Assistant tricks you should really remember on Android

Fancy new features are fan-frickin’-tastic. But let’s face it: We aren’t all carrying Google’s shiny new Pixel phones. And we don’t all have Android 12 in front of our shiny faces just yet. With all of that in mind, I thought now would be a fine time

Sony puts out more videos showcasing the camera prowess on the Xperia Pro-I

Sony is clearly very proud of its new Xperia Pro-I and is enjoying it thoroughly and with good reason. The Xperia Pro-I is honestly more akin to a professional tool, like a DSLR than a general-purpose smartphone and it makes sense to treat it as such, giving it to

Here’s How These Viral Shorts Look (and Feel) on 11 Different Bodies

People with different body types tend to have different opinions on the same clothes. The principle is especially true when it comes to activewear — who could forget the butt-scrunching leggings that polarized a nation? Needless to say, when I decided to review a pair of Outdoor Voices’ Instagram-famous bike

Priyanka Chopra Wishes Parineeti On Birthday With Throwback Gold

. Happy birthday, Parineeti Chopra. The actress, who turns a year older today, is being flooded with wishes and posts from friends and fans. And, one of the most special wishes came from Parineeti Chopra’s cousin, actress Priyanka Chopra. On this occasion, the Fashion actress has shared two photos from