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[ad_1] The Indian card landscape is set for a big change. Starting October 1, 2023, credit and debit card holders will be able to port their card network, a landmark decision that was announced by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently via a draft circular. From a customers’ standpoint, this development is significant as it gives customers the freedom to choose a card network they prefer. Visa, MasterCard, and RuPay are among the leading players in the payment card networks. A card issued by any of these networks could, earlier, not be switched to another network. Thus, this announcement…

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[ad_1] In 2005, the Pentagon’s Base Realignment and Closure commission made recommendations that affected most of the Air National Guard’s aviation units, with 14 of them losing their flying mission, the Government Accountability Office reported. The move left thousands of air guardsmen without jobs, the officers said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of their continuing work for companies that do business with the federal government.One of those units was the 102nd Fighter Wing at a base called Otis on Cape Cod.Men and women from that Air National Guard wing and other former flying units began training to work…

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[ad_1] In the days after the 2020 election, the Fox host Tucker Carlson sent an anxious text message to one of his producers. Fox viewers were furious about the network’s decision to call Arizona for Joseph R. Biden Jr.The defeated president, Donald J. Trump, was eagerly stoking their anger. As Mr. Carlson and his producer batted around ideas for a new Carlson podcast — one that might help win back the audience most angry about Mr. Trump’s defeat — they saw both opportunity and peril in the moment.“He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong,” Mr. Carlson warned,…

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[ad_1] ChatGPT warned me against asking legendary engineer Bob Metcalfe about his 1996 prediction that the internet would collapse. This came after I sought the chatbot’s guidance on what questions to ask the man who this week received the ACM Turing Award, the $1 million prize dubbed the Nobel of computing. The AI oracle suggested I stick to quizzing him on his famous accomplishments—inventing Ethernet, starting the 3Com Corporation, codifying the value of networks, and teaching students in Texas about innovation, which he did until he retired last year “to pursue a sixth career.”But ChatGPT thought it was a terrible idea…

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[ad_1] In the remote mountain village of Zaarouieh, about an hour’s drive south of Beirut, Ahmed Abu Daher stands on the roof of a half-built house overlooking a wooded valley. He gestures at a drab gray box about the size of a takeout container. A couple of wires emerge from it, snaking off across the bare concrete. “It’s actually one of the hardest forms of mining,” says Abu Daher, 22, an architecture graduate and operator of a crypto mining pool. “Of course you need decent internet, reliable electricity, but the altitude of the position is really important.”The box is a Helium…

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