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US chipmaker Broadcom secured EU antitrust approval on Wednesday for its $61 billion (nearly Rs. 5,00,300 crore) proposed acquisition of cloud computing firm VMware after offering remedies to help rival Marvell Technology. The deal, Broadcom's largest ever, will help the chipmaker diversify into enterprise software. Broadcom offered Marvell and other rivals interoperability commitments related to its Fibre Channel Host-Bus Adapters (FC HBAs), a kind of storage adapters, the European Commission said, confirming a Reuters story last month. Marvell and other rivals will have "guaranteed access to the interoperability Application Programming Interfaces as well as to the materials, tools and technical support necessary for the development and certification of third-party FC HBAs", the EU competition enforcer said. Marvell and other rivals will also have guaranteed access to the source code for all of Broadcom's current and future FC HBA drivers through an irrevocable...

The European Union (EU) is looking to set up a bunch of regulations to govern people's existence in the metaverse. A fully functional virtual universe built on blockchain, the metaverse allows people to exist as digital avatars and perform activities related to working, gaming, and socialising. The EU has noticed that the metaverse is gaining popularity among people. After finalising the MiCA laws for overseeing the crypto sector, the EU is now shifting focus to regulate the metaverse space. While the world is mulling ways and rules to adopt Web3 , the EU is setting its goal at Web4. The European Commission (EC) predicts that Extended Reality (XR) technology will open employment for around 8,60,000 jobs in the EU. XR is among the most significant elements of the metaverse. The EU wants to be brisk in shaping up global standards for open and interoperable virtual worlds, mostly to make sure that big tech does not dominate this up-and-coming sector. “Virtual worlds and Web4 — [the...

HP Envy x360 15 series of laptops was launched by the company in India on Wednesday. The laptops feature a 15.6-inch OLED display and offer up to 16GB of LPDDR5 memory. They are powered by the latest Intel and AMD Ryzen processors. Additionally, the laptops are claimed to offer up to 15 hours of battery life on a single charge. They support Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity. The new laptops from HP are equipped with a 5-megapixel camera with IR face recognition for biometric unlocking and a dedicated emoji strip on the keyboard. HP Envy x360 15 series price in India, availability HP Envy x360 15 series price in India starts at Rs. 78,999. The laptops are available for purchase via HP's online store as well as HP world stores, according to the company. HP Envy x360 15 series specifications, features The new Envy x360 series of laptops from HP are the first models with an IMAX Enhanced display certification. They are powered by up to 13th Gen Intel Core i7 CPUs or up to AMD...

Web3 security firm Olympix has garnered $4.3 million (roughly Rs. 35 crore) in a seed funding round lead by Boldstart Ventures. The startup merges the capabilities of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide scalable cyber security solutions. This funding testifies to the growing interration of Web3 and AI that could be the next big thing in the fintech sector. Olympix is not the only Web3-AI company to have bagged millions from venture capitalists. Web3Go and CryptoGPT are other startups from the same sector to have received big fundings in recent months. The startup's security services offerings are usually for developers who are just starting to build their products on blockchain . The AI-powered security solutions are designed to shell out the risks of vulnerabilities that may affect smart contracts. With an AI scanner , Olympix using developers can make security suggestions in real-time. In Olympix's seed funding round, other venture capitalists that marke...

In the last couple of years, we've seen the widespread ‘democratisation' of active noise cancellation (ANC) technology, with a number of affordable headphones launching with this feature. It's now possible to buy a decent pair of active noise cancelling true wireless earphones (TWS) for under Rs. 3,000, and neckband-style wireless options with ANC are regularly available for under Rs. 2,000. There are quite a few budget TWS options with ANC from brands such as Realme and OnePlus. For anyone who regularly travels by air, active noise cancellation technology in headphones is a boon. It helps to reduce strain on your ears by blocking out the loud hum of aeroplane engines, and it also makes it a lot easier to listen to audio through your headphones. Although the technology tends to work best in an aeroplane cabin, there are plenty of other use cases for it, such as when travelling in a train or bus, an office environment, or even at home where sounds from a ceiling fan or an ...