The Luxembourg-based General Court said Amazon had not enjoyed a selective advantage in its tax deal with Luxembourg. Reuters | PUBLISHED ON MAY 12, 2021 06:29 PM IST Europe’s second-top court on Thursday annulled an EU order to Amazon to pay about 250 million euros ($303.28 million) in back taxes to Luxembourg, part of an EU crackdown against unfair tax deals between multinationals and EU countries.The Luxembourg-based General Court said Amazon had not enjoyed a selective advantage in its tax deal with Luxembourg.”The Commission did not prove to the requisite legal standard that there was an undue reduction of the…
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To say that AMD is experiencing so much success these days is a massive understatement. They are closing in onto Intel’s market share inch by inch, which has Team Blue on the run. And now, they just got tapped to power something seriously amazing. Overclock3D reports that AMD has been contracted to provide their EPYC 7763 and 75F3 server chips to a supercomputer, which would be deployed at the National Supercomputing Center in Singapore. The gargantuan machine is going to serve as an upgrade to the center’s current ASPIRE1, which apparently isn’t “fast enough” anymore. (Photo : (Photo by Kyodo…
Researchers from the University of Central Florida (UCF) have developed a sarcasm detector for social media platforms using artificial intelligence. According to Ramya Akula, sarcasm in face-to-face interactions is easier to determine, one of the researchers of the study. (Photo : Gerd Altmann from Pixabay)An artificial intelligence, developed by computer science researchers, can now detect sarcasm posted in social media platforms. However, the lack of facial expressions and vocal tones in Facebook posts and Tweets makes it more tedious to catch. What more, if a computer attempts to figure it out. “Sarcasm detection in online communications from social networking platforms is…
Facebook’s newest app “Tuned” which is made for couples is now up for all Android users. The app has been previously teased and at the moment, you could access its content together with your soulmate. It was in April 2020 when Tuned was introduced as a fancy-looking site. At the time, it was only exclusive to iOS users in the United States and Canada. Now, the couple-friendly app works like a virtual room for the one true pair. Like a typical dating website, it features a chat room for the couple, as well as the permission to utilize the shareable…
After months of specification leaks, a couple of AMD Cezanne APUs have apparently been benchmarked at last-and they’re looking pretty good. WCCFTech reveals that the alleged benchmark numbers are for the 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen 7 5700G and the 6-core, 12-thread Ryzen 5 5600G. The two SKUs are part of the new AMD APU lineup that’s currently restricted to OEMs for now, though Team Red did announce that they’ll be releasing it to retail later this year. The information comes from a Twitter user who goes by the handle @APISAK, who provided a few CPU-Z benchmark screenshots which were shown in…
Since it first launched hardware accelerated ray tracing in 2018 with the Turing series of graphics cards, NVIDIA has been focusing solely on improving the brand-new rendering technology for succeeding GPU generations. As such, this led gaming journalists to believe that ray tracing is the future of gaming. (Photo : FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)A man wears 3D glasses to play a game on the VRX simulator powered by Nvidia at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 11, 2012. The US photography giant Eastman Kodak, fighting to keep bankruptcy at bay, announced this…
Xiaomi and the United States government have finally concluded the lawsuit that the former filed against the latter. Both parties have agreed to revoke the military blacklisting of the China-based company from American investments, Bloomberg reported. The U.S., in a document via the parties joint statement, has acknowledged the procedural injustice in its decision to outrightly ban Xiaomi, Gizmochina reported. (Photo : VCG/VCG via Getty Images)BEIJING, CHINA – MAY 15: (CHINA OUT) Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun speaks during a product launch on May 15, 2014 in Beijing, China. “The Parties have agreed upon a path forward that would resolve this…
Social media app Instagram has recently introduced a new feature where users can now display up to four pronouns to their profiles. Through this feature, the followers can easily identify the gender of a person. One way or another, the Facebook-owned networking service has now a new way for the users to express themselves to the public. At the moment, the feature is only limited to the selected countries worldwide. Instagram Adds ‘Pronouns’ Feature in the Platform (Photo : Instagram (@instagram) from Twitter) According to an updated report of Business Standard on Wednesday, May 12, the company has not divulged its entire…
(Photo : (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)) NORTH LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – MARCH 31: An exterior view shows an Amazon fulfillment center on March 31, 2021 in North Las Vegas, Nevada. The company is offering employees COVID-19 vaccinations at the facility for eight days. Amazon raffle scams via SMS are swarming people’s inboxes. The company tagged, along with the message, is now attempting to combat the scheme. Thus, it sued several individuals in federal court in hopes to unmask the 50 bad actors. You read it right: You didn’t win from an Amazon raffle that you don’t even remember joining…
Urian B., Tech Times 12 May 2021, 02:05 am (Photo : Screenshot From Commons.Wikipedia.org) TikTok Shopping Could be a New Thing | Platform Exploring Selling Options A certain short-form video platform called TikTok is now pushing forward with its own efforts in order to expand in-app shopping. The app has reportedly started teaming up with certain brands in Europe for trials. TikTok Works with Brands to Bring Online Shopping Option According to the story by Tech.co, TikTok is actually no stranger to ecommerce, having been dabbling in a number of different shopping options over the years. Despite this, the new…