Owner of public transport application BusMap becomes a member of Phenikaa Phenikaa Group has just announced a strategic investment worth 1.5 million USD, equivalent to more than 34 billion VND, in BusMap Joint Stock Company – the owner of the BusMap public transport application. With the investment and patronage of Phenikaa Group on people, systems and technology, BusMap Joint Stock Company officially became a member unit of Phenikaa Group and was renamed Phenikaa Technology Joint Stock Company. MaaS (referred to as Phenikaa MaaS) BusMap is a technology startup of a group of young technicians, led by General Director Le Yen Thanh. Since 2013, the company aims to develop a free public transport application for passengers using city buses, helping people optimize their travel journey. The application is built on the core technology of digital maps, integrated with artificial intelligence, allowing users to find the shortest travel plan with the lowest cost and time. After 7 years, BusMap has more than 2 million users, made more than 50 million trips. Sharing about this investment decision, Phenikaa Group’s representative said that it is always looking for and developing young talents, sponsoring initiatives, research and development projects for new technologies, technological innovation and startups. breakthrough, positive influence, bringing practical benefits to the community. “Phenikaa MaaS will consider the BusMap application as the core technology, the foundation for developing “personalized” applications according to the needs of each user to solve a variety of problems in life and manufacturing business. From there, Phenikaa MaaS can expand transportation products and services for businesses, organizations and communities,” said a representative of Phenikaa Group about the long-term development orientation for the unit. this new member. Phenikaa is the parent company owning 81.63% of capital Vicostone – an artificial quartz stone business listed on the HNX with a market capitalization of VND 16,864 billion. In addition to Vicostone, Phenikaa is a multi-industry economic group operating in the fields of technology; industry; scientific research; education and training. Becoming a member unit of Phenikaa Group and a part of Phenikaa Ecosystem, Phenikaa MaaS aims to expand the target customer base, not only encapsulating the inner city bus transportation service industry, but also It also expands to other areas of the public transport industry such as trains, trams, waterways, etc., thereby, strongly promoting the comprehensive digital transformation in the field of smart transportation.

A special point worth mentioning here is that most of the core technologies researched, developed and owned by Phenikaa Group are implemented by Vietnamese human resources who work for the Group, including the team. a team of talented and passionate young scientists and technicians who are “recruited” from Start-up, Spin-off companies. This represents the clear strategic direction that the Group is implementing – which is to conquer the pinnacle of science and technology in parallel with the reality of the aspiration to develop the young generation and raise the level of Vietnamese intelligence. BusMap application for public transport with 2 million users in Vietnam One of the technology start-ups invested by Phenikaa Group with the goal of giving wings to the young generation and realizing the Group’s strategic steps is a strategic investment of $1.5 million in the company. Vietnamese technology start-up owns the leading free public transport application in Vietnam – BusMap. This investment decision is both a desire to contribute to the development of a talented young Vietnamese generation, while creating a resonance of strength to perfect the Phenikaa ecosystem, contributing to accelerating the construction and development of a smart city. sustainability in Vietnam and the national digital transformation process, implementing the Government’s goals, orientations and policies. With the investment and patronage of Phenikaa in terms of people, systems and technology, BusMap Joint Stock Company officially became a member unit of Phenikaa Group and was renamed Phenikaa MaaS Technology Joint Stock Company (called Phenikaa MaaS Technology Joint Stock Company (called Phenikaa MaaS Technology JSC). for short, Phenikaa MaaS); step by step restructure, expand mission, vision and business development orientation, towards becoming a leading enterprise providing solutions, products and services to strongly promote digital transformation. comprehensive in the field of smart traffic, smart city in Vietnam. No longer an ordinary investment project, the fact that Phenikaa Group “pours money” into the young Vietnamese technology start-up BusMap is how the Group is “realizing its commitment” to developing the young Vietnamese generation and promoting the transformation of young Vietnamese people. digital transformation for smart traffic, smart city, contributing to the general development of society. A young Vietnamese technology start-up, when fully sponsored and officially a member of a large corporation, will be able to quickly transform and develop, bringing BusMap core technology into smart mobility applications and Comprehensive technology solutions. Since then, opening up great opportunities for thousands of businesses operating in the transportation sector as well as local governments to quickly access comprehensive digital transformation in the field of smart traffic and smart cities in Vietnam. . At the same time, this investment of Phenikaa Group continues to inspire the young Vietnamese generation to confidently and boldly explore and conquer knowledge, because surely, when young talents demonstrate their ability, bravery and passion, they will find “strong sponsors” who are willing to sponsor and develop, unleash their creativity to create high-class products, affirm Vietnamese talent and wisdom, open doors great door to the world.

Monarch’s electric plow. Photo: CNN CNN channel (USA) said that the plow was programmed to perform the tasks of digging trenches and reaping and harvesting. Manufacturer Monarch says this electric plow can work for 10 consecutive hours after 5 hours of charging. Although there is no operator, but based on US regulations, the plow is designed to be operated remotely. Thus, the operator can remotely command the plow to stop working when necessary. The plow is also equipped with sensors to avoid collisions with livestock and works automatically next to farmers. Monarch claims that when these electric plows come to market, they can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 53 tons per year, equivalent to the emissions of 14 gasoline-powered cars. In addition, this electric plow has the ability to collect data during operation, helping to provide information about crops and support for farmers to promptly handle arising problems such as lack of irrigation water. … Below is a video simulating the operation of the plow published by Monarch: Monarch expects to sell the first plow in the next two months to farmers in California, Washington and Oregon for an expected price of $50,000. These farmers will work with Monarch to perfect the electric device. Monarch expects to mass produce electric plows by the end of this year. According to Monarch, the electric plow can save farmers thousands of dollars a year in fuel and labor.

Start-up Sky Mavis has just received another $7.5 million from investors In addition to billionaire Mark Cuban, the “shark” in the American game show Shark Tank, there are also Alexis Ohanian- Co-founder of Reddit and John Robinson- CEO of 100 Thieves who poured capital into Vietnamese Blockchain game start-up Sky Mavis. With this funding round, Sky Mavis will invest to increase the size of its staff and improve technology, bringing the game Axie Infinity to more players. Founded in 2018 by three Vietnamese and two foreigners, Sky Mavis is a start-up that applies blockchain technology to games, the most prominent of which is Axie Infinity. This is a digital pet universe where players fight, raise and trade cute creatures called Axies. This start-up game received $1.5 million in 2019 in the first round of funding for a blockchain game called Axie Infinity from the Hashed cryptocurrency fund (Korea), the blockchain fund Pangea (Switzerland), ConsenSys (USA) and 500 Startups. Axie Infinity is the first blockchain game in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. According to Sky Mavis data, Axie Infinity is the highest grossing blockchain video game series on DappRadar.com and Dapp.com. This is a gaming ecosystem NFT(Non-Fungible Token) is a major digital asset with over 41,000 daily active users and around 45,000 Axies holders. This game helps Sky Mavis earn more than 15 million USD in monthly NFT revenue. This is also the leading blockchain game of the Ethereum ecosystem. Sky Mavis’s Axie Infinity has acquired the strongest point of this blockchain technology, which is that data will be stored and transmitted in encrypted blocks of information on the Internet. These blocks will play the role of both storing information that can also operate the server, players no longer have to worry about the game crashing or dying midway. Moreover, the player’s information will be kept safe. In addition, a block of information written to the blockchain system cannot be changed, it can only be added when everyone’s consensus is reached, so the issuer cannot interfere. the player’s account, creating absolute fairness for the game. The Axie virtual pet ecosystem also applies a DNA algorithm, which helps determine the shape of the animals when combined, creating a more attractive learning experience for players. The majority of players and know about Sky Mavis’ games from the US, Europe and Japan markets are thanks to the spread on blockchain groups, because the game market applying blockchain technology is still very new. Games with digital ownership, making it possible for players to become owners, are creating a new wave of experimentation and value in the gaming industry, according to experts. Recently, Sky Mavis is the only start-up in Southeast Asia supported by Ubisoft (one of the world’s largest video game publishers) in the fifth Startup Support Program for 8 international start-ups. in the field of social entertainment…

The process of raising Ca cuong according to the Aquaponist model of Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan brings high economic efficiency. Sharing about her start-up journey from the Ca cuong farming model, Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan said that Phuoc Chi commune is considered a pure agricultural commune, so people here mainly grow rice and since childhood she has been attached to it. with fields, garden vegetables, frogs, frogs…; in it, there is a Ca cuong However, due to the changing habitat, the wild Ca cuong is gradually disappearing in the wild. In 2015, through researching on the information pages, she learned that Tay Ninh has successfully propagated Ca cuong in captivity, so she came to buy seed for trial at home. Through many times of raising and propagating Ca cuong failed because she did not know well about Ca cuong species, but with determination, not discouraged, she finally understood the technical process of raising Ca cuong. At the end of 2016, she has invested in 10 ponds with 2,000 breeders. In 2017, she started selling the first batch of Ca cuong and was popular with consumers. The benefits brought back far exceeded the plan with the average price of 30,000 – 130,000 VND / commercial Ca cuong and 100,000-200,000 VND / Ca cuong seed. According to Lan, Ca cuong is a fast-reproducing species with large numbers and lays all year round. Each birth is only 1 – 1.5 months apart / litter. Each nest of Ca cuong has about 100 eggs, after 5-7 days the eggs hatch into larvae, the hatching rate is nearly 100%. From hatching to commercial sale about 45 days, while raising for spawning about 75 days. Currently, Ms. Lan’s Ca cuong farm has an area of ​​3,000 m2. Raising Ca cuong is not difficult, but multiplying Ca cuong herds is not easy because Ca cuong is very sensitive to the environment, especially pesticides, in order to raise Ca cuong, it is necessary to choose a cool place, the water source is not polluted. . Therefore, farmers need to continuously monitor the growth and reproduction of Ca cuong to adjust appropriate care to achieve the best results. However, according to Lan, the food for Ca cuong is fresh food such as fish, baby frogs, and baby frogs, so when the food is not consumed, it is easy to pollute the water source. To ensure that the water source for raising Ca cuong is clean enough, farmers must change the water regularly. In addition, the process of growth from hatching to maturity, they undergo 5 molting, each time the farmer has to follow up to remove the embryo, so it takes a lot of time. The process of raising Ca cuong according to the Aquaponist model of Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan brings high economic efficiency. In early 2020, by learning about the aquaponist model (a combination of aquaculture and hydroponics grown hydroponics), she realized that this model was suitable for her Ca cuong farm. Investing in building 30 more Ca cuong ponds with a scale of nearly 10,000 fish and stocking dozens of pounds of fish, along with 1,000 m2 of organic vegetable gardens to produce under a closed process. Ms. Lan shared, when applying the aquaponist model, Ca cuong, the food of Ca cuong (which is a fish) and vegetables will be grown in the same circulatory system. Ca cuong eats food and produces waste products in the water. Water containing waste is fed into mechanical and microbiological filtration system. Thanks to the participation of beneficial bacteria, the wastewater from the aquarium will be converted to organic nutrients into vegetable growing tanks, vegetables absorb nutrients in the water, then purify the water and provide backwards. back to the Ca cuong and the spiny fish tanks. As a result of the application of aquaponist technology, Lan’s Ca cuong herd grows healthier, the wastage rate is low, thereby saving 30% of the cost of food for Ca cuong, 50% reduction in the amount of clean water supplied. daily and 70% reduction in labor force. Ms. Lan also said that each month, her Ca cuong farm supplies to the market more than 10,000 commercial Ca cuong, after deducting the cost, bringing in profits from 40 to 50 million VND per month. In addition, thanks to the reduction of input fees, the source of Ca cuong seed sold by Ms. Lan is also 40% lower than the market price. The process of raising Ca cuong, growing aquatic vegetables according to the Aquaponist model of Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan brings high economic efficiency. According to Ms. Lan, at present, consumers are mainly aware of products processed from Ca cuong meat such as fried, steamed … because Ca cuong meat and eggs contain many proteins, lipids and vitamins. However, the most valuable of the Ca cuong is the bag of essential oils in the belly of the male Ca cuong. Foreseeing this, in addition to selling Ca cuong seeds, meat, realize that Ca cuong fish sauce is one of the products that still preserves the essential oils of Ca cuong, the delicious and fatty taste is accepted by the market. Lan continues to invest in production lines and fish sauce processing to diversify products from Ca cuong, increase value and have more stable output while more and more businesses and farmers invest. to cultivate this insect. In order to build a brand for the product, capture the One-Commune Program (OCOP), right from the moment the program was launched, she applied for the Ca cuong fish sauce product called “Phong Lan”. . Since registering for the certification of OCOP products, a good reputation, many companies, businesses, and supermarkets have come to find out about the product and more and more orders are placed, Ms. Lan chalk. Khoi said.

Author: boat, Chen Ping The world’s largest chip has the second generation! WSE 2 will be listed in the third quarter of this year. WSE 2 uses a 7-nanometer process technology with 2.6 trillion transistors. A large number of chips have entered the market in recent years, aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. Based on different machine learning algorithms, these chips usually focus on several key areas, but most of them have a common limitation-chip size. Two years ago, Cerebras unveiled a revolution in the field of chip design: They developed a chip called Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) with 1.2 trillion transistors, 57 times the size of Nvidia’s GPU Titan V. The size of WSE is bigger than an iPad. Cerebras’ “violent aesthetics” once caused people to exclaim: “WSE has more transistors than neurons in the human brain!” Cerebras is also well-known in the industry. Today, the company announced that its next-generation chip, Wafer Scale Engine 2 (WSE 2), will be available in the third quarter of this year. Using a 7nm process technology, the number of transistors has doubled to 2.6 trillion and contains 850,000 AI cores. WSE-2: 46225 square millimeters, 2.6 trillion transistors. Image source: https://cerebras.net/ Cerebras has been committed to maximizing the role of logical solutions to machine learning problems. When Andrew Feldman founded the company in 2015, training neural networks took a lot of time, while large networks took several weeks. The biggest bottleneck is that data must be transferred multiple times between the processor and the external DRAM memory, which wastes time and consumes energy. The WSE R&D team pointed out: We can expand the chip so that it can accommodate all the data needed together with the AI ​​processor core. With the development of natural language processing, image recognition and other fields, neural networks have also become very large, and the AI ​​field needs a very large chip. How old is it? As large as possible, this means a whole wafer, 46225 square millimeters. CEO Feldman said: “When you want to make changes, you always encounter physical design challenges. Everything is related to geometry. It’s really difficult, but TSMC is our extraordinary partner.” 7 The development of nanotechnology means huge progress, but according to Feldman, the company has also improved the micro-architecture of its AI core. He declined to give details, but said that after working with customers for more than a year, Cerebras has learned some lessons and integrated them into the new core. WSE 2: 7nm process technology, 2.6 trillion transistors WSE 2 uses TSMC’s 7nm process technology. This allows it to be scaled down, and to a certain extent, the SRAM can be reduced. WSE 2 has 850,000 AI cores. The chip size of WSE 2 is the same as that of WSE, but almost all functions have been doubled, as shown in the following table: Like the first generation of WSE, WSE 2 has hundreds of thousands of AI cores on a silicon chip measuring 46,225 square millimeters. WSE 2 has 850,000 cores and 2.6 trillion transistors-by comparison, the second largest AI CPU on the market is about 826 square millimeters and has 0.054 trillion transistors. Compared to the 40MB memory of Ampere A100, Cerebras introduced 40GB of SRAM onboard memory, which is 1000 times the former. The picture shows WSE 1. WSE 2 has the same appearance but doubled the number of cores. Its core is connected by a 2D Mesh with FMAC data path. The goal of Cerebras and WSE is to provide a single platform designed through an innovative patent that allows larger processors for AI computing and has now been extended to a wider range of HPC workloads. WSE 2 is based on the first generation The first-generation WSE chip has 1.2 trillion transistors, which is 57 times the number of NVIDIA’s flagship GPU Titan V. It is built using TSMC’s 16-nanometer process technology. It covers an area of ​​46,225 square millimeters and contains 400,000 cores. On-chip storage is up to 18G and power consumption is 1.5. Ten thousand watts (approximately equal to the power of 6 induction cookers), memory bandwidth 9PB/sec, communication structure bandwidth 100PB/sec. In addition, the first generation of WSE also achieved a speed increase of 3000 times and a storage bandwidth expansion of 10000 times. The key to the WSE-2 design is a custom graphics compiler, which uses PyTorch or TensorFlow, and maps each layer to the physical part of the chip, and allows data flow to be calculated asynchronously. Having such a large processor means no waste energy. Compilers and processors are also designed with sparsity in mind, allowing high utilization regardless of the batch size, or allowing parameter search algorithms to run at the same time. How does WSE 2 compare to the first generation? Compared with the two, the size of the chip itself has not changed. 300 mm is still the largest wafer size in mass production. Therefore, the overall size of the WSE 2 chip has not changed, but the AI ​​core has doubled. WSE 2 is still divided into a 7×12 rectangular array. Comparison of WSE 2 (left) and WSE 1 (right). In addition, the computer system CS-2 that hosts WSE 2 has not changed much. CS-2 is designed to achieve fast, flexible training and low-latency data center inference. Currently, CS-2 is powered by WSE-2. Compared with other data center AI solutions, CS-2 has higher computing density, faster memory and higher bandwidth interconnection, and uses a leading ML framework Perform programming. Cerebras, a fast-growing startup Cerebras Systems was established in California in 2015. Co-founder and CEO Andrew Feldman previously founded server chip company SeaMicro. Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras After several years of rapid development, the company’s size has basically doubled, with about 300 engineers in Silicon Valley, San Diego, Toronto and Tokyo. Reference link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16626/cerebras-unveils-wafer-scale-engine-two-wse2-26-trillion-transistors-100-yield https://www.chinaventure.com.cn/news/114-20190820-347306.html https://cerebras.net/product/ https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/processors/cerebras-giant-ai-chip-now-has-a-trillions-more-transistors Amazon Cloud Technology Online Hackathon 2021 This is a like-minded training, this is a team competition where masters gather. Show your mind and play with creativity. From March 26th to May 31st, the stage of actual combat will open for you. The “Amazon Cloud Technology Online Hackathon 2021” is waiting for you! In order to encourage the participation and innovation of developers, this competition has prepared generous prizes for participants. In addition to the first, second, and third prizes, there are also special prActIcal awards, creAtIve awards, Koi Geek Awards, and Sunshine Awards. , The team that successfully submits works can receive prizes.

Bcons leaders said that feasible startup projects will be funded promptly Accordingly, the Creative Startup Center in Di An City is considered the first business coffee model in Binh Duong province, where starups can meet directly with city leaders and industries to exchange information. , presenting ideas and solving difficulties about mechanisms and policies and coordinated ways to effectively deploy, apply to the development of businesses and Di An City. This will incubate creative ideas to contribute to the development of the city in areas such as IT, smart cities, services, finance and banking, education, building management … Di An City Creative Start-up Center has a large financial sponsorship from Bcons Group with an initial capital investment of more than 1 million USD in 10 years. According to Mr. Le Nhu Thach, Chairman of Bcons Group, in the immediate future, it will give priority to sponsoring projects to develop digital transformation ecosystems such as apartment management system, smart home, production connection between Vietnam. South to countries … In addition to the funding source for Di An City, this business is also spending ample financial resources up to 40 million USD to develop the Bcons startup fund with a roadmap of presenting ideas, critics and practical applications to free talkshow sessions, training sessions and site use.

Task Manager interface.

Turn off booting of some unnecessary programs

All you need is a built-in utility – Task Manager. This app isn’t just the place to stop nasty bots from refusing to shut down. The task manager can also help with boot time management. Open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc. Alternatively, press the Windows key, type “Task Manager” and select Task Manager from the search results that appear.

If Task Manager is in minimal view, click More details in the lower left of the window to see the full program.

In Expanded view, select the Startup tab. This section lists all the different third-party programs that are trying to launch at boot time. Virtually all of them can be turned off, but there are some possibilities you’ll want to leave them alone.

To figure out what to turn off and what to retain, see the Startup impact column. Any program classified as “High” or “Medium” must be a “candidate” for disabling. Some programs like sound card, password manager or something related to graphics card … must be kept. On the other hand, items like web browser helper or virtual private network (VPN) can wait to launch until you really need them.

To disable a program, select it, then at the bottom right of the window click the Disable button. Under the Status column you will now see that the program has moved from Enabled to Disabled. Continue as needed through the list of third-party programs.

Turn on Fast Startup

Windows 10 also has an option to start your computer faster, which is Fast Startup. When you turn on Fast Startup, Windows 10 automatically creates a Hibernate file for faster startup. How to enable “Fast Startup” as follows:

Step 1: Open “Control Panel”, then select “View by: Large icons”.

Step 2: Select the “Power Options” feature.

Step 3: Click “Choose what the power buttons do” in the left pane of the window.

Step 4: At the top, please click on the green text “Change settings that are currently unavailable”.

Step 5: Under “Shutdown settings”, check the box “Fast Startup”. Click “Save Changes” to save the settings on your machine.

Run Disk Cleanup and upgrade the drive

Alternatively, to add a bit more speed during boot time, you can also run Disk Cleanup. This will remove any junk files and make your SSD or hard drive work more efficiently.

If your computer is still using a mechanical drive, upgrade to an SSD card for faster boot. Installing an SSD is one of the simplest hardware upgrades you can make, and the difference it makes in terms of overall performance is impressive.

With these tips, you should see a significant improvement in your computer’s boot time, and the best part is that it doesn’t require any special third-party software downloads.