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Reliance Jio has decided to withdraw its Jio Summer Surprise offer in accordance with telecom regulator's advice. In a statement on Thursday, the telecom operator said: "Today, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has advised Jio to withdraw the 3 months complimentary benefits of Jio Summer Surprise." "Jio will be withdrawing the 3 months complimentary benefits of Jio Summer Surprise as soon as operationally feasible, over the next few days," according to the statement. Users who signed up for the offer by making a first-time recharge will, however, continue to get complimentary benefits. "All customers who have subscribed to Jio Summer Surprise offer prior to its discontinuation will remain eligible for the offer," Jio said. Under the Jio Summer Surprise offer, subscribers who enrolled before April 15 and recharged for plans of Rs 303 and more were entitled to get three months of complimentary service. Reliance Jio had on March

While  Google  is one of the best companies to work with, it's a known fact that getting through its hiring process is not a cakewalk. While there are various stages of the process you should be prepared for, the first and foremost step that will take you through to the next level is your resume.  It is the first piece of information Google will see about you. So highlight your achievements. Here’s how to frame them:  - Align your skills and experience with the job description   Make sure your resume is in line with the job requirements. Use the correct keywords to finetune your experience and relate it specifically to the job you are applying. You may need to customize your resume, but the effort will be worth it.  - Be specific about projects you’ve worked on or managed   Clarity is key. If you are not clear about yourself, your interviewer will also not be clear about you. When highlighting the projects you worked on, state the changes you made - What was the outcome? How did y

Getting your business blog noticed gets easier when you learn how to help people find it. Google search results contain descriptions below them. People reviewing the results decide whether to click a search result based on many factors, including the text that appears in the description. You can control the text that appears when someone sees a search result about your Blogger blog by adding unique metadata descriptions to your Blogger posts. 1. Visit your Blogger homepage and click the "More Options" arrow next to the blog you'd like to update. The "More Options" arrow appears on the page's right side next to the "View Blog" button. 2. Click "Settings" and find the "Search Preferences" link on the page's left side. Click that link to view your search preferences. You'll see a Meta Tags section near the top of the page. 3. Click the "Edit" link in that section and then click the "Yes&quo

IBM today announced that users on its Bluemix cloud will soon be able to add two Nvidia Tesla P100 accelerator cards to their  bare metal servers . The company says this feature will launch later this month and, when it’s live, IBM will likely be the first major cloud provider to offer support for these chips, which can provide up to 4.7 teraflops of double-precision performance and 16 gigabytes of memory. There is still a chance that Google could beat IBM to the market, though. Late last year, Google also  announced  that it would support Nvidia’s newest GPUs early this year, but we haven’t heard when exactly the company plans to launch this feature. We asked Google for an updated timeline but haven’t heard back yet. AWS, too, offers GPU support, of course, and its machines can be outfitted  with up to 16 GPUs  (those are the older K80 cards, though 16 of those obviously offer a lot of raw computing power, too). Microsoft’s Azure offers  a similar setup  with support for up to 4

It’s  no secret  that Google has developed its own custom chips to accelerate its machine learning algorithms. The company first revealed those chips, called Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), at its I/O developer conference back in May 2016, but it never went into all that many details about them, except for saying that they were optimized around the company’s own  TensorFlow  machine-learning framework. Today, for the first time, it’s sharing  more details  and  benchmarks  about the project. If you’re a chip designer, you can find all the  gory  glorious details of how the TPU works in  Google’s paper . The numbers that matter most here, though, are that based on Google’s own benchmarks (and it’s worth keeping in mind that this is Google evaluating its own chip), the TPUs are on average 15x to 30x faster in executing Google’s regular machine learning workloads than a standard GPU/CPU combination (in this case, Intel Haswell processors and Nvidia K80 GPUs). And because power consum

Google is launching a new  certification program  for mobile site developers today. The exam covers everything from the basics of why mobile sites matter to how to improve mobile site speed, effective mobile UX design and more advanced topics like progressive web apps. As Google notes, passing the exam is meant to show that you have “a demonstrated ability to build and optimize high-quality sites, and allows you to promote yourself as a Google accredited mobile site developer.” A lot of the content in the  study guide  focuses on site speed. As Google notes, the majority of mobile site visitors will leave a site if it takes more than three seconds to load, yet the average load time for a mobile landing page is 22 seconds (and if those users leave without ever fully loading the site, they aren’t likely to click on any Google ads either, of course). It’s worth noting that the exam doesn’t focus on Android, iOS or any other mobile operating system, though it does cover Google’s ow