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AMD to invest $400 million in India by 2028: Here’s what we know

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
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Google celebrates Pride Month with new label for LGBTQ+ businesses in Maps, Search

It is the Pride Month and tech companies are mostly on the forefront to celebrate it in several different ways. Google, for instance, has now introduced a new label in Search and Maps that lets business owners tell they are a LGBTQ+ community member. The LGTBQ+ label is the addition to a wide range of existing labels on Google Maps that are aimed at helping people locate and support local businesses.

Google on Wednesday announced the new LGBTQ+ label will be available for businesses in the US, but the condition for them to use it is that they need to have verified profiles. The company said that once verified profiles apply for the label, their business will show up as LGBTQ+ owned on Maps, as well as on Search.

While the representation of the LGBTQ+ community on Google’s internet properties has grown over the years, the latest label could also be misused. Google currently does not have a system to verify the self-identifiable labels, so anyone with a verified profile could use the new LGBTQ+ label, in addition to others such as Black-owned, Latino-owned, among others. In other words, a business that is not owned by an LGBTQ+ member could use the label to attract a certain crowd. However, Google does make it clear that the label was added by the business itself.

Besides, Google has also added the capability to report any harassment to the new LGBTQ+ label. This tool becomes a part of the set of resources that are already available on Google Maps for people looking for LGBTQ+ friendly businesses. Some of the labels that are aimed at helping such people include “LGBTQ friendly” and “Transgender safespace.”

“As we celebrate Pride, it’s important to remember visibility and representation are critical, all year round. A flag in the window of a small business has the power to bring queer folks together, to celebrate our joy, honor our history, and fight for our diverse community,” Mackenzie Thomas, product & marketing inclusion lead at Google wrote in a blog post.

Google has not specified when or whether the new LGBTQ+ label will be available to businesses outside of the US — at least in markets where LGBTQ community is recognised.

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