Elon Musk disputes allegations that he had a relationship with Sergey Brin's wife, a co-founder of Google.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Elon Musk allegedly ended a long-standing friendship with Google co-founder Sergey Brin after having an affair with his wife, Nicole Shanahan. The couple filed for divorce early this year, according to sources familiar with the matter, citing "irreconcilable disagreements." However, Musk has since denied both the claimed romance and that he is still friends with Brin, asserting that the news is entirely based on "third-party random hearsay."

Musk and Shanahan are said to have started dating after Musk broke up with Claire Boucher, widely known as Grimes, at the prestigious Art Basel event in Miami. According to sources, Brin and Shanahan were still cohabitating at the time even though they were no longer married.

According to reports, the couple's relationship was stressed by problems involving the COVID-19 lockdowns and their three-year-old daughter.

Musk responded to the news through Twitter after it was released, labelling it "complete bs." Sergey and I are pals, and last night we attended a party together, claims Musk. In three years, Nicole and I have only met twice, and both times, there were many of other people present. Nothing sentimental the wealthy executive said, "Haven't even had sex in ages (sigh)," in response.

Even as the richest man in the world tries to back out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, Musk's personal life and business are inextricably linked. According to an Insider article from earlier this month, Musk and Shivon Zillis, a senior executive at his company Neuralink and a former Tesla worker, had twins. The twins arrived just a few weeks before Musk and Boucher's second child, who made Musk the father of nine children overall, was born via surrogate.

A former SpaceX flight attendant claimed in May that the firm had paid her $250,000 to stay quiet about a Musk-related incident. Musk allegedly exposed himself to the woman, asked for a massage from her, and then asked her out on a date.

As for Brin, Heather Cairns, the human resources manager at Google, once referred to him as "the Google playboy" because of his sexual relationships with staff members. Brin's romance with Google Glass marketing manager Amanda Rosenberg, which took place while he was still married to 23andMe co-creator Anne Wojcicki and she was dating another Google executive, was described in a 2014 Vanity Fair article. Brin and Wojcicki split in 2015, and in 2018, Brin secretly wed Shanahan. According to the WSJ, Shanahan is reportedly asking for a portion of Brin's approximately $100 billion fortune worth over $1 billion as part of the divorce settlement.

The report goes into depth about how close friends Brin and Musk had become. During the 2008 financial crisis, Brin donated $500,000 to Musk's Tesla, and in 2015, Musk gave back by making Brin one of the first people to purchase a Model X. According to sources, Musk went so far as to ask Brin for forgiveness at a party earlier this year, getting down on one knee. According to the story, Brin has instructed advisers to liquidate his personal holdings in Musk's companies and the two still don't speak much.

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PTI Govt raises the profit rates on saving certificates in Pakistan

The federal authorities has accelerated the charge of earnings in a range of 12-96 foundation factors on numerous countrywide saving certificate partially to draw better investment in the authorities papers and in part to skip on gain of upward thrust in returns from pakistan funding bonds (pibs).

The significant directorate of country wide financial savings (cdns), which operates beneath the ambit of the finance ministry, reinvests the price range received from retail investors into three to 10-year pibs.

So far, the cdns has mobilised a meagre funding of rs28.Sixty eight billion in the first five months (jul-nov) of the modern-day financial year compared to rs371 billion within the previous full economic 12 months 2020, in step with the country bank of pakistan.

Human beings have seemingly invested low quantity within the saving scheme due to downward trend in the rate since march 2020 and they desired to maintain cash in hand to address any untoward scenario during the covid-19 pandemic.

Furthermore, the government has discontinued prize bond of denomination of rs40,000 every and rs25,000 every. Human beings were encashing the banned bond. This has partially offset boom in investment in the countrywide saving certificate.

“profit quotes on countrywide saving schemes certificates revised upwards via 12-96 basis factors. Maximum increase turned into witnessed in behbood and normal earnings certificates by 96 foundation points every to eleven.28% and nine.00%, respectively,” the studies house arif habib limited (ahl) referred to cdns reporting this.

Except, the annualised price of income on defence saving certificates (dsc) has been improved by 75 foundation points to 9.24%. The charge of return on special financial savings certificates (ssc) revised up by using 20 foundation factors to 7.Eighty%. And the income charge on short term saving certificates (stsc) up via 12 basis factors to six.Ninety two%.

The brand new buyers would acquire profit as in step with the new prices.

Cdns is coping with investment portfolio of round seven million character and institutional buyers. The government has, however, recently banned funding through establishments within the saving money owed and certificate.

The authorities utilises the investment attracted through the national saving debts and certificates to bridge its budgetary deficit. 

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Open Neural Network Exchange format (ONNX) - 2018 - HetroWeb Blog

Open Neural Network Exchange format (ONNX) - 2018 - HetroWeb Blog

In September, we released an early version of the Open Neural Network Exchange format (ONNX) with a call to the community to join us and help create an open, flexible standard to enable deep learning frameworks and tools to interoperate. Today Facebook, AWS, and Microsoft are excited to announce that with the support of the community and new partners the first version of ONNX is now production-ready.

With ONNX, we are working to create an AI ecosystem that gives developers the freedom to innovate by providing the ability to combine tools and easy transfer models. We have been excited to see the immediate response the community and industry have given to this vision. Since launch, AMD, ARM, IBM, Intel, Huawei, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm have all announced support for ONNX, and many others in the community have contributed to the project.

Support for ONNX is available now in many top frameworks and runtimes including Caffe2, Microsoft's Cognitive Toolkit, Apache MXNet, PyTorch and NVIDIA's TensorRT. We also have community contributed converters for other projects such as TensorFlow. The current version of ONNX is designed to work for most vision applications. For future versions, we are working together with the ONNX partners and community to expand ONNX to represent scenarios beyond vision, including more dynamic models that occur in areas like language modeling. We hope others will get involved, contribute and help grow the ONNX ecosystem.

To learn more, check out Github or our ONNX Website.

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Ivanka Trump wears 'inappropriate' mini skirt at official event

Ivanka Trump wears 'inappropriate' mini skirt at official event

Ivanka Trump loves an eye-catching outfit, but her latest fashion choice is raising eyebrows for not-so-positive reasons.

The daughter of US President Donald Trump attended the World Assembly for Women in Tokyo on Friday, where she was introduced by Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The 36-year-old, who has a fashion line of her own, wore a bright pink Miu Miu crepe jacket and matching miniskirt.

Ivanka’s mid-thigh hemline quickly drew the attention of social media users, who questioned whether it was an appropriate choice for such an official occasion.

“I'm no prude, but that skirt is awfully short for the circumstances,” one tweeted, while another added it was too short for a meeting with a world leader.

“Not an outfit worn by a serious professional woman. However, it is suitable for a 13 year old to wear to a bar mitzvah,” another wrote.

This isn’t the first time the mother of three’s official sartorial choices have attracted scrutiny.

For her father’s first address to Congress in March, Ivanka wore an off-the-shoulder gown valued at almost $4000.

The burgandy dress, by French designer Roland Mouret, was criticised on several counts.

Some viewers took issue with the cocktail design, which they deemed inappropriate for an event as momentous as the State of the Union address.

“Show respect for the institutions of our democracy. Your dress is fine for cocktails but not for a joint session of Congress,” one person tweeted.
Others suggested the gown’s black strap resembled an exposed bra strap.

Ivanka’s decision to wear a French designer rather than an American one also drew ire.

First Lady Melania Trump has drawn her share of fashion-related criticism, too.

Most recently, she was mocked for wearing a pair of high stiletto heels while visiting Texas with President Trump after widespread flooding in August.

"Help is on the way, Texas! Don't worry, Melania has her special storm stilettos," television writer-producer Brad Wollack quipped on twitter.

"Melania over here looking like Flood Watch Barbie," writer Maria Del Russo added.

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News: Why Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are Blocked and not working in Pakistan

After putting off-air the News channels, the government of Pakistan has apparently ordered ISPs to block Facebook, Twitter and Facebook in Pakistan.

Reports are confirming that Facebook and other social media websites are not accessible on desktop and mobile browsers.

However, these websites can be accessed through mobile apps for now.

While we don’t have confirmations, a number of users in Pakistan are reporting that Facebook and some other social media websites are not accessible for them.


Not to mention, government of Pakistan took severe decisions after its operation against protesters in Faizabad backfired and protests erupted across the country.

Currently the Facebook and other social media websites are not accessible on major ISPs in Pakistan but we are still in process of arranging an official confirmation on the ban of Facebook in Pakistan.

Update:

ARY News is claiming that Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are ordered to be blocked in Pakistan.

This is a developing story

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