Various products from Acer, Asus, MSI, Motorola Mobility and Lenovo may be banned from sale in the US.

The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has decided to launch an investigation into patent infringement by these companies. The lawsuit was filed by VideoLabs, which thematic resources call a patent troll.

VideoLabs claims that the PCs and other devices of the above companies infringe patents that belong to it. We are talking about four patents, three of which relate to video encoding methods, and another describes a way to play video on portable devices with automatic adjustment when the screen orientation changes.

VideoLabs was founded in 2018. It does not produce anything, but specializes only in the collection of patents from the field of video processing.

Patents must die, all of them.

Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, restricted access to the site for the distribution of creative works Patreon, follows from the register of the department to check the blocking of pages and resources in Russia.

Article 15.3 of the Law "On Information" is called the basis for entering into the register.

"This legislative norm regulates the procedure for restricting access to sites on the Internet that contain information calling for mass riots, extremist activities or participation in mass (public) events held in violation of the established procedure, unreliable publicly significant information disseminated under the guise of reliable messages ', according to the website of the registry.

Residents of the Netherlands, who have to sign a new energy contract, will pay almost 6,500 euros for gas and electricity annually.

This is more than 4,000 euros more than a year ago (160% more, or 2.6 times more), NU.nl said, based on data from the comparison site Gaslicht.com.

According to the comparison site, an annual contract for gas and electricity cost an average of 6,466 euros per year as of August 1st. This includes the VAT reduction that the Cabinet of Ministers has introduced to help bring down energy prices (that is, the net sum after deducting part of the VAT).

Last year it cost 2308 euros on the same day. The comparison is based on the average consumption of an average household.

Energy prices have been on the rise since May last year, but Russia's NWO in Ukraine has greatly accelerated this rise.

“Energy prices have been exceptionally high for seven months. The longer they stay high, the more people will have to deal with it,” said Gaslicht.com founder Ben Waldring.

People with fixed energy contracts notice an increase when their contract needs to be renewed. People with variable rates see this when energy companies raise their prices.

"Wholesale electricity prices are now 8-10 times higher than usual. Last year, 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity cost 20 euro cents, and now it is from 50 to 70 cents. For gas, it was 80 cents per cubic meter, and these rates are already rising from 2.50 to 3 euros per cubic meter,” Waldring said.

On Thursday, Statistics Netherlands reported that inflation in the Netherlands topped 10% for the first time since 1975 in July, largely due to high energy prices.

From February to July 2021, IPO volume amounted to 89 billion, and in 2020 - 29.5 billion. This is the worst half-year in the modern history of the market.

IPO statistics have been tracked since 1988, this has never happened before, when compared with the capacity of the financial system and the capitalization of companies. From 2000 to 2007, the volume of primary and secondary placements averaged 1.35% of market capitalization, from 2010 to 2019 already 1%, and every year the ratio fell, reaching 0.63% in 2019.

In 2020 and 2021, there was an IPO/SPO boom of $390 billion and $437 billion, respectively, which is almost twice as high as in 2015-2019 (224 billion), but this was only 1% and 0.8% of capitalization, because. the market has not grown adequately.

In 2022 (Jan-July) IPO and SPO is 57.7 billion compared to 284 billion in 2021 and 213 billion in 2020, which is 3-4 times lower than the norm.

From January on average, families with many children will have to pay about £742 per month for gas and electricity, compared to £246 in January 2022. At the same time, every Briton with an average annual income will spend about 12% of his salary next year on electricity at an average consumption. And those who live in a separate house, which means they spend a lot of electricity, will give about 17% of their income to pay for it. Those who spend a lot of electricity but have a low income will be forced to spend about 37% of their earnings.

Bills are expected to rise sharply after tariff changes in October and then again in January. This is happening against the backdrop of continued increases in food prices, basic necessities and gasoline, as well as rising mortgage rates.

As recalled by the publication, the marginal price of electricity limits how much suppliers can charge consumers at a standard rate. The UK Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (Ofgem) sets a tariff every six months, taking into account changes in wholesale gas and electricity prices, from October this period will be reduced to four months.

The previous rise in prices came in April. Then the annual electricity bill increased by £700. However, since this coincided with a summer heating shutdown, the British will not fully feel the rise in prices until October. According to energy consultancy BFY, the price cap will rise by £1,269 to £3,240 in October and rise to £3,850 in January. Whereas in January of this year the limit price was £1277.

However, British politicians are trying to find ways to protect consumers. Contender Party leadership contenders Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have vowed to cut VAT on electricity bills or eliminate taxes on green energy. The measures will be in addition to those already announced, such as £400 support for low-income families to pay their electricity bills. However, critics argue that all this is not enough to support the British amid a crisis in the cost of living.

“It is clear that urgent action is needed to get everyone through this winter. Consumers are in for an extremely difficult winter, and the latest forecasts for the upcoming electricity price cap only bring more bad news,” warned Uswitch expert Richard Neudegg.

The Financial Responsibility Office predicts that household incomes in the UK will fall at the fastest pace on record this year, writes The Times.

A year ago, DeepMind caused a stir with the announcement of the ability to solve the main mystery in biology - to predict the structure of any protein. At the same time, DeepMind created an open database with data on 350 thousand proteins, the shape of which was predicted by the AlphaFold package. Today, the company announced the discovery of the forms of almost every protein known to terrestrial science - more than 200 million proteins from all spheres of life known on Earth. This is a real revolution in biology.

Knowledge of the spatial shape of a protein can help find the perfect cure for diseases and make many other discoveries in biology. Before the advent of AI algorithms, scientists experimentally determined the shape of proteins, which is very, very difficult and time consuming. The algorithm proposed by DeepMind determines the spatial shape of one protein from 10 to 20 seconds. Thanks to this, the company was able to bring the database of spatial forms of proteins from 350 thousand to more than 200 million in a year.

It should be clarified that predicting the shape of a protein does not mean being 100% accurate. However, AlphaFold showed significant accuracy in determining shapes, which is enough to get started. All the routine work was done by a computer, and it took all the scientists of the world before that 50 years to unravel about only 10% of protein structures.

https://www.science.org/content/article/new-era-digital-biology-ai-reveals-structures-nearly-all-known-proteins