Month: May 2022
iPod to be Discontinued
The iPod Touch was designed by the same team that later invented the iPhone, which quickly overshadowed the iPod. When the first iPod was launched in 2001, it could store 1,000 tracks. Today there are more than 90 million songs on Apple’s streaming service. Apple has announced it is discontinuing its music player, the iPod
Sustaining long time war in Ukraine
The Russians may have occupied or blockaded his country’s main ports and forced the shutdown of most of its businesses, but Ukraine’s finance minister radiates calm. “The situation is very difficult, I am not going to minimise that,” he says over a latte in a slick café near his ministry. “But we can manage it.”
Inflation in America
Americans believe inflation is a bigger problem for their country than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But America is not alone. Inflation is also becoming baked into everyday life in other parts of the world. Inflation dominates the American popular psyche to an extent not seen since the 1980s, when prices were last rising at the
Russian gas stopped through Ukraine
Ukraine’s gas pipeline operator on Wednesday shut down the flow of Russian gas through a key transit point in the east of the country which is currently occupied by Russian troops, in a move that could partially disrupt supplies to Western Europe. The Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine stopped accepting incoming Russian gas through
WHO Chief Censorship in China
China’s internet censors have targeted the head of the World Health Organization after he questioned the viability of the country’s zero-Covid policy on Tuesday, removing social media posts referencing the comments as Beijing doubles down on the controversial approach despite mounting public frustration and economic damage. Posts featuring WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus have
ghost dom
Efforts to stop sanctioned Russian money flowing into the UK are being hampered by a tax loophole that allows the wealthy to withhold details of their assets or income from authorities. The provision – dubbed “ghost dom” enables someone to claim both non-domicile status and that they have no UK income. It was impossible to
AI Fantansy football
In recent years, managers have been able to turn to a number of providers of fantasy football artificial intelligence (AI) software programs. These programs do the studying for you, and suggest the best footballers for you to bring in. Its self-learning software trawls through all the mass of data surrounding each and every Premier League
X marks twitter growth plan
Elon Musk aims to increase Twitter’s revenue fivefold to $26.4bn (£21.4bn) by 2028, Plans to launch a new service called X are also revealed in the report, with an aim of nine million subscribers in its first year and 104 million by 2028. Mr Musk hopes the number of Twitter users will rise from more
Smart Socks for dementia
A university PhD student has invented ‘smart socks’ which sense when people with dementia and autism are in distress. The socks, which track heart rate, sweat levels and motion, enable carers to intervene before things escalate. Current alternatives are worn on wrist straps, which have been found to stigmatise patients or even cause more anxiety.
boycotts of e-commerce giant Lazada
Thailand has strict laws over defaming, insulting or threatening senior members of the royal family. Thailand’s army has boycotted online retailer Lazada over an advert that the government is probing for allegedly insulting the country’s royal family. Royalists said the advert, which featured a woman in a wheelchair, mocked the younger sister of King Vajiralongkorn,