Month: September 2022
China Moon Missions
China is planning three new missions to the Moon after discovering a mineral in lunar samples that could be used as an energy source. China already has an ambitious space program that rivals the goal of Nasa of returning humans to the surface of the Moon. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corpporation performed a
ByteDance buys chain of VIP birth centres
ByteDance is joining the ranks of fellow tech companies like Amazon and Apple by pushing into the healthcare space, raising questions about health ethics and market consolidation. The parent company of TikTok is becoming part of a hot new trend, though this one doesn’t involve the video-sharing app’s signature dance challenges and addictive videos. The
More water in the Alien world
Water being a critical ingredient for life as, the finding that many more exoplanets than once thought might contain large amounts of water could affect how likely it is that alien life might exist on other worlds. More planets outside our Solar system may contain water than scientists previously thought, New research looking into the
The new iOS 16 iPhone update
Apple has released iOS 16, the latest update for the iPhone. iOS 16 makes massive changes to the iPhone lock screen, giving users more widgets and exciting customisation options. The new operating system brings with it a range of changes, mostly focused on personalisation, from redesigned notifications to the ability to delete and edit messages.
Nigeria’s failed Oil economy
A surge in oil prices can work miracle for a country’s economy but the net effect of the high oil price for the country that is usually Africa’s biggest oil producer is “nil or negative”. Africa’s most populous country, around 220m-strong, desperately needs the money an oil boom could bring. Some 40% of its people
Germany deindustrialisation
By weaponising the natural gas on which Germany’s mighty industrial base relies, the Russian president is eating away at the world’s fourth-biggest economy and its third-biggest exporter of goods and at the same time, Germany’s largest trading partner, China, which bought €100bn ($101bn) of Germany’s goods last year, including cars, medical equipment and chemicals, is
Modern slavery
The United Nations’s labour organisation is keen to stress that slavery is not confined to poor countries far away from the Western world – more than half of all forced labour happens in wealthier countries in the upper-middle or high-income bracket. The Covid-19 pandemic, for example, caused major disruption to people’s income, leading to more
Iran Nuclear power deal
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said joint action should be taken to prevent Iran gaining nuclear weapons, saying that it would be wrong to try to revive a landmark 2015 agreement on curbing Tehran’s nuclear program. Talks to revive the agreement, under which Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting
Russia revenge in Ukraine
Russia has attacked power stations and other critical infrastructure in Ukraine, plunging cities and towns into darkness, in response to a swift counteroffensive by Kyiv’s forces that has driven Moscow’s troops out of swathes of territory. The bombardment ignited a massive fire at a power station on the western outskirts of Kharkiv, killing at least
Meta to roll out new paid feature on Facebook and Instagram
The social media giant has been facing consistent pressure from short video app TikTok and is adjusting its ads business in response to privacy controls introduced by Apple last year. Meta is reportedly building a new team to develop “possible paid features” across its platforms. The move by Meta comes following the first-ever drop in