Month: June 2024
Spotify subscriptions
The audio streaming company just announced in a blog post that it’s hiking its subscription prices next month, about a year after its last price increase. The price for a Premium Individual subscription will increase from $10.99 to $11.99 a month. Its Duo plan will have an even bigger jump from $14.99 to $16.99 a
Netanyahu Political Future
Netanyahu is confronting the choice between his government’s survival and a hostage deal at a time when his political fortunes have begun to improve. For the first time this year, Netanyahu edged out his chief political rival Benny Gantz as the preferred choice for prime minister for Israelis. The improvement in Netanyahu’s political standing coincided
Attack on Crimea Bridge
Russia stopped using the Kerch Bridge, which links Russia to occupied Crimea via rail and road, to transport military hardware sometime between February and mid-April, Instead Russia has upgraded a railway route that stretches from the Russian city of Rostov, along the Azov Sea, passing through the occupied Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Berdiansk, and
Donald Trump on TikTok
Mr Trump, who has amassed more than 3.6 million followers since launching his account on Saturday, said he will use “every tool available to speak directly with the American people”. In 2020 he signed a presidential executive order attempting to ban the platform for its links to China, which was ultimately blocked by US courts.
war against malaria
Two new vaccines have been developed and are giving hope on the fight against Malaria. The first, rts,s/as01, has been tried on nearly 2m children in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi since 2019, and is being used in seven more countries this year. The second, r21/Matrix-m, which is being made in larger volumes at less than
New Generation Supersonic Jets
The Concorde, the world’s only commercial supersonic jet, was the big, clunky plastic phone that the very wealthy first had in their cars, while the new breed of supersonic jet is a flip phone with a keyboard that, according to supersonic’s believers, will eventually morph into the sleek, multifunction supercomputer that has become so affordable
Starliner launch
ULA is using a specialized version of #AtlasV to launch #Starliner. It is distinguished by two side-mounted solid-fuel boosters, a Dual Engine Centaur upper stage and a Launch Vehicle Adapter with aeroskirt. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will take flight aboard the Starliner capsule. After reaching low-Earth orbit, they are expected to dock
Windows suddenly crashing
Microsoft rolled out a surprise update to Windows 11 with the designation KB5037853. This update — optional for now, but expected to be rolled out of all users next Patch Tuesday introduced a heaping helping of handy new quality-of-life features. Unfortunately, many users have also experienced various problems with the Taskbar after installing the update.
The Nuclear war threat
Russia has been using staging locations just across the border to enable its attacks against Ukraine and Biden has given Ukraine the go-ahead to use American weaponry to hit back at Russian forces hitting them or preparing to hit them. Germany has also backed the move.A senior ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia