Category: News Home
Some Twitter accounts to lose their blue badge
The legacy blue badges were obtained through the old, free procedure that only required the interested user to request verification and meet a series of requirements. Twitter incorporated the blue badge in the Twitter Blue subscription, so that whoever wanted to have it only had to pay for it, although they also had to meet
Johnson & Johnson powder banned in Tanzania
The Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) said yesterday that it was banning the importation, distribution and sale of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Baby Powder that contain the talc ingredient. it come almost two weeks after the standards body announced that it was investigating the possibility of the presence in the market of baby powder manufactured
Russia targets Kyiv
Russia has targeted the Ukrainian capital with Iranian Shahed drones for the first time in almost a month, Ukrainian authorities said there were also drone attacks on two other places in central western Vinnytsia and the central Poltava region targeting critical and civilian infrastructure. The United States will begin training about 250 Ukrainian troops on
Jens Stoltenberg Visits Kyviv
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg made a surprise visit to Kyiv, Stoltenberg paid his respects to soldiers who had died fighting Russian forces and inspected Russian military equipment that is on display in a central square in Kyiv. Kyiv launched a bid to join the alliance a prospect that was seen as being one of the
The historic relationships between Russia and Iran
The Iranian Revolution deposed a monarchy headed by Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, friendly to Western powers such as France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown in 1953 with the blessing of US and British intelligence for fears of nationalizing the local oil industry. The Soviet-Iranian friendship didn’t
Tesla price fluctuation
Tesla has rapidly increased its output, production has outstripped deliveries, stoking speculation that demand may be weaker than it had hoped. The car company led by billionaire Elon Musk is grappling with the impact of increased competition and higher borrowing costs on buyers and now it has no plans to stabilise the prices of its
Seagate penalized by the US government for hard disk exports
US authorities have imposed a $300m (£241m) penalty on tech firm Seagate for allegedly violating export controls of hard disk drives to China’s Huawei. The penalty is the latest move by the US government to stop sales of sophisticated technology to China. The penalty will be paid in instalments of $15m every three months for
SpaceX Starship Explodes
A large explosion then ripped across the blue sky, presumably the result of computers triggering Starship’s Flight Termination System. Elon Musk’s SpaceX company’s mammoth new rocket, Starship, has exploded on its maiden flight. No-one was hurt in the uncrewed test that lifted off from Texas’ east coast on Thursday morning local time. Mr Musk has
Kai Cenat banned from Twitch
Cenat became one of the biggest names in streaming when he broke the subscription records previously set by Ludwig and Ninja, in March. Twitch users can follow their favourite streamers and creators for free or support them by subscribing or gifting subscriptions to other viewers. The Amazon-owned video-streaming platform Twitch has banned one of its
Twitter boss to sue Microsoft over data
Since buying Twitter for $44bn (£35.4bn) in October, Mr Musk has cut its workforce by around 80% and moved to boost the company’s finances through measures including charging users for “blue tick” verification. Twitter boss Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft as he accused the technology giant of using data from his social media