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Beijing closed some public spaces and stepped up checks at others on Thursday, as most of the Chinese capital's 22 million residents turned up for more mass COVID-19 testing aimed at averting a Shanghai-like lockdown. Most people in the commercial hub were one month into stressful home isolation, struggling to meet basic needs. But there was hope on the horizon as the number of new cases declined further and officials said their focus was shifting towards boosting vaccinations among the elderly. Fears were growing, however, that China would be trapped in a whack-a-mole game in coming months, lifting lockdowns in some places, while imposing others elsewhere, causing severe economic damage and exasperating its population. As Beijing rolled out three rounds of mass testing this week across most of the city, it locked down a number of residential compounds, offices and a university. Some schools, entertainment venues and tourist sites were also shut. Andrew Ward, 36, a Canadian l...

Tesla lost $126 billion in value on Tuesday amid investor concerns that Chief Executive Elon Musk may have to sell shares to fund his $21 billion equity contribution to his $44 billion buyout of Twitter. Tesla is not involved in the Twitter deal, yet its shares have been targeted by speculators after Musk declined to disclose publicly where his cash for the acquisition is coming from. The 12.2% drop in Tesla's shares on Tuesday equated to a $21 billion drop in the value of his Tesla stake, the same as the $21 billion in cash he committed to the Twitter deal. Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives said that worries about upcoming stock sales by Musk and the possibility that he is becoming distracted by Twitter weighed on Tesla shares. "This (is) causing a bear festival on the name," he said. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment. To be sure, Tesla's share plunge came against a challenging backdrop for many technology-related stocks. The Nasda...

Twitter has confirmed that the fluctuation in follower count followed by being sold to Elon Musk was organic in nature, Tech Crunch reported. Twitter said that these changes were not being caused by any bots or any other action by the microblogging platform. The fluctuation was due to people creating and deactivating accounts. "We’ve been looking into recent fluctuations in follower counts,” Twitter said in a statement. “While we continue to take action on accounts that violate our spam policy, which can affect follower counts, these fluctuations appear to largely be a result of an increase in new account creation and deactivation. We’ll continue looking into these follower count fluctuations.” Many high-profile cases have come forward, with some celebrities showing a drop in followers. Former US President Barack Obama lost more than 300,000 followers in the process. Popular musician Katy Perry reported losing over 200,000 followers after the announcement. Before the announ...

Sometimes it feels like it’s Elon Musk’s world and we just live in it. The endlessly innovative, endlessly eccentric billionaire has struck a deal to buy Twitter -- giving him control of the social media network on which the world debates, mobilizes and bickers. It is just the latest conquest for Musk, who has revolutionized the car industry, sent his own rocket to space, built the world’s biggest fortune -- and created fountains of moral outrage and celebrity gossip along the way. Musk, 50, last year became the world’s richest person -- taking the title from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos -- following the meteoric rise of Tesla, his electric automaker founded in 2003. His takeover of Twitter caps a rollercoaster of announcements and counter-announcements -- which he characteristically punctuated by gleefully firing jabs at the company on its own platform. And Musk’s new guise as a social media overlord will fuel controversy over his political views, business methods and outsized personalit...

Twitter Inc is nearing a deal to sell itself to Elon Musk for $54.20 per share in cash, the price that he originally offered to the social media company and called his 'best and final', people familiar with the matter said. Twitter may announce the $43 billion deal later on Monday once its board has met to recommend the transaction to Twitter shareholders, the sources said. It is always possible that the deal collapses at the last minute, the sources added. Twitter has not been able to secure so far a 'go-shop' provision under its agreement with Musk that would allow it to solicit other bids from potential acquirers once the deal is signed, the sources said. Still, Twitter would be allowed to accept an offer from another party by paying Musk a break-up fee, the sources added. Twitter and Musk did not immediately respond to requests for comment. admin.web@suchtv.pk (Web Desk) from Science & Technology - SUCH TV https://ift.tt/8u7GoaJ https://ift.tt/EiPvxQZ

The Taliban ordered a ban against video-sharing app TikTok and the survival-shooter PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) game on Thursday, insisting they were leading Afghanistan's youth astray. The phone apps are popular among Afghans, who have been left with few outlets for entertainment since the group returned to power last year and banned music, movies, and television soaps. The apps "made the young generation go astray", the cabinet said in a statement, adding the telecommunications ministry had been ordered to shut them down. It also directed the ministry to stop TV channels from showing "immoral material", although little is being broadcast beyond news and religious content. Despite promising a softer version of the rule that characterised their first stint in power from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban have slowly introduced suffocating restrictions on social life — particularly for women. Most secondary schools for girls remain shuttered, and wome...

Self-driving tech company Pony.ai, backed by Toyota Motor Corp(7203.T), said on Sunday it has obtained a taxi license in China, which will allow some of its driverless vehicles to start charging fares. The company said it was the first autonomous driving company in the country to do so. The startup said it was awarded the license to operate 100 driverless vehicles in the Guangzhou city district of Nansha. Read more:  EU sets new online rules for Google, Meta to curb illegal content Pony.ai last year also won approval to launch paid driverless robotaxi services in Beijing and has since begun offering rides. In Beijing, however, rides are being offered in a much smaller, industrial zone on a trial basis, a Pony.ai spokesperson said. According to the company’s statement, in Nansha it will start charging fares in the entire 800 square km of the district with driverless cars. Passengers can hail and pay for rides with Pony.ai’s own app. Pony.ai will initially deploy those c...

Alphabet unit Google, Meta and other large online platforms will have to do more to tackle illegal content or risk hefty fines under new internet rules agreed between European Union countries and EU lawmakers on Saturday. The agreement came after more than 16 hours of negotiations. The Digital Services Act (DSA) is the second prong of EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager's strategy to rein in Alphabet unit Google, Meta and other US tech giants. Last month, she won backing from the 27-country bloc and lawmakers for landmark rules called the Digital Markets Act (DMA) that could force Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft to change their core business practices in Europe.  "We have a deal on the DSA: The Digital Services Act will make sure that what is illegal offline is also seen and dealt with as illegal online - not as a slogan, as reality," Vestager said in a tweet. EU lawmaker Dita Charanzova, who had called for such rules eight years ago, welc...

Twitter on Friday banned ads that deny the reality of climate change. Twitter’s announcement on Earth Day came as it tries to fend off an unwanted takeover bid by billionaire Elon Musk, who has said he thinks people should be able to say pretty much whatever they want on the platform. "Misleading advertisements on Twitter that contradict the scientific consensus on climate change are prohibited, in line with our inappropriate content policy," Twitter global sustainability manager Casey Junod said in a blog post. Read more:  Twitter adopts ‘poison pill’ to fight takeover by Musk "We believe that climate denialism shouldn’t be monetized on Twitter, and that misrepresentative ads shouldn’t detract from important conversations about the climate crisis." Twitter last year introduced a Topic feature to help users find conversations about climate change, and rolled out hubs of "credible, authoritative" information on an array of high-profile topics includin...

Tech giant Apple is likely planning to unveil its upcoming iPhone 14 series with upgraded front-facing camera with autofocus. According to GizmoChina, details about the front-facing camera of the Apple iPhone 14 series models have leaked online as analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has revealed what improvements will be made to the front camera of the devices. Read more:  Twitter adopts ‘poison pill’ to fight takeover by Musk As per the new report, all four models—iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Max, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max will have an upgraded front-facing camera sensor with f/1.9 aperture and support for autofocus. In comparison, all the models in the current-generation Apple iPhone 13 series come with a front-facing camera sensor having an f/2.2 aperture and fixed focus. With a wider aperture, the smartphones will be able to capture more light. It is also said that the camera upgrades will result in an improved depth-of-field effect for the Portrait Mode photos and videos. On the o...

Twitter Inc on Friday adopted a limited-duration shareholder rights plan to protect itself from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s $43 billion cash takeover offer. Musk made the bid on Wednesday in a letter to the board of Twitter — the micro-blogging platform that has become a global means of communication for individuals and world leaders — and it was made public in a regulatory filing on Thursday. After his TED talk on Thursday, Musk hinted at the possibility of a hostile bid in which he would bypass Twitter’s board and put the offer directly to its shareholders, tweeting: “It would be utterly indefensible not to put this offer to a shareholder vote.” Under the plan, also known as a ‘poison pill’ strategy to resist a bid from a potential acquirer, the rights will become exercisable if anyone acquires ownership of 15 per cent or more of Twitter’s outstanding common stock in a transaction not approved by the Board. The rights plan will expire on April 14, 2023, Twitter said. A...

An unexpectedly sharp drop in subscribers has Netflix considering changes it has long resisted: Minimizing password sharing and creating a low-cost subscription supported by advertising. Looming changes announced late Tuesday are designed to help Netflix regain momentum lost over the past year. Pandemic-driven lockdowns that drove binge-watching have lifted, while deep-pocketed rivals such as Apple and Walt Disney have begun to chip away at its vast audience with their own streaming services. Read more:  Scientists: Water on Jupiter's moon closer to surface than thought Netflix’s customer base fell by 200,000 subscribers during the January-March quarter, the first contraction the streaming service has seen since it became available throughout most of the world other than China six years ago. The drop stemmed in part from Netflix’s decision to withdraw from Russia to protest the war against Ukraine, resulting in a loss of 700,000 subscribers. Netflix projected a loss of another...

US President Joe Biden's administration said on Tuesday it would appeal a judge's ruling ending a mask mandate on aeroplanes if public health officials deem it necessary to stem the spread of COVID-19. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to whom the administration was deferring, said that it would continue to study whether the mandates were still needed. The mandates apply to planes, trains and other public transportation and, prior to Monday's ruling, had been due to expire on May 3. "We will continue to assess the need for a mask requirement in those settings, based on several factors, including the US COVID-19 community levels, risk of circulating and novel variants, and trends in cases and disease severity," a CDC spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday. The Justice Department said it would appeal Monday's ruling by US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle that the 14-month-old directive was unlawful, if the CDC determined the mandate was...

Ridges that criss-cross the icy surface of Jupiter s moon Europa indicate there are shallow pockets of water beneath, boosting hopes in the search for extra-terrestrial life, scientists said Tuesday. Europa has long been a candidate for finding life in our solar system due to its vast ocean, which is widely thought to contain liquid water -- a key ingredient for life. Read more:  New WhatsApp feature for all countries under development There is a problem: the ocean is predicted to be buried 25-30 kilometres (15-17 miles) beneath the moon s icy shell. However water could be closer to the surface than previously thought, according to new research published in the journal Nature Communications. The finding came partly by chance, when geophysicists studying an ice sheet in Greenland watched a presentation about Europa and spotted a feature they recognised. "We were working on something totally different related to climate change and its impact on the surface of Greenland when ...

Meta-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp is rolling out the ability to change the app language for some beta testers, WABetainfo reported Tuesday. According to the news tracker, a few days ago, WhatsApp released the new WhatsApp beta for Android 2.22.9.13 update, bringing the ability to certain beta testers to use this feature, and the new 2.22.10.2 beta update helps more users receive the same feature. Under the new feature, some beta testers can now change the app language by going on WhatsApp Settings > App language. “A similar feature was already available in certain countries (for example, India) and it was available in WhatsApp Settings > Chats,” it noted, adding that WhatsApp is now releasing the feature regardless of your country and with a new user interface. admin.web@suchtv.pk (Web Desk) from Science & Technology - SUCH TV https://ift.tt/LwNbiJy https://ift.tt/BIm9Plv

Elon Musk took a swipe at the board of Twitter on Monday after the social media company adopted a "poison pill" to protect itself from the second-biggest shareholder’s $43 billion cash buyout offer. "Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year saved right there," Musk tweeted in response to a user’s post criticizing the board. Read more:  NASA to roll back mega rocket after failing to complete countdown test Musk, a self-described "free speech absolutist" who has been critical of Twitter’s policies, did not elaborate on the tweet. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Continuing his tirade against the company, Musk had launched a poll on Thursday asking his 80 million followers if "taking Twitter private at $54.20 should be up to shareholders, not the board", to which a large majority responded "Yes". Later, the Tesla (TSLA.O) chief executive also tweeted "Love Me Tender", an ...

After three attempts to complete a critical fueling test of the Space Launch System rocket, NASA has decided to take a break. On Saturday night the space agency announced plans to roll the large SLS rocket from the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center to the Vehicle Assembly Building in the coming days. This marks a notable step back for the program, which has tried since April 1 to complete a "wet dress rehearsal" test, during which the rocket is fueled and brought to within 10 seconds of launch. Read more:  iPhone14 may be Apple’s first pencil phone The decision comes after three tries during the last two weeks. Each fueling attempt was scuttled by one or more technical issues with the rocket, its mobile launch tower, or ground systems that supply propellants and gases. During the most recent attempt, on Thursday April 14, NASA succeeded in loading 49 percent of the core-stage liquid oxygen fuel tank and 5 percent of the liquid hydrogen tank. While this represents progr...

The rumours about Apple Pencil have been in the air for quite some time. Every time an iPhone is about to launch, leaks come up with such rumours. These rumours had especially intensified when iPhone 11 was launched. However, none of these features was seen in any of the phones. Tech Radar, therefore, says people have no reason to believe that rumours about Apple Pencil with iPhone 14 should be believed. There have been rumours about iPhone Flip as well. Due to the Samsung and Apple competition, leaks often spread false rumours. According to Tech Radar, Apple is inclined towards offering features that attract mainstream consumers. Examples of such features could be MagSafe and 5G. The 120Hz screen is yet another improvement that has been seen in iPhones. This is not to say that users' styli aren't useful. This is to say that if they were useful enough, they would have been introduced to the iPhone range. This is also because iPhone has four models only, meanwhile, Samsu...

A cranial reconstruction research team, Ancesteral Whispers, used facial recognition software to revive a skeleton model from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Sukalmakh, part of the research group, tweeted a picture of grumpy cave man that had been reconstructed from an ancient Atmoran specimen from Saarthal dating to the late Merethic Era. Atmora is a continent in the Elder Scrolls world and Saarthal is the ruined capital of Skyrim. Read more:  WhatsApp tests new feature to organize groups for work, school The Elder Scrolls is a series of action role-playing video games developed by Bethesda Game Studios, thus the 'Merethic era' is also an Elder Scrolls period of time. The tweet won praise from Bethesda developer, Jonah Lobe, who worked on Skyrim and had designed the skeleton, commented that the team had done an "awesome job with the reconstruction". He thought the 'intimidating' look with heavy brows and big teeth. Ancestral Whispers is an organisation th...

WhatsApp is testing a new feature called Communities to organize groups in larger structures that could be used by workplaces or schools, the messaging service owned by Meta Platforms FB.O said on Thursday. WhatsApp head Will Cathcart said the feature would bring together groups, which are capped at 256 users, under bigger umbrellas where administrators could send alerts to a community of thousands. Read more:  Elon Musk sued by shareholders over delay in disclosing Twitter stake "This is really oriented at the communities you re already a part of in your life that are doing private communication," said Cathcart in an interview with Reuters, citing Salesforce-owned CRM.N Slack or Microsoft Teams MSFT.O as comparable types of communication. He said there were no current plans to charge for the new feature, which is being beta tested with a small number of global communities, but did not rule out offering "premium features to enterprise" in the future. The mess...

Elon Musk was sued on Tuesday by former Twitter shareholders who claim they missed out on the recent run-up in its stock price because he waited too long to disclose a 9.2% stake in the social media company. In a proposed class action filed in Manhattan federal court, the shareholders said Musk, the chief executive of electric car company Tesla, made "materially false and misleading statements and omissions" by failing to reveal he had invested in Twitter by March 24 as required under federal law. Read more:  Twitter to test much-awaited feature Twitter shares rose 27% on April 4, to $49.97 from $39.31, after Musk disclosed his stake, which investors viewed as a vote of confidence from the world's richest person in San Francisco-based Twitter. Former shareholders led by Marc Rasella said the delayed disclosure let Musk buy more Twitter shares at lower prices, while defrauding them into selling at "artificially deflated" prices. A lawyer for Musk had no im...

Pakistan has reported no death in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the number of positive cases has risen to 1,526,829. The nationwide tally of fatalities stands at 30,362 on Wednesday. According to the latest figures by the National Institute of Health (NIH), at least 101 persons were tested positive for COVID-19 across the country in the past 24 hours. Read more:  Pakistan reports no corona death in the last 24 hours Pakistan has conducted 21,284 tests in the past 24 hours out of which 101 persons were tested positive for the disease. from Health - SUCH TV https://ift.tt/uZMkewG https://ift.tt/2JV5vOe admin.web@suchtv.pk (Web Desk) https://ift.tt/uZMkewG

A crypto platform’s pledge to amass $10 billion worth of bitcoin to back its own "stablecoin" is firing up the market. It’s part of a wider movement to crown bitcoin as the reserve currency of a new age. Seoul-based Terraform Labs has so far built up nearly 40,000 bitcoin worth $1.7 billion in a series of purchases via a non-profit affiliate, Luna Foundation Guard, according to publicly available blockchain data. Read more:  Rupee gains respite following ease in political turmoil The spree follows Terraform co-founder Do Kwon’s announcement on Twitter last month that the project would buy the $10 billion worth of bitcoin reserves to underpin TerraUSD, breaking ranks with other large stablecoins - a ballooning class of cryptocurrencies that aim to minimise wild price swings and are typically backed by U.S. dollar reserves. A stablecoin backed by bitcoin reserves, according to Kwon, "will open a new monetary era of the Bitcoin standard", referencing the gold sta...

Twitter Inc said it will begin testing a new edit feature in the coming months, surprising its users on the same day it said Tesla boss Elon Musk would join the social media company's board. Jay Sullivan, Twitter's head of consumer products, said in a tweet the company had been working since last year on building an edit option, "the most requested Twitter feature for many years". Read more:  Elon Musk's arrival stirs fears among some Twitter employees The news, first teased by Twitter on April Fools Day last week, comes as the company faces a broader change in direction with Musk becoming its largest shareholder and joining the board after questioning the social media platform's commitment to free speech. read more Musk began polling Twitter users about an edit button after disclosing his 9.2% stake in the company on Monday. Twitter Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal asked users to "vote carefully" on Monday, though the company on Tuesday ...

Apple (AAPL.O) faces an additional EU antitrust charge in the coming weeks in an investigation triggered by a complaint from Spotify (SPOT.N), a person familiar with the matter said, a sign that EU enforcers are strengthening their case against the U.S. company. The European Commission last year accused the iPhone maker of distorting competition in the music streaming market via restrictive rules for its App Store that force developers to use its own in-app payment system and prevent them from informing users of other purchasing options. Read more:  Musk polls followers on converting Twitter HQ to homeless shelter, Bezos likes idea Such requirements have also come under scrutiny in countries including the United States and Britain. Extra charges set out in a so-called supplementary statement of objections are usually issued to companies when the EU competition enforcer has gathered new evidence or has modified some elements to boost its case. The Commission declined to comme...

Two of the world’s richest people are pitching in ideas to tackle the issue of homelessness, suggesting that Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) convert its headquarters to a shelter home. Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) founder Jeff Bezos on Sunday backed an idea put forth by Elon Musk, who recently became Twitter’s largest shareholder, to convert the social networking firm’s San Francisco headquarters into a homeless shelter as few people are working there during the pandemic. Read more:  Hubble telescope spots the most distant star on record Bezos tweeted an article by technology-focused blog GeekWire from May 2020 about Amazon’s eight-floor family homeless shelter attached to its Seattle headquarters, saying the initiative worked out great and makes it easy for employees who wish to volunteer. Bezos also suggested converting at least a portion of Twitter’s headquarters, if not all of it, into a homeless shelter. Musk agreed in another tweet, calling it a "Great idea." Musk, who has more ...

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered the most distant individual star on record, a bright behemoth they nicknamed Earendel - Old English for "morning star" - because it existed during the dawn of the universe. Researchers said the star, very hot and blue in colour, was estimated at 50 to 100 times the mass of our sun while being millions of times brighter. Its light travelled for 12.9 billion years before reaching Earth, meaning that the star existed when the universe was just 7% of its current age. Read More:  In a First: Private mission readies for launch to ISS Earendel was born roughly 900 million years after the Big Bang event at the outset of the universe. It belonged to among the earliest generations of stars at a time when the universe was quite different than it is today. "This really opens up a new window into those early days of the universe," said astronomer Brian Welch of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, lead a...

Dr Palitha Gunarathna Mahipala, the country head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Pakistan, on Saturday handed over two ambulances, 10 motorcycle ambulances and other medical equipment to the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) health department. Appreciating the cooperation of the UN agency, Prime Minister Sardar Abdul Qayyum Niazi expressed the hope that the assistance would continue in future as well. On the premier’s request, Mr Mahipala pledged to provide two more ambulances to the AJK government. Earlier, Mr Mahipala also held a meeting with Mr Niazi during which both discussed various issues relating to mutual cooperation and wide-ranging reforms being introduced in the health sector of AJK. Mr Niazi informed the WHO representative that reforms in the region’s health sector were his government’s top priority and all measures and legislation were being taken in this regard. from Health - SUCH TV https://ift.tt/qnG3ojp https://ift.tt/Eteb45q admin.web@suchtv.pk (Web D...

Tesla welcomed throngs of electric car lovers to Texas Thursday for a huge party dubbed a "cyber rodeo" to inaugurate a manufacturing plant the size of 100 soccer fields. Photos and videos flooded Twitter as guests explored the cavernous factory plant decked out in a distinctive nightclub look. Read more:  In a First: Private mission readies for launch to ISS Visitors mingled under red and blue lights while production machinery and Tesla models were displayed like museum artwork. Outside, cars were parked in the pattern of the Texas flag. Bulldozers were still at work near the so-called "gigafactory," which signs indicated was constructed with more steel than New York City’s famed Empire State Building. "It’s the equivalent to three Pentagons," Tesla’s colorful but controversial founder and chief executive Elon Musk proudly told a cheering crowd inside the factory. "This is the most advanced car factory the Earth has ever seen; raw materials i...

The first fully private mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is set to blast off Friday with a four-member crew from startup company Axiom Space. The partnership has been hailed by Nasa, which sees it as a key step in its goal to commercialise the region of space known as “low Earth orbit,” leaving the agency to focus on more ambitious endeavours deeper into the cosmos. Takeoff is set for 11:17am (1517 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on a SpaceX rocket. Commanding the Axiom-1 mission will be former Nasa astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, a dual citizen of the United States and Spain. He is joined by three paying crewmates: American real estate investor Larry Connor, Canadian businessman Mark Pathy, and Israeli former fighter pilot and entrepreneur Eytan Stibbe. Read More:  Starlink loses its frequency authorizations in France The widely reported price for tickets — which includes eight days on the outpost — is $55 million. But unlike the recent, att...

US regulators are investigating whether e-commerce colossus Amazon used information from merchants using its platform to create its own products, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The Securities and Exchange Commission is asking for copies of emails and other communications by executives regarding how seller information was used by Amazon employees, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the situation. Read more:  Samsung sees Q1 profit up 50% on memory chip prices, weak won Neither the SEC nor Amazon responded to a request for comment. In a previous report, the newspaper cited former Amazon employees as saying the online retail titan used data of other sellers on its platform without their permission. Amazon gathered information about sales trends by third parties at its website to develop private-label products, the Journal reported. The House Judiciary Committee has been looking into Amazon’s practices since 2019, and has grilled founder Jeff Bezos a...

Samsung Electronics expects operating profits for the first quarter to rise 50.3 percent, the South Korean tech giant said in a statement Thursday, despite global supply chain woes. The world’s biggest smartphone maker forecast 2022 first-quarter operating profits of about 14.1 trillion won ($11.6 billion), up from 9.4 trillion won in the same quarter last year. Read more:  Starlink loses its frequency authorizations in France Samsung did not provide details on the performance of its various divisions. The company is expected to release its full results on April 28. Analysts said the forecast was likely driven by strong smartphone sales, but warned of an expected drop in profits in the memory chip division. "Price decline in memory chips will be contained on the back of stronger than expected demand," Kim Un-ho, an analyst at IBK Investment & Securities, said in a report. Profits in Samsung’s mobile business are expected to soar by 55.8 percent compared with Q4 to...

Starlink, the satellite internet service of tech billionaire Elon Musk, has lost its frequencies in France after a legal battle waged by environmental groups. In a ruling published Tuesday, the State Council, France’s supreme court for administrative justice, quashed a February 2021 decision by the Arcep telecoms regulators granting Starlink two bands of frequencies to link the satellites with French clients. The court criticised Arcep for not having consulted the public before greenlighting the project even though it was likely to have an important impact on the high-speed internet market as well affect users. "The State Council sent a signal to those who confuse speed with haste," Stephen Kerckhove, head of Act for the Environment, one of the two groups behind the legal action. Starlink could not be immediately reached for comment on the ruling. Kerckhove said he hoped Arcep would not now just go through the motions of holding a public consultation but "truly ca...

Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has built a 9.2% stake in Twitter, a regulatory filing showed on Monday, potentially making him the biggest stakeholder in the micro-blogging site. Twitter shares soared 26% in premarket trading after the filing, which comes close on the heels of Musk tweeting that he was giving "serious thought" to building a new social media platform. Shares of other social media firms, including Meta Platforms and Snapchat owner Snap, were also trading higher. Musk owns 73.5 million Twitter shares, valuing his passive stake in the company at up to $2.9 billion based on the stock's Friday close. The shares are held by the Elon Musk Revocable Trust. Musk, a prolific user of Twitter, has over 80 million followers on the site since joining in 2009 and has used the platform to make several announcements, including teasing a go-private deal for Tesla that landed him under regulatory scrutiny. He, however, has been critical of the social media pl...

Carlos Vasquez is a master of video fighting game "Mortal Kombat" despite being unable to see the action on screen because he is blind. The Texas resident -- who relies on sound to time punches, kicks and dodges -- is among a chorus of voices calling for better access to gaming for people with disabilities. "You have two characters across the screen fighting each other, left and right, and you just have to memorize the buttons," said Vasquez, explaining what drew him to "Mortal Kombat". Long neglected by the industry, the issue of accessibility is increasingly front of mind for game makers. There are financial as well as ethical reasons for opening doors to even more players in the multi-billion dollar industry. According to the World Health Organization, more than a billion people live with some form of disability. Microsoft, the tech powerhouse behind Xbox and its cloud game streaming service, estimates that there are some 400 million players with d...

Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) will launch its satellite broadband service in the Philippines, a first in Southeast Asia, the trade secretary said. The company is setting up a wholly-owned subsidiary in the Southeast Asian country and aiming to deploy three gateways in the first phase of its launch. Lopez did not specify a timeline or investment figure for the launch. Read More:  Will Elon Musk be able to colonise Mars? Nostradamus thinks not SpaceX's Starlink uses a network of more than 1,400 satellites to provide internet access to far-flung regions or when communications are disrupted during natural disasters. SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.   admin.web@suchtv.pk (Web Desk) from Science & Technology - SUCH TV https://ift.tt/2jvIa5t https://ift.tt/xQO4B7k

EU antitrust regulators are quizzing Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) rivals and customers about its cloud business and licensing deals, a questionnaire seen by Reuters showed, in a move that could lead to a formal investigation and renewed scrutiny of the U.S. software company. The European Commission has fined Microsoft a total 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) in the previous decade for breaching EU antitrust rules and for not complying with its order to halt anti-competitive practices. Read more:  Space race: Blue Origin carries out 4th crewed spaceflight The company found itself on the EU competition enforcer’s radar again after German software provider NextCloud, France’s OVHcloud (OVH.PA) and two other companies filed complaints about Microsoft’s cloud practices. "The Commission has information that Microsoft may be using its potentially dominant position in certain software markets to foreclose competition regarding certain cloud computing services," the questionnaire said. ...

Jeff Bezos´ Blue Origin successfully carried out its fourth crewed spaceflight Thursday, a ten-minute ride beyond the planet´s atmosphere and back again. The New Shepard suborbital rocket blasted off from the company´s Launch Site One base in west Texas at 8:58 am local time (1358 GMT) with six crew members. Read More:  Will Elon Musk be able to colonise Mars? Nostradamus thinks not The crew included Gary Lai, chief architect of the New Shepard program, plus five paying customers -- though the ticket price hasn´t been disclosed. "I felt my skin pulling taut," Lai said, of the rocket ride. Lai´s inclusion came after comedian Pete Davidson, the boyfriend of reality star Kim Kardashian, canceled his participation without disclosing a reason. After launch, the reusable, zero greenhouse gas emissions rocket landed vertically at a pad, while the capsule continued soaring, crossing the Karman line that marks the start of space, 100 kilometers (62 miles) high. Passengers unb...