PARIS: When it comes to music, we’re not all equal. Some have a naturally beautiful voice while others can’t carry a tune in a bucket. Start-up The Choral Hub wants to encourage all music lovers to sing along, and have fun doing it, with its new app. The Tchzant app […]
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Twitter said governments around the world made requests to remove content from a record number of user accounts between January and June last year, in data to be released by the social media company on Tuesday. The platform said governments made 43,387 legal demands for the removal of content from […]
ZURICH : Logitech International expects the global shortage of semiconductor chips to continue throughout 2022, Chief Executive Bracken Darrell told Reuters on Tuesday. “I think it is going to be around a while,” Darrell said. “I don’t think it (the shortage) will be as severe by the time we get […]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, designed to give the world an unprecedented glimpse into the earliest stages of the universe, neared its gravitational parking space on Monday (Jan 24) in orbit around the sun, almost 1 million miles from Earth. With a final course-correcting manoeuvre by on-board rocket thrusters set […]
NUKU’ALOFA: The Tonga volcanic eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, Nasa scientists have said, as survivors on Monday described how the devastating Pacific blast “messed up our brains”. The Nasa Earth Observatory said the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano spewed debris as high as […]
SYDNEY: The undersea telecommunications cable connecting Tonga to the rest of the world that was damaged by a volcano eruption will take at least a month to fix, its owner said today, with the delay likely hampering disaster recovery efforts. The explosion of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, which has […]
Twitter Inc has picked up a minority stake in Aleph Group Inc, the digital advertising firm said on Tuesday as it seeks to go public in the United States. Aleph did not reveal any financial terms of the investment but said Twitter’s stake buy would help the company expand its […]
The KCC said Apple plans to allow alternative payment systems for a lower service fee versus the current 30% commissions. South Korea’s telecommunications regulator said on Tuesday that Apple had submitted plans to allow third-party payment systems on its app store, to comply with a law banning major app store […]
WASHINGTON: The most powerful space telescope ever built completed a tricky two-week-long deployment phase on Saturday (Jan 8), unfolding its final golden mirror panel, as it readies to study every phase of cosmic history. Engineering teams in the James Webb Space Telescope’s control room cheered as confirmation came back that […]
The Information said that Meta, formerly known as Facebook, had shelved the project, which involves hundreds of employees and has been in the works for years. Meta Platforms Inc said it has no plans to halt the development of a new operating system to run its virtual and augmented reality-powered […]