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Facebook parent company Meta announced that it will restore the accounts of former President Trump (Donald Trump) on FB and Instagram. Due to Trump’s role in the riots in the US Congress on January 6, 2021, social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter successively blocked Trump’s account. account, but so far Trump has not posted […]

According to IDC data, global smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of 2022 fell 18.3% year-on-year to 300.3 million units, and annual shipments fell 11.3% year-on-year to 1.21 billion units, the lowest since 2013. The fourth quarter is the holiday season, and smartphone shipments usually rise, but last year’s situation showed that the market’s demand

IBM became the latest technology company to cut jobs, announcing on Wednesday that it would cut about 3,900 jobs, or 1.4% of its 280,000-strong workforce. IBM also announced its financial report for the fourth quarter: revenue of US$16.7 billion, the same as the same period last year, and net profit of US$2.71 billion; full-year revenue

On January 20, 1998, Netscape began a major layoff. Two days later at 8:00 AM, Netscape issued a press release announcing that it would release the source code for its browser by the end of March. The news came as a complete surprise to the rest of Netscape’s employees. Jamie “jwz” Zawinski registered the domain

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has warned that the country is on the verge of malfunctioning due to a falling birth rate. With a population of about 125 million, Japan will have fewer than 800,000 births in 2022, compared with more than 2 million births a year in the 1970s. Japan’s population over the age

Using gravitational lensing, astronomers have detected radio signals from the most distant galaxies ever seen. Gravitational lensing amplifies signals from distant galaxies so that they can be detected by Earth-based telescopes. The signal comes from the star-forming galaxy SDSSJ0826+5630, emitted when our universe was only 4.9 billion years old, 8.8 billion years ago. The Giant

GitHub’s official blog issued a short statement announcing that GitHub Sponsors will no longer support PayPal as a payment processor from February 23, 2023. Patrons will therefore no longer be able to sponsor developers or organizations through PayPal. GitHub recommends that patrons update their payment method to use a credit or debit card. GitHub officials

According to Twitter’s API rules agreement, which took effect on January 19, it explicitly prohibits developers from developing third-party clients. The era of third-party Twitter clients that once flourished is over. Twitter added a clause to its developer agreement rules that restricts developers from “using or accessing the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to

A consulting firm is suing Twitter, saying it was not paid for work it did in forcing Elon Musk to buy Twitter. Charles River Associates (CRA) was hired by Twitter in August 2022, when Twitter filed a lawsuit because Musk refused to complete a $44 billion acquisition agreement. Musk completed the acquisition of Twitter in

The lights at a Minnechaug area high school in Massachusetts, USA, were left on 24 hours a day due to a software glitch in the lighting system. The lights could not be turned off as the entire lighting system was stuck in the “on” position. This has been going on for over a year, and

India’s antitrust regulator last year fined Google over its control of the Android platform, while also requiring a series of changes to the Google Play Store, including allowing hosting of third-party app stores. India’s Supreme Court this week rejected Google’s proposal to block the series of requirements from taking effect, citing the requirements as harming

Susan Jebb, chair of the Food Standards Agency and professor of diet and population health at the University of Oxford, said in The Times that we all think of ourselves as rational, intelligent, well-educated people who always make wise choices, but we underestimate environmental impact. I don’t eat any cake for a day if no

Goolge started laying off 12,000 employees on Friday, accounting for 6% of the total workforce. The first to be affected were US employees. According to current information, at least 12% of the 400-person Fuchsia operating system development team has been laid off, because only American employees have received layoff notices at this stage, and ultimately