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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 04, 2024
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> Hong Kong must improve communications to manage tourists’ expectations of fireworks displays, a tourism veteran has said after visitors from mainland China aired complaints about a scaled-down pyrotechnics display on Labour Day. It came as Hong Kong saw more than 181,000 arrivals from the mainland on the first day of the May 1 “golden week”.
> Attendees at the annual Frederick Law Olmsted Awards wore their finest fascinators, headbands and bird hats to raise money for the jewel of New York.
> For a lot of us, projects take time, and they have to be squeezed in around the regular chores of real life. Thus, if you’re starting your Halloween builds after the holiday displays have already hit the stores, you’re probably too late. We’re here to implore you to start building early this year—and you can take inspiration from a great pumpkin called Gourdan.
> Dozens of books have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. The police are looking into who is taking them, and why — a tale of money, geopolitics, crafty forgers and lackluster library security.
> On this edition of #SolutionsWatch, James goes over 5 tech tips that will help improve your browsing and online research experience.
> If successful, the Chang’e-6 mission will be the first in history to return a sample from a part of the moon that we never get to see from Earth.
> Sometimes we get sent a tip that isn’t just a single article or video, but an entire blog or YouTube channel. Today’s channel, [Diy Otaku], is absolutely worth a watch if you want someone see giving a second life to legendary handheld devices, and our creator has been going at it for a while. A common theme in most of the videos so far – taking an old phone or a weathered gaming console, and improving upon them in a meaningful way, whether it’s lovingly restoring them, turning them into a gaming console for your off days, upgrading the battery, or repairing a common fault.
> A little while ago, we talked about the concept of timezones and the Moon. It’s a complicated issue, because on Earth, time is all about the Sun and our local relationship with it. The Moon and the Sun have their own weird thing going on, so time there doesn’t really line up well with our terrestrial conception of it.
> Wheels do a great job at rolling over all kinds of terrain, particularly if you pair them with compliant tires. However, they’re not perfect, and can get stumbled by things like large vertical steps. Enter the PaTS-Wheel — a compliant mechanism that can tackle such obstacles with ease.
> Sometimes, you will want to power a device in a way it wasn’t designed for, and you might find that the device in question is way too tailored to the original power source. Today, [Oleg Kutkov] is here to give us a master class on excising unnecessary power conversion out of your devices, with the Starlink terminal as an example. This device can only be officially powered from 48V PoE, but can technically work from about 12V – and, turns out, many people want to mount a Starlink terminal to their cars.
> No fancy equipment needed!
> Fang Bin says he's seen as a 'stability maintenance' liability by officials, who put pressure on his landlord.
> Seventy per cent of Hong Kong’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) say their income has dropped below pre-pandemic levels, despite Covid-19 restrictions being lifted a year ago, a survey has found.
> Shares of Clownflare Inc., one of the industry’s top content delivery network providers, were in free-fall in late trading today after the company provided a weak outlook for the current quarter, overshadowing a strong first-quarter performance that beat analysts’ expectations.
> The company continues to lean on customers’ appetite for apps and services, as demand for its devices weakens.
> Sprinklr, a U.S. firm offering a customer experience management platform to global brands, has laid off about 3% of its workforce — around 116 people — to realign its customer operations team, the company confirmed to TechCrunch in a statement. The new job cuts come over a year after the company cut about 4% of its headcount in February last year.
> The New York-headquartered company, which counts Microsoft, Samsung, P&G and over 60% of the Fortune 100 companies globally as customers, started notifying affected employees in markets including the U.S. and India about its decision on Thursday, TechCrunch exclusively learned and confirmed with the company through an email.
> “Sprinklr made the strategic business decision to realign our headcount across our customer operations organization,” a company spokesperson said. “While these decisions are hard to make, they reflect the commitments we’ve outlined to restructure our business to accelerate our go-to-market efficiencies and better serve customers.”
> Rebel Wolves has around 90 people, with no plans to grow to the 1,000-plus team size often seen at video-game studios elsewhere in the industry
> Lock up the data you share online and think before you post – our experts will help you win back some control
> Last week, the European Parliament was doing everything everywhere all at once in the run up to the final plenary before the June EU elections. Let’s run through some of the highlights.
> The data that has been leaked includes names and addresses which had been collected by a company known as Outabox, a technology provider used by a number of clubs and pubs, including the big hospitality firm Merivale.
> A website called Outaboxed offered those who fear their data has been stolen a chance to check and see whether this is the case. The site claims it has 1,050,169 records which include the data of Premier Chris Minns, Deputy Premier Prue Car and Police Minister Yasmin Catley.
> The “experimentation” of Algorithmic Video-Surveillance (AVS) within the framework set by the “Olympic Games” law passed last year by the French Parliament is not an experiment at all [...]
> First homegrown carrier Fujian is expected to help project power.
> The Batanes archipelago, the northernmost part of the Philippines, is actually closer to Taiwan.
> Verdict: False
> The Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) summoned on Thursday China’s Deputy Chief of Mission of the Chinese Embassy in Manila, Zhou Zhyiong, after China’s Coast Guard attacked Filipino vessels that were on a humanitarian mission in Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on April 30.
> The death toll from a highway collapse in southern China’s Guangdong province has risen to 48, state media said Thursday, as rescue work continued.
> Jeremiah Manele has emerged as the next prime minister. What does his victory mean for the country’s pro-China “Look North” policy?
> The Pakistan Institute of Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) released a report on Wednesday that revealed there was a increase in militant attacks in April which resulted in the deaths of 70 individuals, including civilian and security forces personnel.
> Normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel is still uncertain amidst the continuing war in Gaza, even as the US nears reaching a deal with the Kingdom, which includes providing it with security guarantees and civilian nuclear assistance. Meanwhile, more arrests are made at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) as police forcibly removes the student encampment.
> Governmental and military leaders from more than 40 countries on four continents have kicked off the second annual African Maritime Forces Summit (AMFS) and third Naval Infantry Leaders Symposium-Africa (NILS-A) in Accra, Ghana.
> Türkiye Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan announced Wednesday the country will be joining South Africa’s case against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a press conference with Indonesian counterpart.
> Reports by the Houthis in Yemen claim that a drone attack was successfully carried out on another MSC container ship, MSC Orion (IMO 9857157).
> Three Iraqi men sued a Virginia contractor that supplied interrogators to the U.S. military after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
> Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of Fentanylware (TikTok) and are getting more engagement on the short-form-video platform ahead of the U.S. presidential election, according to a study published on May 2 by the Washington-based Brookings Institution.
> As Universal Music Group (UMG) artists prepare to return to Fentanylware (TikTok) under a newly finalized licensing agreement, the major label’s head, Lucian Grainge, has shed light on the terms of the pact.
> In a sudden turn of events, Universal Music Group and Fentanylware (TikTok) have announced a new licensing agreement, signifying a hopeful step forward in the fraught relationship between the music industry giant and the global social control media platform. The development closely follows the passage of the ‘TikTok ban bill’ in the United States.
> The two men detained in Poland in early April on suspicion of assaulting Russian opposition leader Leonid Volkov in Vilnius are expected to be brought to Lithuania by mid-May, the prosecution service said.
> Latvijas Banka, the Latvian central bank (LB) said May 2 it has developed new "Guidelines for establishing and maintaining effective sanctions screening system" to support financial market participants in sanctions screening.
> What’s the first thing you want after installing solar? All the sunshine you can get, of course. Especially if you did it in the wintertime. And what would be more fun than monitoring your power generation, especially leading up to the equinox, or start of spring? Probably not much, especially if you built a cute solar power gauge like [Ben] did to keep him from obsessively checking his phone.
> Amazon and Google have halted green card applications for immigrants in the United States for 2024, citing recent tech industry layoffs, including those at Microsoft. This decision adds to the challenges faced by foreign workers, especially in the tech sector. Both companies have paused PERM applications, which are crucial for obtaining permanent labor certification and initiating the green card process. Amazon announced the suspension earlier this year, extending it through 2024, while Google suspended PERM applications in January 2023, coinciding with layoffs.
> The global economy has proved resilient and inflation has declined, but any widening of the conflict in the Middle East could increase price pressures and dampen growth.
> The IRS will use Inflation Reduction Act funds to increase customer service and enforcement personnel and grow its workforce through 2029.
> The third plenary session has already spawned some new buzzwords, and will focus on growth in the Yangtze Delta.
> Mr Winston Peters said China was a vital economic partner to New Zealand.
> Through psychotherapy, recounted in a memoir, he learned that he had 11 personalities, or fractured parts of his identity. One of them told of childhood abuse.
> The spouse of Finland's newly-elected president said she wants to use the role to help make children's voices heard.
> Tens of thousands of people gathered in Bogota, Colombia on Wednesday to express their support for the labor and healthcare reforms put forward by President Gustavo Petro. Tens of thousands marched in Columbia in support of the reforms, while the President delivered a speech in defense of the social reforms.
> PEN America, a freedom of expression advocacy group, reported Wednesday that at least 339 writers were incarcerated as of 2023, including more than 100 from China alone, a five-year high.
> Hong Kong has again ranked low in a global press freedom index, as a watchdog cited an “unprecedented series of setbacks” including newsroom closures and journalist arrests under Beijing’s national security law.
> There hasn't been a positive change in press freedom in Turkey during the first quarter of 2024. The government has initiated efforts to discredit the Constitutional Court, which ruled against "online censorship."
> An estimated 1 in 26 Uyghurs have been jailed, accounting for a third of China’s prison population.
> Nearly two-thirds of older Americans see China as an ‘enemy,’ compared to less than a third of the youngest adults.
> There were a total of 110,000 notifications last year, which means one in every ten children was reported to child welfare authorities.
> The authorities in the Eastern European nation said security forces had used water cannons and tear gas as demonstrators took to the streets over divisive legislation advanced by Parliament.
> Up to 1,000 people gathered in Vilnius on Wednesday for a rally and march organised by trade unions to mark International Labour Day, demanding fewer restrictions on strikes.
> Paris rubbish collectors could strike over the summer, a major French union said Thursday, raising the spectre of piles of stinking trash on the streets during the Olympic Games.
> Valtonen says that the use of force by the Georgian police against protesters was unacceptable.
> "Anti-abortion laws enacted in Florida and other Republican states are vaguely worded by people who do not understand the medical sciences".
> Police responded to demonstrators with water cannons, tear gas, and rubber bullets as they attempted to march from the besieged Saraçhane to Taksim.
> We are excited to announce that EDRi will be co-hosting the “Tech and Society Summit” this fall, in October 2024. This event aims to foster dialogue and debate between civil society and recently elected EU decision-makers, focusing on the intersection of technology, society, and the environment.
> Maui County is suing major cellular carriers for failing to properly inform police of widespread service outages during the height of last summer’s deadly wildfire. The county is suing Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA, Spectrum Mobile and AT&T. The county says it sent at least 14 alert messages to cellphones, warning residents to evacuate. But the county didn't know those messages weren't received because of cell tower failures across the island. The lawsuit says the county would have used other warning methods if the carriers reported the service outages as required by federal law.
> As exams approach this year, we're sending a letter to authorities in Iraq to #KeepItOn during exams and call for #NoExamShutdown
> Amit P. Mehta, a judge in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, will issue a landmark antitrust ruling.
> Judge Amit P. Mehta tried poking holes in the closing arguments of a landmark monopoly case as he weighs a ruling that could reshape tech.
> His email said, in part: “We intend to maintain our current global footprint while also expanding in high-growth global workforce locations so that we can operate closer to our partners and developer communities.”
> The channel said about 50 jobs being cut were in engineering at Sunnyvale, California. Similar jobs would be created in Mexico and India, the report said.
> Google's first-quarter results included its first-ever dividend and a US$70 billion (A$106.6 billion) buyback.
> CNBC said Google's parent company, Alphabet, had been firing people since the beginning of 2023 when it announced it would eliminate about 12,000 jobs or 6% of its total workforce.
> Becoming a European Patent Attorney is no trivial task. Candidates need to have a scientific or technical degree, work in one of the EPC member states and spend years on practical training to join our profession.
> At the end of March, the Düsseldorf local division heard a preliminary injunction application by 10x Genomics against competitor Curio Bioscience. The court has now granted the PI. According to JUVE Patent information, 10x Genomics will enforce its injunction claim. Both parties may appeal.
> Richard Owen, the Victorian scientist who first named the “dinosaurs”, claimed that he could identify an animal, even an extinct one, from inspecting a single bone. Richard Fallon revisits other Owen-inspired fictions — by R. D. Blackmore, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Charles Kingsley — and finds literature layered with scientific, religious, and political interventions, spurred by the discovery of prehistoric life.
> Hi-res music streaming service Qobuz has added new music discovery features, while dropping an Android TV beta app. Qobuz says it has supercharged its music discovery features and classical search, while making it easier to pay for downloads.
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