The era of the megalopolis: how the world's cities are merging
Nov 23, 2022 05:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Life Technology
On November 15 2022, a baby girl named Vinice Mabansag, born at Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila, Philippines, became symbolically the eight billionth person in the world. Of those 8 billion people, 60% live...
Elon Musk's buyout of Twitter has placed its user-generated archives in danger
Nov 23, 2022 05:02 am UTC| Technology
Twitter is in disarray. This is troubling for a platform that comprises no small part of the historical record of today. While only used by a percentage of Americans (some 23 per cent in 2022) and Canadians (42 per cent...
Nov 23, 2022 04:59 am UTC| Technology
The 5th generation of mobile communications, 5G has arrived and it has brought us mostly higher throughputs and helped operators to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for mobile data traffic. This first wave of 5G uses the...
Chipmakers from Taiwan, South Korea, Japan see high-tech decoupling with China as inevitable
Nov 22, 2022 22:46 pm UTC| Technology Economy Business
Major chipmakers Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan expect to decouple with China in advanced industries involving sensitive technology due to concerns about Beijings rapid military modernization. The US is making a Chip 4...
‘Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0’ surpasses 25 million players less than a week after launch
Nov 22, 2022 11:56 am UTC| Technology Business
Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 has only been out for less than a week, but Raven Software announced that the game has already hit a major milestone. The newly released online free-to-play first-person shooter was confirmed to...
Nov 22, 2022 11:29 am UTC| Technology
ZeniMax Online Studios has been supporting The Elder Scrolls Online for years, but that is not its only major project in the works. New details recently came to light about the studios new IP, and it appears that its...
Meta updates Facebook privacy policy for minors, new users’ profiles will be private by default
Nov 22, 2022 11:11 am UTC| Technology Business
Meta is introducing a new Facebook policy and updates focused on protecting teenagers from suspicious adults. The highlight of the announcement is a default setting for new underage users that will automatically set their...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects