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  The UAE (United Arab Emirates) space agency launched its maiden mission to Mars in 2020, fewer than ten years after it was established. So, how did they do it? On July 19, 2020, a rocket blasted off from Tanegashima, a small island in Japan’s south, a few months after a global pandemic had immobilized the earth. The name of the spaceship was “Hope.” However, it wasn’t from the United States, Russia, or the European Union. Instead, Hope was the first spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates Space Agency (UAESA) to go further than an orbit around the Earth. If it works, it will be the first Arab spaceship to reach Mars, and the UAE will be only the fifth country in the world to put a spaceship in orbit around Mars... Read More Source:  California Gazette

  The Japan government requests to the residents of Tokyo and the surrounding areas use less electricity on Monday. This is only because the country is experiencing a heatwave, and supplies were not sufficient. How Japan Government Asks Citizens to Turn Off Lights? There was shortage of power supply for weeks as the temperatures rose high. But, while Isesaki, a city northwest of the capital, experienced a record 40.2C over the weekend, metropolitan Tokyo’s temperature climbed above 35C. Japan people got to experience the hottest temperature in the month of June. In Japan, June ushers in the start of summer, with average highs falling below 30 degrees Celsius. As a result, the ministry predicted that by Monday afternoon, excess power generation capacity in Tokyo and eight neighboring prefectures would fall to 3.7 percent. According to it, a 3 percent buffer requires for a steady electricity supply... Read More Source:  California Observer

  Despite reporting record-breaking sales of £3.3 billion, Facebook operations in the UK paid £29 million in corporation tax last year, and its average employee salary increased to $262,000 as a result. According to the social media company’s most recent financial reports for its London-based division, gross advertising revenues increased by more than 37% in 2017 from £2.4 billion to £3.3 billion. The second-largest participant in the UK digital advertising business behind Google is Facebook’s parent company, Meta, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp. According to its Companies House filing, Facebook UK reported pre-tax profits of £229.5 million last year. The company describes itself as a supplier of sales support, marketing services, and engineering support to the Meta Group. This was an increase of more than a fifth above the £190 million the company made in 2020... Read More

  Morocco dashed Portugal and Cristiano Ronaldo’s world cup hopes on Saturday to become the first African country to make it to a World Cup semi-final. Youssef En-Nesyri, a striker, scored the game-winning goal in the first half. He jumped higher than goalkeeper Diogo Costa and got the ball past him. Al Thumama Stadium went crazy when the goal was scored. The north African team’s fans filled most of the stadium and cheered wildly as they made their debut on the world stage. Ronaldo came off the bench in the 50th minute to tie the men’s all-time international match appearance record of 196. But he couldn’t get his team to come back into the game. Morocco, which will play France in the semi-finals, was happy to play on the counter and scored the first goal right before halftime. A few minutes later, Portugal’s captain Bruno Fernandes came agonizingly close to tying the game, but his brilliant individual shot hit the crossbar... Read More Source - California Observer

  The court has sentenced Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani, an executive of the failed startup, Theranos to a prison sentence of almost 13 years. For his part in Theranos, the court found Balwani guilty of twelve counts of wire fraud as well as the conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Executives at Theranos said that the product could diagnose diseases with a few droplets of blood from a finger prick. This was not true. Last month, Holmes was given a prison sentence of over 11 years (135 months). At the end of a nearly four-hour hearing the court handed Balwani a prison sentence of 155 months . He did not say anything. Like Holmes, his lawyers say he plans to file an appeal. He was found guilty, unlike Holmes, of cheating people who used blood tests. The court found Holmes guilty of fraud on four counts. Holmes started Theranos after she drooped out of Stanford University at age 19 and was called “the next Steve Jobs.” After it said it could change how diseases are diagnosed, the… Read More Source —

  Foxconn, an Apple supplier, says its November sales were down 11% from the same month in 2021. This is because of problems at the world’s largest iPhone factory. It says coronavirus restrictions at its plant in Zhengzhou, China, are to blame for the drop. Even though it made a record 5.9 trillion New Taiwan Dollars (£160bn) from January to November, its sales were down 29% from October. Compared to the same time in 2021, that is a 13.5% rise. The electronics company, which also makes game consoles like the PlayStation 5, grew because of “strong sales” and “better component supply.” However, coronavirus restrictions caused the drop in November, the company said. Protests slow down work… Read More Source —   California Observer

  Twitter owner Elon Musk said that since he took over, “hate speech impressions” had dropped a lot on the site since he took over. It was a surprising claim, given that Musk has fired hundreds of people and forced them to leave. Musk has also publicly criticized the company’s rules about content moderation and taken away resources that the company needed. T wo watchdog groups conducted research on Friday that showed Musk’s false claim. The research gave one of the clearest pictures of the rising rate of hate speech on the platform. In reports, both the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Anti-Defamation League said that the amount of hate speech on Twitter had grown a lot while Musk was in charge. In particular, the Center for Countering… Read More Source —  California Observer