Technology

US: Ground-testing of a SpaceX Starship booster rocket went awry on Monday in Texas, potentially delaying Elon Musk’s goal of sending the spacecraft into orbit later this year. “Yeah, that’s a little harsh. The team is taking stock of the situation,” As witnessed on NASA Spaceflight’s broadcast of the early evening explosion of the Super Heavy Booster 7 prototype, Musk …

SOUTH KOREA: The ARMY – Adorable Representative MCs for Youth – fandom of Korean boy band BTS has existed for nine years. Google and YouTube made a special feature to thank their devoted following. A purple heart appears next to any search results for BTS on any of the aforementioned platforms. Purple animated balloons would appear on the screen if …

CHINA: The country’s market regulator announced on Sunday that a number of companies, including Alibaba and Tencent, had been fined for violating anti-monopoly regulations regarding the transparency of transactions (Jul 10). There were 28 trades that were found to have broken the rules by the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR). Alibaba’s Youku Tudou streaming platform is one of the …

US: Elon Musk’s $44 billion deal to buy Twitter fell apart late on Thursday (July 7), according to the Washington Post. Over concerns about what he sees to be an overabundance of phony accounts, the world’s richest man has already expressed reservations and even hinted that he would walk away from the arrangement. Although he was granted access to internal …

SHANGHAI: As reported by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) on Friday, Tesla, the American electric vehicle manufacturer, sold 78,906 Chinese-made vehicles in June. Passenger car sales in China in June were 1.97 million, an increase of 22% over the same period last year, according to the CPCA. Despite restrictions to stop the spread of Covid in Shanghai, Tesla Inc.’s …

SOUTH KOREA: For the first time since last year, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is expected to have its greatest April-June profit since 2018 with a 15 percent year-on-year increase in revenue from server customers. According to a Refinitiv SmartEstimate based on 24 analysts’ estimates, operating profit for the world’s largest smartphone and memory chip maker increased to 14.46 trillion won …

JAPAN: Desperate gamers wait outside an electronics store in Tokyo in the wee hours of the morning to get their hands on the latest PlayStation or Xbox despite Japan’s persistent shortages. Since its November 2020 debut, Sony and Microsoft consoles, as well as Nintendo’s Switch, have been difficult to obtain due to supply chain concerns compounded by lockdowns in China. …

PARIS: France’s Thales and Australia’s EXPAL Systems formed a collaboration on Monday to supply material for the Australian military, as France and Australia seek to repair diplomatic relations following a spat last year. President Emmanuel Macron of France told the incoming Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, that he wants to focus on the future as they work to repair relations …

US: Living cells may be seen for the first time thanks to fluorescent sensors, which can label and picture a wide variety of chemicals. Since their signal is lost when they are implanted too deeply, they are normally only employed in cells grown in a lab dish or in tissues close to the skin’s surface. Engineers at MIT have recently …

US: People have recently supplied cutting-edge AI systems, such as OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 and Google Research’s Imagen, text descriptions that these algorithms can utilize to create extraordinarily detailed, realistic-looking images. As a result, the images can be comical or even reminiscent of great art, and they’re being shared widely on social media, including by key players in the IT industry. …