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Alibaba Names New Chairman, CEO in Surprise Succession Plan
Alibaba Names New Chairman, CEO in Surprise Succession Plan
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. announced a new chairman and chief executive, unveiling a surprise plan to replace Daniel
2023-06-20 13:19
Nasa Voyager 2: Space agency accidentally loses contact with pioneering space probe
Nasa Voyager 2: Space agency accidentally loses contact with pioneering space probe
Nasa has “inadvertently” lost contact with Voyager 2, its pioneering spacecraft. The space agency said that it had sent a series of planned commands to the probe on 21 July. But those moves left Voyager 2 pointing in the wrong direction: its antenna is now pointing two degrees away from Earth, and so it has lost contact with its engineers. It cannot either receive commands or send back data, Nasa said. Ordinarily, it would do so by establishing contact with the Deep Space Network, or DSN, which is a set of ground-based antennas that allow for communications with distant spacecraft. But the data being sent by Voyager 2 is not reaching that network. Voyager 2 is now floating on its own, almost 20 billion kilometres from Earth. Nasa still hopes to be able to re-establish contact with the probe, however. It is programmed to automatically reset its orientation a number of times each year, to push its antenna back to Earth. The next reset is expected to happen on 15 October, Nasa said. Until then, the space agency expects the probe to “remain on its planned trajectory during the quiet period”, it said. As its name suggests, Voyager 2 was part of a pair, both of which were launched in 1977. Voyager 1 is floating even further from Earth – at 24 billion kilometres – and Nasa says it is continuing to operate as normal. The Voyager programme brought with it a host of records: Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, and together they are the only spacecraft made by humans to ever have entered interstellar space. Even almost 50 years since they were launched, the pair of Voyager spacecraft have continued to send back useful and important information to Nasa for examination by scientists on Earth. They have contributed to a host of new findings about the very distant edges of our solar system. Read More How to take the perfect picture of tonight's supermoon Elon Musk installs huge, glowing letter on top of his office A game where you go to sleep in real life is one of the most popular in the world
2023-08-01 01:18
20 Home Office Essentials That Will Upgrade Any Work Space
20 Home Office Essentials That Will Upgrade Any Work Space
These home office essentials can help remote workers stay on task and tackle everything on their to-do lists.
2023-08-31 01:55
XiFin Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America for 13th Time
XiFin Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America for 13th Time
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 17, 2023--
2023-08-17 22:21
Tesla and China Risk Leaving Volkswagen on a Road to Nowhere
Tesla and China Risk Leaving Volkswagen on a Road to Nowhere
Shortly after taking the most important job in German industry, Volkswagen AG Chief Executive Officer Oliver Blume got
2023-09-11 08:20
Andrew Tate invites fans to 'download Rumble' and subscribe to TateSpeech on Twitter
Andrew Tate invites fans to 'download Rumble' and subscribe to TateSpeech on Twitter
Tate's arrival on Rumble resulted in a notable increase in number of users on the platform on the week he joined
2023-06-03 19:48
Tucker Carlson’s Twitter show is haemorrhaging viewers with 85% drop from first episode, reports say
Tucker Carlson’s Twitter show is haemorrhaging viewers with 85% drop from first episode, reports say
Tucker Carlson’s Twitter show has reportedly suffered a significant drop in viewership since his debut episode of Tucker on Twitter. Journalist Matt Binder tweeted the number of video views the former Fox News host has garnered since his Twitter show began on 6 June. While his first show attracted 26.7m video views, the subsequent episode attracted half as many: 13.9m. His most recent episode, his eighth, only garnered 3.8m video views, according to Binder. It counts as a “view” if someone watched the video for more than two seconds. Media Matters senior fellow Matthew Gertz also calculated the views per posts, noting a significant decline since Carlson’s show launched. Although the first post generated 120m views, his most recent only generated 8.6m. Carlson was fired from Fox News — for reasons that reportedly remain unknown to the network’s former superstar. In March, one month before his termination, Carlson averaged 3.3m viewers per show, according to Nielsen. The social media platform’s views aren’t necessarily equivalent to broadcast news views. According to Twitter, a post view is tallied when “anyone who is logged into Twitter who views a Tweet counts as a view, regardless of where they see the Tweet (e.g. Home, Search, Profiles, etc.) or whether or not they follow the author. If you’re the author, looking at your own Tweet also counts as a view.” The views are also not always from unique viewers, the social media giant noted. Carlson may have joined Twitter at a particularly turbulent time for the platform, after Elon Musk took over. Mr Musk’s policies have sparked a lot of criticism from users as well as a Congressional investigation. Things may have gotten more complicated last week after the “Twitter killer” app was introduced. Threads, a rival platform created by Mark Zuckerberg, comes as many fed-up Twitter users are threatening to leave Mr Musk’s platform. “I don’t know why I was fired. I really don’t. I’m not angry about it. I wish Fox well,” Carlson said during a recent podcast interview. Fox News reached a massive $787m settlement with Dominion Voting Systems after spreading false statements about the voting machine company. His former employer sent him a cease-and-desist letter, to which Carlson’s lawyer replied, he will “not be silenced.” The Independent has reached out to Carlson and Twitter for comment. Read More Tucker Carlson doesn’t know why he was fired from Fox News but suggests his views on Ukraine were a ‘red line’ Fox News ousts eight remaining Tucker Carlson show staff as Jesse Watters takes over primetime spot Fox reaches $12m settlement with former producer who sued company over ‘toxic’ workplace
2023-07-11 03:49
Param Accelerates European Expansion With Twisto Acquisition
Param Accelerates European Expansion With Twisto Acquisition
ISTANBUL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 16, 2023--
2023-08-17 07:24
How 'Fortnite' streamer 'Ninja' got his moniker? Tyler Blevins shared significance behind his gaming alias
How 'Fortnite' streamer 'Ninja' got his moniker? Tyler Blevins shared significance behind his gaming alias
Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins' competitive gaming journey started in 2009 when he ventured into the world of 'Halo 3'
2023-07-22 17:45
UAE Plans to Build More Solar Power, Batteries in Green Push
UAE Plans to Build More Solar Power, Batteries in Green Push
The United Arab Emirates will add more solar power plants and battery storage sites in the oil-rich nation’s
2023-11-22 21:51
Monitoring equipment returns to only some Iranian sites -IAEA reports
Monitoring equipment returns to only some Iranian sites -IAEA reports
By Francois Murphy VIENNA The U.N. nuclear watchdog has re-installed only some monitoring equipment originally put in place
2023-06-01 00:18
Google Assistant is getting an AI makeover
Google Assistant is getting an AI makeover
AI is coming for the Assistants. Following Amazon's shift toward increasing AI's influence on Alexa,
2023-08-02 01:47