Tesla boss Elon Musk has arrived in Beijing for the first time in three years. Elon Musk arrived in China on Tuesday and met Chinese foreign, commerce and industry ministers. Musk didn’t disclose the reason for his visit amid increasing tensions between China and the US as he declined to comment when asked by reporters.
Twitter has suspended its services in Turkey a day before elections in the country. Twitter didn’t specify what type of content will be restricted but users suspect it’ll be about the elections. The ban was announced on a legal request just a day before Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections, but twitter didn’t declare who made the request.
Elon Musk has finally announced the new CEO of twitter after months of speculation. Elon Musk has named Linda Yaccarino as new chief executive of the company while Elon Musk will remain the executive chairman and chief technology officer.
Twitter has announced that it’ll be launching encrypted DMs for verified users only. Twitter will only let its verified users who have blue ticks on their profiles to access the encrypted messaging services.
Twitter has restored blue ticks for many users with over millions of followers. Twitter removed blue ticks from high profile accounts recently accusing the users of not paying the due subscription fees to twitter. The accounts whose blue ticks were removed included the BBC, New York Times and some other celebrities too.
SpaceX will attempt to launch the most powerful rocket system ever developed in the entire history. SpaceX’s Starship has almost double the thrust of a conventional rocket. The two-stage rocket ship will send the upper part of the vehicle eastward in order to complete one trip around the earth.
US tech giants are finding it hard to lay off workers in Europe. Unlike in the US where companies can lay off thousands of workers without having to face any consequences, strict labor laws in Europe makes it almost impossible to lay off workers. Companies must consult with labor interest groups prior to announcing the layoffs, leaving thousands of tech employees in confusion.
The US citizen jailed in 2021, for tweets against the kingdom was finally released after the Saudi court order. Saad Ibrahim Almadi was arrested when he arrived in the kingdom’s capital to visit his family. The 72-year-old Saad Ibrahim was sentenced to 16 years in prison which was later increased to 19 years.
In yet another round of Twitter layoffs, Twitter’s CEO Elon Musk has fired additional 200 employees. This is not the first time layoffs, but rather a continuation of the series of layoffs Musk has been doing since he took over. Further layoffs have reduced Twitter’s workforce by 10% out of the 2000 prior workforce.
The news may have come as a surprise to many, but surprisingly, the twitter CEO Elon Musk has said it himself. He talked about his retirement as twitter CEO by the end of this year. He just recently took over the social media giant and has already started looking for someone to look after the platform when he retires in late 2023.
Turkey has restricted the access of twitter for its citizens after the two massive earthquakes that devastated a large portion of Turkey’s infrastructure. The restriction came into play after the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, imposed a national emergency amid chaos. So far 12,000 people have been killed in the two bordering countries, Turkey & Syria.
Yes, Twitter has a rival, and the thing people are appreciating more about it, is its decentralization. The rival microblogging platform competing against twitter is “Nostr”. The platform has been endorsed by co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. The goal is to create an anti-censorship social network that aims to be accessible to everybody around the globe. Nostr is already launched on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
