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The firm considered that the weak market which have weighed on consumption, and the lack of product upgrades was due to continued resurgences of COVID-19.
The IDC announced that if the market continues to see an absence of a fresh stimulus, Chinese smartphone market will face a downside risk of shipping fewer than 300 million smartphones for the whole of 2022.
Domestic smartphone maker Oppo took the lead with a market shipment of 13.7 million units in the January-March period, taking up 18.5 percent of the market share, while Honor followed with 13.5 million units. Vivo came in third with 17.9 percent of the market in the period, the data showed.
According to IDC, Apple which was China's top-selling vendor in the previous quarter, was the fourth-largest seller in the first three months with the shipment reaching 12.4 million units, claiming 16.7 percent of the market.
A video of a Moroccan woman encouraging her dog to attack and kill a kitten has sparked outrage in Morocco with many calling for legal measures against her, news outlet Hespress reported on Friday.
In the video that was posted on Wednesday night, the 24-year-old woman, who hails from the city of Fez, can be heard encouraging her dog to attack the helpless cat.
The hashtag “Prison for the cat killer” has been widely used on Facebook and Twitter, with many Moroccans calling on the authorities to investigate the matter and hold the woman accountable.
According to the Morocco World News, the woman shared the video on Facebook.
She can be heard speaking to her dog and saying that “the kitten is ugly” and that she does not like cats.
“It’s okay, you killed the kitten,” the report stated citing the woman in question.
After social media users widely shared the video and demanded legal punishment, she took to Facebook in an attempt to defend herself.
She claimed that she does not bring cats to be tortured and killed by her dog, adding that she left the dog and the kitten for ten minutes and when she returned, “the cat was no longer alive.”
She also apologized and said: “I should not have shared the video.”
However, many did not believe her as they noted that the video of the incident was captioned “before [the dog] kills [the kitten].”
According to Morocco World News, Articles 601, 602 and 603 of the country’s penal code “prohibit poisoning guard dogs, and unnecessarily killing or maiming guard dogs and pets on the animal’s owner’s land.”
A video of a Moroccan woman encouraging her dog to attack and kill a kitten has sparked outrage in Morocco with many calling for legal measures against her, news outlet Hespress reported on Friday.
In the video that was posted on Wednesday night, the 24-year-old woman, who hails from the city of Fez, can be heard encouraging her dog to attack the helpless cat.
The hashtag “Prison for the cat killer” has been widely used on Facebook and Twitter, with many Moroccans calling on the authorities to investigate the matter and hold the woman accountable.
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According to the Morocco World News, the woman shared the video on Facebook.
She can be heard speaking to her dog and saying that “the kitten is ugly” and that she does not like cats.
“It’s okay, you killed the kitten,” the report stated citing the woman in question.
After social media users widely shared the video and demanded legal punishment, she took to Facebook in an attempt to defend herself.
She claimed that she does not bring cats to be tortured and killed by her dog, adding that she left the dog and the kitten for ten minutes and when she returned, “the cat was no longer alive.”
She also apologized and said: “I should not have shared the video.”
However, many did not believe her as they noted that the video of the incident was captioned “before [the dog] kills [the kitten].”
According to Morocco World News, Articles 601, 602 and 603 of the country’s penal code “prohibit poisoning guard dogs, and unnecessarily killing or maiming guard dogs and pets on the animal’s owner’s land.”
Scammers use instant communication applications widely to steal users' information or money due to their widespread use.
To further mislead, the scammers use the account picture that includes the "WhatsApp" logo, which appears to be official and authenticated.
But there is an easy way to make sure that the account is real or not, which is a green verification mark located below the account picture and not inside it, and this mark cannot be obtained by fraudsters.
If any message arrives from an account with an authentication mark inside its image, the message coming from it must be deleted immediately.
The scammers seek to know the account's 6-digit passcode to access the account or the user's bank account numbers to avoid blocking the account.
WhatsApp never asks for any users' credit card information or any other information such as a passcode for services on the application, and if anyone wants to get this information, it means that they are trying to deceive you.
Commenting on the acquisition of Twitter by the American billionaire Elon Musk, Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey said that Elon Musk "is the only solution I trust to restore Twitter as it was.. I am confident that his mission is to extend the light of awareness."
He added in a series of tweets on his Twitter account: "I love Twitter... Twitter is the closest thing we have to global awareness."
On Monday, Elon Musk won an agreement to buy Twitter for $44 billion in a deal that will turn control of the platform, used by millions of global leaders, into the hands of the world's richest person.
It is noteworthy that after Dorsey stepped down from the presidency of "Twitter" in November 2021, he continued on the company's board of directors.
"Idea and service are all I care about, and I'll do whatever it takes to protect them. Twitter as a company has always been my only problem and my regret. It was owned by Wall Street. Getting it back from Wall Street...is the right first step."
Dorsey said, "In principle, I don't think anyone should own or run Twitter. It is the extension of the light of consciousness. It has to be a public good, not a company... Elon Musk is the only solution I can trust to get Twitter back to how it was... I'm confident that his mission."
He added that Elon Musk's goal is to create an "ultimately reliable and broadly inclusive" platform, describing it as "the right goal... this is the right path... I think so with all my heart."
Dorsey expressed his delight, saying, "I am very happy that Twitter will continue to serve public conversations around the world."
After nearly nine years of trading, the agreement ended Twitter's career as a public company since its initial public offering in 2013.
Twitter shares rose about 6% following the news of the agreement, while Tesla's shares fell after Musk's deal to buy Twitter.
Musk argued that Twitter needed to be private to grow into a genuine platform for freedom of expression.
The deal comes just four days after Musk unveiled a funding package to support the takeover, which led Twitter's board of directors to take the deal more seriously and prompted several shareholders to ask the company not to let the opportunity slip, Reuters reported on Sunday.
In a tweet on Friday, the Tesla CEO admitted that he asked Gates "if he is short selling shares of the electric car maker. When investors sell shares, they are betting that the price of the asset will fall."
"I heard from several people that Gates still has half a billion dollars worth of Tesla stock, which is why I asked him, so it's not so secret," Musk said in a tweet.
Elon Musk was responding to a question from one of his Twitter followers about whether the leaked image of a supposed text conversation with Gates was actual.
The Tesla boss said yes, but I didn't leak it to the New York Times. They must have gotten it through friends of friends."
In the circulating picture, which cannot be independently verified, Musk asked Gates: "Do you still have a short position of half a billion dollars in Tesla?"
Gates replied, "I'm sorry I didn't close it. I'd like to discuss the possibilities for philanthropy."
"Sorry, I can't take your philanthropy seriously when you have a massive short position against Tesla, the company that is doing everything it can to contribute to solving climate change," Musk replied.
A spokesman for Bill Gates was not immediately available for comment when contacted by the American network "CNBC", according to a report seen by Kurdsat English.
"It's important to say that what Elon did with Tesla is one of the greatest contributions to the fight against climate change ever," Gates told New York Times opinion writer Kara Swisher last year.
But he added that what Tesla did were "easy things, like passenger cars". Gates stressed the need to make a greater impact on climate change by tackling other industries.
"We basically don't do enough things with regard to steel, cement and meat," he said at the time. "Unfortunately, the things people think about - electricity, passenger cars - are one-third of the problem. So we have to work on two-thirds."
This is not the first time that the two men have publicly disagreed.
When Gates revealed in 2020 that he had bought himself an all-electric Porsche Taycan, one Twitter user asked, "I wonder why Bill Gates decided to go with the Taycan instead of the Tesla."
"My conversations with Gates have been confusing," Musk replied in a tweet.
Naziha Salim was born in Iraqi family of artists in 1927, in Istanbul, Turkey. While her father was a painter, her mother was a skilled embroidery artist.
She was once described by Iraq’s first Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani as "the first Iraqi woman who anchored the pillars of Iraqi contemporary art. "
Her family were famous, and adept artists. His brother Jawad, is widely considered as one of Iraq’s most influential sculptors.
From an early age, Salim was into art and tried to create her own art. Salim Studied arts, and graduated with distinction in the Baghdad Fine Arts Institute. "Because of her hard work and passion for art she was one of the first women awarded a scholarship to continue her education in Paris at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts," Google wrote in its blogpost.
The source explained that the catalog includes weapons in the fields of optical and infrared waves. These abilities are built thanks to the algorithms of a network of artificial nerve cells that will read Nato technology.
The Russian armed forces currently receive large quantities of all types of drones, including lightweight drones such as "Orlan," "Tachyon," and "Eleron," tactical drones such as "Forpost," medium-altitude drones such as "Inokhodets," and heavy drones such as "Altius." "Inokhodets-RU," and jet-powered drones like "The Hunter."
The six missions are :
In May, the Tianzhou 4 cargo craft will be launched.
In June, three astronauts on the Shenzhou XIV mission will be launched to the Tiangong station and stay there six months.
In July, the Wentian space lab, or Quest for the Heavens, will be launched.
In October, the Mengtian space lab, or Dreaming of the Heavens, will be launched.
Soon after, the Tianzhou 5 cargo craft and Shenzhou XV crew will arrive at the station.
The US has linked North Korea-backed hackers to a massive cryptocurrency heist worth $615m from the popular online game Axie Infinity players.
In the game, players can earn crypto by trading their avatars besides playing the game. US officials declared that they had linked the breach to a group called "Lazarus", which is believed to be controlled by North Korea's primary intelligence bureau.
The federal bureau of investigations stated that they managed to confirm that Lazarus Group and APT38, cyber actors associated with North Korea, are responsible for the theft through their investigations.
Lazarus Group gained notoriety in 2014 after being accused of hacking into Sony Pictures and publicly leaking confidential data.
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc and SpaceX, offered to buy Twitter, saying it needed to be "transformed as a private company."
Twitter Inc. adopted a measure that would protect it from hostile acquisition bids in an attempt to thwart billionaire Elon Musk's unwelcome offer to take the company private and make it a bastion of free speech.
The board set up a shareholder rights plan, exercisable if a party acquires 15% of the stock without prior approval, lasting for one year only. The plan seeks to ensure that anyone taking control of Twitter through open market accumulation pays all shareholders an appropriate control premium, according to a statement on Friday.
According to a person familiar with the matter, Twitter enacted the plan to buy time. However, the board wants to be able to analyze any deal and may still accept it.
"The Rights Plan does not prevent the Board from engaging with parties or accepting an acquisition proposal if the Board believes that it is in the best interests of Twitter and its shareholders," the company said.
On Thursday, the Tesla Inc. chief executive officer offered $54.20 a share in cash for Twitter, valuing the social media company at $43 billion. Musk, who said it was his "best and final" offer, had already accrued a stake of more than 9% in Twitter since earlier this year.
Twitter's board met Thursday to review Musk's proposal to determine if it was in the best interest of the company and all of its shareholders.
A poison pill defense strategy allows existing shareholders the right to purchase additional shares at a discount, effectively weakening the ownership interest of any one party. Poison pills are common among companies under fire from activist investors or in hostile takeover situations.
Under Twitter's plan, each right will entitle its holder to purchase additional shares of common stock with a then-current market value of twice the exercise price of the right at the then-current exercise price.
Her new album, “Breath of Nahrain,” is a case in point. It is a compilation of the rich melodies of Mesopotamia — the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that is often mentioned to as ‘the cradle of civilization,’ but is now known as a region of conflict and instability.
The five tracks on the album are sung in Kurdish, Kurmanci, Zazaki, Armenian and Assyrian — covering Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Armenia; a reflection of the area’s diverse history and culture. The album’s recently released first single, the Kurdish-language “Heyran Jaro,” for example, is based on a love song familiar to the region’s nomadic tribes.
The album’s recently released first single, the Kurdish-language “Heyran Jaro,” is based on a love song familiar to the region’s nomadic tribes.
“The song is about two lovers who cannot be together,” Chakar said. “It resembles the big, mad scene — a 15-minute rollercoaster ride of very extravagant music — in Donizetti’s ‘Lucia di Lammermoor.’”
“Heyran Jaro” is not an obvious choice for a single. But, as Chakar explained: “I couldn’t interrupt the lyrics of this love story. I wanted to abide by its spirit,” she said.
It was no easy task for Chakar to put the album together. She was meticulous in her approach to ensuring she was singing these ancient languages properly, and in adapting the folk-song source material into operatic form.
But her insistence on singing in Kurdish has cost her in the past, as it does with most singers who sing in Kurdish. Chakar’s several concerts are being cancelled in Turkey and harsh criticism coming from conservative circles. Still, Chakar felt it was too important a record to be dissuaded from releasing it.
Mayor John Cooper has signed a proclamation declaring March as Kurdish History Month — a designation that members of the Kurdish community say sends an important message.
"We've been here since the late '80s early '90s and we think it's really time for Kurds to be recognized as being a body of people who help the economy, grow the culture, and grow the community here," said Wan Rashid, executive director of Effendi Foundation,
Effendi Foundation is a group that works to unite Kurds living in Nashville. Rashid said the recognition came at a perfect time.
"One of the reasons is because we have Newroz, and as you can see, Newroz is very established in our community it basically means the new year. And the folktale of Newroz is this man that defeated a terrible leader and freed the people," she said.
There are around 20,000 Kurds living in Music City. Rashid said united they're a strong force.
"Organizations today from Effendi Foundation to Kurdish Professionals really want to honor the Kurds in the community here," she said.
Many Kurds arrived in Nashville seeking refuge from violence and persecution. Rashid said a proclamation at a local level is only the start.
"Of it happening on the local level that gives us credibility to then go to the governor and ask them for a proclamation on the state level to where Kurds in Knoxville and Memphis can also say this is a month that is for the Kurds," Rashid said.
She says she hopes people take this as an opportunity to learn more about the Kurdish culture and celebrate it together.
"If you go through all of Nolensville and Murfreesboro Pike you'll see a lot of different businesses that are operated and owned by Kurds. And it's really influential to go and support these communities and these businesses to help them to continue thriving," Rashid said.
The Librem 5—by Purism—is the most secure phone available today for a long list of competitive reasons.
The Librem 5 separates the cellular modem from the main CPU and memory, that physical isolation is critical to securing the rest of the phone, operating system, storage, and memory from the cellular carrier firmware and towers.
The Librem 5 also offers hardware kill switches that physically sever the circuit to Cellular with the first switch, WiFi/BT with the second, and Camera/Microphone with the third, it even offers Lockdown mode when all three switches are turned off. Keeping all the radios separate from the CPU and memory means the ultimate security by hardware isolation.
US actor Will Smith has resigned from the Oscars Academy after slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during last Sunday's ceremony. "My actions at the 94th Academy Awards presentation were shocking, painful, and inexcusable," his statement said.
Less than fifty munities later, smith was awarded the best actor award for his role in "King Richard", where he played the father of tennis stars. "The list of those I have hurt is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home," Smith said on Friday.
"I betrayed the trust of the Academy. I deprived other nominees and winners of their opportunity to celebrate and be celebrated for their extraordinary work. I am heartbroken." Smith said he wanted to "put the focus back on those who deserve attention for their achievements".
He concluded that "change takes time and I am committed to doing the work to ensure that I never again allow violence to overtake reason". The Academy's president David Rubin said it had accepted Smith's resignation, but would continue its disciplinary proceedings.
Rock addressed the episode during a stand-up show in Boston on Wednesday, saying he was "still kind of processing what happened". The comedian, 57, who is currently starring in his "Ego Death" tour of the US, was greeted with a standing ovation by fans.
Rock had earlier decided not to press criminal charges against Smith, reports say.
Smith's wife, actress Jada Pinkett-Smith, broke her silence in a brief Instagram post on Wednesday, writing: "This is a season for healing and I'm here for it."
Although many considered the incident an act to draw global attention, Will's resignation has laid that theory to rest. The incident sparked a global debate. some used the scene in memes. One meme depicted Volodymyr Zelensky slapping Vladimir Putin, photoshopped to the smith scene.