NEW YORK: Elon Musk announced Saturday (Sunday in Manila) that Twitter would temporarily restrict how many tweets users could read per day, in a move meant to tamp down on the use of the site’s data by artificial intelligence (AI) companies. The platform is limiting verified accounts to reading 6,000 …
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Iraq exports 100M barrels of oil in June
BAGHDAD: Iraq exported about 100.59 million barrels of crude oil in June, generating $7.1 billion in revenue, the country’s Oil Ministry announced Saturday. The average price for Iraqi crude oil in June was $71.1 per barrel, the ministry said in a statement, citing statistics from the State Organization for Marketing …
Read More »India addresses soaring tomato prices
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has sought ideas from the public in a bid to curb soaring tomato prices in the South Asian country. The move comes at a time when tomato prices have touched $1 and above per kilogram. Tomatoes, an essential ingredient in Indian cuisine, were sold at …
Read More »Viewing Twitter posts without a login is blocked under temporary restrictions
Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited the number of tweets that users can view each day — restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the social media platform. Owner Elon Musk also imposes other limits on tweets in response to data scraping. …
Read More »42.1% of transactions now in digital — BSP
Outgoing Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Felipe M. Medalla said 42.1 percent of payment transactions have migrated to digital or e-payments as of end-2022, an improvement from 30.3 percent in 2021. Under the BSP’s Digital Payments Transformation Roadmap, about 50 percent of payments in terms of volume should be …
Read More »Canada wants to woo ‘digital nomads.’ Can we compete?
Remote workers have, for some time, been taking their talents to the places they want to stay. They are living and working in various cities around the globe — in some cases lured to specific locales by dedicated programs that make it easier for them to do so. Highly mobile …
Read More »DOE crafting policies for hydrogen integration
At a Glance Hydrogen and ammonia are among the emerging technologies being experimented on by various energy markets; and these are being lined up as transformative solutions to the global goal of decarbonization. The Department of Energy (DOE) is in the process of crafting policy framework and guidelines on the …
Read More »As housing costs soar, some financial analysts advise to scrap the 30% rule
Thirty per cent is the often-touted maximum percentage of your income that you should spend on a home. But in an age where the average one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver rents for $2,787 a month, is that number still realistic? ‘The benchmark doesn’t apply anymore,’ says financial adviser Bruce Sellery. If …
Read More »2 Bank of Canada surveys show consumers and businesses expect high inflation to stick around
Two surveys from the Bank of Canada Friday show that while consumers and business are still expecting things like inflation and wages to be higher than usual for the foreseeable future, they are starting to come back to some sort of pre-pandemic normal — and they’re less worried about a …
Read More »Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney says Bud Light didn’t support her during backlash
Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney says she felt abandoned by Bud Light after facing “more bullying and transphobia than I could have ever imagined” over her partnership with the beer giant. Mulvaney talks of struggling with loneliness and months of ridicule. Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney says she felt abandoned by Bud …
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