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Russian internet providers have begun implementing workarounds to speed up the video-streaming platform YouTube amid what appears to be a government effort to throttle the platform’s speeds, business daily Kommersant reported on Wednesday, citing industry sources. The move comes nearly a month after Russian online users began experiencing steep drops in YouTube loading speeds. These outages came at the same time that Russia’s state-run telecommunications giant warned that “technical issues” caused by Google removing its equipment from Russia were leading to the slowdowns. At the same time, Russia’s state media regulator Roskomnadzor called on Google CEO Sundar Pichai to reinstate…

By Michael “Buzz” Balzer, The Bezerk Company, with a foreword by Adam Bezerk. Adam Bezerk We live in the Golden Age of “R”. VR, AR, MR, XR… the world of technology continues to bring us new and more amazing versions of reality. Ultimately, we believe it is Augmented Reality (AR) that offers the greatest potential for the real-world destinations our industry creates. Seamlessly blending virtual content with physical landscapes is truly the best of both worlds. But what about the OG R, good old Virtual Reality (VR)? VR gets a bit of a tough rap in the industry. But if…

According to several tech experts, the YouTube video could help you remove water from a wet iPhone or Android smartphone. Submerging a wet phone in rice is an old trick, but The Verge’s David Pierce and iFixit suggest you can achieve the same result by playing a YouTube video on it. There are several YouTube videos that show how to remove water from your phone. One video titled “Sounds of Removing Water from Your Phone Speaker (Guaranteed)” has been viewed more than 45 million times. People who commented on the video have formed a community in the comments section, saying…

Big tech companies, which have dominated Wall Street after driving the market to record highs in the first half of 2024, are now struggling with the aftereffects of a global sell-off that has wiped nearly $1 trillion (£755bn) off their combined market capitalisation.The so-called “Magnificent Seven” is a term popularized on Wall Street inspired by classic Western movies and includes tech giants Alphabet (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Meta (META), Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA) and Tesla (TSLA). These companies played a key role in driving the rise of the S&P 500 (^GSPC) last year, with a Morgan Stanley report highlighting…

His comments come after he was banned from Match of the Day following his criticism of the previous government’s immigration policies.BBC bosses were under pressure to sack Lineker over comments he made at the time, in which he likened the Conservative government’s immigration policy to Nazi Germany, and he had been told the previous year by the broadcaster’s director general, Tim Davie, to stay out of politics.The BBC’s highest-paid star has previously defended his political tweets, saying he continues to speak out on social issues “so that I can look at myself in the mirror at night”.Musk won the battle…

The Indian government has announced that under the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), which came into force on May 1, 2022, it will import up to 160 tonnes of gold from the UAE at special prices in fiscal year 2024-25. As part of the agreement, India has committed to importing up to 200 tonnes of gold per year from the UAE with a 1 percent tariff concession under the Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ), News.Az reported citing foreign media. India notified 140 tonnes last fiscal year and 160 tonnes for 2024-25, the official added.Think tank GTRI said in a June report…

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – The fees you pay to play or participate vary by district, from a few hundred dollars per sport to nothing at all.”At the high school level, it’s $200 for the first sport and $50 for each sport after that,” said Jeff Casella, Mentor High School athletic director.Mentor instituted a Pay for Play policy nearly 20 years ago, and in Twinsburg, which has implemented Pay to Participate since budget cuts in 2012, the district calculates it differently.”That represents 30 percent of the cost of operating our activities, 30 percent of the cost of athletics, 30 percent of…

According to the Business Standard, the Indian government has notified manufacturers and traders to import up to 160 tonnes of gold from the UAE at special prices during 2024-25 under the India-UAE Free Trade Agreement. The agreement, officially called the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), came into force on May 1, 2022. Under the agreement, India has agreed to import up to 200 tonnes of gold per year from the UAE with a 1% tariff concession under the Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ).India notified 140 tonnes last fiscal year and 160 tonnes for 2024-25, the official added. Think tank GTRI said…

Listen and subscribe to Stocks in Translation on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts.Gold futures (GC=F) are hitting record highs, hitting $2,555.2 an ounce on Monday, making a 400-ounce bar worth $1,022,080.Gold has surged this year, emerging as the world’s second-best performing asset after cryptocurrencies. Its 23% gain so far this year has outpaced the large-cap Nasdaq Composite Index (^IXIC), which itself is up 18%. (The Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund (BITW), a proxy for the overall cryptocurrency market, is up 47% this year.)Gold funds saw their biggest inflows in four weeks, attracting $1.1 billion, according…

Spies from France and the United Arab Emirates hacked Telegram founder Pavel Durov’s iPhone in 2017, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. The joint espionage operation, codenamed “Purple Music,” was reportedly born out of concerns that Islamic State was using the private messaging app Telegram for recruitment and attack planning, and was carried out several years before Durov’s surprise arrest in Paris over the weekend. The Journal cited an unnamed former French intelligence official as saying France had been pursuing a “long-running effort” to “compromise Telegram”, but did not comment on the…