Good news for fertilizer, solar panel, and electric vehicle battery companies: a massive underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock has been discovered in Norway, containing enough minerals to meet global demand for those products for the next 50 years. Norwegian mining company Norge Mining said the 70 billion tonnes of phosphate rock was uncovered in the southwest of Norway, where it sits alongside other minerals such as titanium and vanadium that are used in the aerospace and defense industries. Phosphate rock is used in the production of phosphorus, an essential component in the fertilizer industry – 90% of the world’s…
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A passkey is a unique digital key generated and stored on the secure enclave of your iPhone, iPad or Mac. With this passkey, users will be able to sign into any Apple web property using Face ID or Touch ID instead of a password. This takes the place of a password which had to be long and complicated for greater security. Remembering a password is about to become a thing of the past for users who run iOS 17, iPadOS 17 and macOS Sonoma who will be assigned a passkey which can be used to sign in to their Apple…
The Twitter competitor from Meta, Instagram Threads, is expected to launch on July 6th. Both App Store and Google Play Store listings show a similar series of screenshots of the app, showing how you can log in with your Instagram handle, find the accounts you follow on Instagram on the new app, and post in an interface similar to Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, or any of the other text-focused social apps. Meta has also added a launch date teaser to the Instagram app. Typing “threads” into the search box (or a number of other keywords) causes a ticket icon to appear on the…
Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon — the open-source decentralized competitor to Twitter. It’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in our post-Elon Musk era. The idea of Mastodon is that you don’t join a single platform that one company controls. You join a server, and that server can show you content from users across the entire network. If you decide you don’t like the people who run your server or you think they’re moderating content too strictly, you can leave and take your followers and social graph with you. Think about it like email, and you’ll…
You need an account just to read tweets now, and you’ll have to pay for Twitter Blue “verified” access to see more than 600 posts per day Elon Musk continues to blame Twitter’s new limitations on AI companies scraping “vast amounts of data” as he announced new “temporary” limits on how many posts people can read. Now unverified accounts will only be able to see 600 posts per day, and for “new” unverified accounts, just 300 in a day. The limits for verified accounts (presumably whether they’re bought as a part of the Twitter Blue subscription, granted through an organization, or verification…
Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, made a surprise visit to Pakistan on Thursday, according to a tweet by Azfar Ahsan, former Minister of State and Chairman Board of Investment, as well as the Founder of Nutshell Group. Accompanying Jack Ma were a team of seven individuals, including five Chinese nationals, one American citizen, and one Danish citizen. https://twitter.com/MAzfarAhsan/status/1674740028507922432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1674740028507922432%7Ctwgr%5E90ce6f56cee7a8ab16567de5bc7d39a3735a0faa%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpropakistani.pk%2F2023%2F07%2F01%2Falibaba-founder-jack-ma-makes-a-surprise-visit-to-pakistan%2F Azfar revealed that Jack Ma’s visit to Pakistan was purely for personal reasons, and he opted to stay in Lahore during his time in the country. Notably, even the China Embassy appeared to be unaware of the…
The ‘bioinspired’ robot can change its shape on its own to best suit its surroundings. Caltech has a new RC car-sized robot that can change its shape to drive, fly, and walk to meet the needs of the moment. In its press release, the university compares the M4 — short for Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot, which sounds like a rejected pitch for a ’90s kids’ show — to a Transformer, and it’s not too far from the truth. The robot is packed with electronics, motors, and a small computer that lets it decide what form it should take to get around. The team…
If you want to browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web, then you need to be signed in to a Twitter account. If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you’ll be unable to see any of the content that was previously available to the public without any account login. Now you are required to either sign in to the platform or create a new account, effectively blocking you from viewing tweets and user profiles or browsing through threads unless you’re a registered Twitter user. Twitter didn’t immediately make a public…
Microsoft today announced a slew of new AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in the Edge sidebar. While a lot of the shopping features that Microsoft built into Edge over the years aren’t exactly fan favorites, this new set of tools actually looks useful. Microsoft will now, for example, use Bing’s GPT-powered AI capabilities to automatically generate buying guides when you use a query like “college supplies.” It will automatically aggregate products in each category it comes up with, list their specs so you can compare similar items and, of course, tell you…
WhatsApp announced a new and quicker way to transfer chat from your old phone to a new phone through a QR code-based method. The company said that users migrating to another phone with the same operating system will be able to transfer WhatsApp data using a local Wi-Fi connection. To transfer your chat history, make sure both devices are turned on and connected to the same Wi-Fi network. Then, open WhatsApp on the old device and go to Settings > Chats > Chat transfer. On completion of this step, you will see a QR code. Scan the QR code from…