Less than a week after it was launched, Threads reached 100 million subscribers, according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a remarkable achievement for any social network that puts it on track to quickly overtake Twitter’s user base. In contrast to Twitter, which has more than 250 million users and has seen an increase in hate…
Meta has set out new plans for the rising and upcoming application that has drawn the attention of many people. Threads is looking into adding an alternative home feed, of only posts, in chronological order, from the people each individual user follows, according to Instagram boss Adam Mosseri. But a planned system to make Threads…
From August 22 to 24, 2023, South Africa will host the 15th BRICS Summit. The Sandton Convention Centre (SCC), located in Johannesburg, Gauteng, will host the summit. Despite rumors that it would be moved to China so that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin could attend in a country that is not required to detain him on…
After a court-ordered review of the vote established the preliminary findings, Guatemalan electoral officials on Friday asked political parties to respect the outcome of the June 25 presidential election. This comes after numerous allegations of voter fraud led the country’s electoral Supreme Court to suspend the presidential election. The certification of the results was put…
The 100-seat Riga legislature voted Rinkevics, who has been the country’s highest ambassador for almost 12 years, as the new president of Latvia. Rinkevics was chosen by the ruling party of Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins. In 2014, longtime politician and foreign minister Rinkevics came out, revealing on social media that he was “proud to be…
South Sudan, the youngest nation in the world is celebrating its independence today for the 12th time in the Nation’s history. South Sudan has been under the microscope since 2013 when war escalated between SPLM and SPLMIO which are both chaired by the current president Slava Kiir and Riek Machar respectively. Although Peace has been…
The Dutch government said on Tuesday that it will generally prohibit tablets and smart watches from classrooms starting in January 2024 in an effort to reduce distractions during teaching.The Dutch government has announced plans to ban devices, including mobile phones, from classrooms to prevent them from interfering with lessons.The program is being launched in partnership…
The average globally temperature on Monday exceeded every record previously held dating back to 1884. On Tuesday, it soared even further, surpassing the previous record for the highest temperature, which had previously been set in August 2016 at 16.92 degrees Celsius, by a few degrees Celsius. The reading, according to scientists, was the highest ever…
