Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa, bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. It has a population of around 49.6 million, of which 8.5 million live in…
Google Launches Bard AI Chatbot
A chatbot is a software application used to conduct an online chat conversation via text or text-to-speech, in lieu of providing direct contact with a live human agent. These are computer programs that are capable of maintaining a conversation with a user in natural language, understanding their intent, and replying based on preset rules and…
Amazon Cuts 9,000 More Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs
Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Alphabet (Google), Apple, Meta (Facebook), and Microsoft. Amazon has announced that it will be cutting 9,000 more jobs in a fresh round of…
Japan: Reduced Fertility Rate
Japan is an island country in East Asia, situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the…
Protests in France over pension reform
France, officially known as the French Republic, is a country located in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, giving it one of the largest exclusive economic zones in the world. It boasts of a total population of over 68 million people, with…
Honda recalls 500,000 defective vehicles
Honda Motor Co. is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Honda has been the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959 reaching a production of 400 million by the end of 2019, as well as the world’s largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines (measured by…
Meta (Facebook-parent) cuts 10,000 jobs again
The lay off frenzy across big tech isn’t over yet. In my previous post about Tech Winter, I recounted mass workforce reduction that started in 2022, that saw Meta cut about 11,000 jobs. On October 28, 2021, the parent company of Facebook changed its name from Facebook, Inc., to Meta Platforms, Inc., to “reflect its…
About Daylight Savings
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight time (United States, Canada, and Australia), or summertime (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks (typically by one hour) during warmer months so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The typical implementation of DST is to set clocks forward…
The Ocean is Drowning in Plastic
More than 171 trillion pieces of plastic are currently floating in the world’s oceans, according to a study by a group of scientists who analyzed data starting from 1979 to recent expeditions that trawl the seas to collect plastics. Single-use plastics such as bottles, packaging, and fishing equipment break down over time into smaller pieces…
Mozambique and the Tropical Storm
Mozambique is a country located in southeastern Africa, bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest. The capital and largest city is Maputo. Since 2001, Mozambique’s GDP growth has been thriving, but the…