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Meta Platforms has offered to almost halve its monthly subscription fee for Facebook and Instagram to EUR 5.99 (roughly Rs. 540) from EUR 9.99 (roughly Rs. 900), a senior Meta executive said on Tuesday, a move that aims to address concerns from privacy and antitrust regulators.The price cut follows mounting criticism from privacy activists and consumer groups about Meta's no-ads subscription service in Europe, which critics say requires users to pay a fee to ensure their privacy.Meta launched the service in November to…

A UK startup is building a nuclear fusion rocket engine that aims to halve the journey time to Mars. Pulsar Fusion, an aerospace firm based in Bletchley, expects the system to exceed speeds of 805,000kmph and the hottest temperatures in the solar system. To reach those eye-popping targets, the startup will harness nuclear fusion, a reaction that gives the Sun its energy. In brief, nuclear fusion fuses two atoms together to liberate vast amounts of energy. Scientists believe the process can…

A pill has been shown to halve the risk of death from a certain type of lung cancer when taken daily after surgery to remove the tumor, according to clinical trial results presented on Sunday.The results were unveiled in Chicago at the largest annual conference of cancer specialists, hosted by the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO).​Lung cancer is the form of the disease that causes the most deaths, with approximately 1.8 million fatalities every year worldwide.​The treatment developed by the pharmaceutical…

The QUALIFY clause is pure syntactic sugarImage by Joanna Kosinska on UnsplashIn this article, I’m going to introduce you to the SQL QUALIFY clause: a trick that will help you write shorter and more readable SQL queries.If you work in Data Science/Analytics or Machine Learning, this is a must-have SQL tool for four reasons:First, because it can help you write much shorter queries, simplifying your data collection pipelines. In my experience, QUALIFY reduces the length of many queries by up to 50%.Second, because it will…

These firms are usually the biggest employers in campus placements, but experts said a slowdown in tech spending by their clients in the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector may force them to nearly halve annual fresher hiring targets. The BFSI sector, which makes up the biggest chunk of business for IT services firms, is rethinking expenditures amid recessionary conditions globally. Uncertainties from downturn in stock markets…

Amid the ongoing funding crunch, Indian startups are cutting their spends on cloud storage and renegotiating contracts with service providers like Amazon’s AWS. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in this letter:■ Online gaming companies say TDS will cut rows, compliance load■ For cloud kitchens, pandemic-driven sheen fades away■ What the IT sector can learn from 2008 crisis?Cloud service providers see a price war as startups renegotiate contracts The slowdown in global macroeconomic conditions and…

At the company's 2023 Investor Day presentation, Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy described how the company's organizational structure is designed to ensure full accountability and a collaborative approach that makes sure manufacturing and automation considerations are part of every engineering and design decision."The places I used to work and the top manufacturing companies in the world, they don't sit together," said Moravy. "They're not one team. All of those teams, engineering, manufacturing, design,…

Tesla Inc will cut assembly costs by half in future generations of cars, engineers told investors on Wednesday, but Chief Executive Elon Musk did not unveil a much-awaited small, affordable electric vehicle. Shares fell more than 5% in after hours trade following presentations at the company's investor day from its Texas headquarters. A question-and-answer program is continuing. In the first nearly three hours of the webcast, Tesla executives led by Musk discussed everything from a white-paper plan for the globe to…

Porsche is delivering significantly faster home charging times to current Taycan owners by rolling out a new onboard charging unit that can be retrofitted into existing EVs for under $2,000. Combined with Porsche’s new AC home charger unit, Porsche owners can replenish their Taycan at speeds nearly twice as fast as their original setup. The Taycan first arrived as a 2020 model and has sat as the foundation of Porsche’s all-electric lineup. It has since been joined by several variations of the…

A Republic Airways plane approaches the runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia, on April 2, 2022.Daniel Slim | AFP | Getty ImagesThe Federal Aviation Administration on Monday said it has rejected a proposal to halve the number of hours required to become a co-pilot, as a severe shortage of aviators prompts carriers to cut routes.Republic Airways, which flies short routes for Delta, American and United, proposed to regulators in April that pilots be allowed to join an airline after…