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Home Tech News Shocking social media videos show PROTESTS at Apple iPhone factory in China over lockdown Workers are protesting by carrying out a large-scale march at the Foxconn plant in Central China. By: AP | Updated on: Nov 23 2022, 14:05 IST People crossing downed barricades at Foxconn's iPhone plant in Zhengzhou, Central China. (REUTERS) People crossing downed barricades at Foxconn's iPhone plant in Zhengzhou, Central China. (REUTERS) Social…

When Zoë Kravitz landed the role of Selina Kyle in The Batman cast I’d assume a pandemic was not one of the challenges she had anticipated going into the shoot. I’d also assume that she didn’t expect pop superstar Taylor Swift to be the person she bubbled with during COVID-19 while she was in London filming the DC movie. However, both things proved to be true, and now the two are not only closer as friends, but also collaborators.Due to strict pandemic protocol, making a movie between 2020 and 2021 called for the cast…

| Jeremy Haun of The Beauty, The Realm, The Red Mother, The Approach has a new collection of 28 horror comics all written and draewn by him during lockdown and coming from Image Comics in May 2023 with an introduction by Shirley Jackson Award winning author Nathan Ballingrud. And it's called Haunthology. Which came first, the title or the comic? From creatures of the night…to even more terrifying creatures of the day, Haunthology is an anxiety-inducing collection of 28 short stories and vignettes from the mind of JEREMY…

Two suspects were arrested earlier today following a three-hour lockdown at CEGEP Saint-Jean-sur Richelieu, 40 kilometres southeast of Montreal.According to a CTV News report, the school went into lockdown a little after 9 a.m. Friday morning when school officials alerted teachers and students about suspicious activity around the CEGEP’s premises. While the details of those suspicions have yet to be released, it is said that a man dressed in a white long-sleeve shirt and dark cargo pants was seen wearing a bullet-proof…

Covid cases have more than doubled in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, dampening hopes that authorities will lift a lockdown of the area surrounding the world’s largest iPhone factory. (Bloomberg) -- Covid cases have more than doubled in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, dampening hopes that authorities will lift a lockdown of the area surrounding the world's largest iPhone factory. A seven-day lockdown of the Airport Economy Zone, which houses Apple Inc.'s global iPhone production base, expires noon…

HONG KONG—When a small group of workers spent 27 hours in early October locked inside the world’s biggest iPhone plant, it seemed little more than another temporary confinement in China’s continuing war against Covid-19.But the outbreak persisted, and on Monday, days after saying operations were stabilizing, Foxconn 2317 -0.50% Technology Group cut its outlook for the current quarter. The company said it was locking down eight of the 11 dormitory blocks at the plant in…

Change point analysis results. Lines that are vertical or sloped represent change points and are color-coded as follows: (1) green are COVID-consistent; (2) yellow are not COVID-consistent due to change point confidence interval width; (3) orange are not COVID-consistent due to mean location; and (4) red are not COVID-consistent for both confidence interval width and mean location. The vertical gray dashed lines indicate the location/time of the onset of…

Foxconn, Apple's principal subcontractor, has seen a surge in Covid-19 cases at its Zhengzhou site. The lockdown of Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory, the world's biggest producer of iPhones, has highlighted some of the risks of relying on zero-Covid China's manufacturing sector, analysts told AFP.Foxconn, Apple's principal subcontractor, has seen a surge in Covid-19 cases at its Zhengzhou site, leading the company to lock down the vast complex in a bid to keep the virus in check. Images then emerged of panicking workers…

The lockdown of Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory, the world's biggest producer of iPhones, has highlighted some of the risks of relying on zero-Covid China's manufacturing sector, analysts told AFP.Foxconn, Apple's principal subcontractor, has seen a surge in Covid-19 cases at its Zhengzhou site, leading the company to lock down the vast complex in a bid to keep the virus in check.Images then emerged of panicking workers fleeing the site on foot in the wake of allegations of poor conditions at the facility, which employs…

A report by Reuters stated the development, with an unidentified source quoting that Foxconn was looking to boost production at another facility in Shenzhen.iPhone production hit at largest plantThe potential production impact comes when electronics giants are often busy before the year-end holiday season, which is also a busy period for Apple. iPhone production is expected to be hit as much as 30 percent. According to market research firm Counterpoint, 80 per cent of the recently launched iPhone 14 series’ production…