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Elon Musk has said that he intends to replace Parag Agrawal as CEO of the social media platform and also intends to reverse the permanent ban on users, according to a Bloomberg report. Agrawal was fired along with other major executives upon completion of the takeover, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is expected to remain CEO of Twitter in the interim period but may eventually cede the role in the longer term, the report said.According to multiple US media…

TQ-230 Permanent Magnet Synchronous Traction Motor and YQ-275 Squirrel-cage Asynchronous Traction Motor. Credit: 維基小霸王/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Electrical machines consume nearly half of all the electrical power generated worldwide, making them one of the top contributors to carbon dioxide emissions. If we are to develop sustainable societies, we must, therefore, make sure that the electric motors we rely on are highly…

Twitter Inc is reviewing its policies around permanently banning users, possibly bringing its content moderation in line with Elon Musk's vision for the social media platform, the Financial Times reported. Twitter has been exploring if there are other content moderation tools that could replace a ban, its harshest penalty for violating rules, the newspaper said, citing multiple people familiar with the situation. Back in May, shortly after inking a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, Musk had pledged changes to the social…

Twitter is reviewing its policies around permanently banning users, possibly bringing its content moderation in line with Elon Musk's vision for the social media platform, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.Twitter has been exploring if there are other content moderation tools that could replace a ban, its harshest penalty for violating rules, the newspaper said, citing multiple people familiar with the situation.Back in May, shortly after inking a $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,37,465 crore) deal to buy Twitter, Musk…

| Spinning out of some late-night bar gossip at New York Comic-Con is the word that the X-Men character Kurt Wagner, better known as Nightcrawler, will be getting horns in the X-books. Currently leading the Legion Of X title by Si Spurrier, Rafael Pimentel and Netho Diaz, cover images (seen below) show a Nightcrawler with huge horns, and spikes all over, but I am told that a) this is not some temporary aberration but b) expect smaller horns to be standard on Nightcrawler going forward. Not a curse, not a secondary…

| Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge is launching a first-of-its-kind permanent collection of graphic novels, making the Lucy Cavendish College Library home to one of the world's most ambitious compilations of the works of artists and writers in this relatively new field. With multiple new academic journals on comics and graphic novels launched in recent years, it's a cutting-edge discipline, exactly the sort of subject for a library such as this. This initial core collection, which is intended to…

Projected megadrought risk.Credit: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s43017-022-00329-1 A large international team of researchers has found, via historical review, that parts of the planet that now experience occasional megadroughts may be changing to become permanently dry. In their paper published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, the group describes the factors guiding their…

TechCrunch: BrandTotal and Unimania agreed to a permanent injunction banning them from using and scraping Facebook and Instagram, and will pay a “significant financial sum” — Facebook parent Meta has settled a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in data scraping operations … TechCrunch: BrandTotal and Unimania agreed to a permanent injunction banning them from using and scraping Facebook and Instagram, and will pay a “significant financial…

The new study provides strong evidence that antibiotics cause unwanted immune responses.A new study has found that early exposure to antibiotics can cause permanent asthma and allergies.A recent study demonstrates that early exposure to antibiotics destroys beneficial bacteria in the digestive system and can cause asthma and allergies.The research, which was published in the journal Mucosal Immunology, has offered the strongest evidence to date that the long-recognized link between early antibiotic exposure and the later…

It's a common misconception that the Moon has a "dark" side. Like a rotisserie chicken, the Moon's rotation ensures a nice, even sunbathe around its equator.But there are pockets that never receive any rays: deep craters and pocks at high latitudes, in the Moon's polar regions, with high walls that protect the crater floor from harsh solar radiation.In these mysterious Moon holes, which maintain freezing temperatures around -163 degrees Celsius (-260 degrees Fahrenheit), scientists believe there may be all sorts of…