Fat Animal Signs in 2023 (Iverson Lee)

Interesting topic for 2023 years that you have on your bazi chart that you have it you will be surprised that you will become fat animal signs in 2023. “Will I get fat in 2023?”.

You will learn how to detect this probability from your BaZi, how it could happen likely, and more importantly, the way to address it :) 

Russia Backtracks on Decision To Block Twitter After Receiving Signs of Cooperation

The Russian government is seemingly backing off from banning Twitter for now, seeing how the platform has somewhat agreed to delete banned content faster. Still, regulators said they would continue to throttle Twitter’s speed in the country until mid-May.

Last month, Russia accused the social media platform of failure to remove posts related to suicide, drugs, and child pornography. State regulators then began slowing down the loading of photo and video content on Twitter, threatening to block the platform completely if it didn’t change course.

But according to the Associated Press (AP), Roskomnadzor – the country’s media regulating authority – said on Monday that it had decided against a ban, “taking into account the decision made by Twitter for the first time to change the principles and speed of its own moderation service in Russia, and the removal of a significant part of the prohibited content.”

The agency noted that Twitter was taking 81 hours to delete banned content after receiving notification – a far cry from the 24 hours required by law. But officials were willing to give the company more time to comply after holding talks with it on 1 April, Reuters said.

Russian officials previously slammed social media platforms for enabling street protests that demanded the release of jailed government critic Alexei Navalny. Last Friday, a Moscow court fined Twitter 8.9 million Rubles (~RM477000) for not removing content that encouraged minors to participate in unauthorised protests.

Biden Signs Executive Order, Seeks Funding To Address Global Chip Shortage

US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to address the ongoing global chip shortage, Reuters said. Insufficient chips have begun to strangle the tech and automotive industries, leading to widespread alarm throughout the US government.

Biden’s executive order triggers a 100-day review of supply chains for four critical products: semiconductor chips, large-capacity batteries for electric vehicles, rare earth materials, and pharmaceuticals. The US president will also be pursuing US$37 billion (~RM149 billion) in funding to boost chip manufacturing in the country.

US industry groups, including chipmakers and carmakers, have pleaded for more investment in semiconductor manufacturing. In a recent letter addressed to Biden, they noted that the US share of global chip-making capacity fell from 37% in 1990 to just 12% today.

They blamed this decline on “substantial subsidies offered by the governments of our global competitors, which have placed the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage in attracting new fab construction.” In other words, they’re saying, China subsidises their chipmakers, you got to help us out too.

On a related note, former president Trump’s feud with China is at least partly to blame for the current chip shortage. Trump banned Huawei from buying chips made with US technology, prompting the Chinese company to hoard chips ahead of the ban, Reuters noted.

Trump also slapped sanctions on China’s top semiconductor manufacturer, SMIC, causing its customers look elsewhere for chips. Ultimately, this put even more strain on global supply as chipmakers struggled to contend with increased demand, on one hand, and decreased production (thanks to the pandemic) on the other.

The big question, of course, is whether Biden will take a less hardline approach towards China – it could go a long way in alleviating this crisis or preventing a repeat.

Google Signs Massive Deal With News Corp, In Exchange For Contents

News Corp has announced that Google has agreed to sign a three-year deal with the company in exchange for contents from its news sites all over the world. The exact financial terms behind the deal were not revealed but News Corp has stated that it will receive “significant payments” from Google.

According to the press release from News Corp, among its publications that are coming to Google News Showcase as the result of this deal includes The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post from the US together with The Times & The Sunday Times and The Sun from the UK. The Australian and Sky News is part of the deal too.

Meanwhile, the new deal does not only involve content access. News Corp stated that there will also be the development of a subscription platform as well as audio journalism, investments in video journalism by YouTube, and ad revenue sharing.

The announcement is certainly an interesting development for Google who has been facing pressure from the Australian government regarding an upcoming law that requires the search engine giant to pay media companies for the contents that appear on Google’s sites. In fact, it actually got to the point where Google is already looking to pull out Google Search from Australia in its attempt to ease the pressure.

However, signs of Google bowing down to the pressure have begun to appear earlier this month when it signed a paid deal with several Australian media houses including Nine Entertainment, and Seven West Media. So, given these deals, it seems that users in Australia will most probably able to continue using Google Search for the foreseeable future.