US China Chip war: China exporters require special licenses to export gallium and germanium from China.China is the biggest producer of these metals. Its in response to US control in Chinese access to few advanced microprocessors. Chinese commerce ministry says these restrictions are in national interests.
This silvery material is used in military euuipment,semiconductors and communication equipments. Earlier US announced the requirement of licences for companies exporting to China from anywhere in the world. Earlier Neatherland restricted the export of certain semiconductor manufacturing equipment. This will affect chip makers like ASML of Dutch . Even Japan has plans to restrict it computer chip making exports. China complains of techhegemony of US.
Competition to Twitter: Meta set to launch Threads to compete with Elon Musk promoted Twitter. This may become functional on Thursday. This is a new app from facebook owner Meta.Its available for pre order on Apple app Store and will be linked to instagram. Dashboard looks similar to Twitter and meta states it is similar to a ‘text based conversation app’.It seems Meta’s coversation app comes free.
The communication may vary from current topics to what may be a trending topic tomorrow.It will also have location data , purchse and browsing history .Even Donold Trump has an chatting app called Truth Social and Mastodon. Recently Bluesky got record traffic when Elon put restrictionson Twitte usage. Mark Zuckerberghas the history of copying other innovations. Reels from Tik Tok, stories from snapchat. As Threads will be part of instagram platform it will be connected with hundreds of millions of accounts.
The July 6 th launch of Threads in the data linked to you section states they may collect financial info,contact info etc.Twitter also collects informations but it dosnt collect information . about finance,fitness and sensitive informations. Twitter has set view restriction. But it seems Threads don’t have such restrictionsons. Alredy. Jack Dorsey the cofounder of Twitter took Jab at Threads.