Russia seems to have blocked access to popular social media platforms as a response to the mass bans issued by different companies in the region this week.
Updated: March 04, 2022
Reports coming in on Friday suggest Russia has blocked access to platforms like Facebook, Twitter and BBC and even the App Stores.
The development was shared by Mathieu von Rohr, the journalist at DepSpeigel via this tweet on Friday.
Replying to his tweet, people have talked about Russia blocking major social media platforms, looking to disrupt the flow of information from Ukraine and other parts of the who
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The action seems like a direct rebuttal to Ukraine requesting companies to stop services coming from Russia to prevent further escalation of the ongoing war. As you might recall, Facebook and YouTube have already restricted access to platforms like RT and Sputnik that are controlled by the Russian state.
Banning Facebook, Twitter and the App Stores feels like a direct attack on the companies originating from the United States. Adding BBC to the list means similar action against the UK as well.
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After all, Russia has been hit with multiple sanctions from the US Government as well as the European Union (EU) in the past few days. Ukraine even asked Apple to stop selling its products in Russia, which the company eventually did in the aftermath of the backlash from people on the internet. Similarly, FIFA and UEFA have removed the Russian national team and other football clubs from the FIFA 22 video game.
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The Ukrainian Ministry also approached ICANN earlier this week, asking them to shut down Russian websites and servers. But reports suggest ICANN has rejected the request based on the grounds of fair policies.
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Digital payment services like Apple Pay and Google Pay have also faced disruptions in the past few days, hampering financial transactions for people in Russia.
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Russia Ukraine War: Cyberpunk 2077 Creator Stops Selling In Russia And Belarus
CD Projekt is known for its high-budget productions "The Witcher" and "Cyberpunk 2077."
CD Projekt is known for its high-budget productions "The Witcher" and "Cyberpunk 2077."
The developer is the latest firm to stop doing business in Russia over the past few days, which includes companies like Apple, Spotify, Facebook and more.
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Poland-based games developer CD Projekt Red, which has developed popular games like Cyberpunk 2077, is cutting off sales of its products to Russia and Belarus.
“In light of the Russian military invasion in our neighbouring country of Ukraine, until further notice, the CD PROJEKT Group has made the decision to halt all sales of our games to Russia and Belarus," the company said on Twitter.
“Today, we begin working with our partners to suspend digital sales and cease physical stock deliveries of CD PROJEKT Group products, as well as all games distributed on the GOG platform, to the territories of Russia and Belarus" it added.
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In a report to investors, the company estimated that “the approximate cumulative share of Russia and Belarus in CD PROJEKT RED product sales and in sales revenues obtained in the GOG.COM segment over the past 12-month period was 5.4 per cent and 3.7 per cent respectively", reports The Verge.
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CD Projekt Red joined Apple in entirely halting sales to Russia. Many other companies have also made changes to their products and services in response to Russia’s invasion, such as Spotify removing content from state-backed Russian media, Facebook no longer recommending Russian state media globally, and EA pulling Russian teams from its FIFA and NHL games.
Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has called on gaming companies around the world to take action against Russia.
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In a letter tweeted on Wednesday addressed to “all game development companies and esports platforms", Fedorov asked that they “temporarily stop the participation of Russian and Belarusian teams and gamers in all international esports events and cancel all international events holding on the territory of Russia and Belarus".
In the tweet, he tagged the Xbox and PlayStation Twitter accounts directly. A few minutes later, he asked companies like Riot Games, EA, and Ubisoft to close their offices in Russia.
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And in a tweet on Thursday, he pleaded to big companies, including Nintendo, Epic Games, Tencent, and Rockstar, saying that Russia “doesn’t have any respect for the principles and humanity."
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Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal Announces Return To Office From March 15 As COVID-19 Eases Globally
Twitter will start returning to offices globally from March 15. (Image Credit: Reuters)
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Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal said that more details about the logistics, dates, safety measures, and how users work will be coming soon.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be easing across the world, many tech giants are re-opening offices in hopes of keeping the work culture that was hindered with Work From Home alive. Earlier this week, Google announced that its employees are going back to work starting next month and now, Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal has announced that the micro-blogging site will also move back to offices starting March 15. In a tweet, Agarwal said that wherever employees feel the most productive and creative is where they will work and this includes working from home full-time.
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“There’s a lot happening in the world right now, but given the improving state of the pandemic, we have made an important decision that I wanted to share as it impacts all of us. It’s been almost two years since we closed our offices and travel, and I’m excited to announce that we are ready to fully open up business travel and all our offices around the world! Business travel is back with immediate effect, and office openings will start on March 15. Our culture is electric and palpable. Office visits, team meets, and events all bring that culture to life in such a powerful way, and I can’t wait to see it all happen," Agarwal said in a statement announcing the return to offices globally.
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The Twitter CEO, however, said that the company’s priority remains the safety of its employees and the decision about where to work from, should remain with the employees. “We’re now at a stage where you’re living your lives, adjusting to local health guidelines, and deciding what works best for you. So too, the decision about where you work, whether you feel safe for travelling for business, and what events you should attend, should be yours.
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Agarwal said that in 2020, Twitter adjusted quickly to working virtually with resilience and agility, but almost all the staff was working from home. He said that distributed working will be much, much harder and anyone who has joined a meeting remotely while others were in a conference room knows this pain. “There will be a lot of challenges in the coming months, but we’ll need to be proactive, intentional, learn, and adapt. We’re in this together, and we each play a role in the open, inclusive, and productive culture we want to create," he said.
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Further, Agarwal said that more details about the logistics, dates, safety measures, and how users work will be coming soon. He further thanked the staff that has remained in office including data center workers. “We appreciate you."
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HOME » NEWS » TECH » GOOGLE IS TESTING A DARKER DARK MODE, BUT IS IT ANY DIFFERENT? HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW
Google Is Testing A Darker Dark Mode, But Is It Any Different? Here's What We Know
Google Search got standard Dark Mode that has a dark grey shade, in September 2021.
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Dark mode is a theme that has taken over the internet and mobile space. A majority of people on both iOS and Android opt for the Dark Mode on their smartphones if given the choice. To take dark mode a notch further, Google is now testing an even darker dark mode for its Android app. This was first found in a report from 9to5Google, where the company is seen testing a theme that is darker than the usual dark grey theme but still lighter than pitch black. Google had earlier tested a “pitch-black" dark mode on desktops.
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The new dark mode is being tested on Google’s mobile app and is said to be the more attractive dark theme choice for OLED display devices as it will save battery life. A report in Android Police notes that the new theme is there in Google’s latest 13.8 beta in the Google Play Store.
Those who can not wait for an official rollout, can download the new, “darker" dark mode via APKMirror or can join the beta test group for Google Search.
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An earlier 9to5Mac report had shared a screenshot where we can notice the clear difference in the existing and newer Dark Modes. However, the darker Dark Mode offers a brighter font colour that may not be everyone’s cup of tea. In that case, we hope that Alphabet-owned Google will consider giving options like the bright mode, standard Dark Mode, and enhanced Dark Mode.
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Google Search started adding dark mode support via a server-side update in September 2021. The option is available on multiple web browsers such as Brave, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox. The update essentially meant that users can change the appearance of their web browser to Dark Mode or dark that applies on all supported websites. Users can check for the dark theme by going into Settings > Search Settings > Appearance and selecting “dark".
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Russia Ukraine War: Russia’s Isolation on Earth Moves Up Into Space
The moves from companies and government's across the world stand to further isolate the Russian space agency from its Western space partners and limit Russia’s private space activities dramatically.
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OneWeb has canceled an upcoming satellite launch using a Russian rocket and suspended all future launches that relied on Russia.
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Updated: March 04, 2022, 11:12 IST
OneWeb, a satellite internet company partly owned by the British government, has canceled an upcoming satellite launch using a Russian rocket and suspended all future launches that relied on Russia, the company announced Thursday after a tense public standoff with Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency.
Also Thursday, Roscosmos announced that it would stop selling rocket engines to US companies.
The moves, fallout from Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, stand to further isolate the Russian space agency from its Western space partners and limit Russia’s private space activities dramatically. OneWeb’s loss of a reliable rocket provider for launches also poses novel challenges for the company as it had aimed to complete its constellation of 648 satellites in orbit later this year.
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OneWeb was rescued from bankruptcy in 2020 by the British government and other investors. It was scheduled to launch 36 satellites aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan on Friday. The company has sent roughly 400 satellites to orbit since 2019, every time using a Soyuz, a workhorse rocket that’s been active since the days of the Cold War space race.
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But Wednesday, just after the Soyuz rolled out to the pad before its launch, Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s space chief, announced two conditions aimed at countering the sanctions placed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine: The space agency would not proceed with the satellite mission unless Britain withdrew its multibillion-dollar stake in OneWeb and the company provided a “guarantee that its satellites will not be used for military purposes.”
Rogozin also posted a video on Twitter showing Roscosmos personnel on a platform next to the rocket covering up British, US and Japanese flags emblazoned on the rocket’s exterior. “The launchers at Baikonur decided that without the flags of some countries, our rocket would look more beautiful,” said Rogozin, a former deputy prime minister who often makes bombastic remarks on social media.
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The space agency’s ultimatum, which came three days before the previously planned launch, spurred emergency discussions among British officials and OneWeb shareholders, who decided Wednesday night to cease all future launches from Baikonur, the spaceport in Kazakhstan where Russia conducts most of its launches. Rogozin suggested on Twitter that OneWeb’s decision would plunge the company into another bankruptcy proceeding.
Chris McLaughlin, OneWeb’s chief of government affairs, dismissed the warning.
“This is an incredibly well-funded company with no debt, backed by powerful international shareholders who made the decision themselves,” he said.
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Britain does not possess its own ability to launch large payloads to orbit. McLaughlin said OneWeb would look to alternative launch providers in Japan, India and the United States.
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“We always keep an eye on the launcher environment, but this is a totally new and unprecedented thing,” McLaughlin said.
The company was rescued from bankruptcy in 2020 by India’s Bharti Enterprises, OneWeb’s largest shareholder, and Britain, whose $500 million public investment in the satellite operator aimed to boost Britain’s space economy. Without rockets to launch on, OneWeb’s aim to complete its mega-constellation faces serious disruption. It is competing with SpaceX’s Starlink constellation to beam broadband internet to remote regions around the world.
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OneWeb had already faced pressure from British politicians to follow energy companies in severing Russian business ties. The company had paid for its Russian launches in bulk through Arianespace, a French rocket company, and had six more missions remaining under the contract — a launch lineup likely worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
In the coming days, OneWeb is set to enter negotiations with Arianespace to determine how, if possible, to retrieve the money for the suspended Soyuz missions, according to a OneWeb official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive business deliberations he was not authorized to disclose. The official added that it was unclear to OneWeb executives when or how the 36 satellites currently in Russia for Friday’s now-canceled mission would come off the rocket, or where those satellites will be stored while OneWeb searches for a different launch provider.
“There is no quick fix to this problem,” said Caleb Henry, a satellite industry analyst at Quilty Analytics. “They have the money to find new launches, it’s just the huge inconvenience of doing so.”
Henry added that launch contracts of this size are typically signed two years in advance.
“OneWeb had anticipated finishing their constellation by August, so that is not going to be possible with a new launch provider,” he said.
Russia’s move to hobble the business of one of its space agency’s biggest commercial clients was perhaps the strongest example so far of how the war in Ukraine was spilling over into space, an area where the country has for decades found cooperation with countries that were once its Cold War adversaries.
Last week, Roscosmos withdrew more than 80 Russian personnel from French Guiana where the European Space Agency has its only launch site and flies commercial Soyuz missions. Then the European agency said a joint robotic mission to Mars by it and Russia, expected to launch later this year, is now “very unlikely” to proceed on time. And on Thursday, Roscosmos said it would stop cooperating with Germany on joint space station research projects.
With the barrage of Western sanctions over the invasion, Roscosmos’ isolation from its Western partners seemed inevitable, said Victoria Samson, a space policy analyst at the Secure World Foundation.
“It’s not encouraging that Russia’s space agency is self-isolating,” she said. “Maybe this is Russia expediting the death of connections that might be happening in due time anyways. But now it’s being done on their terms.”
NASA, which jointly manages the International Space Station with Roscosmos, has said it intends to continue cooperating with its Russian counterparts. The two partners had been negotiating an agreement to launch Russian astronauts on Crew Dragon, a SpaceX vehicle that carries NASA astronauts.
Beyond cooperation with NASA, Russia said Thursday that it would halt the sale of rocket engines to U.S. companies.
“In a situation like this, we can’t supply the United States with our world’s best rocket engines,” Rogozin said on Russian state television. “Let them fly on something else, their broomsticks, I don’t know what.”
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The freeze may most acutely affect Northrop Grumman, which uses Russian-made engines for its Antares launch vehicle that ferries cargo to the space station for NASA. SpaceX also provides this service to the space station, as do spacecraft launched by Japan and Russia.
In a more symbolic move, Rogozin said Russia would no longer provide assistance in the use of a different Russian engine already purchased and in use by United Launch Alliance for Atlas V, one of the most frequently used U.S. rockets.
The company’s CEO, Tory Bruno, played down the effect of the loss of technical aid from Russia, saying, “We can do without if necessary.”
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