Cricket Sports

What Will Happen To ODI World Cup 2023, If Doesn’t Play In Asia Cup 2023?

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Assuming that India won’t play in Asia Cup 2023, Pakistan Cricket Board Chief Ramiz Raja cleared their stand that they won’t play in ODI World Cup 2023 scheduled just after the Asia Cup. It is to be noted that no international team has visited Pakistan since 2009 after the terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka team.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Ramiz Raja set a condition for Pakistan to play in ODI World Cup 2023
• Pakistan didn’t play any international cricket on its soil after the 2009 terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka team
• England will visit Pakistan to play three Tests

What Did Ramiz Raja Say About India?

Ramiz Raja Say About India

“Our position is blunt”, he said. If India doesn’t play in Asia Cup 2023 in Pakistan, Pakistan won’t participate in ODI World Cup 2023 in India. “Let them play without Pakistan”, said Ramiz Raja. He further said that if Pakistan didn’t play in the world cup no one would see that.

He said that Pakistan had defeated the biggest business-making cricket team in the world. They had played in the final of the T20 World Cup. Ramiz Raja said that he had always said that they had to improve the economy of Pakistan cricket and that would happen only if their team performed well.

Ramiz Raja said about India that they had defeated India in the T20 World Cup 2021 and the Asia Cup. They had beaten the board of billion dollar economy twice in one year.

Why International Teams Stopped Playing In Pakistan?

It was during the Asia Cup 2009 in Pakistan that a terrorist attack took place on the Sri Lanka team outside the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Teams stopped visiting Pakistan for cricket until 2015 when Zimbabwe toured Pakistan … Read the rest

Technology

Elon Musk Hires An iPhone Hacker To Fix Twitter Bugs

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After fixing his team, Elon Musk is focusing on fixing the “broken” search feature on the platform and removing the non-dismissible login pop-up. The pop-up appears every time someone tries to browse and these are the things that ruin the Internet. Mr. Hotz is already hired for this job.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Musk hires Mr. Hotz as a Twitter intern for 12 weeks
• Hotz is a security hacker known for hacking iPhones

Who Is Mr. Hotz?

Mr. Hotz is a security hacker better known for developing jailbreaks for iOS in 2007. He also developed Play Station 3 reverse engineering. But it isn’t the first time that he is coming into contact with Elon Musk. The Twitter chief is already familiar with Mr. Hotz. He even tried to hire Hotz at Tesla but kept didn’t.

Mr. Hotz founded Comma.ai and according to Tech Crunch, he founded the company after getting into a fight with Musk during the Tesla episode. Hotz claimed that his firm will develop a driver assistance system that will equip other cars with Tesla Autopilot-like functionality. But Tesla claimed that it was “extremely unlikely” that Hotz could beat the Autopilot with his iPhone hacking skills. On the contrary, Hotz was determined to prove Elon Musk wrong.

Mr. Hotz Hired For Twitter

How Is Mr. Hotz Hired For Twitter?

Mr. Hotz appreciated the ultimatum Musk gave to his employees to “go extremely hardcore” or leave. Elon Musk asked him to join Twitter to fix the broken search function and remove the non-dismissible login pop-up. But it will be a 12 weeks internship period and Mr. Hotz has to perform and give results to continue his association with Twitter and Elon Musk.

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Technology

Twitter T-Shirts Go From “#StayWoke” to “#Stay@Work” On Musk’s Orders

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In his quest for a new Twitter, Elon Musk found a closet full of t-shirts with “#StayWoke” printed on them. And he got a creative idea to transform the tee to better represent the Twitter work culture. But his idea could trigger a bitter “culture clash” among Twitter employees.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Elon Musk comes up with a new t-shirt design for Twitter
• He shared a video in which he shows “#StayWoke” tees neatly packed on shelves

See The Video Here

The video shows a black “#StayWoke” t-shirt and more “#StayWoke” tees in black and blue colors filled in the closet in the background. Elon Musk tweeted the video yesterday claiming to have found “#StayWoke” t-shirts stacked in a closet at his San Francisco office. The person holding the camera can be heard saying “Here we are at the merch thing and there is an entire closet of hashtag woke.”

What Is The New Twitter T-Shirt?

Twitter T-Shirts

Elon Musk is changing everything on Twitter and the latest in this series is the old “#StayWoke” t-shirt that Musk changed to “#Stay@Work” to represent the new work culture of Twitter. But employees fear it could be a reason for a “culture clash” between them.

According to the new work culture, Twitter supports a no-holds-barred work ethic. Also, Elon Musk has already asked his executives and engineers to work “extremely hardcore” or leave. It was an ultimatum given to them in a recent meeting. He axed those who are in disagreement with Musk.

Shortly after taking the control of social media, Elon Musk fired almost half the workforce and removed those who disagree with him or his work culture.

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Sports

Predictions For Brazil’s First World Cup Match Against Serbia

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Brazil will play its first match in Group G against Serbia at the Lusail Stadium on Thursday. Brazil last played with Serbia four years ago in a group match and came out victorious with a 2-0 score.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Five-time world champions Brazil won their last world cup 20 years ago
• Brazil is the only nation in the history of FIFA to have qualified for every tournament
• Brazil has a fully-fit squad available for the Thursday match

Brazil Squad

Brazil Squad

Tite’s talented squad is oozing confidence, especially after their record-breaking performance in the CONMEBOL qualification campaign where Brazil collected 45 points after winning 14 out of 17 matches. Rest three matches were drawn. But two decades have passed since Brazil won its fifth world cup in Seoul. The pressure on Brazil – the No. 1 team by FIFA ranking – is to live up to the expectations of their fans. They have to improve their performance as they were knocked out at the quarter-final by Belgium four years ago.

Serbia Squad

Serbia Squad

Serbia is ranked 25th by FIFA but their performance in UEFA was quite impressive. They topped their group after winning 6 matches out of 8 and drawing the two. Their best performance was against Portugal where they achieved a last-minute win by 2-1. They have also been promoted to League A of the UEFA Nations League earlier this year. Here they won 4 out of 6 matches. In the international arena, they lost only 2 matches from 16 games. But in the world cup, they lost 7 out of 9 matches.

Brazil VS Serbia

Brazil’s First World Cup Match Against Serbia

Here Brazil has an upper hand as they have won two previous matches played against Serbia. Could Brazil beat Serbia? How will Brazil performs … Read the rest

International Sports

See The Truth Behind Comedian Joe Lycett’s Shredding Of £10,000 ($17,800) Cash

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Comedian Joe Lycett’s threat to David Beckham of shredding $1,700 in protest against the footballer’s Qatar World Cup partnership wasn’t a bogus call. But the comedian didn’t shred the cash in real either.

Highlights

• Joe Lycett posted a video showing him shredding two piles of cash on Twitter on Sunday
• The comedian did the act to highlight Qatar’s poor record for the LGBTIQ+ community

What Happened To The cash?

On Sunday, Joe Lycett dropped a video of him walking up to a shredder with two piles of cash and dropping the bundles into the machine. But on Monday, he clarified in another video that the money wasn’t destroyed. He said that he would never destroy real money and he would never be so irresponsible. The 10 grand had already been donated to LGBTIQ+ charities.

Why Is Joe Lycett Protesting Beckham’s Partnership With Qatar?

Lycett Protesting Beckham’s Partnership With Qatar

The comedian described Beckham as a “gay icon” and referred to Beckham’s historic support of the LGBTIQ+ community. He said Beckham was the first premiership footballer to shoot with gay magazines like Attitude, to speak openly about Beckham’s gay fans, and the footballer married a Spice Girl, which was the gayest thing a human being can do.

He further said that Qatar was voted as one of the worst places in the world to be gay; homosexuality was illegal and punishable by imprisonment and, possibly even death for Muslims. David Beckham hasn’t responded to the comedian’s challenge.

How Is LGBTIQ+ Treated In Qatar?

According to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, LGBTIQ+ were arrested, thrashed, and kept in solitary confinement due to their sexuality. But the FIFA organizers have told that LGBTIQ+ members won’t face any discrimination during the treatment.

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International Today's Special

Meet American Geologist Marie Tharp Who Produced The First Map Of the Ocean

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Today’s Google Doodle is dedicated to Marie Tharp, the American geologist and oceanographic cartographer who helped in proving the theories of continental drift. Her work got her the title of one of the greatest cartographers of the 20th century.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Marie Tharp worked at the Lamont Geological Observatory
• She co-produced the first map of the ocean floor with geologist Bruce Heezen

How Is 21 November Related To The Life Of Marie Tharp?

Born on July 30, 1920, in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Marie Tharp went on to become the first woman to work at the Lamont Geological Observatory where she did a great job under the supervision of geologist Bruce Heezen. Considering her work and observation, she was named one of the greatest cartographers of the 20th century by the Library of Congress on 21 November 1998.

American Geologist Marie Tharp

Work And Observations Of Marie Tharp

Marie Tharp was introduced to mapmaking by her father who worked for the US Department of Agriculture. A master in petroleum geology from the University of Michigan, Marie Tharp went to work at the Lamont Geology Observatory in 1948.

Marie Tharp produced maps of the mysterious ocean floor using the data gathered by Bruce Heezen. She developed the ocean-depth data of the Atlantic Ocean with echo sounders and took her findings of the Mid-Atlantic Range to Heezen who termed her work as “girl talk”. But Bruce Heezen had to accept the findings on comparing the V-shaped rifts with earthquake epicenter maps.

In 1957, Tharp and Heezen co-published the first map of the ocean floor in the North Atlantic. Later the map was published by National Geographic as “The World Ocean Floor”. She donated her map collection to the Library of Congress in 1995. The Lamont Geological Observatory … Read the rest

Technology

Software Engineers Asked To Meet Musk In Person After Mass Exodus From Twitter

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Elon Musk continues to overhaul Twitter despite facing criticism for his radical measures including long intense hours of work. In the latest step, Musk asked all software engineers to Twitter’s San Francisco office at 2 pm today.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Twitter software engineers are asked to report at the San Francisco office today
• Software engineers were told to send a summary of what their coding has achieved in the past
• Elon Musk wants to understand the Twitter tech stack with this meeting

Twitter’s New Order For Software Engineers

Software engineers received an SOS to fly to San Francisco to reach the 10th-floor office at 2 pm today for an urgent meeting. It has been made mandatory for all engineers to attend the meeting except those who can’t physically access the Bay Area or have family emergencies.

Software Engineers Asked To Meet Musk

What Is The Reason For This Urgent Meeting?

This meeting will help Musk “understand the Twitter tech stack”. The engineers are told to come prepared with a bullet-pointed summary with 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of what their coding work has achieved in the past six months. The meeting would be short said a follow-up email.

Why Are Twitter Employees Resigning?

A day before, 1,200 employees resigned forcing Twitter to close its office as a protest to an “extremely hardcore” work environment after Musk asked them to commit to intense long hours of work or lose their jobs.

Elon Musk has already fired 7,500 employees, scrapped the work-from-home policy, and imposed long working hours to overhaul the social media company.

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Cricket Sports

Watch India VS New Zealand 1st T20I On DD Sports And Amazon Prime Video

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Indian cricket squad will start their New Zealand T20I tour on Friday. And fans of the Indian team are expecting a great start after a disappointing exit from T20 World Cup 2022. Keep reading to find more details about the match.

HIGHLIGHTS

• India will start its New Zealand tour with the first T20I today
• It is the first international match after losing T20 World Semi-Final
• Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma aren’t included in the tour

Who Is Included In The Indian Squad For New Zealand?

Team India is excited to start a new series after the loss of the T20 World Cup. This time the managers have tried to include young blood to bring fresh energy into the team and their approach. With youngsters Umran Malik, Washington Sundar, Harshal Patel, and Sanju Samson ready to hit the pitch, India can show some aggressiveness after facing criticism for a slow approach in T20 cricket.

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will rest during the tour and the likes of Suryakumar Yadav and Rishabh Pant will take the responsibility of maintaining an aggressive attitude.

India VS New Zealand 1st T20I On DD Sports

What Is Paying From New Zealand?

New Zealand’s premier fast bowler Trent Boult will rest for the T20I series. But the big guns like Glenn Phillips, Daryl Mitchell, and Finn Allen of the T20 World Cup will show their firepower under the captaincy of Kane Williamson.

How To See The Match?

The match will be played at Sky Stadium from 12:00 PM IST. DD Sports and Amazon Prime Video will give the live telecast of the match. You can also check various news websites for live commentary and scores.

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Business

Amazon Axing 10,000 Employees Under Annual Operating Planning Review

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Amazon hardware chief Dave Limp said some roles would no longer be required in the layoff process started by the company on Wednesday. According to The New York Times report, it will be the largest job cut in the company’s history.

HIGHLIGHTS

• 10,000 Amazonions would lose their jobs
• Employees from the device, retail, and human resource division will be most affected
• Amazon calls it the annual operating planning review process

Why Is Amazon Laying Off Its Employees?

Amazon’s spokesperson Kelly Nantel told TechCrunch that as part of their annual operating planning review process, they always looked at each of their businesses and what they believed they should change. As they had gone through that, given the current macroeconomic environment, some teams were making adjustments, which in some cases meant certain roles were no longer necessary. They didn’t take those decisions lightly, and they were working to support any employees who might be affected.

Amazon Laying Off Its Employees

Amazon hardware chief Dave Limp wrote in a memo to workers that after a deep set of reviews, they recently decided to consolidate some teams and programs. One of the consequences of those decisions was that some roles would no longer be required. It pained him to have to deliver that news as they knew they would lose talented Amazonians from the Devices & Services org as a result, he added.

Who Are The Affected Employees?

Amazon will remove 10,000 employees (3%) in corporate technology roles but the cuts will remain fluid and could change according to needs. CNBC reported that cuts would remain focused on devices organization, retail division, and human resource department.

Managers have started informing employees about the layoff. But the affected employees are provided an opportunity to find new roles … Read the rest

Technology

See Elon Musk’s Witty Reply To Pranksters Criticizing Mass Layoff On Twitter

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Elon Musk tweeted a picture of him posing with two people with the caption “Welcoming back Ligma & Johnson!” this gives the impression that Ligma and Johnson have been hired by the microblogging site and the CEO is welcoming them. But the truth is just the opposite.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Elon Musk shared a picture with two pranksters who were criticizing the layoffs at Twitter

• The latest tweet is seen as a witty reply to pranksters

• There is no information about Twitter re-hiring fired employees

Let’s Study Musk’s Tweet

Musk tweeted the picture and captioned “Welcoming back Ligma & Johnson!” Soon after he sent the second tweet adding that it was important to admit when he was wrong & firing employees was truly one of his biggest mistakes.

The billionaire admitted his mistake and welcomed the two employees – Rahul Lgma and Daniel Johnson. But they weren’t ex-employees of Twitter. They are pranksters and the tweet was a fitting reply to their pranks.

Elon Musk’s Witty Reply To Pranksters

What Was The Prank Musk Replied To?

As soon as Twitter started firing employees, netizens started criticizing the mass layoff by Musk. Ligma and Johnson also pretended to be laid-off Twitter employees on the Internet. They tricked media outlets to gain attention as people were anxiously waiting to know about the mass layoff on Twitter.

People posted several images showing the layoff of Twitter employees. But Musk replied to the meme in which Rahul Ligma was seen talking to reports holding a copy of Michelle Obama’s book ‘Becoming’. Musk replied to that meme “Ligma Johnson had it coming”.

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