Apple Music just rolled out Lossless Compression and Spatial Audio on WWDC, but another feature is coming this fall. Dynamic Head Tracking will add to the Dolby-powered technology. (Photo : by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 07: An advertisement for Apple Music is posted on the streets of Manhattan on August 7, 2015 in New York City. After launching in June Apple announced it has attracted 11 million users during its trial period. Apple Music Spatial Audio The Vice President of Apple Music and Beats, Oliver Schusser told Cult of Mac that the Dolby Atmos-powered spatial audio will make it…
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Multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at U.S.-based cloud computing services provider Fastly.Reuters could not immediately confirm the issue affecting the sites.Fastly said it was investigating “the potential impact to performance with our CDN services,” according to its website.Most of Fastly’s coverage areas were facing “Degraded Performance”, the website showed.Separately, Amazon.com Inc’s retail website also seemed to be down. Amazon was not immediately available to comment.Nearly 21,000 Reddit users reported issues with the social media platform, while more than 2,000 users reported problems with…
In what is being touted as the world’s most sophisticated law enforcement action against organised crime to date, hundreds of suspected criminals have been arrested worldwide in a three-year operation, using an encrypted messaging app covertly run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday said that his government has struck a heavy blow to organised crime that will echo around the world.Calling it a watershed moment in Australia’s law enforcement history, Morrison told a news conference that the operation has charged more than 800 hundred alleged offenders, seized millions of dollars in criminal…
China has pledged to provide Covid-19 vaccines and cooperate in vaccine research with Southeast Asian countries as it aims to boost influence in the region to counter the US amid recent military incidents involving the Philippines and Malaysia in the South China Sea.In an in-person meeting held in Chongqing on Monday, state councillor and foreign minister Wang Yi told counterparts from the Asean member nations that China has delivered 100 million anti-Covid shots to the countries along with other pandemic-fighting medical material.“China will continue to provide more vaccines as needed and carry out vaccine-related cooperation in terms of research and…
Nepal resumed its stalled coronavirus vaccination campaign on Tuesday with 1 million doses given by China after the Himalayan nation made international pleas for help with a shortage of doses.Thousands of people, all 64 years old, lined up at vaccination centers even before they opened. People aged 60 to 63 are scheduled in coming days.Nepal’s vaccination campaign began in January but was stalled when neighboring India suffered a coronavirus surge and banned exports of the AstraZeneca vaccine it produces. Nepal had received 1 million AstraZeneca doses donated by India and paid for 2 million more but never received half the…
Spurred to an extent by India importing medical goods from China to combat the deadly second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, trade between the two neighbours soared by more than 70% year-on-year to over $48 billion in the first five months of 2021, China’s customs data showed on Monday.Calling it a “spectacular growth”, Chinese state media interpreted the increase in bilateral trade as a sign of resilience in trade ties between the two nations despite conflict at the border and political differences.“Trade between China and India soared 70.1% in US dollar terms in the first five months of this year…
The U.K. and European Union are on course for a fresh confrontation over Northern Ireland, with the bloc warning of “swift” and “firm” action if Britain again breaches the terms of the Brexit deal.Ahead of a key meeting with Britain’s Brexit minister David Frost on Wednesday, European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic warned Brussels would react strongly if the U.K. fails to implement the parts of the Brexit deal relating to Northern Ireland.“If the U.K. takes further unilateral action over the coming weeks, the EU will not be shy in reacting swiftly, firmly and resolutely,” he wrote in an article…
Joe Biden invited his opposite number in Ukraine to visit the White House this summer — part of efforts to reassure the eastern European country before the U.S. president meets Vladimir Putin in Geneva next week.Tensions between Ukraine and Russia — high since Putin annexed Crimea in 2014 and fomented a war nearby — spiked in April as the Kremlin stationed tens of thousands of troops on its neighbor’s border and raised the threat of an invasion.The fear in Kyiv is that Biden is prepared to make concessions to Putin to win cooperation on issues such as nuclear non-proliferation. In…
Even as the genomic evidence is mounting to point the needle of suspicion at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) for laboratory leak of the Sars-CoV-2 virus, the global community will be vary of nailing China for the pandemic fearing an economic retaliation from the Xi Jinping regime. To date, 173 million people have been afflicted with the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and as many as 3.7 million succumbing to it, apart from trillions of dollars lost in economic opportunity.Also Read: Here’s why the Wuhan ‘lab leak’ theory is back in newsWhile a Wall Street Journal report quoted a May 2020…
Thousands of police have been drafted in from across Britain to beef up security for what organisers promise will be disruptive and “annoying” protests when G7 leaders gather for a summit this week.The first in-person meeting of the leaders of major developed economies for nearly two years will take place in Cornwall on the tip of southwestern England, with the focus on the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change.Police have closed off roads and coastal paths to Carbis Bay, the small seaside resort which is hosting the event, erecting steel fences and putting other restrictions in place.An extra 5,000 officers have…