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| Industrial contamination disrupts flash chip output at 2 Japan plants |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 06:43 PM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment
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TOKYO – Operations at two Japanese factories producing flash memory chips have been disrupted by the contamination of industrial materials, chipmaker Kioxia said today.
It comes as the tech industry grapples with a global semiconductor shortage that has hampered the manufacturing of numerous products from cars to gaming consoles.
Kioxia said it suspects “contamination of materials used in the manufacturing processes” at its plants leading to operations being partially suspended, without giving further details.
The company, a spin-off of Japanese conglomerate Toshiba, said it was working to restore full output at the factories in central and northern Japan as soon as possible.
Kioxia’s United States-based partner Western Digital also confirmed the disruption and estimated it will cause “a reduction of flash availability of at least 6.5 exabytes” at the plants, which are run by the two companies as a joint venture.
A unit of digital data, there are one billion gigabytes in an exabyte.
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| Last responders: Mental health damage from Covid could last a generation |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 03:50 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic
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Last responders: Mental health damage from Covid could last a generation, professionals say - Many psychologists and psychiatrists have reported an influx in people seeking mental health support during the pandemic.
- Numerous studies have been carried out looking into the impact of Covid on mental health.
- One study, published in The Lancet medical journal in October, looked at the global prevalence of depression and anxiety disorders in 204 countries and territories in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic.
Aside from the obvious physical impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, health professionals have told CNBC that many people are struggling with the immense emotional and societal changes it has brought and, what’s more, are finding it hard to adapt to a “new normal” now that lockdowns are starting to ease.
Many psychologists and psychiatrists have reported an influx in people seeking mental health support during the pandemic, with the unprecedented global health crisis causing an increase in anxiety and depression as well as exacerbating existing mental health conditions.
“I have never been as busy in my life and I’ve never seen my colleagues as busy,” Valentine Raiteri, a psychiatrist working in New York, told CNBC.
“I can’t refer people to other people because everybody is full. Nobody’s taking new patients ... So I’ve never been as busy in my life, during the pandemic, and ever in my career,” he said, adding that he’s also seen an influx of former patients returning to him for help.
Raiteri said that many of his patients are still working remotely and were isolated, with many feeling “disconnected and lost, and they just have this kind of malaise.”
“That is really hard for me to do anything about,” he said, noting: “I can’t make the pressures disappear. I can always treat the illness that it provokes.”
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| ‘You’re treated like a spy’: US accused of racial profiling over China Initiative |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 03:11 PM - Forum: Politics
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It was sometime before 7am on 21 May 2015 when Xiaoxing Xi, a physics professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, was woken by people pounding on his front door. Still not fully dressed, he opened the door to be confronted by about 12 armed FBI agents.
The agents burst into Xi’s house, running about, shouting “FBI, FBI”. They pointed their guns at his wife and two daughters and ordered them to walk out of their bedrooms with their hands raised. Xi was handcuffed and arrested in front of his family.
His alleged crime? Four counts of wire fraud for passing sensitive US technology to China, the country of his birth. “Overnight, I was painted as a Chinese spy all over the news and internet and faced the possibility of up to 80 years in prison and a $1m fine,” he wrote in a statement to the US House of Representatives last year.
Four months after his arrest, the case collapsed before reaching trial. Xi, who came to the US from China in 1989 at the age of 32, was told through his lawyer that the US justice department (DoJ) had dismissed the case after “new information came to the attention of the government”.
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| Afghanistan: Evidence mounts of Taliban reprisal arrests and killings |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 03:03 PM - Forum: Politics
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A number of women who participated in protests demanding women’s rights in Afghanistan are missing.
The Taliban deny they are holding them and also say they have granted a general amnesty to all those who worked with the previous regime.
But the UN has raised alarm about a pattern of reprisals against activists, journalists, former government officials and security forces.
The BBC has investigated multiple incidents that have taken place recently, some just in the past couple of weeks.
All identities have been hidden and voices changed to protect the people who spoke to us.
Yogita Limaye reports from Kabul.
Filmed and Edited by Sanjay Ganguly and Aakriti Thapar
Produced by Imogen Anderson
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| A giant donut-shaped machine just proved a near-limitless clean power source |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 02:45 PM - Forum: Environment Protection News
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A giant donut-shaped machine just proved a near-limitless clean power source is possible
(CNN)There's no silver bullet to the climate crisis, but nuclear fusion may be the closest thing to it. In the quest for a near-limitless, zero-carbon source of reliable power, scientists have generated fusion energy before, but they have struggled for decades to sustain it for very long.
On Wednesday, however, scientists working in the United Kingdom announced that they more than doubled the previous record for generating and sustaining nuclear fusion, which is the same process that allows the sun and stars to shine so brightly.
Nuclear fusion is, as its name suggests, the fusing of two or more atoms into one larger one, a process that unleashes a tremendous amount of energy as heat.
Nuclear power used today is created by a different process, called fission, which relies on splitting, rather than fusing, atoms. But that process creates waste that can remain radioactive for tens of thousands of years. It's also potentially hazardous in the event of an accident, such as Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster, triggered by an earthquake and tsunami.
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| Why did Amanah give Puteri Wangsa to Muda: Johor Wanita PKR chief |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 02:18 PM - Forum: Politics
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JOHOR BARU – Amanah’s offer of the Puteri Wangsa seat to Muda does not sit well with Johor Wanita PKR chief Napsiah Khamis Maharan.
Speaking to The Vibes, she said the seat is one that Pakatan Harapan (PH) won in 2018 with a very comfortable majority with then Bersatu candidate Mazlan Bujang.
However, since he defected to Perikatan Nasional, she said PKR has done extensive work in the constituency to repair PH’s image among voters.
As party coordinator for the area, she was slated as PKR’s candidate for the state constituency.
“I took the responsibility to restore PH and PKR’s image in the constituency.
“We did so much work to build trust for PKR because the Puteri Wangsa seat was won with (Mazlan using) the party logo.”
During initial seat negotiations among PH component parties, Napsiah said Amanah requested to contest in the constituency.
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| Postpone Johor polls or allow campaigning and ceramahs, says PH |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 02:13 PM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: The Pakatan Harapan (PH) presidential council has called on the government to postpone the upcoming Johor elections because of the rising number of Covid-19 cases.
“To ensure that this increase is not used as a political instrument by others, the government should consider postponing the Johor elections,” it said in a statement today.
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| Pahang govt wants apology, RM1mil from activist over logging claims |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 02:11 PM - Forum: Environment Protection News
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PETALING JAYA: The Pahang government is seeking an apology and RM1 million in damages from environmental activist Shariffa Sabrina Syed Akil for allegedly making defamatory statements on logging activities in the state.
It said Shariffa Sabrina made the statements in two Facebook posts, dated Dec 29 and Dec 30 last year, and during a Sinar Harian interview on Jan 12.
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| Muda info chief apologises after Kedah chapter implies PH, PKR corrupt |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 02:08 PM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: Muda information chief Luqman Long has apologised after the party’s Kedah chapter implied in a Facebook post late last night that Pakatan Harapan, PKR and other coalitions are corrupt.
Luqman said this post was clearly made to cause a misunderstanding among the public, adding that it did not adhere to any of Muda’s principles.
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| Pact with Muda may sway urban voters back to opposition, says analyst |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 10:53 AM - Forum: Politics
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GEORGE TOWN: The offer by DAP and Amanah to Muda to contest six seats in the Johor elections may sway urban voters to “return” to the opposition, an analyst said.
It comes at a time when these voters have grown unhappy with Pakatan Harapan (PH), said Azizuddin Sani of Universiti Utara Malaysia.
Azizuddin, who has just completed a three-day study of the political situation in Johor, told FMT: “The urban voters, who were previously PH supporters, have had a change of heart. They are not happy with PH anymore.
“The PH branding is poor after a 22-month stint in Putrajaya. Many are unhappy with its performance. As you can see, even PKR is choosing to go under its own banner instead of PH’s.”
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