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"takt op. Symphony" is a symphonic RPG mobile game that leads the world to return to harmony. Music is a lamp that illuminates the hearts in the midst of despair. However, on a certain day around 2020 in the Western calendar, the "Dissonant Meteorite" suddenly flew down from the sky and brought with it monsters called "D2". This monster hates all kinds of "music" and destroys the humans and the world that play music. Since then, the world has lost music. However, "music" has once again brought strength to mankind as the light of hope for people. The way to fight against these monsters is the girls called "Musicart" who possess the power of music scores. They are the key to saving the world. Players will play the role of a conductor who will guide these girls and fight with them to save the world. Conductors, the world is still filled with the roar of the monster "D2", and the threat to human beings still exists. The story of regaining hope is about to begin here. Let's pick up the baton in Symphonica and solve the mystery of the story! "takt op.", here it goes! The Power of Music: The girls who became "Musicarts" The famous Japanese po[CENSORED]r illustrator LAM is in charge of character design for the game. "Musicarts" with different personalities who have obtained the power of famous music such as Beethoven's Symphony No.5 in c minor Op.67 or Mozart's "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" will all appear in the game. Under the leadership of the Conductor, they will play gorgeous battle movements. Use perfect tactics to win the battle The battle to regain hope has begun, and now it's up to you to lead it all. Strategically place players to activate skills and various effects at the right moment. Calm judgment and correct instructions are the key to dominating the battle. Various playable elements such as puzzle solving and mini-games The greatest joy of adventure lies in solving various unknown mysteries. The game has dungeons and tasks of various puzzle-solving elements waiting for players to experience. Let's immerse ourselves in the world of "takt op." and explore the never-ending story. Explore an adventure in a vast world In the game, in addition to "Symphonica" as the stronghold, players can freely explore various spaces. For example, players can chat with the Musicarts, or take a break in the restaurant to experience this beautiful world leisurely. Deep feelings and moving stories In the game, there are more than 25 "Musicarts" with various musical scores and different personalities. Players will live with them while fighting against D2, experiencing the plots and tasks exclusive to each of them. Players need to keep talking to them, and gradually understand their hearts, to deepen their feelings and build a strong relationship. APKXIOS

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War in Israel tests Biden's foreign policy case for 2024 Republican candidates hoping to unseat President Joe Biden quickly blamed him for the crisis. WASHINGTON — Presidential races don’t normally hinge on crises in distant nations, but the armed conflict that broke out in Israel threatens to undercut Joe Biden’s argument that his foreign policy expertise is making the world more secure. The attacks launched by Hamas fighters expose deficiencies in Israeli intelligence, experts said, while raising fresh questions about what the U.S. is getting in return for the time spent building surveillance capabilities and partnerships in the volatile Middle East. “This is an enormous intelligence failure by the Israelis and the Americans,” said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer and Middle East specialist. “I don’t see any reason to believe that either Washington or Jerusalem had any expectation this was coming.” Follow live updates on Israel here. As a sitting president who pledged to restore competence in the foreign policy arena, Biden now faces accusations from political opponents that global trouble spots are multiplying on his watch. Polls show that Americans are turning against the Biden administration’s arms deliveries to Ukraine in its grinding war with Russia. A U.S. Air Force general predicted in a memo in January that the U.S. and China could be at war by 2025. And a Biden administration initiative to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia is in danger of unraveling. If Israel’s war with Hamas results in the deaths of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, the Saudis may sour on the idea of improving ties to the Jewish state. “The [Biden] administration has spent an enormous amount of effort to work on an Israeli-Saudi normalization agreement,” Riedel said. “That’s probably dead in the water now. Once there are pictures of hundreds of Palestinian casualties — including women and children — the Saudi po[CENSORED]tion is not going to be willing to accept a normalization agreement.” Republican presidential candidates were quick to fault Biden after Hamas launched its attack. GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s campaign put out a statement focusing on the $6 billion in Iranian oil revenues that the U.S. had frozen through sanctions. Iran has historically funded Hamas, with whom Israel is now at war. In exchange for releasing the money, Iran agreed to let five imprisoned Americans return home. “One month ago, President Trump warned that Joe Biden’s weakness and $6 billion payout to Iran would ‘be used for terrorism all over the Middle East,’” the Trump campaign statement said. “That’s exactly what is happening now.” There is no evidence that the $6 billion helped finance the attacks. The money can be used only for medicine, food and humanitarian purposes under the conditions placed on its release, U.S. officials said. Yet in an interview with NBC News, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said his government would decide how it would spend the $6 billion. “These funds have absolutely nothing to do with the horrific attacks today and this is not the time to spread disinformation,” Adrienne Watson, a spokeswoman for the White House’s National Security Council, said in a social media post. Biden’s approach to Iran figures to get more attention as the hostilities with Hamas unfold. He has faced demands from Arab countries and Israel to toughen his posture toward Iran as he tries to revive a nuclear deal reached when he was Barack Obama’s vice president. In 2018, Trump pulled out of the deal, which was meant to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. In a video released Saturday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, another presidential candidate, said that Biden’s policies “have gone easy on Iran and helped fill their coffers.” “We are going to stand with Israel as they root out Hamas and we need to stand up to Iran,” DeSantis said. Facing one of the most perilous foreign policy crises of his term, Biden spoke directly to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Saturday morning. Later in the day, he gave a brief television address from the White House, saying that America’s support for Israel is ironclad while warning Israel’s enemies not to “exploit these attacks.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/war-israel-tests-bidens-foreign-policy-case-2024-rcna119349

Frodo's epic journey through the world: a humpback whale that crossed half the planet An unprecedented ocean voyage from the Mariana Islands to Mexico shows that whale migration patterns are more complex than we thought. A battle-scarred male humpback whale named Frodo just completed the longest known journey for his species, a new study claims. Between 2017 and 2018, the animal swam about 11,000 kilometers from Saipan in the Mariana Islands to Sayulita, Mexico, according to a new study published in Endangered Species Research. The previous record was held by a female humpback who swam just over 10,000 km from Brazil to Madagascar in 2001. When biologist Nico Ransome delved into the male's astonishing trans-Pacific journey, she discovered that he had also appeared near Russia's Commander Islands in 2010 and 2013, and that Russian scientists had named him Frodo after the Lord of the Rings character. who embarks on an epic quest. Frodo has not only broken the distance record, but has also turned the narrative on its head about what we thought were typical humpback migration patterns, says study leader Ransome, a biologist at Murdoch University in Perth. (Australia) and founder of La Orca de Sayulita, a whale watching and research company. The vast majority of the estimated 7,500 humpback whales that breed in western Mexico migrate north to Alaska and Canada to feed during the summers. Frodo, on the other hand, circumnavigated the entire North Pacific and, as Ransome would discover, he is not alone. "I've been obsessed with whale migration for years," Ransome says. "To find out that some of them are going to Russia... it's mind-blowing." (Related: Humpback whales face major setback from climate change) A regular route A few years ago, Ransome began noticing the presence of Russian whales in Mexico. Ransome identifies the animals through an online database called Happywhale, which keeps track of 30,000 humpback whales with black and white fin patterns as unique as a human's fingerprint. "It's like Facebook for whales," says study co-author Ted Cheeseman, a biologist at Southern Cross University in Lismore, Australia, who co-founded Happywhale in 2015. Hundreds of scientists and dozens of whale-watching companies use the Facebook database. data, which has a 97 to 99 percent accuracy rate for identifying humpbacks, Cheeseman says. Study co-author Marie Hill, a biologist at the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, shared the photo she took of Frodo in the Marianas in 2017 on Happywhale. She says such "open collaboration is key to understanding how breeding and feeding grounds are doing." connected, which is critical for the protection and conservation of humpback whales." Frodo's novel voyages prompted Ransome, Hill, Cheeseman and their colleagues to delve into Happywhale's archives to see if other humpbacks made transpacific migrations. They found 117 specimens that migrated from Mexico to feeding areas in Russia between 1998 and 2021. Before this research, only 11 whales had been sighted in both Russia and Mexico. People have sighted more than a third of these Russian whales in multiple years in Mexico's breeding areas. Since 2021, Ransome has documented several more Russian whales in Mexico, including mothers with calves, meaning Frodo's seemingly strange migration is probably a regular route. (Related: Humpback whale po[CENSORED]tions recover in southern Africa) Why go so far? The whales may be making these long journeys to find mates, possibly as "a relic of the whaling industry," Ransome says. In the 1960s, the number of these 18-meter-long marine mammals, hunted for their oil, meat and baleen, dropped to an estimated low of 1,200 animals throughout the North Pacific, a heavily whaling region. The po[CENSORED]tion of the western North Pacific remains in danger, according to the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and studies carried out by Hill in the Marianas between 2015 and 2018 determined that these islands are , in effect, a lost breeding area for humpback whales. https://www.nationalgeographic.es/animales/2023/09/viaje-medio-mundo-frodo-ballena-jorobada

Finding the best performance car of 2023: Top Gear's Speed Week is here Everything you need to know about Top Gear magazine's annual festival of fast… including how we went green(er) in 2023 Speed Week is Top Gear magazine's annual performance car of the year test. A gathering of the greatest fast cars launched within the last 12 months, brought together in one place (this year it’s the Gotlandring track in Sweden, but it could be anywhere in the world) for a week of road and track testing, photography and video production and very little sleep. The goal is to separate the great from the merely good and, eventually, pick an overall winner. Whereas other publications might be laser focused on lap times and performance figures, our judging process is more… organic. We’re looking for all-round ability of course, hence the road and track elements, but the criteria is simple – the winner is the one that brings us the most joy, which is what allows a £300k supercar to compete on a level playing field with a £30k hot hatch. This year we posed ourselves an additional question: “Could we make Speed Week a low-carbon event, without compromising on the, y’know, speed?” What followed was a crash course - from a team within the BBC that knows about these things - in sustainability, or more specifically how to avoid the many and varied pitfalls of claiming to be green, when you're anything but. You see, finding high-quality carbon offsets can be a bit of a minefield and simply getting the event rubber stamped by a third party isn’t the way to go. Far better to scrutinise our own plans, to take a long hard look at the event and make efforts to reduce our carbon footprint wherever possible, within the real-world constraints of time, budget and technology. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/speed-week-2023/finding-best-performance-car-2023-top-gears-speed-week-here

Rugby World Cup: France will face South Africa in the quarter-final The French XV now knows the identity of their quarter-final opponent: they will face South Africa on October 15 at the Stade de France. Ireland, which largely beat Scotland (36-14) on Saturday, will face New Zealand. The Blues and the South Africans faced each other for the last time in Marseille in November 2022, the Blues then beating the Springboks (30-26) © Sylvain Thomas, AFP (Archives) The French South Africa, reigning world champion. The Springboks finished in second place (15 points) in Group B, behind Ireland (19 pts), who defeated Scotland (36-14) at the Stade de France on Saturday October 7. With this quarter-final, the XV of France is attacking a new phase of the competition which will require it to clearly move upmarket, with or without its scrum half Antoine Dupont. “It’s a successful match,” said Blues coach Fabien Galthié after the victory against Italy. “We had to win, we did. Being able to line up all the players and control the match from start to finish is also satisfying.” The statistics, in attack and defense, of the big victory of the Blues, deprived of Dupont, in the recovery phase and hoped for the quarter-final, would almost make one dizzy. Thus, the Tricolores not only won 100% of their scrums and 87% of their touches, but above all they carried 144 balls (their record in this World Cup) for a total of 822 meters covered. In short, they regained their possession game, which led to longer phases of play and led to tries, eight in all. “I asked the players to be able to go beyond playing time, to hold the ball,” explained Karim Ghezal on Saturday morning, the co-coach of the Blues in charge of the conquest, and in particular of the key. “Offensively, I think it's perhaps our best match of the competition, and it's good that it's happening now,” said fullback Thomas Ramos after the match. Very disciplined Blues "The forwards did a big job. We won almost all our rucks, we had speed in our game, that certainly helped us carry the ball to score tries," said him the young winger Louis Bielle-Biarrey after the meeting. Also in defense, France produced a clean copy, missing only nine tackles in total for a success rate of 94%, which no other team at the World Cup had done so far. As for discipline, it was again there, with only six penalties conceded. Despite all these positive points, this performance must be put into perspective given the state of form of the opponent, Italy with 156 points conceded against New Zealand (17-96) and France (7-60), being nothing more than a shadow of itself. Because next Sunday, against South Africa, the reigning world champion, it will be a completely different music that awaits the Blues. The French XV has already had a taste in November 2022 with a confrontation against the Springboks in Marseille won by the Blues (30-26). By then, the XV of France, which benefits this weekend from "two days of breathing before diving" according to Ghezal, will know if it gets back its playing master Antoine Dupont. https://www.france24.com/fr/sports/20231007-coupe-du-monde-de-rugby-la-france-affrontera-l-afrique-du-sud-en-quart-de-finale

The moment I knew: on our first date she said she might die in her 30s; we married the next year Over dinner in the 1980s, Trenna told Greg Mahney about her genetic condition which meant she only had years to live. He decided he wanted to spend whatever time she had left together seen Trenna a couple of times through mutual friends. At first we showed little interest in each other. She was a smoker and I had a beard, traits that were mutually offputting. But in early January 1988, not long after we’d first been introduced, we found ourselves at the same party. She’d given up smoking as a New Year’s resolution and I’d shaved my beard off in exchange for a keg of beer from a mate. We got chatting; it was just small talk. But when Trenna’s friend arrived to give her a lift home, she took it upon herself to write down Trenna’s number on a bus ticket and give it to me. A few days later I called and we arranged to meet at an Indian restaurant. The conversation flowed easily; we shared similar values and were both interested in live music. She seemed to know a lot about bands from the 60s, which was strange – unless she was a few years older than me. When she went to the bathroom I wrestled with my conscience for about half a second then picked up her purse to check her driver’s licence. We were both 30. It turned out she had learned about all these bands from her two older sisters. We started talking about her family, and that was a moment that changed my life. Her story was so amazing to me and so different from my own. It just made me totally fascinated with her. Trenna and Greg Mahney on their wedding day in Perth in 1989 Trenna explained she had a genetic condition called Marfan syndrome. Her mother had it too and died when Trenna was just two. Her father was unable to care for the children and died a few years later himself. She was a ward of the state for 13 years. When she was 15, the children’s home she was living in was closing down and rather than sending her to boarding school, as they might have, they said to her: you’ve got this condition that’s going to kill you before too long, and because of that you’re not likely to find a husband, so you better go off to business school so you can support yourself until the inevitable happens. Both Trenna’s mother and grandmother had died in their early 30s as a result of complications from Marfan syndrome, and she’d been told all her life she was destined for a similar fate. She was sent away to Perth in 1973, totally unsupervised. It’s amazing she didn’t go completely off the rails, but she definitely had a few stories to tell. All of this she revealed on that first date, adding that she expected to die with no warning in the next couple of years. And because of that she wasn’t that interested in getting into any serious kind of relationship. The way she told me about all this wasn’t full of anger or self-pity, it was just so matter-of-fact. I’d come to learn that was the way she looked at life generally. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/08/the-moment-i-knew-on-our-first-date-she-said-she-might-die-in-her-30s-we-married-the-next-year

Mali crisis: Life in Timbuktu and Gao under siege by Islamist fighters People living in cities in Mali under siege by al-Qaeda-linked militants have told the BBC they are facing shortages of food, fuel and medicine, and rapidly rising prices. The blockades have come as fighting intensifies between the army, who are backed by Russian Wagner mercenaries, and both Islamist groups and ethnic Tuareg separatist fighters. For nearly two months, Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) has been trying to completely cut off the historic northern city of Timbuktu, preventing supplies from getting in. "Dozens of trucks loaded with food and goods used to arrive daily in the city, but now, after the siege, nothing comes," said Omar Sidi Muhammad, who lives in the city and works as a journalist. Most of the supplies used to come to Timbuktu from Mauritania and Algeria. "The price of food that was arriving from neighbouring countries doubled," Muhammad said, adding that basic staples like sugar, flour, oil and baby formula had all been affected. "There is a scarcity of fuel and its price has risen by 80%." Prices of basic goods such as cooking oil have soared since the blockade began on Timbuktu The city has also been hit by rocket attacks launched by the militants. "People are afraid but started to get very afraid, terrified, after the latest developments," he added. "Because of the danger, thousands of people had to leave." The UN estimates that 33,000 people have fled. Timbuktu was occupied by Tuareg rebels following an uprising by separatists in 2012, but they were quickly pushed side by al-Qaeda-linked Islamic groups who imposed a strict form of Sharia, or Islamic law, on the city - forcing women to wear full-face veils, banning music and amputating the limbs of criminals. One couple was stoned to death for adultery. So many people fear a repeat if JNIM does succeed in taking the city. After a year of Islamist rule, Malian government forces, backed by French troops, re-took the city. But those French forces have left the country since the army seized power in 2021, and the UN's peacekeeping mission is also pulling out. Gao, the largest city in northern Mali, some 320 km (200 miles) east of Timbuktu, is also being blockaded by JNIM. The militant group tightened its control over the past week, with a local resident, who didn't want to be identified, telling the BBC that a lack of fuel was crippling the city's electricity supply. Pictures sent to the BBC show the normally busy streets of Gao empty Homes are now only getting power for one hour a day. "People are afraid because of the war," the man said. "They are not happy with the rise of the food prices," he said, adding that costs had doubled. "Quite a lot of families have left the city." The city's economy is normally centred around trade with neighbouring Niger and Algeria but the JNIM's actions have caused many merchants to leave the city and left the streets deserted. 'Ready for battle' The blockade of the two cities has come as competing forces in Mali rush to fill the power vacuum caused by the departure of international troops. The UN announced the end to its mission last June and said its forces would gradually leave the country by December, after Mali's military junta refused to extend their remit. This led to both government troops and Tuareg separatist groups vowing to occupy the force's bases which lie in the north of the country, an area which has been under Tuareg control since a 2015 peace deal. Fighting began in August over control of a UN site in the town of Ber and has intensified since then. JNIM has also taken advantage of the chaos to launch its own attacks on government forces. Tuareg groups say they have attacked five government military bases and said in social media posts last month that they aim to take control of the whole of northern Mali, where they want to establish an independent state, called Azawad. At the same time, the military government has vowed to re-take control of the entire country, and on Monday sent a large military convoy towards Kidal, a northern town which is the main Tuareg stronghold. "We consider security throughout the country to be an absolute priority," Col Malick Diaw, a senior figure in the junta, told the interim legislative assembly earlier this month. "We are working together with [the army] to reconquer our lands, which have long been occupied by hordes of barbarians with no faith, law or religion, whose sole aim is to cause suffering and death to innocent people who only aspire to live in peace." Mohamed Mouloude Ramadan, a spokesman for the coalition of Tuareg groups called the CMA, told the BBC: "We will stop them, we've been getting ready for this for a long time." "We're getting more fighters ready for the battle." Regional crisis The conflict is threatening to spread outside Mali and across Africa's Sahel region, as both the government and Tuareg rebels have called for international support. Tuareg groups in Libya, Algeria and Niger have voiced their solidarity for Mali's separatists, with one Nigerien rebel leader calling on fighters "to join them on the front line". Ben Bella, a leader of the Tuareg CMA alliance, told the BBC: "These statements will be followed by the arrival of fighters from Niger, Algeria and Libya to support us in the battle." "This solidarity will confront Russian expansion in the region through the coup governments in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso." Three weeks ago, Mali's junta signed a mutual defence pact with Burkina Faso and Niger, each vowing to help each other against armed rebellions or external aggression, following a threat by other West African countries to use force to restore civilian rule in Niger. All three countries are under military rule, following coups within the past three years. These have led to French military forces, which were providing security assistance against the Islamist insurgency raging in the three neighbours, pulling out of Mali and Burkina Faso, with preparations to leave Niger underway. Mali has since turned to Russia's Wagner mercenary group for military help, and there have been rumours that Niger and Burkina Faso may follow. Dr Alex Vines, director of the Africa programme at the Chatham House think tank, said that with Niger, and especially Burkina Faso, having their own internal security problems, they are unlikely to be able to assist Mali's armed forces. "What this alliance is unable to do is to provide military solidary to each other," he said. He added that Wagner mercenary forces did not appear to be able to fill the gap left by French forces and that "the Russians have been struggling and the Russians are very overstretched, given their commitments elsewhere particularly with the conflict in Ukraine". Dr Vines warned that failing to deal with the crisis in northern Mali "makes the junta in Bamako vulnerable" and there might be another coup "if the military junta fail to respond to the security challenges they are now facing". https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67027659

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U.S. Lawmakers Want to Block China from 'American' RISC-V Senators Marco Rubio and Mark Warner demand to limit China's access to American RISC-V innovations. Designed to be an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) that can be used to build processors for every possible purpose, the RISC-V ISA has become quite a ubiquitous technology that can address both artificial intelligence and high-performance computing applications. This is perhaps why some U.S. lawmakers want this open-source technology to be essentially closed from Chinese entities, reports Reuters. "The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) is abusing RISC-V to get around U.S. dominance of the intellectual property needed to design chips. U.S. persons should not be supporting a PRC tech transfer strategy that serves to degrade U.S. export control laws," said Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in a statement to Reuters. Tom's Hardware has enquired RISC-V and the Linux Foundation for comment, yet has not received a response. Senators Marco Rubio and Mark Warner urge the U.S. government to limit American tech companies' engagement with RISC-V technology with Chinese entities. They fear China's potential misuse of this collaborative tech for military and strategic advantage, which poses national security. RISC-V is a competitor to Arm's proprietary ISA and is used in various tech devices, from smartphones to advanced AI processors. RISC-V was born out of the University of California, Berkeley's innovative labs, and its development has been under the guardianship of a Swiss nonprofit organization, ensuring its open-source nature remains intact. Yet, the prevalent belief among certain lawmakers is that China is maneuvering this open, collaborative spirit to fortify its semiconductor industry. Their concerns not only touch on economic factors but also the potential military advancements that the People's Republic could harness by mastering this technology. Representative Mike Gallagher has even proposed that any U.S. collaboration with Chinese entities on this front should first secure an export license. This technology's international embrace is evident, with companies from both the East and the West integrating it. China's tech titan, Huawei, views RISC-V as foundational to its chip endeavors. Meanwhile, in the U.S., tech powerhouses like Qualcomm and Google have shown enthusiasm for its potential, emphasizing its transformative capability for the industry. Magnitude However, the proposed constraints have sparked concerns within the tech community. They could jeopardize cooperative work on open tech standards between the U.S. and China if enforced. This could pose challenges to China's ambition to be chip-independent and stunt the global market momentum for better, cheaper chips. The magnitude of potential restrictions can be gauged by a statement from Jack Kang of SiFive, who equated such limitations to barring U.S. tech firms from the digital universe of the internet. The implications stretch beyond mere business metrics, pointing to a larger impact on global tech innovation and leadership. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/us-lawmakers-want-to-block-china-from-american-risc-v

A Chinese media scholar explains the Taoist philosophy behind the WeChat app's design WeChat’s splash screen is visually clean and has been unchanged for a decade. Screen capture by Jianqing Chen Elon Musk's vision of Twitter, now rebranded as X, as an "everything app" is no secret. When the X logo replaced Twitter's blue bird, the internet buzzed with heated discussions about just what it would mean for X to be an everything app. Musk promoted his super app project by referring to the Chinese all-in-one app WeChat. But for many American users unfamiliar with WeChat, a train of questions followed. What's it like to use WeChat? How has WeChat become "everything" in China? Would it be possible to replicate the app's success in the U.S.? I'm a Chinese digital media scholar, and I've used WeChat since 2012. But, in contrast to Musk's enthusiasm, I don't think WeChat is something to write home about. I believe it's ordinary rather than special, lacking distinctive features compared with the other po[CENSORED]r apps I studied for my current book project about Chinese touchscreen media. WeChat's inconspicuousness on my phone screen is no accident. Although WeChat is an everything app in the sense of being a digital hub for over a billion users, the app's design is intentionally grounded in a more nuanced and philosophical meaning of the word "everything" than you might expect. WeChat is an all-inclusive media ecosystem Launched in 2011, WeChat has become an all-in-one app that offers services covering most aspects of everyday life, from instant messaging and mobile payments to photo- and video-sharing social networking. It has become a staple of daily activities for 1.3 billion Chinese mobile users. WeChat is also the app that China-bound travelers can download if they want to install only one app. WeChat can help you fill out customs declaration forms, call a taxi, pay for your hotel room and order food. Without WeChat, a traveler in China would be like a fish out of water, since everything in China now runs through smartphone screens and mobile payment platforms. In this sense, WeChat is indeed an everything app. Its "everythingness" refers to its near omnipresence and omnipotence in everyday life. The app creates an all-encompassing and ever-expanding media ecosystem that influences users' daily activities. It forms a gigantic digital hub that, as German philosopher and media theorist Peter Sloterdijk once described, "has drawn inwards everything that was once on the outside." This "everythingness" leaves little room for rival companies to achieve similar dominance and turns every tap or swipe on a user's smartphone into something a big tech company can profit from. This dream of an internet empire is perhaps what is so enticing for tech leaders like Musk. A counterintuitive design philosophy Despite WeChat's status as an everything app, it's one of the least notable and attractive apps on my smartphone. WeChat rarely changes its logo to celebrate holidays or sends admin notifications to users. The app forms a relatively closed social space, since WeChat users can see only what their contacts post, unlike apps like Weibo or TikTok, where celebrities amass millions of followers. But the lack of flashy, attention-grabbing features is actually one of WeChat's intentional design philosophies, as WeChat's founder and chief developer Allen Xiaolong Zhang made clear in his annual public speeches in 2019 and 2020. Zhang emphasized that one of WeChat's design principles is to "get users out of the app as fast as possible," meaning to reduce the amount of time users spend in WeChat. This might seem paradoxical—if WeChat is trying to get its users to leave the app as fast as possible, how can it maintain its internet empire? Typically an app's po[CENSORED]rity is assessed based on how long users spend in the app, and users' attention is the scarce resource various digital platforms fight for. But Zhang claims that in order to sustain users' daily engagement with the app in the long run, it's important to let them leave the app as fast as possible. A low demand for time and effort is key to bringing users back into the app without exhausting them. A Taoist message behind WeChat's design The design of WeChat miniprograms makes Zhang's idea clear. Miniprograms are embedded into WeChat as third-party developed sub-applications, and they provide users with easy access to a large range of services—like hailing a taxi, ordering food, buying train tickets and playing games—without leaving WeChat. Users can simply search in the app or scan a QR code to open a miniprogram, skipping the cumbersome processes of installing and uninstalling new apps. Miniprograms are stored in a hidden panel at the top of the screen. They can be opened by swiping down the screen. These miniprograms appear to be ephemeral, diffusive and almost atmospheric. They give users the feeling that WeChat has disappeared or merged into the environment. WeChat is what media scholars call "elemental": inconspicuous and nonintrusive, yet pervasive and as fundamental as the natural elements, just like air, water and clouds. This environment of pervasiveness and unobtrusiveness resonates with the ancient Chinese Taoist philosophy that understands nothing (wu 无, or "not-being") as that which forms the basis of all things (wanwu 万物 or "ten thousand things"). As Tao Te Ching states, "Dao begets One (or nothingness), One begets Two (yin and yang), Two begets Three (Heaven, Earth and Man; or yin, yang and breath qi), Three begets all things." For Taoist thinkers, not-being determines how all things within the cosmos come into being, evolve and disappear. Although the depth of these sagely texts is unfathomable, the Taoist thoughts from the past help people appreciate the interplay of everything and nothing. This perspective adds another layer of meaning to "everything" and opens up alternative visions of what an everything app can be. Perhaps WeChat's interpretation of the word "everything"—as simultaneously pervasive and inconspicuous—is the secret to its success over the past 10 years. I believe many tech leaders could benefit from a more sophisticated understanding of "everything" when envisioning the everything app, and not just equate "everything" simply with big and comprehensive. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-chinese-media-scholar-taoist-philosophy.html

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If your left or right AirPod isn't working Learn what to do if your left or right AirPod doesn't play audio. If there's no sound in one AirPod Make sure that your charging case is fully charged. Place both AirPods in your charging case and let them charge for 30 seconds. Open the charging case near your iPhone or iPad. Check the charge status on your iPhone or iPad to make sure that each AirPod is charging . Put both AirPods in your ears. Play audio to test both AirPods. If an AirPod still isn't working, reset your AirPods or contact Apple Support. If there's low volume in one AirPod If your left or right AirPod isn't playing any sound, or if the volume is too quiet, follow these steps: Check the microphone and speaker mesh on each AirPod. If you see any debris, clean your AirPods using the guidelines in this article, and see if that fixes the issue. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual > Balance, and make sure that the balance is set in the middle.

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