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Global smartphone shipments are headed for their worst year for over a decade as prolonged economic uncertainties in

Twitter, recently rebranded as X, now sorts account posts based on their like counts, straying away from the platform’s historic approach to display them in the chronological order in which they were posted. This new change affects how logged-out users see other profiles and comes as the latest in the string of alterations made to the platform since Tesla titan Elon Musk took over the company last year. Before the platform was rebranded as X, Twitter blocked users without an account from accessing the site in any form, directing them instead to the login page – a move that was quickly ended. Now for logged-out users, X shows posts on other profiles sorted by their like counts. This new sorting method seems to be done based on likes, and not by the number of views garnered by individual posts as it can be seen that tweets with more views, but fewer like counts are showing up lower in the feed. For instance, if a logged-out user – or one who hasn’t signed up on the platform – now visits Elon Musk’s account, they would see on top his cheeky April 2022 tweet about “buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in” and not his most recent post. Some posts by users on the platform suggest this change was likely made towards the last week of July. It remains unclear why this change has been made as it could frustrate users who may want to see the most recent posts made by other profiles. Earlier this week, X also placed Tweetdeck into a paid service and placed it behind a paywall, and also slowed down access to rivals, and news organisations via the platform. The change makes accessing Tweetdeck, rebranded recently to “X Pro”, to require a subscription to the company’s premium service Blue. Those visiting Tweetdeck’s website without a Blue subscription are now being redirected to a page promoting signup to the premium service. X also seemed to have added a delay of about five seconds when people clicked on links to go elsewhere on the web. The delay was found to be applied to a range of rival social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky. Websites of news organisations that have been critical of Mr Musk such as Reuters and the New York Times also seemed to be slow to load. Read More Elon Musk’s Twitter slows down access to rival websites Twitter is turning Tweetdeck into paid service after slowing down access to rival sites Mark Zuckerberg says he’s ‘out of town’ as Elon Musk drives to his house to fight Snapchat experiences ‘temporary outage’ as My AI chatbot posts own Story Musk’s Twitter takeover sparks mass exodus of climate experts Elon Musk’s Twitter slows down access to rival websites

HONG KONG (Reuters) -China's Lenovo Group on Thursday posted a worse-than-expected 24% fall in revenue for the April-June quarter, hit

Ask Jeeves became a casualty of the search engine wars of the early 2000s. Eventually, their mascot was escorted right out the door.

JAKARTA Indonesia's central bank said on Thursday it had started a trial of cross-border QR code payments with

Electric bus maker Proterra Inc. had support from US President Joe Biden, contracts with 135 transit agencies and

At least two brands have said they will suspend advertising on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after their ads and those of other companies were run on an account promoting fascism. The issue came less than a week after X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly affirmed the company's commitment to brand safety for advertisers.

The US and Brazil are discussing a possible meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Luiz Inácio Lula da

By Jonathan Allen LAHAINA, Hawaii (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Hawaii on

New York City banned access to TikTok on government-owned phones, the latest in a string of US states

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON New York City on Wednesday banned TikTok on government-owned devices, citing security concerns, joining

By Jaspreet Singh and Max A. Cherney Chip design software company Synopsys on Wednesday named 25-year-veteran Sassine Ghazi