These numbers are the headlines of an eye-opening report that shows the massive gains in consumer attention achieved during lockdown have not been lost now that the physical world is open once more. In fact, users have doubled the time spent on smartphones.
Meesho’s ranking in the Top 10 reflects the booming mobile commerce industry in India. Moreover Bumble and Tinder show the capacity of dating apps. In terms of games, Tall Man Run, Stumble Guys and Fill The Fridge were the big winners in Q2 2022 downloads. Finally, BeReal and LiveIn breathe new life into the social genre. As of July 28, 2022, BeReal has been downloaded almost 23 million times. The main markets being the United States, United Kingdom and France.
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The SCO is doing something – Newspaper Kommersant No. 137 (7338) of 07/30/2022
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
A meeting of foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member countries was held on Friday in the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent. This regional organization dealing with issues of security, economics and humanitarian cooperation continues to expand: Belarus has recently applied for membership in it. For Russia, which is trying to show that it is not at all isolated, strengthening associations with its participation is beneficial.
The main task of the foreign ministers of the SCO member countries was the preparation of the meeting of the Council of Heads of State, which will be held in Samarkand on September 15-16. Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran, who is preparing to become a full member of the organization, is also expected to take part in the event. Recall that it all began in 2001 with six states – the “Shanghai Five” formed in 1996 (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Russia and Tajikistan) and Uzbekistan, which joined it. Today, there are eight countries in the SCO: in 2017, India and Pakistan became members of the organization.
Iran, which has had observer status in the SCO since 2005, applied for full membership in 2008. But until 2015, Tehran might not be accepted into the association due to international sanctions in force once morest it. According to the rules of the SCO, a country under the sanctions of the UN Security Council cannot become a member, and a number of restrictive measures were applied to Iran. The sanctions were lifted in 2015 when Tehran agreed to limit its nuclear program. But even this did not open the door to the SCO for him – the Iranian application was blocked by Tajikistan, with which Iran had a conflict. It was only possible to resolve it in 2021, following which Tehran’s application was finally given the green light. Now the Iranian side is going through the formal procedures necessary to join the organization.
In mid-July, Belarus also applied for admission to the SCO, since 2010 it has had observer status with the organization.
Minsk hopes that his request will be considered in an expedited manner. So, apparently, it will be: following the results of the meeting in Tashkent, and. regarding. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, currently chairing the SCO, Vladimir Norov, said that the application of Belarus is now “actively being studied.” “There is a common understanding that the addition of the SCO family will give a significant impetus to multiple interactions in ensuring regional security, the development of trade and investment cooperation, and will contribute to the development of a huge transit potential in the spaces of our organization,” he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also told reporters: “There is a consensus on Belarus to begin its accession (to the SCO.— “uh”) as a full member”. According to him, “the agenda of the summit in Samarkand appears to be very solid, rich, and it is especially symbolic that a kind of queue is lined up for the Samarkand summit from those wishing to become full members of the SCO or join as observers and dialogue partners.”
Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are expected to receive SCO dialogue partner status in September.
The process of granting such status to Bahrain and the Maldives will be launched. Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia and Nepal claim the status of an observer at the SCO (it is higher than the status of a dialogue partner).
Under President Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine was also actively interested in the observer status at the SCO, hoping, among other things, to attract new investments in this way and increase its role as a transit state. Today, however, no one remembers this – neither in Kyiv, nor in the ranks of the SCO itself.
The foreign ministers of the association also preferred (at least in the open part of the meeting) not to develop the theme of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. Thus, Vladimir Norov said in general terms that “the era of a fundamental turning point in international relations and global restructuring” is coming, accompanied by “increasing factors of instability and economic uncertainty.”
Kazakh Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi said that the SCO “is entering its third decade once morest the backdrop of very complex global processes.”
At the same time, he (like other ministers of the member countries of the association) rested on the fact that “the SCO remains a space of stability and development.”
Such a characterization of the organizational space can, of course, be given only with a stretch. At the beginning of the year, Kazakhstan itself was swept by a wave of riots, for the sake of suppressing which a contingent of forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) had to be temporarily brought into the country. In July, the Uzbek authorities had to deal with the protesters. Skirmishes occur every now and then on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan due to disagreements in the definition of territorial boundaries. India has a very tense relationship with Pakistan and a difficult one with China. And all of this is taking place once morest the backdrop of an ever-troubling Afghanistan that borders the five current SCO members and Iran.
Russia, however, has good relations with all members of the association. Its strengthening and expansion plays into its hands in conditions of tough confrontation with Western structures. It is not for nothing that the Russian Foreign Ministry provided a photo of Sergey Lavrov with colleagues from seven SCO member countries and representatives of the secretariat of the organization with a commentary, the essence of which boils down to the fact that with such a density of contacts, it is clearly not necessary to talk regarding Russia’s isolation.
Elena Chernenko
3 Reasons You Might Change Your Mind About Apps’ Dark Mode
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
duration/ Smartphone users spend a significantly increasing day, between instant messaging applications, reading “Stories” and “Rails” on social networks, as well as various web applications and services, where the daily use rate reaches between 5 to 6 hours, according to the latest reports from Statista. for stats.
Therefore, many advise activating the dark mode or the night mode, while the idea of the night mode depends on transforming the design of services and websites on smartphones and personal computers to become the dominant black color, and this is believed to relieve the eye greatly, especially with the use of devices electronic in low light conditions.
But there are 3 reasons why you might change your mind regarding the “dark mode” and prove to you that its importance is an exaggeration.
Difficulty reading
When you try to read white text that appears on a black background, reading becomes more difficult, compared to reading black text on a white background, because when the eye is exposed to dark colors, especially black, the human eye expands to get more light to be able to see.
This widening causes blurring of vision, especially with written texts, which sometimes constitutes difficulty in reading, and affects the speed of reading, and the user sometimes has to re-read more than once to understand and perceive the written, according to several research studies that have proven the reliability of this effect on Users of different age groups.
eye fatigue
Continuously activating the “dark mode” on the various electronic devices that the user depends on daily, sometimes causes great eye fatigue when in well-lit environments or even when exposed to sunlight, due to the fact that the eye is accustomed to dim screens with “Dark Mode” “Dark Mode” makes the eyes suffer when exposed to extremely bright screens or strong lighting conditions.
battery trick
Many people tend to use the dark mode on their phone screens, on the pretext of saving battery power to last for a longer time, but this is true only at the level of smartphones operating with OLED screens, which depend on lighting each pixel of the screen individually, so the pixels that are above areas The black image will not need to be lit up itself, so this will actually save battery consumption.
But at the level of phones with LCD screens, the dark mode does not benefit them at all; Because it relies on a layer of backlit lighting that works continuously, without taking into account the different color areas in the image
A citizen presents “Amara” as a gift to the famous Snape, “Quaid al-Majd” on the occasion of documenting his account in the application • Al Marsad Newspaper
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Al-Marsad Newspaper: A video clip documented that a person gifted a tuk-tuker, a building in glory, to a building in Mecca, while he was chanting, “Divorce will not return!”
During the video, the citizen said, directing his speech to Al-Majd and his father: “I earn your neighbor in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, and the least I can offer is architecture in Makkah Al-Mukarramah as a gift to you and your father.”
The video showed the citizen giving the honorable man the deed of the building and then chanting, “Divorce does not return.”
The citizen added, “It is an honor for me that you are my neighbors in Mecca. May God whiten your face.”