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HAWTHORNE: SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space transportation company named its first private passenger on a voyage around the moon as Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, the founder and chief executive of online fashion retailer Zozo. A former drummer in a punk band, Maezawa is tentatively planning to make his moon flight in 2023 aboard SpaceX’s forthcoming Big Falcon Rocket spaceship, taking the race to commercialise space travel to new heights. Only 24 astronauts have flown beyond Earth’s protective magnetic shield, in missions spanning a four-year period from Decem­ber 1968 to December 1972. Maezawa’s identity was revealed at an event on Monday evening at the company’s headquarters and rocket factory in the Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne. “He’s a very brave person to do this,” Musk said of the Japanese entrepreneur. Most famous outside Japan for his record-breaking $110 million purchase of an untitled 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting, Maezawa said he would invite...

Prime Minister Imran Khan sat down with Saudi Gazette for an Interview what the English daily described as the Pakistani leader's first international media interaction. Apart from discussing foreign policy and future plans to tackle the challenges facing his country, Khan while responding to a question went on to explain who actually he is: a former cricket hero, a philanthropist or a leader? "I would like to start by asking: Who is Imran Khan? Is he the famous cricketer or is he the philanthropist behind one of the world’s finest cancer hospitals or he is a leader who struggled for 22 years to give Pakistan a new vision?," asked Fahim al-Hamid who conducted the interview for the Kingdom's leading English daily. Below is the answer the interviewer got from the the prime minister:  "Well, Imran Khan is an ordinary man who had big dreams, thought big and then struggled to achieve his dreams. Each time there was a setback in my life I l...

Washington: Twitter is preparing an option for users to go back to its original chronological news feed, responding to complaints about its algorithmic system implemented two years ago. In a series of tweets late Monday, Twitter told users it was "working on new ways to give you more control over your timeline." The short-message social network said it still believes most users will want to see the "best" tweets at the top of their feed but will allow people to switch based on their preference. "We´ve learned that when showing the best tweets first, people find Twitter more relevant and useful," the San Francisco company said. "However, we´ve heard feedback from people who at times prefer to see the most recent tweets." After years of operating with a chronological timeline, Twitter began in 2016 to follow the lead of Facebook in using algorithms to offer what it deemed to be the most relevant messages for users as ...

HONG KONG: Alibaba founder Jack Ma said his ambitious pledge to create one million jobs in the US had been scuppered by the trade row between Beijing and Washington, Chinese state news reported Thursday. The billionaire owner of China´s largest online shopping portal made the headline-grabbing promise to Donald Trump last year, as Beijing courted the then-newly elected president. But Ma told Xinhua that his pledge had been made on the basis of continued cooperation and trade growth between the US and China, and would now be difficult to fulfill. "However, the previous basis for trade has been undermined," he said in an interview on Tuesday. "But we will continue to work hard to promote the healthy development of China-US trade." Ma´s bold pledge following his January 2017 meeting at Trump Tower was greeted with scepticism by analysts at the time, who said the move was more about good PR than substance. One million jobs would be close...

Washington: A complaint has been filed with the US government accusing Facebook and 10 other companies of using the platform´s job ad targeting system to discriminate on the basis of gender. The complaint was announced Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union, a union called the Communications Workers of America and a labor law firm, on behalf of three female job seekers and a group of "thousands" of members represented by the union. It charges that job ads on Facebook targeted male users only. It also alleges that most of the listings were for jobs in male-dominated fields, so women and non-binary users were excluded from seeing these ads. Facebook lets advertisers target ads on the basis of gender and age, which is against the law in America, the complaint reads. "I shouldn´t be shut out of the chance to hear about a job opportunity just because I am a woman," said Bobbi Spees, one of the three women named in the complaint. Face...

Facebook on Tuesday launched its #SheMeansBusiness program with the Universal Service Fund (USF) and the Punjab IT Board (PITB) in Lahore, according to a statement. The program helps equip women entrepreneurs with the knowledge, connections, skills and technology required to build and grow their businesses online. Aligned with Digital Pakistan's mission, Facebook's #SheMeansBusiness partnership with USF and PITB aims to reach 20,000 women across Pakistan over the next three years, delivering digital skills training with a focus on small business development and online safety. The PITB partnership includes a three month digital literacy program offered as part of PITB's 'Herself' initiative. Since its beginnings on International Women’s Day in 2016, #SheMeansBusiness has established an active presence in 21 countries, including Pakistan, and has trained more than 42,000 women entrepreneurs. “When women do better, we all benefit. More women a...

HAWTHORNE, UNITED STATES: A Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon, Yusaku Maezawa, will be the first man to fly on a monster SpaceX rocket around the Moon as early as 2023, and he plans to bring six to eight artists along. Maezawa, 42, will be the first lunar traveler since the last US Apollo mission in 1972. He paid an unspecified amount of money for the privilege. "Ever since I was a kid, I have loved the Moon," Maezawa said at SpaceX headquarters and rocket factory in Hawthorne, California, in the middle of metropolitan Los Angeles, late Monday. "This is my lifelong dream." Maezawa is chief executive of Japan’s largest online fashion mall, and is the 18th richest person in Japan with a fortune of $3 billion, according to the business magazine Forbes. Maezawa’s other hobby is amassing valuable works of modern art and last year, he announced the acquisition of a Jean-Michel Basquiat masterpiece worth $110.5 million. His love of...