China has ordered government agencies and state-backed corporations to replace foreign-brand personal computers with domestic counterparts within two years, in one of Beijing's most aggressive efforts to date to phase out key foreign technologies.

After the May holiday, employees were encouraged to trade in foreign PCs for local alternatives running on a domestically developed operating system, according to people familiar with the plan. The central government-sanctioned initiative is likely to eventually replace at least 50 million PCs at the central government level alone.

The decision is the development of China's decade-long campaign to replace imported technology with local alternatives, which spans everything from semiconductor products to networking equipment and phones. The decision is expected to directly impact sales of HP and Dell Technologies, the country's largest PC brands after Lenovo Group.

These efforts reflect Beijing's growing concern for information security, as well as confidence in domestic equipment. The world's largest laptop and server manufacturers today include Lenovo, Huawei Technologies and Inspur, while local developers such as Kingsoft and Standard Software have made headway in the office software category.

The campaign will be rolled out to regional government agencies within two years, the sources said.

Annual inflation in Turkey in April was almost 70%, which was a record for the last 20 years

Turkey's annual inflation rate has risen for the 11th month in a row. At the same time, in January, annual inflation was about 49%, in March - 61%, in April last year - 17%. Turkish journalists link the price hike with the Ukrainian crisis and a sharp rise in energy prices.

During the year, the most expensive ones rose: transport (+105%), food (+89%), household goods (+78%), housing and communal services (+61%). Health services (+36%), education (+28%), clothing (+26%) also hit the wallets of Turks.

It should be noted that the Turkish government has come up with a very strange way to deal with inflation and economic shocks. When the whole world (including Russia) raises the key rate, Erdogan decided to ... lower it. And those who disagree with such plans, the head of the Ministry of Finance, the national statistical office and three heads of the Central Bank were successively fired. As we can see, the results were not long in coming.

The State of Photography Report 2022 was carried out by Catchlight and the Knight Foundation and surveyed a total of 1,325 photographers across 87 countries. Most are form US.

Half of all respondents said they earned less than $40,000 net a year, while 30% earned less than $20,000. At the other end of the spectrum, around 15% of respondents take home in excess of $70,000 per year, while just 52 individuals (6% of the respondents) make more than $100,000 per year.

Similarly, photographers identifying as being from non-Western nations reported significantly lower earnings than their Western counterparts. Those identifying as being from a Western nation showed their median income at $40,000 – $50,000, and those who did not identify as being from a Western nation showed median income at $10,000 to $20,000.

https://www.catchlight.io/news/2022/5/2/the-state-of-photography-2022-report