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Nykaa's net profit drops almost 5 pc to Rs 12.97 crore in July-Sep

Despite the onset of festive season, online beauty and fashion ecommerce major Nykaa saw its consolidated net profit declining almost 5 per cent to Rs 12.97 crore in the July-September period (quarter-on-quarter), according to its financials on Tuesday.




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CABI names Indian team for T20 World Cup in Pakistan, awaits clearance from MEA

The Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) has announced the final 17-member squad for the 4th T20 World Cup for the Blind, scheduled from November 22 to December 3, 2024, in Lahore and Multan, Pakistan




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Yash shoots for Toxic in Versova; gets tight security [Watch]

Yash's Toxic is one of the most awaited films in South India. This project will mark his return to the big screen after the release of KGF: Chapter 2 in 2022. Initially set for release on April 10, 2025, the movie is said to have been delayed.




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Politics: The Game of Business & Power [Part-I]

Last night, I and my brother were watching news and suddenly he said…, “leading a luxurious life in our village is much easier than struggling for a simpler life in metro...




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Useful Security Tips For Safe Online Shopping

If you are hesitant to do online shopping or payments, this article will give you the best security tips so that you may go ahead and shop online without worry about safety and security of...




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Benefits of CAD Design

Modern CAD resources such as AutoCAD, Microstation, Tekla and Revit has changed the way technicians prepare documents and drawings for any given project. Computer Aided CAD or Design tools are widely popular across construction,...




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10 Tips to create a successful website.

Are you interested to create a website but do not have any idea where to begin? Well, it is perhaps the most important facet of a website. Although functionality and content are very...




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The Debate over Circumcision - Its Effects on Penis Health and Sensation

To circumcise or not to circumcise? This has been a touchy subject in the medical community for years, with those in favor of circumcision arguing that it is necessary to prevent disease, and those who are against the procedure insisting...




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All Iron Ventures rebrands as Acurio Ventures with a new €150M ‘follow-on’ fund

The new fund has already made around 20 investments, and it will operate with a generalist thesis, investing across the whole of Europe.

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Convergence AI played with agents ‘for years’ until raising $12M to give them long-term memory

The strategy is to create consumer agents, but then use those to inform how they train agents in the enterprise.

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Scammed and exploited, she built an AI-driven app for immigrants like her

Immigrants face an enormous number of challenges and difficulties. In particular, without a local base of family or friends to depend on, new immigrants often find themselves in the dark about reliable information on essential services like housing, healthcare and banking. After being scammed and exploited, one immigrant founder decided to try to help other […]

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Quoroom acquires Investory to scale up its capital-raising platform for startups

These days, private investors have a range of options for investing in startups without having to deal with them in real life. This ecosystem more or less started with AngelList, but there are now a plethora of options — such as Carta, Allocations, Vauban, and Odin — that startups can use to raise funding and […]

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Unhappy with their exit, these ex-Planetly employees are using AI to refine carbon accounting

Startup employees often go on to found interesting ventures, basing their new work on the experience gained from their time building a company from scratch. But not all of those experiences are positive, and sometimes, a less-than-satisfactory exit can do more to fuel a founder’s fervor than anything else. In the case of Forward Earth’s […]

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Sensei reels in $16M to expand its contactless store platform in Europe

While Amazon Go helped popularize the concept of completely contactless stores, the arena is growing with others like 7-Eleven and Walmart entering the category, as well as several startups such as Standard Cognition, Zippin, AiFi, Grabango, and Trigo.  In Europe, Portuguese startup Sensei has been capitalizing on this momentum to grow its contactless store platform, and […]

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Airdog’s founders are back with a precision-strike drone meant for modern warfare

The war in Ukraine has shown that warfare changes by the day. It’s also clear that the tech used to make war today is costly: While larger countries can afford legions of tanks, helicopters, and precision-strike systems, smaller nations find themselves scrambling for cheaper ways to defend themselves. Origin, a new defense tech startup out of […]

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Faber launches third VC fund with $34M first close, aims for $64M

The startup ecosystem in the Iberian Peninsula — the region encompassing Spain and Portugal — has been on a roll the last couple of years. The value of Spanish startups surpassed €100 billion in 2023, according to Dealroom data, with venture investment of €2.2 billion across some 850 rounds. Meanwhile, Portugal has produced a slew of […]

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From self-driving cars to AI that writes enterprise software: Cogna founder raises $15M

A founder who was an early mover in the race to build autonomous vehicles has raised $15 million for his next act: a startup that claims its AI can write enterprise software on its own. Cogna — as the U.K.-based startup is called — is led by Ben Peters, the technical co-founder of Five AI, […]

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Germany’s Klim raises $22M to take its regenerative farming platform international

Global food production generates at least a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions, more than 80% of which comes from agriculture. But addressing that impact is easier said than done since there are simply so many moving parts to address. “Regenerative” farming is often touted as one way to make progress towards several sustainability goals, as it offers […]

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Eon emerges from stealth with $127M to bring a fresh approach to backing up cloud infrastructure

A team of founders who sold their last company to Amazon to build a new unit within AWS is setting out to reinvent the tricky business of backing up organizations’ cloud infrastructure. Now, Eon is coming out of stealth with a product, a set of customers, three rounds of funding totaling $127 million, and a […]

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Exclusive: Sonair takes a cue from dolphins to build autonomous 3D vision without lidar

Ultrasound is perhaps best known as the technology that enables noninvasive body scans and underwater communication and can help us park our cars. A young startup called Sonair out of Norway wants to employ it for something else: 3D computer vision used in autonomous hardware applications.  Sonair’s founder and CEO Knut Sandven believes the company’s […]

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LinkedIn says 10M people have signed up as freelancers on its Services Marketplace

More than 100,000 people have been laid off in the technology industry alone this year, and — either by circumstance or choice — at least some of them are not heading back into exclusively full-time work. LinkedIn launched a freelancer marketplace in 2021 to capture some of that activity. Now, at a time when other […]

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Monogoto, an innovator in ‘connectivity as a service,’ raises $27M

Connectivity and connected networks are part and parcel of the way many devices and services operate today, thanks to innovations and expansions in mobile networks, on-device processing, and the cloud. But behind the scenes, there remains a lot of fragmentation: Different regions, technologies, tariffs, and devices can spell a lot of work for enterprises or service […]

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Doctors complain of IT ‘in the stone age’

The United Kingdom’s NHS — the world’s largest public health service — is working on creaking IT infrastructure, doctors tell the Financial Times. “I am at a top London hospital and yet at times I feel as though we are operating in the stone age,” one doctor tells the FT. For example, doctors email lists […]

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Cyera acquires Trail Security for $162M; Cyera is now raising at a $3B valuation

Cyera, the Israel-founded, U.S.-based cybersecurity unicorn that uses artificial intelligence to build what’s known as data security posture management — a full assessment and picture of where a customers’ data has been created, where it is stored, and how it is used — has been on a growth tear in the last year, picking up […]

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LinkedIn launches its first AI agent to take on the role of job recruiters

LinkedIn, the social platform used by professionals to connect with others in their field, hunt for jobs, and develop skills, is taking the wraps off its latest effort to build artificial intelligence tools for users. Hiring Assistant is a new product designed to take on a wide array of recruitment tasks, from ingesting scrappy notes […]

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Canada orders shutdown of TikTok offices over security risks (but won’t block app)

With all eyes on how a new Trump administration in the U.S. will interface with China Tech in the years ahead, its neighbor to the north has leveled a blow to one of the biggest apps to come out of the country. Canada has ordered the closure of ByteDance’s operations in Canada — specifically the […]

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Led by a founder who sold a video startup to Apple, Panjaya uses deepfake techniques to bite into video dubbing

There’s a big opportunity for generative AI in the world of translation, and a startup called Panjaya is taking the concept to the next level: a hyperrealistic, GenAI-based dubbing tool for videos that recreates a person’s original voice speaking the new language, with the video and the speaker’s physical movements automatically modifying to match up […]

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Upwind, an Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup, is raising $100M at a $850M-$900M valuation, say sources

Cybersecurity continues to command a lot of attention from enterprises looking for better protection from malicious hackers, and VCs want in on the action. In the latest example, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Upwind — a specialist in assessing and securing cloud infrastructure — is closing in on a $100 million round at a […]

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Samsung’s Galaxy S24 line arrives with camera improvements and generative AI tricks

No awards for correctly guessing that today’s big Unpacked news is all about the Samsung Galaxy S24 series. As anticipated, the Korean hardware giant just unveiled its latest flagship line, including the Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+ and Galaxy S24 Ultra. The devices start at $800, $1,000 and $1,300, respectively. Also as anticipated, Samsung is leaning […]

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Samsung is taking on Oura with the Galaxy Ring

It took Oura (pictured above) to show the world that the ring is a viable health-tracking form factor. There have since been a handful of likeminded devices on the market, but no one quite as big as Samsung has further validated the technology by offering up their own take. The company concluded today’s Galaxy S24 […]

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Samsung’s EX1 wearable robot is designed to improve mobility in older adults

Sahmyook University this week showcased some of the ongoing work the Seoul-based research institute is doing with Samsung on the robot exosuit front. There aren’t a ton of details surrounding EX1 (not to be confused with an old Samsung digital camera by the same name) at the moment, but there are some promising results here. […]

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Samsung centers sleep with its first smart ring

After a brief tease at the end of its big Galaxy S24 event earlier this month, Samsung officially debuted the Galaxy Ring this morning at MWC. The earlier announcement offered little more than an image and confirmation that the hardware giant is entering that emerging corner of the wearable tech space. Following the Unpacked presser, […]

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip 6 arrive with Galaxy AI and Google Gemini

At the heart of the features is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which is the same system on a chip that powered the Galaxy S24.

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Samsung’s Galaxy Ring, its first smart ring, arrives July 24 for $399

At Unpacked 2024, the company shared more details about the Galaxy Ring, which represents the first take on the category from a hardware giant.

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The best Twitter alternatives worth checking out

We’ll be straight with you. There’s no 1:1 Twitter replacement, but there are plenty of social apps that might be worth substituting into your obsessive timeline-checking routines if you’re done with Twitter for whatever reason (we can think of plenty). Twitter’s current situation — advertisers leaving, Nazis logging back on — presents an opportunity to […]

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Fidelity has cut its estimate of X’s value by 79% since Musk’s purchase

Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price, according to a new estimate from investor Fidelity.  The asset manager’s Blue Chip Growth Fund now values its stake in X, formerly known as Twitter, at approximately $4.19 million, based on newly released disclosures from Fidelity’s Blue Chip Growth […]

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Code in Meta’s Threads app references a communities feature, similar to Elon Musk’s X

Meta’s take on a Twitter/X rival, Instagram Threads, may be inching further into its competitor’s territory with the development of a communities feature that would presumably allow users to better organize their discussions on the platform by topics. At least that’s what references in the app’s code seem to imply. The code mentions a new […]

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Feds arrest man who allegedly participated in hack of the SEC’s X account, boosting Bitcoin’s price

Eric Council Jr. and unnamed co-conspirators were allegedly behind the hack of the official @SECGov account on X.

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Elon Musk’s X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts

On Wednesday, social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt out. While X owner Elon Musk trained xAI’s Grok AI chatbot on X user data, leading to an investigation by the EU’s lead privacy regulator, […]

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X rolls out its real-time search tool, Radar, to Premium+ subscribers

As competition from newcomers like Bluesky and Threads increases, X launched a “Radar” trend analysis tool that aims to offer subscribers real-time insights into emerging trends and conversations on the platform. The tool, previously known as Insights, was initially targeted at Verified Organizations (businesses), allowing marketers to track topics and trends on the app. If […]

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Elon Musk’s xAI adds image understanding capabilities to Grok

Elon Musk-owned xAI has added image-understanding capabilities to its Grok AI model. This means that paid users on his social platform X, who have access to the AI chatbot, can upload an image and ask the AI questions about it. An xAI employee and the official @grok handle posted to X about the update on […]

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X makes its basic API tier more costly, launches annual subscriptions

Elon Musk-owned social network X made changes to its API pricing and limits today and also announced annual plans with a discounted rate. The company raised the prices of the basic API tier from $100 to $200 and said it would introduce higher limits and new endpoints for this subscription plan. In a post on […]

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X reinstates SwapYourVote’s account after suspending it as spam

In the final days leading up to the U.S. presidential election, Elon Musk’s X suspended the official account of a progressive-donor-backed ballot initiative called SwapYourVote. The volunteer-run website tries to get third-party voters in swing states to cast their ballots for Kamala Harris, matching them with Democrats in solidly blue states who agree to vote […]

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The fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops

Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor has it completed its integration […]

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Wiz CEO says company was targeted with deepfake attack that used his voice

Even cybersecurity companies aren’t safe from deepfake attacks. Speaking onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Wiz’s CEO and co-founder Assaf Rappaport, who recently turned down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Google, noted that his employees had been targeted by a deepfake attack just two weeks ago. “Dozens of my employees got a voice […]

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Instagram upgrades DMs with focus on creators

Instagram on Friday announced an update to DMs, its direct messages inbox, which will improve the experience for those who receive a lot of inbound messages, like creators and influencers. Now, the app is introducing tools that will allow users to sort and filter their “message requests” — meaning those messages that don’t arrive in […]

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Google ‘fixes’ issues with voting search results that weren’t actually broken

Google says it has addressed an issue with its search engine that saw it displaying a “where to vote” panel, which includes a map of polling places, for some specific voting-related searches but not for others. The tech giant even used the word “fixed” to respond to the matter, despite the fact that Google Search […]

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Apple iOS 18.2 public beta arrives with new AI features, but some remain waitlisted

Apple has released the AI-powered version of its latest mobile operating system, iOS 18.2, to its public beta users. The update includes new features like an AI emoji generator app called Genmoji, an Image Playground AI image app, ChatGPT integration with Siri, and visual search using the iPhone 16 cameras, among other things. Previously, these […]

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