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“When do the sins of a good man make him bad?”. This quote opens The Retaliators, and establishes the moral stakes at play in this blood-soaked thriller. While the themes are heavy, the execution is pure exploitation done well, with the end result a hyper-violent take on influential 1970s revenge thriller Death Wish that would have been right at home during the “video nasty” days of the 80s. Adding more novelty to the proceedings is the film’s heavy metal soundtrack, with bands such as Five Finger Death Punch and Papa…

Emily Baker-White / Forbes: Web novel apps backed by ByteDance and Tencent are running hundreds of Facebook and Instagram ads showing sexual assault, violent erotica, and acts of self-harm — Some of the ads include descriptions of sexual violence, paired with images of battered women and photos of male fitness influencers, which were used without permission. Emily Baker-White / Forbes: Web novel apps backed by ByteDance and Tencent are running hundreds of Facebook and Instagram ads showing sexual…

Elon Musk's review of Twitter Inc accounts by his advisers did not back up the billionaire's allegation that the number of fake users was "wildly higher" than 5% as he claimed when he said he was ending the Twitter takeover deal in July, a Twitter lawyer told a judge. Documents obtained from two data scientists employed by Musk showed they estimated in early July that the number of fake accounts on the platform at 5.3% and 11%, the Twitter lawyer told a Delaware judge. "None of these analyses so far as we can tell…

Twitter and Elon Musk sparred in court on Tuesday, each digging for evidence to prevail in a high-stakes trial next month over the billionaire's bid to break his buyout deal.Musk has been keen to find evidence to back his accusation that Twitter misled regulators and investors about what portion of accounts are actually spam or software "bots," as well as its key measures regarding growth.Twitter, which has sued Musk to force him to complete the $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,60,140 crore) buyout deal, seeks material or…

Launch event inaugurated by Shri K Kalimuthu, Consul (Economic, Trade & Commerce), Consulate General, Dubai The platform is specially curated for the UAE and other GCC countries’ markets The platform will create an international network of empowered agri importers & exporters and help them to conduct cross-border trade securely With free lifetime subscription, importers and exporters can easily download the app on Android and iOS platforms Bangalore, 20th September 2022: Walmart and Tiger Global backed…

Investor Chris Olsen knows the West Coast VC scene. He spent six years with Sequoia Capital in California before co-founding Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio, in 2013 based on the theory that the “most compelling emerging market is America, just outside of Silicon Valley,” as he told us early last year. Institutional investors have bought into that pitch. At least, they apparently trust that Olsen and firm cofounder Mark Kvamme — who logged more than twice as many years at Sequoia than Olsen — know what they’re doing.…

Access to finance remains a key growth constraint for small businesses, with data showing a $330 billion financing deficit for the small enterprises that make up 90% of Africa’s businesses. This is the gap that Kenya’s embedded finance fintech Pezesha seeks to bridge as it expands into Nigeria, Rwanda and Francophone Africa following a $11 million pre-Series A equity-debt round led by Women’s World Banking Capital Partners II with participation from Verdant Frontiers Fintech Fund, cFund and Cardano blockchain builder…

There’s an epidemic in Western countries, and one few people are aware of. It’s an epidemic of visceral fat, a deep kind of fat that packs around vital organs, like the liver, and is linked with health problems like diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure.You might assume that only people who are overweight or obese have too much visceral fat, but that’s not the case. Thin people, particularly inactive ones and older individuals, can have enough visceral fat to increase their risk of chronic health problems. They…

Vijay Shekhar Sharma has been reappointed as Paytm Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer as 99.67 percent of shareholders voted in favour of him.One97 Communications Limited (OCL) which owns the brand Paytm, India's leading digital payments and financial services company and the pioneer of QR and mobile payments, recently held its 22nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) the first as a public listed company.The company's shareholders have voted with a 99.67 percent majority in favour of Vijay Shekhar Sharma's…

With new, innovative, multi-use DeFi platforms like Proprivex (PPX) being the primary tokens seen in the current age of cryptocurrency, coins like Bitcoin (BTC) are rare. As of the writing of this article, the crypto market king is down over 4% this past week, according to statistics from CoinMarketCap. This is in spite of the fact that, on the whole, the market is not in decline, with tokens like Cardano (ADA) and Dogecoin (DOGE) on the rise. While this decline does not spell the end of Bitcoin (BTC), it does bring up…