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Last Updated: March 07, 2024, 10:04 ISTGovernment Gives Green Signal To Shape-Shifting L2-5 Vehicle Category. (Photo: Business Standard)Indian government greenlights innovative L2-5 vehicles, merging two and three-wheelers for adaptable transportation. Promoting sustainable mobility solutions.In a giant leap towards the future, the government of India has shown a thumbs up to a new concept of motor vehicles– “L2-5” that merges elements of two and three-wheelers.The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) released…

Curated By: Shahrukh ShahLast Updated: February 26, 2024, 08:40 IST2024 CEAT Indian Supercross Racing League. (Photo: ISRL) It has been informed that the final round was attended by more than 8000 guest, who were even caught cheering for their favorite team. After registering the two successful rounds of CEAT Indian Supercross Racing League (ISRL) in Pune and Ahmedabad, the inaugural season finally concluded in Bengaluru on Sunday.The star team BigRock Motorsport dominated the season, securing the top places…

When you think of Apple and wearables you probably think about the Apple Watch Ultra 2 or the less rugged Apple Watch Series 9. But amid ongoing disputes over their blood oxygen monitoring capabilities and the technology they use, Apple now seems set to turn its attention to a whole new type of wearable. One that it hasn't dipped its toe into so far, but is far from a new idea for people who have been wearing products from Oura and others for years.According to a new report, Apple is pondering a new so-called Apple Ring,…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is adding a new Oscar category for casting directors, starting in 2026. The Oscars are a pinnacle of achievement for actors. But casting those actors is an art and talent all its own. The Emmys have recognized casting directors since 1994. It’s good to see the Oscars finally catch up. If the category existed this year, Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” would be a likely contender. The cast is filled with boldface names — many of them previous Oscar winners and nominees —…

As climate change supercharges some hurricanes, scientists are exploring how to better communicate their force to the public — including adding an extra category to reflect their power.The current maximum on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is Category 5, which is open-ended to any storm with wind speeds greater than 252 km/h. A new peer-reviewed study, published Monday in Environmental Sciences, examined storm data between 1980 and 2021 and found five storms that would have been classified as Category 6 — all of…

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.Stay in Your Seats, It's Gonna Be a Bumpy Flight | Extreme EarthA super-hurricane is brewing in the Atlantic Ocean in the opening pages of The Displacements, a novel by Bruce Holsinger published in 2022. “This is the one the climatologists have been warning us about for 20 years,” one character declares. Forty pages in, so-called Hurricane Luna makes a surprise turn for Miami and ends up demolishing Southern Florida with a wall of…

About a month out from this year’s Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which gives out the awards, announced that in two years time they would look slightly different. For the first time in nearly a quarter-century, the Academy Awards will add a wholly new category, in the form of a best achievement in casting award. (The most recent previous addition was best animated feature, first awarded for films released in 2001. More recently, sound editing and sound mixing were folded into a single category.)…

Last month, the 96th Academy Awards nominees were announced, and in early March, we’ll see how many Oscars, if any, movies like Oppenheimer, Poor Things and Killers of the Flower Moon win. Ahead of this prestigious ceremony highlighting the best of the best in the film industry, though, it’s been announced that a new Oscars category has been created for the first time in over 20 years. Unfortunately, it’s not the category I and so many other people have been hoping would be added to the lineup.The Academy of Motion…

The Oscars will introduce a new category for best achievement in casting, the Academy’s first new competitive award in more than 20 years.The award follows a long fight by casting directors to be recognised at the ceremony. The category will roll out at the 2026 Oscars.“Casting directors play an essential role in film-making, and as the Academy evolves, we are proud to add casting to the disciplines that we recognize and celebrate,” said a statement from the Academy’s CEO, Bill Kramer, and president, Janet Yang. “We…

Hurricane Patricia in 2015 was the most intense storm ever recorded in the Americas. But do we need a new scale? Credit: Scott Kelly/NASA/EPA When a tropical cyclone forms, people who live in its path anxiously monitor news of its direction—and strength. If a Category 5 storm with wind speeds of 250 kilometers per hour is heading for you, you prepare differently than you would for a Category 1 with wind speeds of 65 km/h.…