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A protracted funding winter and the pressure to turn a profit are exposing the underbelly of India's startup scene, where the days of lavish perks and extravagant spending are over, said nearly a dozen employees ET spoke to and other industry insiders.Instead, the young, peppy and flexible environment of the new-age firms has made way for a hard performance driven culture, which some say is also “hostile” and “toxic” at times.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM…

Last year Lego released a set for the Atari 2600 console released in the 1970s, and now it's paying homage to the definitive '80s arcade game. The 2,650-piece Logo Icons Pac-Man set recreates the classic Pac-Man arcade cabinet, complete with a light-up coin-slot, joystick and mechanical crank that lets you move characters around the maze mechanically (though not actually play the game).  There are brick versions of Pac-Man, along with the ghosts Blinky and Clyde, that can rotate on a base or be displayed on top of the…

It’s the most exciting, unpredictable, surreal night of television. And this year, it’s taking place in the UK. Let this be your guide for the acts to watch out for, the weirdest lyrics and a bluffer’s guide to the scoring. Now if you will excuse me … ahem … let the Eurovision song contest begin!How we got hereLast year’s winners were Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra with the song Stefania. It dominated the public vote, receiving a record 439 points (that’s the maximum 12 points from nearly every other country) and 631 points…

Image: LionsgateBig Red is coming back to theaters. Deadline confirmed that a new Hellboy movie, subtitled The Crooked Man, is currently in production. Earlier in the week, rumors began swirling around about its existence courtesy of Discussing Film, but distributor Millennium (which bought the film rights for Hellboy in 2018) disclosed some more details about it at the EFM festival in Berlin.The Crooked Man will be another reboot—Hellboy’s second, after the 2019 film starring David Harbour was a reboot of Guillermo del…

According to Rolls-Royce’s CEO, orders for its upcoming all-electric Spectre are so plentiful that the legacy luxury automaker may need adjust its production output to meet the growing demand. Furthermore, the company chief believes the first fully-electric Rolls-Royce will fit nicely into the current lineup and start generating profits from the very start of production. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is a luxury automaker with over a century of experience dating back to the early 1900s in England, but…

White Noise was adapted for the screen by Noah Baumbach from the 1985 book by Don DeLillo — one of America’s greatest living novelists — and hits Netflix Dec. 30. In a career spanning over fifty years, this post-modernist has dissected cultural pre-occupations through era-defining literature including Libra (1988), which centered on the Kennedy assassination, as well as Underworld (1997) — a Pulitzer Prize finalist for fiction which many consider to be his masterpiece.  With a narrative that centers on Jack Gladney…

Prefabricated homes always seem to be on the cusp of something big — solving housing shortages, tackling systemic waste or just generally ushering in the “very up-to-date.” But in the U.S., new prefab housing still represents a small fraction of the market (around 2% of single-family homes built in 2021, for example). By now it’s clear that prefabrication wasn’t a cure-all for America’s housing crises, but Plant Prefab says its take on it — along with $42 million in additional funding and a new…

The past couple of years have been non-stop for Bugzy Malone and Mist.The former has secured his place in Hollywood, thanks to a breakout appearance in Guy Ritchie’s film, The Gentleman, and the latter now has his own BBC motor show, so we haven’t had much new music from either camp lately. That all changes today, however, as they present the visuals for their new collaboration, “Energy”.They’ve been teasing the track out for about a week on social media—including a particularly interesting clip of them using a raw steak…

Playdate, an upcoming handheld gaming console from US-based Panic, will become available in July for pre-orders, and shipping is likely to start later in the year. The device will offer two new games every week during the first season, but you won't know what you will be getting until the games arrive. Panic  had originally planned one game every week, but it recently announced it has decided to double the number — so instead of 12 games the first season will have 24 different games over 12 weeks. Panic also made a series…

The Playdate is the latest mobile gaming device on the block and serves as the first mobile device from Mac software publisher Panic. Panic is known for publishing games like Firewatch and more recently, the indie darling Untitled Goose Game. Separating itself from retro emulation consoles and Steam Deck imitators, the black-and-white screened Playdate utilizes two buttons, a directional pad, and a mechanical crank (yes, a crank) that serve as the main controls for most games. The crank is a major selling point as it…