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Last Updated: February 08, 2023, 14:18 ISTSimple One Electric Scooter (Photo: Simple Energy)The company recently received funding of over $20Mn in the ongoing Bridge round which will be utilized in a phased manner to ramp up the productionSimple Energy has announced that the One electric scooter has received more than 1 lakh bookings in the country. The company has also received funding of over $20Mn in the ongoing Bridge round which will be utilized in a phased manner to ramp up production of Simple One e-scooter. This…

Videogame publisher Activision Blizzard beat Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter adjusted sales on Monday, thanks to the success of the latest game in its Call of Duty franchise.A string of launches in October and November, includingCall of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Warzone 2.0, and World of Warcraft: Dragonflight from the fantastical world of Azeroth, helped the company hold the attention of the gaming community.As inflation squeezes budgets of American households, more gamers are expected to stick to their favorite…

Science has long known that people living in what is now Siberia once walked (and later paddled boats) across the Being Strait into North America. But new evidence now shows that these early migrations weren’t one-way trips: in a study published on Thursday in Current Biology, researchers say they have uncovered traces of Native American ancestry in the DNA of Siberians who lived centuries ago. This American heritage—still present in the genomes of some Siberians today—adds to a scattering of archeological evidence…

Screenshot: Sunrise/CrunchyrollMobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury has very much been a Gundam show from the get-go—in lockstep with the wider franchise in the ways it plays with some of the series’ most enduring elements, and in how its worldbuilding extrapolates Gundam’s longstanding critiques of capital and the military industrial complex. But in its first season finale, it reminded us it’s ready to get its hands very dirty.The 12th episode of the series, simply titled “The Witch from Mercury,” brought a…

There’s only a few days left in 2022, but one of this year’s final movie releases has managed to squeeze in a major accomplishment right before we cross into 2023. Arriving 13 years after the first Avatar movie, Avatar: The Way of Water has been playing in theaters for two weeks now, and it’s now joined its predecessor in crossing the $1 billion mark worldwide. It’s now the just the third 2022 movie that’s been able to hit this impressive milestone.At the time of this writing, Avatar: The Way of Water’ global total sits…

While we live in a time when Star Trek TV shows are once again plentiful (keep up with those using a Paramount+ subscription), it’s been a while since the sci-fi franchise has left an impact in the cinematic arena. Following the release of Star Trek Beyond in 2016, there have been numerous attempts to get Star Trek 4 off the ground, and the first iteration of that movie would have seen Chris Pine’s James T. Kirk meeting his late father, Chris Hemsworth’s George Kirk. It no longer seems like that version of Star Trek 4…

Last Updated: October 12, 2022, 20:13 ISTThe festive season has paid rich dividends to the aviation industry as over 4 lakh pax boarded domestic flights in 24 hours on Sunday. It has occurred nearly after a gap of five months as last time the daily doemstic passenger traffic touched the same milestone was on May 15. Before COVID-19 came into our lives, the highest single day passenger traffic on an average was 4.2 lakh. As mentioned before, on October 9, around 4.02 lakh passengers travelled in domestic flights, reveals…

Singer Justin Bieber thinks rapper Kanye West “crossed a line” with his recent comments about the former’s wife Hailey Baldwin. The pop star, is said to be angry with West, 45, after he recently spoke out against the 23-year-old model. A source said, “Justin is protective about Hailey. He is upset by Kanye’s attack on her where he said hurtful things.” Baldwin was targeted by West after she voiced her support for Vogue editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, who publicly blasted West’s…

Apple's iPhone exports from India crossed $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,150 crore) in the five months since April, according to people familiar with the matter, signalling the South Asian nation is making progress with its bid to become a force in electronics manufacturing. At the current rate, outbound shipments of India-made iPhone models, mainly to Europe and the Middle East, are set to reach $2.5 billion (roughly Rs. 20,400 crore) in the 12 months through March 2023, the people said. That's almost double the $1.3 billion…

Robert Downey Jr. was without a doubt the biggest and most popular star of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Infinity Saga, but you could also make a well-founded case stating that the villains of his solo trilogy rank among the franchise’s bottom tier. Each installment in the Iron Man saga saw genius billionaire playboy philanthropist Tony Stark pitted against an adversary he’d wronged in the past to whom he bore at least a superficial similarity or two; one who also ended up seeking revenge on the…