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Global consumer brands grappling with a tepid economic recovery in China have another worry: Buyers in the country are turning more to local labels. Global consumer brands grappling with a tepid economic recovery in China have another worry: Buyers in the country are turning more to local labels. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All…

China's first domestically produced passenger jet made its maiden commercial flight on Sunday. China's first domestically produced passenger jet made its maiden commercial flight on Sunday, a milestone event in the nation's decades-long effort to compete with Western rivals in the air. Beijing…

Image via Netflix Working with a director like Clint Eastwood is a sign that one’s career is thriving. Gabriel Basso has been getting lots of attention thanks to his acclaimed performance in the Netflix series The Night Agent, and now he’s managed to up the ante by landing a crucial role in Eastwood’s next (and reportedly final) project, Juror #2.  According to Deadline, Juror #2 will chronicle the struggles of Justin Kemp, a family man who winds up serving as a juror on a high-profile murder case. The further…

Banned from using popular Western apps, Iranians have been left with little choice but to take up state-backed alternatives, as the authorities tighten internet restrictions for security reasons following months of protests.Iranians are accustomed to using virtual private networks, or VPNs, to evade restrictions and access prohibited websites or apps, including the US-owned Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The authorities went as far as imposing total internet blackouts during the protests that erupted after the September…

Another homegrown edtech startup Teachmint has laid off over 70 employees, its second round of job cuts after sacking about 45 workers some five months ago, media reports said on Friday.According to leading startup news portal Inc42, the Lightspeed-backed edtech startup informed about the layoffs in a town-hall meeting with employees.The layoff impacted employees in talent acquisition, tech, and support roles teams at the Bengaluru-based startup."Some roles have been unfortunately impacted as we work on increasing…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWhen sisters fight, it can be ferocious. But Polite Society, the debut feature of Nida Manzoor, creator of Channel 4’s We Are Lady Parts, takes those squabbles to a new extreme. When Ria (Priya Kansara) and Lena Khan (Ritu Arya) butt heads, they do so literally. They palm strike. They calf kick. They hurl each other through doors. It’s one of the many fight sequences in Manzoor’s…

The war in Ukraine, now into its 14th grueling month, has displaced millions, sparked global food shortages, and threatened to spiral into wider conflict. It has also highlighted how new technologies—especially ones drawn from the commercial sector—are upending conventional military doctrine.  Ukraine has resisted and repelled Russia’s much larger military force, thanks in large part to a willingness, borne of necessity, to adopt and experiment with novel technologies, not all of them originally designed for military…

I’m currently traveling in Turkey, and even though I’m just a few days from starting a vacation and could be spending my time outside petting the street cats of Istanbul, I’m a journalist. I can’t not pay attention to the tech news around me. And 2023 is actually a big year for Turkey, but not only because it’s the republic’s 100-year-anniversary, with a high-stakes election coming up. On the technology side of things, this is the year when the country starts shipping its first domestic electric vehicle, a symbol of…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As the UK reels from recent fruit and vegetable shortages, scientists are advising how to increase homegrown produce—benefitting the economy and the environment. The UK has a heavy reliance on other countries for the supply of fruit and vegetables. As diets shift to plant-based foods and…

Various homegrown firms, like microblogging platform Koo, e-commerce entity Pinnacle Solutions, and augmented reality tech platform mirrAR, are snapping up employees laid off by Big Tech companies like Meta Inc, Twitter, ShareChat. This, experts said, is a good opportunity to hire talented people from large firms since they are on the market at reasonable salaries.Though the absolute hiring number is not huge since Indian startups are themselves going through funding woes, the roles span product, growth, digital marketing…