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Reports related to wild animals attacking people and destroying things in human inhabited areas have increased recently. Elephants, Tiger, Leapords and snakes are often spotted in places where they are not supposed to be. Risk of spotting such animals increase, if there is a road that cuts through the jungle. At night animals cross these roads and when they see vehicles approaching, they often get terrified and even end up attacking. Here we have one such video where a wild Indian bison is seen attacking an…

Kroger Co. KR 3.04% raised its guidance for the year after quarterly sales rose more than 9%, as demand for groceries holds steady even amid rising food prices. The Cincinnati-based grocery-store operator said sales for the fiscal second quarter, which ended Aug. 13, came in at $34.64 billion, topping Wall Street estimates, according to FactSet. Excluding fuel, sales rose 5.2% from a year earlier. Identical sales, which…

The powerful eight-core Rockchip RK3588S processor is usually found at the larger end of the single-board computer spectrum, but Radxa has today announced, as first reported by CNX Software, that it will be incorporating the chip in a board that’s the size of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. And it comes with as much as 16GB of RAM, too.Dubbed the Radxa CM5, the tiny board crams in a lot of functionality, and has a third high-density connector underneath. Along with the mighty CPU, which pairs four Arm Cortex A76 cores…

The Department of Telecom (DoT) announced on Tuesday that it had removed restrictions on telecom operators offering connectivity near international border areas. The licence norms previously stated that operators would have to "fade out" their network signal, ahead of the international border around the country, which would require the installation of special equipment. The amended norms also include the deletion of security conditions that allowed for surprise inspection on operators in those areas.  In a move that…

The Turkish carrier was the first international company to return to profit after the pandemic and is set for record 2022 earnings, says a report by French daily Los Echos. Istanbul Airport, the world-class facility that opened in Türkiye’s most famous city in 2018, has had a major role in the company’s success,…

Employees at Apple's corporate offices will now have the option of wearing a face mask or not while at work as the tech giant is dropping its mask mandates for corporate employees at "most locations".The move comes even as the US is recording a surge in the highly transmissible BA.5 variant of Covid-19, citing an internal e-mail from the Covid-19 response team, The Verge reported."We are writing to share an update to our current protocols. In light of current circumstances, wearing a face mask will no longer be required…

Apple has lifted purchase limits on its phones, tablets and laptops for customers outside China, the media reported.The company last week imposed purchase limits across several of its products, reports MacRumors.The new MacBook Air and Mac mini were limited to five orders per customer, the new iPad Pro was limited to two 11-inch models per customer and two 12.9-inch models per customer, and iPhones were limited to two of each model per customer.Meanwhile, some purchase limits have yet to be lifted in China.The…

The European Space Agency (ESA) on Wednesday celebrated the first flight of its Vega-C rocket, which is designed to provide more bang for customers' buck in the increasingly competitive business of launching satellites into orbit.Vega-C is an upgrade to the Vega rocket that made its debut in 2012 as a launcher specialising in lifting small payloads into space. The new rocket can carry heavier payloads than its predecessor while burning less fuel.ESA says Vega-C will be particularly useful for launching Earth observation…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)A patchwork of individual state privacy laws isn’t filling the hole left by absent federal government regulation on facial recognition. Virginia, which approved a ban on local police use of biometric identification tools around a year ago, formally bailed on the law’s most substantive measures on Friday. Now, under an amended bill, law enforcement can implement the technology in a number of scenarios, including when an officer loosely harbors a “reasonable suspicion” an individual has…

NASA took its first step today in establishing its Gateway orbital lunar outpost with the launch at 5:55 am EDT of its Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) CubeSat atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket at the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand.As part of its Artemis program to establish a permanent presence on the Moon, NASA plans to construct a small space station called Gateway in cislunar space to serve as a base for crewed…