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In the early 2010s, New Jersey-born rapper Cakes Da Killa started making distinctive hip-hop-meets-house that revelled in the pursuit of pleasure. Back then a rare example of an openly queer rapper, Cakes – real name Rashard Bradshaw – wasn’t exactly operating in the limelight; however, much queer culture has hit the mainstream in recent years. This summer also saw some of the biggest artists in the world – Drake and Beyoncé – leaning into dance music’s history. And so it makes sense for Bradshaw to step up and refine the…

The time is so perfect to acknowledge that the world is under food crisis. The growth in global population and the migration of people from rural to urban areas have put a new face on foods scarcity. Economically developed countries like China are bringing up moves to not waste food. The initiative named ‘Clean Plate’ created by Chinese President Xi Jinping reflects on the lack of food products and its availability. The President has asked the country people to not waste food. A further move to make robots cook food…

A UK scale-up this week unveiled an industry-first approach to identity verification: asking users to turn their heads. Onfido, an Oxford University spin-out, launched the software amid surging identity fraud. Growing economic pressures, increasing digitization, and pandemic-fuelled upheaval recently led politicians to warn that a “fraud epidemic”  is sweeping across Onfido’s home country of the UK. Similar developments have been observed around the world. In the US, for instance, around 49…

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 arrived yesterday, and immediately went up for pre-order. The new foldable flagship comes with One UI 4.1.1 out of the box and has plenty of new features for optimal multitasking that were developed “with partners”, Samsung said. With all the focus on the new camera and design changes one of its novelties went overlooked. The Galaxy Z Fold4 is the first smartphone to officially ship with Android 12L. Google initially introduced the L version back in October 2021 and then reminded us about…

What goes good with second chances? Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town was a work in progress when it was released in North America for Nintendo Switch in March of 2021. The Japanese release a month earlier was met with criticism as fans pointed fingers at long loading times, poor dialogue, and a wide assortment of bugs. Patches that were in the works for the Japanese version weren’t ready when the game hit our shores. The result: less than stellar reviews. It needed a lot of work, and to their credit, the…

Road transport and highway minister Nitin Gadkari had said that road safety is the top priority since India witnesses 5 lakh road accidents per year resulting in a loss of 3.14% of the GDP and the 70% of the deaths are from the age group of 18-40 years. At the Safety Pioneers Conference, organised by Intel in New Delhi on June 27, the Union minister said, “Our target is to reduce deaths by 50% by 2025”. Several industry experts were present at the event among which Satyakam Arya, MD and CEO of the Daimler India…

Scientists demonstrate that they can control the properties of lab-grown plant material, which could enable the production of wood products with little waste.Because of deforestation, the world loses about 10 million hectares of forest — an area about the size of Iceland — each year. At that rate, some researchers predict the world’s forests could disappear in 100 to 200 years.A hectare is an area equal to a square with 100-meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. One hectare contains…

After several leak-filled weeks, Oppo finally unveiled its three-strong Reno8 series of smartphones. Reno8 brings MediaTek’s Dimensity 1300 chipset and 80W charging, the Pro model debuts Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chipset while the Pro+ gets a Dimensity 8100 Plus. All three phones pack AMOLED displays, 50МP main cams and 4,500 mAh batteries with 80W SuperVOOC flash charging support though the Pro variants add some nifty camera additions and Oppo’s in-house Mari X Silicon NPU found in the flagship Oppo Find X5…