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Edtech firm Byju's said on Monday that it has completed payment that was due for the acquisition of Aakash Educational Service and received majority of $800 million (roughly Rs. 6,300 crores) fund which it announced in March.The company is estimated to have acquired Aakash Educational Services Limited for around $950 million (roughly Rs. 7,500 crores)."Our fundraising efforts are on track and the majority of the $800 million (roughly Rs. 6,300 crores) has been already received. The balance is also expected soon. Our…

Activities at the Calabar Port were boosted on Thursday as a general cargo vessel berthed with 204 heavy-duty trucks, 22 cubic metres of pipes and other containers. Speaking with reporters on Friday in Calabar after the berthing of the vessel, Festus Olumati, the Port Manager, said this was coming three years after a ship berthed there last. The manager said that Calabar Port was still viable and of economic benefit to the state and to Nigeria. Mr Olumati said the port was safe for…

Samsung's One UI 4.1 update train has reached the Galaxy M11 today, which tells you something about how many devices the company has gone through already - it's now at the phase where it's updating low-end phones from two years ago. That's exactly what the M11 is, and it's now receiving the update to Android 12 with the latest version of Samsung's skin on top. So far the update only seems to have been released in Vietnam, but surely more countries and territories will follow in due course. It usually takes Samsung a…

Image via Universal Pictures Illumination is gearing up to launch the next adventure in the Despicable Me franchise, Minions: The Rise of Gru to start off July and ahead of this date the first reviews are in — but they aren’t all positive. Many critics have now had a chance to see the animated film and overall it is currently sitting at 65 percent on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer with 37 reviews lodged. While scores do vary drastically, most appear somewhere in the middle of the scale praising the film for…

The latest, but probably not the last, tale of old software running in mission-critical operations comes to us via the Twitter feed of guitar-playing Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe, currently in orbit around the Red Planet and doing just fine, recently had a major software update to increase its chances of discovering water there. How do you update Windows 98 on a spaceship orbiting Mars? @esa is doing it for Mars Express, after 19 years. https://t.co/DRWtuaqo22…

During his performance at Bonnaroo on Friday, Isaiah Rashad was given the key to the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee by the city’s mayor Tim Kelly.As reported by the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the mayor of Rashad’s hometown gifted the Top Dawg Entertainment rapper with the key and declared June 17 as Isaiah Rashad Day. The 31-year-old was gifted with the declaration and the key while onstage, where Kelly told him he’s “made Chattanooga proud.” “You’re an inspiration to this crowd, to the world, to this city, and so I…

Late actor Paul Walker has received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, almost nine years after his death. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a historic landmark in Los Angeles consisting of over 2700 stars embedded in the sidewalks. Each star bears the name of a notable celebrity from the field of entertainment. Paul’s induction into the Walk of Fame has received positive feedback from his fans and former co-stars. Also read: Priyanka Chopra congratulates Jonas Brothers for Hollywood Walk of Fame honour, tells…

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has received unanimous approval to expand its system of tunnels beneath downtown Las Vegas. The expansion will add stops at landmarks like the Stratosphere and Fremont Street, letting customers hop aboard a Tesla and travel from one part of the city to the next. The network of tunnels, called the Vegas Loop, is supposed to span 29 miles and have 51 stops when finished. But for now, only 1.7-mile tunnels are operational beneath the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), turning what would be a…

Moonscars, a 2D souls-like published by Humble Games, received new footage at the 2022 IGN Expo. Moonscars is under development by independent outfit Black Mermaid with the backing of publishers Humble Games. This will be the studio’s first full release. A trailer promising a summer 2022 release date for the game was released a few months ago, something Moonscars’ latest clip re-iterates. The game is described as an “unforgiving nonlinear 2D world” and the landscapes depicted in the trailer, viewable below, certainly…

Interestingly, the Redmi Note 11T Pro, which is already expected to be rebranded as the POCO X4 GT will again be rebranded as the Redmi K50i. The Redmi version has now received the BIS certification with the same 22041216I model number. The phone is expected to launch in the country very soon but we’re yet to learn the official date. Poco X4 GT recieves NBTC, Redmi K50i recieves BIS Indian certification which is rebadged Redmi Note 11T Pro-6.6″ FHD+ LTPS LCD display 144Hz refresh rate-Dimensity 8100LPDDR5UFS…