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Cybersecurity and digital privacy company Kaspersky has announced the appointment of IT veteran Adrian Hia as its new Managing Director for Asia Pacific (APAC). Hia is set to lead Kaspersky’s drive to extend its market footprint, channel reach, and new business growth in key territories in the region, especially in the company’s fast-growing enterprise cybersecurity segment.His role includes spearheading and managing the region’s sales, marketing, and channel go-to-market strategy and execution. “Adrian brings over two…

Calving season is coming up and operators at the C Bar Ranch in northwestern Alberta hope to keep tabs on the expanding herd with an eye-in-the-sky equipped with thermal imaging.Ethan Lentz, who works with the cow-calf operation at the ranch near Fairview, Alta., landed new skills to help manage crop and herd health this month at a drone training workshop in the Peace region."You don't necessarily want to be driving around in the pasture all the time on an ATV and disturbing cattle while they're trying to calve," Lentz…

The concurrent subduction of the Pacific and Atlantic plates resulted in the formation of a mantle plum and the ascent of magma. Credit: Nicolas Riel Earthquakes and volcanism occur as a result of plate tectonics. The movement of tectonic plates themselves is largely driven by the process known as subduction. The question of how new active subduction zones come into being, however, is still under debate. An example of this is…

In recent years, the fintech sector in the MENA region has grown rapidly, with Saudi Arabia leading the way. With regulatory challenges and legal issues arising in Western countries, investors are turning their attention to other regions, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), which is becoming a hub for fintech and crypto investments. Investors are particularly interested in the potential opportunities presented by coins such as Dogecoin (DOGE), Signuptoken.com, and Filecoin (FIL), which are seen as attractive…

There was a time when Burnaby Mountain, and the areas around it along B.C.'s south coast, was a warmer, less mountainous region where palm trees grew, according to new research that identified plant fossils unearthed at the site more than 50 years ago. When Simon Fraser University was being built in the late 1960s, paleobotanist Rolf Mathewes was an undergraduate, and he helped gather dozens of plant fossils at a deposit exposed by the construction site. The fossils date back to around 40 million years ago.SFU then locked…

For the second time in less than a week, the Indian Ocean region has become a target for solar disturbances. On April 6, a solar flare eruption disrupted GPS service and low-frequency radio waves resulting in a short-wave radio blackout in the region. And now, in the late hours of April 10, another eruption, this time an M2-class flare, occurred which resulted in blackouts over the Indian Ocean region and Australia. Notably, the geoeffective area for this blackout included India, Japan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and other…

Ford Motor (F) is gearing up to launch its first EVs in the Middle East in 2024. According to a report from Bloomberg, the automaker expects significant results from expanding its zero-emission lineup in the region. Ford is launching its first EVs in the Middle East region After climbing to become the second-largest electric vehicle maker in the US, selling over 61,000 EVs last year, Ford looks to keep the momentum rolling in 2023. Managing director of Ford Middle East, Chris Noel, told…

<!----> Ford has targeted annual run rate of 600,000 electric vehicles by late 2023 and more than 2m by the end of 2026 Ford expected its electric vehicle business unit to lose US$3bn this year, but remained on track to achieve a pretax margin of 8% by late 2026, a media report said. Reuters said the…

Both Apple and its chief iPhone assembler Foxconn are said to have been involved in lobbying efforts that led to changes in Indian labor laws.Foxconn is just one of Apple's suppliers that are working to move some of their manufacturing capacity to the country, with Chinese factories proving unreliable in recent years.Now, labor laws in the southern Indian state of Karnataka have been changed to make them more favorable to companies like Foxconn.Longer hours, overnight shiftsReports by The Financial Times (opens in new…

Apple Inc. is reshuffling management of its international businesses to put a bigger focus on India, according to people with knowledge of the matter, a sign of the nation's growing importance. The shift will mark the first time that India becomes its own sales region at Apple, which has seen demand surge in the country. That will give the Asian nation increased prominence inside the tech giant, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the move hasn't been announced. Apple is making the…