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"In 2021 we experienced a very complex situation," Xiaomi president Wang Xiang said in an earnings call."Supply is in a very severe or tight position, and there is a geopolitical impact. However, Xiaomi's performance has shown we are a resilient company."Revenue rose to CNY 85.58 billion (roughly Rs. 1,02,341 crore) in the quarter ended December 31, compared with CNY 70.46 billion (roughly Rs. 84,259 crore) in the year earlier period and analyst expectations for CNY 81.80 billion (roughly Rs. 97,826 crore), according to…

By BEN FINLEY To hear actor Ellen Barkin tell it, Johnny Depp was a controlling, jealous and angry man even back in the 1990s, when the two dated. “Where are you going?” Barkin said Depp would ask her. “Who are you going with? What did you do last night?” Barkin added: “I had a scratch on my back once that got him very, very angry because he insisted it came from me having sex with a person who wasn’t him.” Barkin recalled her relationship with Depp during a previously taped deposition that was played in a Virginia…

As more and more countries in Europe report monkeypox cases, along with US and Australia, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has directed the National Centre for Disease Control and the ICMR to keep a close watch on the situation.  “Keep close watch on Monkeypox situation abroad; isolate sick passengers from affected countries and send their samples to NIV Pune for investigation", the Union Health Ministry said to the officials on Friday. WHO has called for an emergency…

Next week, Hollywood will take an estimated $300m gamble on Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to a film released 36 years ago. Right now, one of the hottest projects at the Cannes film festival market, where rights are sold to as-yet-unmade films – is the sequel to This Is Spinal Tap, a film released 38 years ago. This Christmas we’ll get the sequel to James Cameron’s blockbuster Avatar, which in contrast is practically sprinting to the gate a mere 13 years after its first appearance. In between, this summer will see the…

Ride-hailing app Uber India on Thursday said it has, over the past few weeks, raised fares to cushion drivers from the impact of rising fuel prices across many cities in India.The company said it always strives to make driving with Uber a viable and attractive option for drivers, and added that "the recent hike in fares will directly boost their earnings per trip"."The hike in fuel prices has impacted everyone, especially ridesharing drivers who have felt the pinch of rising fuel costs," the company said in a statement as…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain What are the barriers to the adoption of electric cars? Although the main financial and technological obstacles have been removed, their market share still needs to increase. In a recent study, a team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) investigated the cognitive factors that still dissuade many people from switching to electric cars. They found that car owners systematically underestimate…

New applications for unemployment benefits rose for the third week in a row, amid separate signs that the U.S. labor market remains unusually tight.Initial jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased by 21,000 to a seasonally adjusted 218,000 last week from the previous week’s revised level of 197,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. Despite the recent rise, claims remain historically low with last week’s figure matching the 2019 average ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic. New applications for unemployment benefits…

The protected natural area of the Pego-Oliva marshlands. Credit: Asociacion RUVID A study carried out in the area around the Pego-Oliva Marshland Natural Park, between Valencia and Alicante, reveals how the rise in sea level impacted the human groups that inhabited this area of the Mediterranean coast during the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods.…

New York Times Co. has delayed its plan to have employees return to the office a few days a week starting in June due to a Covid spike in New York City, the latest company to make adjustments in the face of a rapid surge in cases.“Based on the city’s guidance and the advice of our health experts, we are pausing the start of our Expected Phase of return to office until conditions improve,” Jacqueline Welch, the Times’s executive vice president and chief human resources officer, wrote in a memo to staff, a copy of which was…

A basketball flying through the air. Credit: Markus Spiske, Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) A new analysis of NBA basketball broadcasts from 1998 to 2018 reveals a decline in acts of physical violence, such as pushing and elbowing, and a rise in acts of symbolic violence, such as shouting, trash talking, and menacing displays. Assaf Lev from the Department of Sports Therapy at Ono Academic…