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Upendra's Home Minister Clears Censor Test

Real Star Upendra's upcoming Kannada film Home Minister has got a clearance from the Regional Censor Board. The members from the board have issued 'U/A' certificate for Sujay K Srihari-directorial. The makers are waiting for the state government to lift the lockdown due to Covid-19 pandemic.The government is yet to give permission for the reopening of cinema halls.




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Vijay Sethupathi's Look in Tughlaq Darbar Revealed

Here are the pictures of Vijay Sethupathi from his upcoming Tamil movie Tughlaq Darbar. The film marks the directorial debut of Delhi Prasad Deendayalan.




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Prabhas launches 'The Script Craft' to supporting writers

Actor Prabhas, whose movie 'Kalki 2898 AD' registered a solid success at the box-office, is moving up to the top of Maslow's hierarchy. The actor has launched The Script Craft, a platform dedicated to promoting and encouraging writers.




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'If I am upset, anxious, I confide in someone': Shreyas Talpade talks about mental health awareness and depression [Exclusive]

Shreyas Talpade is also a brand ambassador and face of the Bombay Psychiatric Society. On the film front, the actor is also gearing up for Emergency, and Welcome To The Jungle to name a few.




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Lokesh Kanagaraj reveals key details on teaming up with Aamir Khan

Lokesh's upcoming project with superstar Rajinikanth, titled Coolie, is progressing smoothly, with only two more schedules left to wrap.




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Power couple: Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli enjoy dosa date in Mumbai; fans amused with photoshop pictures

The edited image humorously captioned with "Pov: the one day you miss school," touched fans empathised with Dinesh's plight. Many of them hoped for Virat and Anushka's visit just for Dinesh.




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'Nayanthara: Beyond The Fairytale': Teaser reveals the sweetest side of the Lady Superstar

Nayanthara, Beyond the Fairytale made the audience interested in showing more than just a figure of a celebrity. Everyone will love this woman because the documentary will highlight the strength and elegance of the actress through personal stories and behind-the-scenes footage.




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Narayan Murthy forgot his 25th wedding anniversary; Sudha doesn't cook: Couple share heartiest moments on Kapil Sharma show

On Saturday's episode co-founder of Infosys Narayana Murthy and his wife Sudha Murthy, Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal and his wife Grecia Munoz graced the Kapil Sharma show. The couple delighted the viewers with their charming personalities and candid stories.




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Vaani Kapoor, Fawad Khan wrap up London Schedule of 'Abir Gulaal'

The London schedule of Indian actress Vaani Kapoor and Pakistani actor Fawad Khan's upcoming romantic comedy "Abir Gulaal" has wrapped up.




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Adani Group stocks surge, add Rs 54,381 cr in market cap

The share price of all the companies in the Adani Group surged on Wednesday, adding Rs 54,381.06 crore worth of wealth to the investors' kitty.




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Trojan.MSIL.SUPERNOVA.A

Threat type: Trojan

Aliases: MSIL/Agent.5676!tr (FORTINET)

Platforms: Windows

Overall Risk Rating: Low

Damage Potential: High

Distribution Potential: Low

Reported Infection: Low

Information Exposure: Low

Overview:

This Trojan arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites. It may be hosted on a website and run when a user accesses the said website.

It executes commands from a remote malicious user, effectively compromising the affected system.




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J&K Assembly Adjourns Amidst Uproar Over Article 370

The J&K Assembly was adjourned following an uproar over a resolution seeking the restoration of Article 370. The BJP protested against the resolution, arguing its passing is unconstitutional and illegal.




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India batting group will enjoy themselves batting in Durban, says Robin Uthappa

After India won the 2024 Men's T20 World Cup, there has been a marked change in the side's batting approach. With Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli saying goodbye to the format and many first-choice players rested to play Tests, the batters have been as pacy as a Ferrari car when batting in T20Is.




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Corruption an obstacle to economic progress: President Murmu

President Droupadi Murmu on Friday highlighted the need for integrity and honesty in the nation's fight against corruption which is an obstacle to economic progress.




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ACB Files Case Against Female Officer for Alleged Corruption In Livelihood Generation Scheme

While self-employment schemes in Jammu and Kashmir aim to support youth employment, allegations of corruption have surfaced. Anti-graft panel registered an FIR against former Assistant Director Employment Shabnam Arif Mir and others for allegedly accepting bribes from a local dealership.




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Rohan Gupta slams 'corrupt' Soren regime, predicts BJP's victory in Jharkhand

BJP national spokesperson Rohan Gupta on Monday said that the Hemant Soren-led JMM government in Jharkhand is on its way out and people are determined to elect BJP-led NDA government, for bringing holistic development to the state.




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Rupali Ganguly sues stepdaughter Esha Verma; seeks Rs 50 crore in defamation case

In the notice, it was clarified that Rupali Ganguly was friends with Ashwin Verma for 12 years, before he separated from his second wife, Esha Verma's mother, in 2009. It was also said that Ganguly, along with Verma, tried to help Esha get a break into the entertainment industry, by providing opportunities for photoshoots and making special arrangements for auditions




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Ladakh: Kargil Police solve 26-yr-old quadruple murder case

The long arm of law has caught up with perpetrators of a quadruple murder committed 26 long years ago in Ladakh's Kargil district.




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Amir Khan reacts to Pathaan's last scene; says "you can't get too upset with Shah Rukh and Salman"

Amir Khan claimed in an interview that he has not watched the entire film but has only watched the last scene because it went viral.




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Centre directs officials to speed up resolution of industrial disputes cases

The Centre has directed the field offices under the office of the Chief Labour Commissioner to speed up the resolution of industrial dispute cases to improve the business climate in the country as this would spur growth.




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Suriya credits Amir Khan for "people up north to know me"; see why Ghajini remake is close to his heart

South superstar Suriya spoke about how the remake of Ghajini starring Amir Khan introduced him to the North of India and Amir Khan had a lot to do with it




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Vistara merger with Air India takes off; Group to now operate 300 aircraft

The Air India Group on Tuesday completed the operational integration and legal merger between Air India and Vistara, creating a full-service carrier of scale and marking a significant milestone in the post-privatisation transformation journey.




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When Vidya Balan was 'thrown' out of big Tamil film; opens up about challenges

Actress Vidya Balan once opened up about a difficult period in her career when she was replaced in several South Indian films.




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CABI names Indian team for T20 World Cup in Pakistan, awaits clearance from MEA

The Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) has announced the final 17-member squad for the 4th T20 World Cup for the Blind, scheduled from November 22 to December 3, 2024, in Lahore and Multan, Pakistan




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The corrupting cricket tree

The corrupting cricket tree

The monster of corruption has not spared even the games being enjoyed by the...




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A startup from ex-Revolut employees uses AI to automate accounting — but hopes to keep accountants in jobs

As enterprise platforms gradually eat into the workflows of accountants, many are choosing to leave the industry, especially as AI automates away a lot of the core, manual work required. More than 300,000 U.S. accountants and auditors left their jobs between 2019 and 2021, and the number of accountants in the U.S. has declined 15.9% […]

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Hedosophia leads $7M seed round into retail supply chain AI startup Ameba

Ameba takes the unstructured data in a retailer’s supply chain systems, sprinkles in some generative AI, and makes the whole thing more efficient. 

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Quoroom acquires Investory to scale up its capital-raising platform for startups

These days, private investors have a range of options for investing in startups without having to deal with them in real life. This ecosystem more or less started with AngelList, but there are now a plethora of options — such as Carta, Allocations, Vauban, and Odin — that startups can use to raise funding and […]

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Long careers in luxury fashion led to a $17M raise for this supply chain platform

The retail sector needs inventory planning to maintain margins and meet demand. This is getting harder because there are now many distribution channels, more complex supply chains, and shorter sales cycles. Mid-market retailers and premium brands have less firepower than the retail giants and tend to rely on legacy software. Founded in 2020, Autone aims […]

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General Catalyst raises $8B in fresh funds to back startups globally

U.S. venture capital giant General Catalyst has announced a fresh $8 billion in funds as it looks to ramp up its investments in multi-sector early-stage startups globally, with a specific focus on the U.S., Europe, and India. The capital constitutes around $4.5 billion for its “core VC funds,” which spans seed and growth equity funding, […]

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Eon emerges from stealth with $127M to bring a fresh approach to backing up cloud infrastructure

A team of founders who sold their last company to Amazon to build a new unit within AWS is setting out to reinvent the tricky business of backing up organizations’ cloud infrastructure. Now, Eon is coming out of stealth with a product, a set of customers, three rounds of funding totaling $127 million, and a […]

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As data center usage heats up, Submer raises $55.5M to cool things down

The race is on for better chips and data center capacity to handle AI workloads, but all that activity comes with a catch. Heavy processing power means heat — a lot of it — and that has massive implications, both for how well servers operate and the environment.  With traditional cooling methods like air and […]

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Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

The tech world took a major double take this year when a security startup called Wiz founded out of Israel just four years earlier became the subject of a record-breaking, $23 billion acquisition attempt by Google — an offer the startup boldly proceeded … to refuse. Really? Yes, really. We will be talking to Assaf Rappaport, […]

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LinkedIn says 10M people have signed up as freelancers on its Services Marketplace

More than 100,000 people have been laid off in the technology industry alone this year, and — either by circumstance or choice — at least some of them are not heading back into exclusively full-time work. LinkedIn launched a freelancer marketplace in 2021 to capture some of that activity. Now, at a time when other […]

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After selling his last AI startup to Meta, Beyond Presence’s founder nabs $3.1M to build lifelike avatars

Computer vision applications are getting a huge boost from advances in smartphones combined with AI that helps fill in the gaps of what everyday devices cannot see. Using these tools, a startup out of Munich called Beyond Presence believes it holds the keys to what is coming next: Hyper-realistic avatars that look and sound exactly […]

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Led by a founder who sold a video startup to Apple, Panjaya uses deepfake techniques to bite into video dubbing

There’s a big opportunity for generative AI in the world of translation, and a startup called Panjaya is taking the concept to the next level: a hyperrealistic, GenAI-based dubbing tool for videos that recreates a person’s original voice speaking the new language, with the video and the speaker’s physical movements automatically modifying to match up […]

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Upwind, an Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup, is raising $100M at a $850M-$900M valuation, say sources

Cybersecurity continues to command a lot of attention from enterprises looking for better protection from malicious hackers, and VCs want in on the action. In the latest example, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Upwind — a specialist in assessing and securing cloud infrastructure — is closing in on a $100 million round at a […]

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PointFive snaps up $20M for breakthrough tech to track usage across multiple clouds

Enterprise spending on cloud services continues to go up, up, up — to the tune of $675 billion this year — thanks to organizations’ firm embrace of software-as-a-service, the popularity of distributed working, and the arrival of compute-intensive tech like AI. A startup called PointFive believes it has found a better way to get a […]

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From Elon Musk to cop car chases, how a software engineer launched a police AI startup

Abel creates AI that uses body cam footage and other data to fill out consuming police reports. For research, founder Daniel Francis shadowed the police.

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X updates block feature, letting blocked users see your public posts

X is rolling out its controversial update to the block feature, allowing people to view your public posts even if you have blocked them.

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Tony Fadell takes a shot at Sam Altman in TechCrunch Disrupt interview

Creator of the iPod, Nest Labs founder, and investor Tony Fadell took a shot at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday during a spirited interview at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 in San Francisco. Speaking about his understanding of the longer history of AI development before the large language model (LLM) craze and the serious issues with […]

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Instagram upgrades DMs with focus on creators

Instagram on Friday announced an update to DMs, its direct messages inbox, which will improve the experience for those who receive a lot of inbound messages, like creators and influencers. Now, the app is introducing tools that will allow users to sort and filter their “message requests” — meaning those messages that don’t arrive in […]

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Cross-posting social app Openvibe now supports Threads, too

The decline of X (formerly Twitter) under Elon Musk has boosted engagement with alternative social networks like Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon, but it has also challenged early adopters who now have too many places to post. Naturally, some entrepreneurs are working to solve this problem with apps that let you cross-post to multiple platforms at […]

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The brightest bling of TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

At TechCrunch Disrupt, our team sits front and center, furiously typing away at our laptops to publish real-time news from impressive speakers like NFL quarterback-turned-founder Colin Kaepernick, Perplexity AI founder Aravind Srinivas, and Ashton Kutcher. We are a well-oiled machine. Some writers have been covering Disrupt since the old days, before Meta was Meta and […]

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Bluesky gears up for Election Day as X goes pro-Trump

As Election Day in the U.S. nears, social networking startup Bluesky, now flush with new capital, hopes to demonstrate that its platform can serve as a more trusted, fact-checked alternative to Elon Musk’s X. While the latter is dominated by Musk’s support for the Trump campaign, Bluesky tends to lean left, thanks to its influx […]

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Apple’s new widget puts Election Day updates on your Lock Screen and Home Screen

It’s Election Day in the U.S., which means you’re likely glued to the latest news about which presidential candidate is currently in the lead. To help with this, Apple has released a Live Activities widget within its Apple News app that will offer real-time election updates directly on your iPhone or iPad’s Home Screen and […]

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How startups are turning data into software gold

Storing great pools of data is an increasingly figured-out challenge. Between public clouds, and data lakes more specifically, you can stick oceans of corporate data in any number of places. But leveraging that data into something useful is another challenge altogether. The analogy that data is this era’s oil is at best half-baked. Oil takes […]

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Castiron serves up a $6M seed round to support ‘food artisans’

The pandemic hasn’t been easy for anyone, but the food service industry has been hit particularly hard. More than 90,000 restaurants and bars have closed, leaving workers unemployed in an already precarious industry. And those who kept their jobs faced the stressful demands of customer-facing work in a pandemic. In response to the changed industry […]

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Tofino Capital reaches first close of $10M fund to back startups in frontier markets

Tofino Capital, a venture capital firm targeting early-stage startups in emerging markets, has launched its $10 million fund. It is announcing the first close of this fund at $5 million and hopes to achieve a final close nine months from now.   The firm, founded by Eliot Pence and Aubrey Hruby, wants to back startups in Africa, […]

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