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World's first high-altitude para sports centre to be established in Ladakh

The world's first high-altitude para sports centre dedicated to training and nurturing para-athletes in the country will be established in Leh, Ladakh and will focus on training for international competitions, including the larger goal of preparing para-athletes for the 2028 Paralympics.




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India's retail inflation rises to 6.21 pc in Oct as vegetables play spoilsport

India's retail price inflation, based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), rose to 6.21 per cent in October as higher prices of food items such as vegetables spiked during the month, figures released by the Ministry of Statistics on Tuesday showed.




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8 parties in tough fight on Mumbai's 36 seats ahead of civic body polls

The poll battle in Mumbai's 36 Assembly constituencies has become more intense with the entry of eight major parties including the BJP, Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress, Shiv Sena, NCP, NCP(SP), Samajwadi Party and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.




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From boats to bikes: Flipkart's Wishmasters ensure deliveries across Kashmir

As Flipkart deepens its engagements across the country, it sees a positive ripple effect - more jobs being created, MSMEs scaling up, and technology driving easy access to goods and services.




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Politics: The Game of Business & Power [Part-I]

Last night, I and my brother were watching news and suddenly he said…, “leading a luxurious life in our village is much easier than struggling for a simpler life in metro...




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The great Indian mobile travel portal revolution

There has been an explosion in the usage of mobile phones and smartphones to access travel related websites and portals in India. More and more users are turning to their mobile phones to book tickets for local, national and...




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Embracing The Modern Age Part II

Chapter A

So just what is the Modern Age, and how do we get there? First people need to educate themselves in the sense they have power over the University System. It is not the...




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She sat down during the COVID lockdown and started coding — now she’s taking on Bolt

Sitting in Athens during the first COVID-19 lockdown, entrepreneur Rania Lamprou watched online e-commerce exploding because of social distancing. But merchants still struggled with low conversion rates because their checkout processes were complicated, and they had to integrate multiple providers for payments, shipping, and loyalty programs. “I knew there had to be a better way […]

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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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Aktiia trained AI on 11 billion data points of blood pressure, and now a clinically certified app is coming

As well as being a major cause of premature death worldwide, hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a major risk factor for stroke, coronary artery disease, and heart failure, and is a contributing factor to dementia. It also affects an estimated 1.3 billion people; up to 95% of cases are due to lifestyle […]

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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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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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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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One Zero, the AI fintech started by the founder of Mobileye, is raising $100M, say sources

Amnon Shashua, the founder and CEO of Mobileye, has an eye for complicated problems that he believes can be solved with AI, and that AI itself can be fixed to become more reliable. On the sidelines of building and running his self-driving car technology company — which he took public, then sold to Intel, then […]

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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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Apple tops Samsung in worldwide smartphone shipments for the first time

Apple’s iPhone has overtaken Samsung for the first time ever as the best-selling smartphone in 2023, according to a new report from IDC. The tech giant accounted for 20% of the global market with 234.6 million shipments last year. Samsung closed the year with 226.6 million shipments, while Xiaomi and Oppo saw 145.9 and 103.1 […]

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Half of Apple’s India smartphone shipments are now iPhone 15

The iPhone 15 and its many iterations comprised more than half of Apple’s Q4 smartphone shipments of nearly 2.8 million units in India, Canalys said in its quarterly report. The handset has seen remarkable success in India as Apple pushed the latest models during the festive sales, which occur across online and offline channels in […]

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Samsung gets FDA nod for smartwatch sleep apnea detection

Samsung this morning announced that the Galaxy Watch line has received FDA approval for sleep apnea detection. The move is a big one for the smartwatch category, where health and fitness now comprise a majority of new features. For the last several years, the industry has focused on heart monitoring and blood oxygen detection, as […]

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Samsung centers sleep with its first smart ring

After a brief tease at the end of its big Galaxy S24 event earlier this month, Samsung officially debuted the Galaxy Ring this morning at MWC. The earlier announcement offered little more than an image and confirmation that the hardware giant is entering that emerging corner of the wearable tech space. Following the Unpacked presser, […]

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Samsung’s Galaxy Ring, its first smart ring, arrives July 24 for $399

At Unpacked 2024, the company shared more details about the Galaxy Ring, which represents the first take on the category from a hardware giant.

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Smartwatch shipments see sharp decline in India

India's wearable market declined in Q2, primarily because smartwatch are not attracting consumers.

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The best Twitter alternatives worth checking out

We’ll be straight with you. There’s no 1:1 Twitter replacement, but there are plenty of social apps that might be worth substituting into your obsessive timeline-checking routines if you’re done with Twitter for whatever reason (we can think of plenty). Twitter’s current situation — advertisers leaving, Nazis logging back on — presents an opportunity to […]

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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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Feds arrest man who allegedly participated in hack of the SEC’s X account, boosting Bitcoin’s price

Eric Council Jr. and unnamed co-conspirators were allegedly behind the hack of the official @SECGov account on X.

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Elon Musk’s X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts

On Wednesday, social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt out. While X owner Elon Musk trained xAI’s Grok AI chatbot on X user data, leading to an investigation by the EU’s lead privacy regulator, […]

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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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Particle launches an AI news app to help publishers, instead of just stealing their work

The media industry today may not have a very favorable view of AI — a technology that’s already been used to replace reporters with AI-written copy, while other AI companies have scooped up journalists’ work to feed their chatbots’ data demands, but without returning traffic to the publisher as search engines once did. However, one […]

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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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Mayfair Equity Partners aquires UK adtech platform LoopMe for $120M

Founded back in 2012, the LoopMe adtech/martech startup focused on brand-based mobile advertising, using AI to deliver measurable outcomes for its users. At its height, it had raised $25 million equity and $10 million of venture debt (which was fully paid off before signing). But there’s a reason for using the past tense — Mayfair […]

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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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Revenue-based financing platform Bloom secures $377M Series A led by Credo and Fortress

While the likes of Pipe are reaching multi-billion valuations, European revenue-based financing is experiencing as much of a boom as it is in the U.S. U.K.-based startup platform Bloom has now secured a £300 million / $377 million financing round led by Credo Capital and Fortress Investment Group LLC (NYSE:FIG), making it one of the […]

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Felicis Ventures partners share the four pillars of scaling a SaaS startup

At TechCrunch Early Stage, we sat down with Felicis Ventures partners Viviana Faga and Niki Pezeshki to talk about scaling, and why it's crucial to be "10x better" than the incumbents.

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Announcing the stellar VC judges for the TC Disrupt Startup Battlefield Finals

Disrupt is just a few short weeks away. Alongside our return to a live, in-person show, we’ve beefed up the Battlefield program. Two hundred companies have been hand selected by the TechCrunch editorial staff to grace the expo hall, 20 of which will launch their company for the first time live on our stage. The […]

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Information Technology Specialist (ENTARCH) Department of Energy - GS-14

Announcement Number: SE-18-EI-00825-MP
Closing Date: 10 September 2018




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Interdisciplinary Economist/Operations Research Analyst/Survey Statistician Department of Energy - GS-14

Announcement Number: TN-19-EI-00849-MP
Closing Date: 13 November 2024




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U.S. gasoline price decreases (Short version)

The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline decreased to $3.09 a gallon on Monday. That's down 2.7 cents from a week ago, based on the weekly price survey by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.




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U.S. gasoline price decreases (Short version)

The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline decreased to $3.07 a gallon on Monday. That's down 1.6 cents from a week ago, based on the weekly price survey by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.




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U.S. gasoline price decreases (Short version)

The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline decreased to $3.06 a gallon on Monday. That's down 1.5 cents from a week ago, based on the weekly price survey by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.




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U.S. gasoline price increases (Short version)

The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline increased to $3.06 a gallon on Monday. That's up 0.4 cents from a week ago, based on the weekly price survey by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.




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U.S. gasoline price increases (Short version)

The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline increased to $3.10 a gallon on Monday. That's up 3.3 cents from a week ago, based on the weekly price survey by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.




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U.S. gasoline price increases (Short version)

The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline increased to $3.14 a gallon on Monday. That's up 4.1 cents from a week ago, based on the weekly price survey by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.




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Residential heating oil price virtually unchanged

The average retail price for home heating oil rose 1-tenth of a cent from last week to $4.05 per gallon. That's down 41.8 cents from a year ago, based on the residential heating fuel survey by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Heating oil prices in the New England region are at $4.03 per gallon, up 4-tenths of a cent from last week, and down 39.8 cents from a year ago.




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U.S. gasoline price increases (Short version)

The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline increased to $3.19 a gallon on Monday. That's up 5.6 cents from a week ago, based on the weekly price survey by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.




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U.S. gasoline price increases (Short version)

The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline increased to $3.27 a gallon on Monday. That's up 7.7 cents from a week ago, based on the weekly price survey by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.




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U.S. gasoline price decreases (Short version)

The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline decreased to $3.25 a gallon on Monday. That's down 2.0 cents from a week ago, based on the weekly price survey by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.




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U.S. gasoline price increases (Short version)

The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline increased to $3.35 a gallon on Monday. That's up 10.1 cents from a week ago, based on the weekly price survey by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.