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Shanghai, China: During her final years of high school, Chinese teenager Xu Yunting found an unusual way to make some pocket money — transforming herself into male video game characters and taking their female devotees on dates. The trend, called “cos commissioning”, has gained traction in China recently, with social media posts garnering millions of…
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Taylor Fritz and Emma Navarro reached their first Grand Slam semi-finals at the US Open on Tuesday, boosting home hopes of a double American title party this weekend. The 12th-seeded Fritz won a big-hitting battle against fourth-seeded 2020 runner-up Alexander Zverev of Germany 7-6 (7/2), 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/3). He will face either…
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Rahul Gandhi will address one rally each in Jammu and Kashmir for the first phase of assembly elections. Jammu: Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will start the party’s J&K election campaign on Wednesday as he is scheduled to address two election rallies in the union territory. Rahul Gandhi will address one rally each in Jammu…
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Meta only reaffirmed that the suspension had been issued while it was in talks with the ANPD [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Social media giant Meta Platforms will inform Brazilians how it intends to use their personal data to train generative artificial intelligence (AI), it said on Tuesday, following a demand from the country’s data…
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In scientific circles, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is well-known as a vasculopathic agent: a damager of blood vessels. The dominant respiratory symptoms associated with COVID-19 are largely due to clotting and inflammation in the blood vessels of the lungs (rather than the direct involvement of the airways). Its more severe complications, including neurological ones like stroke,…
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Aryan Raghunath Orampati from Hyderabad and Darshini Vasudevan from Tamil Nadu are among the 4 victims New Delhi: Four Indians, including a woman, have died in a massive crash involving five vehicles in Texas. The victims had connected through a carpooling app and were on their way to Bentonville in Arkansas on Friday when the…
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The Assam Police on Wednesday unearthed a massive financial scam of Rs 22,000 crore involving brokers who made fraudulent online stock market investments by claiming to double people’s money, sources said. The police have arrested two men, Vishal Phukan, a 22-year-old online trader from Dibrugarh and Swapnil Das from Guwahati, in the case. However, several…
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For representative purposes. | Photo Credit: REUTERS The story so far: Google, the leading American technology company best known for its popular search engine, has lost a Court case filed against it by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2020 accusing the company of being an illegal monopoly. A U.S. District judge ruled earlier this…
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India achieved its best ever medal haul in the Paralympics as it went past last edition’s number of podium finishes on the back of a superlative performance by the country’s track and field athletes here on Tuesday. A late evening rush of medals swelled India’s tally to 20 (3 gold, 7 silver, 10 bronze) to…
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Deliveries of Tesla China-made Model 3 and Model Y vehicles rose 17% from July 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Tesla’s sales in China logged their best month for the year so far in August 2024, with the U.S. electric vehicle maker benefiting from brisk sales in smaller cities. Tesla said it sold more than 63,000…
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