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Vodafone Idea is exploring both OpenRAN (ORAN) and virtualised RAN (vRAN) technologies to reduce the cost of deployment for its upcoming 5G network. The cash-strapped telco has already begun proof-of-concept (PoC) projects with Korea's Samsung for vRAN and US-based Mavenir Systems for OpenRAN-based 5G network. People familiar with the matter said Samsung is doing PoCs in 20 sites with Vodafone Idea in Tamil Nadu, while Mavenir is doing a similar project in the Punjab circle. «Vi is doing 5G trials in various circles with vendors such as Mavenir and Samsung using vRAN and ORAN deployment.

NEW DELHI : Bengaluru International Airport Ltd, in partnership with homegrown computer vision firm Industry.ai and US tech firm Nvidia Corp., on Wednesday announced the integration of the former’s computer vision-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform into the airport’s operations. In a joint statement, the companies said the technology will be deployed at the Bengaluru airport’s Terminal 2—which commences international operations from 31 August.

Uzbekistan and Oman in the US next month. The USMNT will take on the White Wolves of Uzbekistan on September 9 in St. Louis and Oman’s Gulf Samba three days later in Minnesota. They will meet Ghana and Germany in October.

The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has acquired a regulatory license that enables it to process cryptocurrency payments in the US.

Legal proceedings against Uniswap, a leading decentralized exchange protocol, took a turn today when a class action lawsuit filed against it was dismissed. 

airport, was a reminder of the difficulty U.S. companies face. Chinese airlines resumed flights with the 737 MAX in January, but the simmering U.S.-China trade dispute has limited deliveries to a handful of other Boeing aircraft in recent years and all but halted new orders.

New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is planning to provide air quality early warning through the System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) to 92 more polluted cities in the next two years. SAFAR, developed by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorological (IITM) Pune and was operationalized by IMD in 2010 during Commonwealth Games, is India’s first metro air quality service. It currently issues 1-3 days advance forecast in 40 cities including Delhi, Pune, Mumbai and Ahmedabad of a total of 132 ‘air contaminated’ cities.

The White House said it has new intelligence inputs which shows that Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have traded letters as Russia is seeking weapons from North Korea amid the Ukraine war, AP reported on Wednesday. John Kirby, US National Security Council spokesperson, giving the latest findings said Russia is looking for additional artillery shells and other basic materiel to shore up its defense industrial base, just weeks after White House said Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a recent visit to Pyongyang called on North Korean officials to increase the sale of munitions to Moscow for its Ukraine war.

The United States District Court of Southern New York has dismissed a class-action suit against Uniswap Labs, its CEO, foundation and venture capital backers brought by plaintiffs who claimed they lost money due to scam tokens on the decentralized cryptocurrency exchange. Judge Katherine Polk Failla, who handed down the dismissal, is also hearing the Securities and Exchange Commission’s case against Coinbase.

Chedun, a working-class neighborhood in the southwestern outskirts of Shanghai, the signs of an anemic economy are all around. The factories that once drew workers from around the country have moved away. Those that remain have slashed wages. Around the affordable eateries and motley shops where workers once crowded, employees eagerly latch onto anyone passing by. “No one has money now, it’s obvious,” Cherry Qian, 25, said as she sat inside the electronics store she manages. But there’s one place the slump isn’t as obvious: in the government’s account of it. A gulf has emerged between the Chinese economy as many Chinese are experiencing it, and Beijing’s narrative of it — and that gulf is only widening. For many ordinary Chinese, one of the worst economic slowdowns the country has faced in decades has translated into widespread pessiYouth at a job fair in Wuhan mism and resignation. But state media and officials continue to declare that any challenges are blips. Concerns about the economy, propaganda outlets have insisted, have been inflated by Western politicians and media outlets engaged in “cognitive warfare.” One social media account backed by China’s state broadcaster released a video that purported to investigate how foreign news outlets had cherry-picked statistics that predicted higher economic growth, just so they could later say China fell short. When the reality has proved too inconvenient, another approach has simply been to conceal it, as when Beijing this month stopped publishing the youth unemployment rate, which had been at a record high.

Lego Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling is all set to premiere on streaming. As per a report in Variety, it will be a 22-minute official adaptation of the first Jurassic Park film by Steven Spielberg. Here are the streaming details.Lego Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling is in celebration of the 30th anniversary year since the release of the first Jurassic Park movie in 1993. Lego is also celebrating the Jurassic Park 30th anniversary with its special blocks. The animation Lego Jurassic Park special project has been produced by Universal Pictures along with the Lego Group, and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. Steven Spielberg directed the first two movies of the franchise, Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), of which the first movie is considered groundbreaking. Jurassic Park is originally a science-fiction novel by Michael Crichton, on which the first film was based.

Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, more than 170 global leaders, including former US president Barack Obama, have urged Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to suspend all legal actions against the pioneer of microfinancing. Yunus, 83, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his anti-poverty campaign, earning Bangladesh the repute of being the home of microcredit through his Grameen Bank, which he founded in 1983. More than 170 global leaders and Nobel laureates wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Hasina, urging her to suspend legal proceedings against Yunus. The signatories included Obama, former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and more than 100 Nobel laureates. «One of the threats to human rights that concern us in the present context is the case of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Prof.

Stocks that are trading heavily or have substantial price changes on Wednesday: Vera Bradley, Conn’s rise; HP, Ambarella fall

The editor of such best-selling novels as Liane Moriarty’s “Big Little Lies” and Kathryn Stockett’s “The Help” is joining Penguin Random House

Flight attendants at American Airlines say they are willing to strike as negotiations for pay raises drag on

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Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi has filed a motion for order in the US bankruptcy court for the District of New Jersey, seeking permission to convert "trade-only" wallet assets into stablecoins, “that wallet users could then withdraw.”

The United States Copyright Office issued an official request for comments and notice of inquiry on copyright and artificial intelligence (AI) in the Federal Register on Aug. 30. 

HYBE, the makers of the current most popular boy band BTS, is looking for a new girl band. The company held worldwide auditions in association with the USA's Geffen Records to create a new global girl group. This is being done on a big scale for Netflix as a docuseries and also on YouTube. The two record companies recently announced the 2024 series and also a companion-piece online show that will begin on Thursday, August 30, as part of their The Debut: Dream Academy. The selection process for the girl group started in November 2021, when 120,000 applications of girl group potentials were screened. The worldwide hunt resulted in 20 candidates being selected. The females come from countries as diverse as Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, Sweden, Japan, Belarus, Switzerland, Slovakia, the Philippines, South Korea, and the USA. Now, in the docuseries, fans will be able to follow the selected contestants through the final stages of the auditions.

The foreign minister of Quad group -- which includes India, Australia, Japan and the United States – are likely to meet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York in September. The meeting of the foreign ministers is being held to expand the cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region, people familiar with the development said on Wednesday. The meeting has however not been confirmed yet.

(Reuters) — The Federal Reserve has issued a slew of private warnings to lenders with assets of $100 billion to $250 billion as part of increased efforts to tighten supervision, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday citing people familiar with the matter.