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Apple Inc. is testing the use of 3D printers to produce the steel chassis used by some of its upcoming smartwatches, according to people with knowledge of the matter, heralding a major change to how the company manufactures products. The technique would obviate the need to cut large slabs of metal into the product’s shape.

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.

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

(Reuters) — Canada's merger court asked the competition bureau to pay about C$13 million ($9.58 million) to Rogers (NYSE:ROG) Communications and Shaw Communications (NYSE:SJR) for the lengthy court battle after its failed attempt to block the telecom firms' C$20-billion merger.

₹947 crore ($114.7 million), news agency Reuters quoted exchange data. Part of Japan's SoftBank Group, the venture capital sold 100 million shares at 94.7 rupees apiece in bulk deals, the report added. According to the data from the National Stock Exchange, the firms who bought Zomato shares include International Monetary Fund, Morgan Stanley Asia Singapore, Societe Generale, Goldman Sachs (Singapore), Invesco Mutual Fund and Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance.

A court ordered Canada’s competition body to pay millions to Rogers Communications Inc., saying the country’s antitrust czar engaged in “unreasonable behaviour” in its legal challenge of the company’s takeover of a rival.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says she warned Chinese leaders that U.S. businesses might stop investing in their country without prompt action to address complaints about worsening conditions due to raids on firms, unexplained fines and unpredictabl...

The $17.4 billion Grayscale Bitcoin Trust rallied the most since July 2021 after a US court ruling potentially paved the way for the vehicle to convert into an exchange-traded fund.

Rise in IT stocks due to easing interest rate concerns in the US was offset by a late slide in banking and financial stocks.The BSE Sensex gained a nominal 11 points or 0.02% to settle at 65,087. The broader NSE Nifty rose 5 points or 0.02% to end at 19,347. From the Sensex pack, Jio Financial Services closed in 5% upper circuit for the second straight day.

Vishnu Prakash R Punglia is likely to be finalised on Thursday. Investors will get shares on a lottery basis and the whole process will be supervised by the registrar. On the allotment date, investors come to know about the number of shares allotted to them as against the bids made.

Gabon coup: A group of senior military officers in Gabon claimed they had seized power in the early hours of Wednesday. This came minutes after the Central African state's election body announced that President Ali Bongo Ondimba, 64, was declared winner of an election marred by fears of violence. As per media reports, The officers claimed to speak for all of Gabon's security and military forces on the television station Gabon 24.

India is preparing to start the auction process for some 100 critical mineral blocks in the next four months, as part of plans to secure domestic supplies of the raw materials needed to fuel the green energy transition. The blocks are for minerals including nickel, lithium, cobalt and platinum, along with rare earths, Mines Secretary Vivek Bharadwaj said in an interview in New Delhi. “The legal framework has been laid out and the blocks have been identified,” Bharadwaj said. The tender seeking bids is expected to be out by December and auctions may start three months later, he added. The South Asian nation is racing to ensure critical minerals security to power its ambition to make the country a key battery and electric vehicles manufacturing hub and help attain a net zero goal.

₹232.70 apiece on the BSE. On NSE, JFSL shares were also at 5% upper circuit limit at ₹231.25 apiece, becoming the top Nifty gainer. According to ET Now report, promoter entity Jamnagar Utilities and Power, a step-down unit of Reliance Industries (RIL), likely bought about 5 crore Jio Financial Services shares at ₹208-211 apiece.

Jio Financial Services hit the 5% upper circuit on Wednesday following a likely block deal in pre-market trade wherein 12.7 lakh shares of the company changed hands. The development invited a strong investor response with over 1.58 crore shares trading on the NSE in the opening trade. The block deal reported by ET NOW is the second in a row and follows a deal on Tuesday which saw 0.8% equity changing hands.

Zomato jumped 5% to day's high of Rs 99.60 on a likely block deal in the pre-opening trade on Wednesday which saw 1.16% stake changing hands. ETNow reported at least six block deals involving 10 crore shares getting transacted. Japanese technology investor SoftBank Vision Fund is expected to have offloaded its shares in the food and grocery delivery company.

Zomato share price jumped over 5% in early trade on Wednesday after a block deal in the food delivery giant. Zomato shares rallied as much as 5.12 to ₹99.50 apiece on the BSE. Around 10 crore Zomato shares, aggregating to 1.17% stake in the company, changed hands at an average floor price of ₹94.70 apiece in a block deal on the bourses.

ZomatoAfter Tiger Global, Softbank will likely sell a partial stake in food delivery platform Zomato through block deals on Wednesday.Central Bank Of IndiaCentral Bank of India has entered into a strategic co-lending partnership with IKF Home Finance Ltd to offer MSME and home loans at competitive rates.Read more: What changed the market while you were sleepingMPS LtdMPS Interactive Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of MPS Ltd, will acquire 65% each of Liberate Learning Pty Ltd (Australia), Liberate eLearning Pty Ltd (Australia), App-eLearn Pty Ltd (Australia), and Liberate Learning Limited (New Zealand).ONGCONGC plans to invest Rs 2 trillion ($24.17 billion) on clean energy projects in order to meet its 2038 net-zero carbon emissions goal.Anupam RasayanChemical maker Anupam Rasayan close to acquiring Austria’s ESIM Chemicals, ET Now reported.

A judge ordered Kansas authorities to destroy all the electronic copies they made of a small newspaper’s files when police raided its office this month

The nation’s top environmental official said he fully supports his agency’s decision to block a proposed gold and copper mine in Alaska’s salmon-rich Bristol Bay, even as the state of Alaska has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn that action

The Biden Administration weakened protections for wetlands on Tuesday

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