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Dwayne Johnson's involvement in Moana 2 remains in the negotiation phase, casting uncertainty on his return as the beloved demigod Maui. While Disney unveiled plans for the animated sequel to the 2016 blockbuster Moana earlier this week, concrete details about the cast have yet to materialize. The purported talks with Johnson come amid fervent anticipation for the sequel, slated for a theatrical release later this year.

Meta surged more than 17 per cent on Friday as the Facebook parent’s first dividend declaration and robust results increased expectations of strong returns from its investments in “metaverse” technologies and artificial intelligence infrastructure.

PTI. According to police, Noronha suspected that Ghosalkar had implicated him in a rape case. Police said that Noronha (48) used his bodyguard Amarendra Mishra's licensed pistol to shoot Ghosalkar on Thursday evening and later killing himself.

Champai Soren on Friday hit out at the BJP for allegedly conspiring to destabilise the Hemant Soren-led JMM government ever since it came to power in 2019. Criticising the BJP for lacking substantial issues to present to the public, he claimed that they resorted to foul tactics to undermine the government's stability. The CM emphasised that the mandate of the people was in favour of Hemant Soren, who initiated various welfare measures despite the economic slowdown due to the pandemic. «People's mandate was in favour of Hemant Soren, who formed a popular government and started delivering the goods even though economic activities came to a standstill for two years because of the pandemic,» the chief minister said after disbursing the first set of installments of the Abua Awas (housing) Yojana to beneficiaries here.

artificial intelligence (AI) will change the anatomy of jobs, skills, tasks and occupations and create upward social mobility in the economy, Cognizant chief executive Ravi Kumar S said. Kumar said technology service companies like Cognizant pivot on «technological discontinuities» such as generative AI.

Decentralized social media (DeSo) is a concept that is looking to stir up the digital landscape and promises to redefine how we connect online.

DJ Tiësto, Grammy winner has dropped out as the first in–game DJ of the Super Bowl because of a family emergency, as was announced by the musician on Friday. On social media, DJ Tiësto has written that a personal family emergency is compelling him to return home on Sunday morning. It was a difficult decision to miss the game, however family always stands first.

BANGKOK (Reuters) — Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said on Friday he will continue to urge the central bank to cut interest rates.

Police in Peterborough, Ont., are warning the public after reporting an increase in cryptocurrency scams that have cost victims thousands of dollars.

Pershing Square's Bill Ackman is set to offer a new investment vehicle listed on the New York Stock Exchange, aiming to leverage his following among Main Street investors.

Shares of Pinterest (NYSE:PINS) fell roughly 16% following the closing bell on Thursday after the social media company missed Q4 revenue expectations and issued soft guidance for the March quarter.

9 February 2024 [Lisbon, Portugal]: Common Wealth, the powerful, all-in-one platform for early-stage Web3 investments, today announces the launch of a world-first initiative: a Free “earn-to-own” VC Fund. This launch represents a completely novel fusion of community-driven Web3 principles with the sophistication of venture capital investment. The initiative will see Common Wealth’s first fund opening up the venture capital sector to the masses, ensuring that the power of early-stage access in Web3 is now in the hands of the community it serves.

NEW DELHI : The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and the opposition Congress party locked horns on Thursday, over a paper tabled in the Lok Sabha by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman accusing the previous United Progressive Alliance regime of undermining the country’s macroeconomic fundamentals, and the Congress hitting back at the government citing price rice and unemployment. The debate over the economic track record before and after 2014 highlighted major shocks that India’s economy underwent under both regimes, how the respective governments dealt with them, the effectiveness of the fiscal stimulus, given as well as the persisting issues of price rice and job creation not being commensurate with the demand from a large working age population.

Dharaksha Ecosolutions, a Faridabad-based start-up, specializes in mycelium-based biodegradable packaging. It is among the seven revenue-generating start-ups selected under Cisco and Social Alpha’s Krishi Mangal second edition cohort, a scale-up accelerator program launched in 2021 to support start-ups in agriculture and allied livelihoods.

₹61,000 crore, the realized disinvestment proceeds were only ₹30,000 crore in 2023-24 Revised Estimate (RE). However, the BE for the 2024-2025 is ₹ 50,000 crore, which is seemingly a realistic target. The size of the government can be affected by polycrisis—the debt crisis, war, global supply chain disruptions, energy crisis and the climate crisis.

Ambitious online news site The Messenger has abruptly shut down after only eight months in operation

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Tuesday that a post sent from the agency's account on the social media platform X announcing the approval of a long-awaited bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) was "unauthorised," and that the agency's account was hacked.

budget Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present on February 1. From cutting down subsidies to slowing down capital expenditure to control fiscal deficit to targeting different voter groups with welfare measures, Amid all the expectations and demands from the budget and speculation and expert commentary about what all the budget might contain, what Sitharaman herself has been saying recently, not necessarily related to the budget, can yield good pointers to the direction of the upcoming budget.

Invincible Season 2 Episode 5' and it will soon arrive on Amazon Prime Video. Its release date has been officially announced and fans can also know the release schedule of the remaining episodes. Its last episode was shown in late November 2023 and since then, fans have been waiting eagerly for its return with the remaining episodes. Showrunner Simon Racioppa said in November that «some issues came up» that kept Season 2 from releasing at once.

Zerodha tech glitch: Kite app 'connectivity issue' resolved, says brokerage firm The service disruption caused significant inconvenience and distress among traders, as it not only rendered customers unable to access their account details but also posed challenges in placing orders or closing open positions. Acknowledging the issue, the company said, "Due to a connectivity issue, some of our users were intermittently facing issues with order placement on Kite.

In an increasingly digital world, our reliance on the internet has grown exponentially. From managing our finances and shopping to staying connected on social media, our lives are intricately woven into the online fabric. While the benefits are immense, so too are the associated risks. Cyber threats and attacks loom large, targeting not just businesses, but individuals. The question is: Are you prepared for the unexpected? Do you have a safeguard for your digital assets? Here's why investing in individual cyber insurance is not just a prudent choice; it's a necessity.