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Rocksteady Studios Reportedly Hit With Layoffs After Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Sells Poorly
Rocksteady Studios has reportedly been hit with layoffs. The job cuts are said to have impacted the studio’s quality assurance (QA) department, with nearly half the team members laid off.
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Twitter Sued Again Over Severance Pay, Lawsuit Claims Company Owes at Least $500 Million to Ex-Workers
Twitter on Tuesday was hit with the second lawsuit this month to claim that it owes at least $500 million in severance pay to ex-workers, the latest in a series of cases arising from Elon Musk's acquisition of the social media company.
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Bitcoin Mining Surges to New Record, Profit Margins Decline as Ethereum Merge Frees Up Capacity
Bitcoin mining has hit a new record in the aftermath of the Ethereum Merge, the technical upgrade that replaced as many as one million powerful computers with Ether holders to validate transaction data encrypted by the network and reduce its carbon footprint by 99 percent. Meanwhile, mining difficulty, a measure of Bitcoin miners’ computing power...
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MacBook Air (2022) May Not Carry a Wide Range of Colours; Shipments Could Hit 7 Million in Second Half
Apple's new MacBook Air — aka MacBook Air (2022) — may not come with the rumoured wide range of colour options and instead carry four shades, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and analyst at TF International Securities Ming-Chi Kuo have presumed. Separately, the new MacBook Air will hit up to the seven million shipments mark by the second half of 2022.
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Disney+ Grows to Nearly 138 Million Subscribers, Even as Profit Slips Despite Return to Parks
Disney reported net income of $470 million (about Rs. 3,645 crore) at the end of Q2 2022, just over half of the $912 million (about Rs. 7,075 crore) profit it made in Q2 2021. Disney+ gained 7.9 million subscribers to hit 137.7 million. When adding in subscriptions to Disney's streaming services Hulu and ESPN+, the overall number tops 205 million.
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Samsung's Reputation Hit as Prices Slashed at Home for Galaxy S22
Samsung Electronics' flagship Galaxy S22 smartphone has taken a battering from reports of hobbled performance and has seen carriers half its price at home in South Korea just weeks since its launch, hurting its image as an iPhone rival.
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Half A Million Afghanistan Jobs Lost Under Taliban, Women Worst Hit: UN
More than half a million people have lost or been pushed out of their jobs in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, the UN International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday.
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NFT Sales Volume Surges to $2.5 Billion in 2021 First Half, a Major Jump From $13.7 Million Last Year
The market for NFTs surged to new highs in the second quarter, with $2.5 billion (roughly Rs. 18,560 crores) in sales so far this year, up from just $13.7 million (roughly Rs. 101.7 crores) in the first half of 2020, marketplace data showed.
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Myanmar Junta Hits Aung San Suu Kyi With Corruption Charges
The Myanmar junta has hit deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi with corruption charges over claims she accepted illegal payments of gold and more than half a million dollars in cash, state media reported Thursday.
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Barcelona Hit Hard As La Liga Slashes Salary Caps
Barcelona's salary cap for the 2020-21 season will be 382.7 million euros, down from 671.4 million euros last term, when they had the highest limit in La Liga.
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Slack's Quarterly Billing Growth Slows Due to COVID-19 Concessions
Slack’s billing growth, a key indicator of future revenue, slowed in the second quarter and the workplace messaging app owner said it took a $11 million (roughly Rs. 81 crores) hit in the first half due to the COVID-19 related concessions.
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Nearly 3 Million Affected By Floods In 12 Districts Of Bihar
Floodwater entered one more district of Samastipur in Bihar and spread to more inundated areas, hitting half a million more population on Tuesday, even though no fresh casualty was reported and the count remained at 10, an official bulletin said.
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India’s Petrol, Diesel Demand Falls Due To High Prices, Lockdown
Indian state refiners' petrol and diesel sales declined in the first half of July from the same period last month, according to preliminary data, as a renewed lockdown in parts of the country and rising retail prices hit demand. India on Friday became the third country in the world to record more than one million cases of the new coronavirus, behin...
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PUBG Mobile Lifetime Revenue Hits $3 Billion With 2020 Already Pitching in $1.3 Billion: Sensor Tower
PUBG Mobile, the uber-popular battle royale title from Tencent Games, has seen a massive global revenue gain in the first half of this year, bringing its lifetime collection to $3 billion (roughly Rs. Rs. 22,457 crores).
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Explained: Why New York Took Massive COVID-19 Hit
New York has more coronavirus cases than any country and accounts for around half of all deaths in the United States.
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Rocksteady Studios Reportedly Hit With Layoffs After Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Sells Poorly
Rocksteady Studios has reportedly been hit with layoffs. The job cuts are said to have impacted the studio’s quality assurance (QA) department, with nearly half the team members laid off.
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Twitter Sued Again Over Severance Pay, Lawsuit Claims Company Owes at Least $500 Million to Ex-Workers
Twitter on Tuesday was hit with the second lawsuit this month to claim that it owes at least $500 million in severance pay to ex-workers, the latest in a series of cases arising from Elon Musk's acquisition of the social media company.
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Bitcoin Mining Surges to New Record, Profit Margins Decline as Ethereum Merge Frees Up Capacity
Bitcoin mining has hit a new record in the aftermath of the Ethereum Merge, the technical upgrade that replaced as many as one million powerful computers with Ether holders to validate transaction data encrypted by the network and reduce its carbon footprint by 99 percent. Meanwhile, mining difficulty, a measure of Bitcoin miners’ computing power...
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MacBook Air (2022) May Not Carry a Wide Range of Colours; Shipments Could Hit 7 Million in Second Half
Apple's new MacBook Air — aka MacBook Air (2022) — may not come with the rumoured wide range of colour options and instead carry four shades, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and analyst at TF International Securities Ming-Chi Kuo have presumed. Separately, the new MacBook Air will hit up to the seven million shipments mark by the second half of 2022.
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Disney+ Grows to Nearly 138 Million Subscribers, Even as Profit Slips Despite Return to Parks
Disney reported net income of $470 million (about Rs. 3,645 crore) at the end of Q2 2022, just over half of the $912 million (about Rs. 7,075 crore) profit it made in Q2 2021. Disney+ gained 7.9 million subscribers to hit 137.7 million. When adding in subscriptions to Disney's streaming services Hulu and ESPN+, the overall number tops 205 million.
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Samsung's Reputation Hit as Prices Slashed at Home for Galaxy S22
Samsung Electronics' flagship Galaxy S22 smartphone has taken a battering from reports of hobbled performance and has seen carriers half its price at home in South Korea just weeks since its launch, hurting its image as an iPhone rival.
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Half A Million Afghanistan Jobs Lost Under Taliban, Women Worst Hit: UN
More than half a million people have lost or been pushed out of their jobs in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, the UN International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday.
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NFT Sales Volume Surges to $2.5 Billion in 2021 First Half, a Major Jump From $13.7 Million Last Year
The market for NFTs surged to new highs in the second quarter, with $2.5 billion (roughly Rs. 18,560 crores) in sales so far this year, up from just $13.7 million (roughly Rs. 101.7 crores) in the first half of 2020, marketplace data showed.
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Myanmar Junta Hits Aung San Suu Kyi With Corruption Charges
The Myanmar junta has hit deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi with corruption charges over claims she accepted illegal payments of gold and more than half a million dollars in cash, state media reported Thursday.
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Barcelona Hit Hard As La Liga Slashes Salary Caps
Barcelona's salary cap for the 2020-21 season will be 382.7 million euros, down from 671.4 million euros last term, when they had the highest limit in La Liga.
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Slack's Quarterly Billing Growth Slows Due to COVID-19 Concessions
Slack’s billing growth, a key indicator of future revenue, slowed in the second quarter and the workplace messaging app owner said it took a $11 million (roughly Rs. 81 crores) hit in the first half due to the COVID-19 related concessions.
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Nearly 3 Million Affected By Floods In 12 Districts Of Bihar
Floodwater entered one more district of Samastipur in Bihar and spread to more inundated areas, hitting half a million more population on Tuesday, even though no fresh casualty was reported and the count remained at 10, an official bulletin said.
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India’s Petrol, Diesel Demand Falls Due To High Prices, Lockdown
Indian state refiners' petrol and diesel sales declined in the first half of July from the same period last month, according to preliminary data, as a renewed lockdown in parts of the country and rising retail prices hit demand. India on Friday became the third country in the world to record more than one million cases of the new coronavirus, behin...
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PUBG Mobile Lifetime Revenue Hits $3 Billion With 2020 Already Pitching in $1.3 Billion: Sensor Tower
PUBG Mobile, the uber-popular battle royale title from Tencent Games, has seen a massive global revenue gain in the first half of this year, bringing its lifetime collection to $3 billion (roughly Rs. Rs. 22,457 crores).
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Explained: Why New York Took Massive COVID-19 Hit
New York has more coronavirus cases than any country and accounts for around half of all deaths in the United States.
