Poco announced the appointment of Himanshu Tandon as Poco India Head on Monday, June 6. Tandon was one of the founding team members of Poco in India. He is claimed to hold a Guinness Book of World Record for most simultaneous store launches. Poco India has also revealed that it is expanding its after-sales reach
Retailers, along with pubs and restaurants, have enjoyed a “welcome boost” from the four-day weekend celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, according to two measures of consumer spending. Early data covering sales and the volumes of people out and about for the public holiday suggested Britons spent heavily on having fun with friends and family following
I’ll speak from the heart and say yet once again that listening to audiobooks is on equal terms with reading physical books. I acknowledge that the experience is different, but through audiobooks, I personally was able to open doors to book genres that I would not read on a normal basis. One genre I rarely
Downtown Los Angeles occupies just 1.4% of the city’s footprint, but it accounts for a significant portion of the city’s residential, office, hotel and retail development with more than 170 projects on the way, according to a recent report. The DTLA 2022: Outlook and Insights analysis, compiled by the city’s Downtown Center Business Improvement District,
South Korea and the US have fired eight surface-to-surface missiles in response to North Korea’s latest launch. Kim Jong Un ordered the launch of eight short-range ballistic missiles on Sunday, raising fears that he could be preparing to conduct the country’s first nuclear test since 2017. It was North Korea’s 18th missile test of the
Rebel Conservative MPs say they expect a no confidence vote in Boris Johnson to be held in the coming days. Letters expressing no confidence in the prime minister must be submitted by 54 Tory MPs to trigger a challenge. Data collated by Sky News shows that 28 Conservatives have publicly called for Mr Johnson to
UPDATE: Stoney Westmoreland, charged with attempting to lure a minor into sex, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison and ten years of supervised release. Westmoreland copped a plea deal with prosecutors after the actor originally faced a ten year sentence,. But he was allowed to plead down to a lesser charge of
A suspected state-aligned threat actor has been attributed to a new set of attacks exploiting the Microsoft Office “Follina” vulnerability to target government entities in Europe and the U.S. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint said it blocked attempts at exploiting the remote code execution flaw, which is being tracked CVE-2022-30190 (CVSS score: 7.8). No less than
Ethan Phelan Melzer’s secret life of hate ran deep. The 24-year-old private in the 173rd Airborne Brigade appeared to be just another young soldier, trying to find his way through military life at Fort Benning, Georgia. However, in his private time, prosecutors allege, Melzer had another, sinister side: He said he liked to perform macabre
Zach Bryan is already teasing a new song barely two weeks after dropping an entire 34-song tracklist album in American Heartbreak? I’m HERE for it… although I still don’t know when this man sleeps. The new one is called “Twenty So,” and finds him recounting the hard parts of being a twenty-something-year-old man trying to
Jared Leto leaning into the ‘Morbius’ jokes didn’t work out so well — apparently, nobody was actually all that eager to see it again in theaters … so say the box office numbers. Sony re-released the comic book flick on the big screen anew this weekend — this after a horrid domestic run in the
Obi-Wan Kenobi star Moses Ingram took to Instagram to pull the curtain back on the racist responses that have flooded her DMs since joining the beloved Star Wars franchise as Inquisitor Reva Sevander on the new Disney+ series. Set to the sound of Megan Thee Stallion’s anthemic “Megan’s Piano,” the actress dropped screenshots on her
Moto E32s will go on sale for the first time today. The smartphone was launched in India last week as a slightly tweaked version of the Moto E32. It sports a 6.5-inch HD+ display with a 90Hz refresh rate. The handset is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Helio G37 SoC, which is paired with up
A four-day week with no loss of pay is being trialled at dozens of companies across the UK from today. Firms from a variety of industries are taking part, including banking, hospitality, care, and even animation studios. They will still give their workers 100% of their pay, on the understanding that they maintain maximum productivity.
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With the election Tuesday, June 7, we look at California’s electorate. 2022 California voter registration California tends to skew Democratic because of the large populations of urban centers. Less-populated areas tend to be more Republican. The top 10 counties with the most registered voters make up more than 72% of the voter population. Largest county
A sled dog who went missing during a 938-mile race across Alaska has been found after three months. Leon disappeared from a checkpoint nearly 150 miles into The Iditarod back in March, and efforts by the organisers to track him down proved unfruitful. Photos were released on the race’s blog during efforts to find him,
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji, who this year brought Bhutan its first-ever International Feature Oscar nom with Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, for representation. Dorji’s feature directorial debut is a drama about a young teacher who dreams of emigrating to Australia, only to find himself assigned to a school in the
Microsoft on Thursday said it took steps to disable malicious activity stemming from abuse of OneDrive by a previously undocumented threat actor it tracks under the chemical element-themed moniker Polonium. In addition to removing the offending accounts created by the Lebanon-based activity group, the tech giant’s Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) said it suspended over 20
On a cold morning in upstate New York, I got arrested while walking down the street with a small Tupperware container filled with heroin. Even though I was at the tail end of my senior year at Cornell University, that outcome should not have been a surprise to anyone who knew me. I’d been struggling