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Madrid (Spain), Aug 8 (IANS) Federico Bahamontes, the celebrated Spanish cyclist, passed away on Tuesday. He was 95. Recognised as the first Spaniard to win the Tour de France in 1959, with subsequent second and third-place finishes in 1963 and 1964 respectively, and claiming the best climber’s jersey six times, Bahamontes earned the moniker “Eagle of Toledo.”Carlos Velazquez, the Mayor of Toledo, announced the news of his demise, Xinhua reported.Bahamontes also holds the distinction of being the first cyclist to win the mountain jersey in all three Grand Tours: France, Italy, and Spain. In 2013, a panel organized by the…

San Francisco, Aug 8 (IANS) Instant messaging app Facebook Messenger has announced that it will drop SMS support next month.”If you use Messenger as your default SMS messaging app for your Android device, please note you will no longer be able to use Messenger to send and receive SMS messages sent by your cellular network when you update your app after September 28, 2023,” the company said in a help page.”You will still be able to send and receive SMS messages through your cellular network and access your SMS message history through your phone’s new default messaging app.”The company further…

New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) Video conferencing platform Zoom has changed its terms of service following online backlash over a recent update to the company’s fine print allowing AI training on customer data.”We’ve updated our terms of service (in section 10.4) to further confirm that we will not use audio, video, or chat customer content to train our artificial intelligence models without your consent,” Zoom said in a blogpost on Monday.Recently, a report from StackDiary highlighted how the changes, which were quietly implemented in March, appeared to give the company broad control over customer data for AI training purposes.In response,…

New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) Digital banking platform MobiKwik on Tuesday said it has recorded profitable growth in the first quarter of current financial year with an adjusted EBITDA of Rs 13.6 crore, a 181 per cent increase (year-over-year).This is the second consecutive quarter when MobiKwik has registered a profitable growth.The company registered Rs 177 crore in revenues in Q1 FY23-24, a growth of 68 per cent in the corresponding quarter last fiscal and its contribution margin rose by 108 per cent to Rs 73.9 crore.The company is geared for a 2X growth to an estimated Rs 1,100 crore in…

Hong Kong, Aug 8 (IANS) The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) here has warned investors to be wary of the risks of trading virtual assets on unregulated virtual asset trading platforms (VATP), saying some cryptocurrency firms are making fake claims about their compliance with the commission. The SFC also noticed that some unlicensed virtual asset platforms continue to launch new services and products under their existing entities that may not comply with the applicable legal and regulatory requirements.”The SFC has observed some unlicensed virtual asset trading platforms engaging in improper practices. This statement warns them of the potential legal and…

London, Aug 8 (IANS) The European Union has opened an in-depth antitrust investigation into software major Adobe’s bid to acquire product design platform Figma for $20 billion, saying that the transaction may reduce competition in the global markets for the supply of interactive product design software and for digital asset creation tools.The Commission’s preliminary investigation indicates that the transaction may allow Adobe to restrict competition in the global markets for the supply of interactive product design tools.“Adobe and Figma are close competitors and that the transaction would remove an important competitive force, and the unlikely timely and credible entry of…

The multi-hyphenate artiste Farhan Akhtar, who directed ‘Don’ (2006) and ‘Don 2’ (2011) both starring the Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan in the titular role, took to his social media on Tuesday and shared a note with regards to the film’s announcement.The director-producer shared that the work on the film will begin in 2025.Talking about the legacy set by the larger-than-life character of Don which has been portrayed by veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan and SRK, Farhan wrote on his social media: “In 1978, a character created by Salim-Javed and portrayed by Amitabh Bachchan with effortless elan, captured the imagination of…

The cabinet approved the subway connectivity between Bihar and Patna museums. The cabinet has also passed a revised estimate for this purpose in tune of Rs 542 crore. The Patna museum is located on Budh Marg while the Bihar museum is located at Bailey road.The cabinet has also approved two ITIs one at Garkha in Saran district and the second at Raghopur in Vaishali district. A total of 86 posts have also been approved at these two places while Rs 468 crore has been allocated for the financial year 2023-24.The cabinet also approved the amendment in the Migrant Labourer Accident…

Party sources said that this decision was taken as part of a strategy of not exposing Gandhi to all the attack, which he would have faced, if he had spoken first.Also as the no-confidence motion is against the government and since the Prime Minister was not in the House today, it was decided to field Rahul Gandhi towards the end of the discussion, which is to continue till August 10.Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to reply to the motion on August 10.”Had he spoken first, then BJP speakers would have reacted to it all through the day. So Rahul…

He was riding on the Manali-Leh highway when except for gears 1 and 2 on his bike, the rest stopped working — he said in the video, shot on the roadside of the More Plains.“If God ever got around to creating a heaven for bikers, all roads in heaven will look like this – flat, black tarmac, in the middle of a plane running for kilometres on end. This is the More plains in the middle of the Manali-Leh highway,” Murty said in the video.“In the middle of the More plains, God will give angels the options to party. Angelic…