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San Francisco, July 29 (IANS) Leading VC firm Sequoia Capital has massively cut its crypto fund, more than 65 per cent to now about $200 million, amid the funding winter.Sequoia Capital has downsized its two major venture funds, including the crypto fund (from $585 million to $200 million), reports the Wall Street Journal.The move came amid several crypto exchanges and platforms announcing bankruptcy in recent months amid tightening regulations.Sequoia is now reportedly looking to invest in younger startups.”We made these changes to sharpen our focus on seed-stage opportunities and to provide liquidity to our limited partners,” a company spokesperson was…

The military took over control of Niger because it concerned itself with the continued deterioration of the security situation and poor economic and social governance, the CNSP said on Friday in a statement.Later in the day, Tchiani signed an order to suspend the Constitution and dissolved the government, empowering the CNSP to exercise all legislative and executive authorities and the president of the council to represent the country in international relations.Niger’s Defence and Security Forces said late Wednesday that soldiers in the country had overthrown President Mohamed Bazoum, hours after the president was allegedly held hostage.The international community has voiced…

One of the reasons for the rise is being attributed to Friday night’s heavy rainfall, the CWC said.In view of the flood-like situation, most of the people of nearby areas of the Yamuna continue to live in relief camps.According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, and East Rajasthan are likely to experiencelight to moderate to widespread rainfall.Notably, the Yamuna broke a 45-year-old record and reached its highest level at 208.65 meters on July 13, submerging several low-lying areas flooding the roads.Last Friday, it was flowing at 208.35 metres.With the flood situation improving, the traffic…

Speaking with Polygon about the upcoming ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ film, Rogen answered why he’s never tackled a Marvel or DC project, reports deadline.com.”Honestly, probably fear,” Rogen answered. “We really have a pretty specific way we work, me and Evan (Goldberg) have been writers for 20 years at this point. It’s a fear of the process, honestly. And I say that knowing nothing about the process. There are a lot of Marvel things I love.”He continued: “It’s mostly a fear of how would we plug into the system they have in place, which seems like a very good…

“This year will serve as a tipping point for Samsung to make foldable phones a mainstream product,” Roh Tae-moon, president and head of Samsung Electronics’ mobile business, said at a press briefing in Seoul, reports Yonhap news agency.In the next few years, sales of foldable phones could “hit 100 million units a year worldwide,” he added, citing various reports by industry research firms.Since Samsung first introduced the new form factor in 2019, more companies have joined the high-end segment, including Google and Motorola, and the manufacturing ecosystem has expanded, which he said demonstrated the possibility of foldables becoming a mainstream…

The incident took place late Friday night in Magrahat and the deceased has been identified as Moimur Gharami.With this, the overall total death toll in the violence linked to the recently concluded panchayat polls in the state has increased to 55.During the attack, Gharami’s close associate Sahajahan Molla was shot and injured. He is currently under treatment at a local hospital and is said to be in critical condition.Meanwhile, four people have been arrested in connection to the murder.Local people in the area told the police that while Gharami was returning home, he was suddenly surrounded by a group of…

The shoot of the movie began with the team canning a breathtaking action sequence. Ram underwent a stylish makeover for the movie being produced by Puri Jagannadh and Charmme Kaur under the banner of Puri Connects. Vish Reddy is the CEO.The makers came up with a big update today. Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt is playing a full-length role in ‘Double iSmart’. The actor joined the shoot in the very first schedule. Today, the makers introducing Sanjay Dutt’s character as Big Bull have unveiled his first look poster.Sporting a funky hairdo and a beard, Sanjay Dutt looks ultra stylish in the…

Mohammed Adil Khan from Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, who has been working at a real estate company in Dubai since five years, participated in the Emirates Draw’s FAST5 game for the first time and became the lucky winner, The Khaleej Times reported. Khan said he was shocked to get a congratulatory email informing him about his windfall. “The initial shock turned into excitement when I received the mail. When I received a call from the organisers, I was way too overwhelmed. I couldn’t believe it and feel like I can retire and my future is secure. I feel I have retired…

In the pair’s second ATP Head to Head clash in the space of 11 days, Wawrinka improved to 2-0 against Carballes Baena by prevailing in a tense quarter-final clash of narrow margins on Friday.A late break of serve in each set ultimately proved decisive for the sixth-seeded Swiss, who wrapped a one-hour, 44-minute win to reach his first tour-level semi-final since Metz in September 2022.”He’s a really tough player, I expected a tough match,” said Wawrinka in his on-court interview.”I think tonight I was playing well. It’s slow conditions so it’s not easy to get through, to be aggressive, but…

This includes interpreting new commands and responding to user commands by performing rudimentary reasoning, such as reasoning about object categories or high-level descriptions.The Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2) is a novel vision-language-action (VLA) model that learns from both web and robotics data, and translates this knowledge into generalised instructions for robotic control, according to Google DeepMind.A traditional robot can pick up a ball and stumble when picking up a cube.RT-2’s flexible approach enables a robot to train on picking up a ball and can figure out how to adjust its extremities to pick up a cube or another toy it’s never…