UpFront
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SpaceX launches a crew of astronauts like no other on an adventure to orbit
The mission, known as Inspiration4, is the first orbital trip where not one of the people aboard is a professional astronaut and where government is, by and large, a bystander and observer
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Timeline: Apple's many flip flops around its app store
With Apple being asked to allow apps to link out to other purchasing options apart from in-app purchases, here is a brief history of all the major policy changes around the app store
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Tesla's brand value zoomed 272% in a year: Here are 2021's fastest growing brands
In a year marked by lockdowns and remote work, brands including TikTok, Instagram and Lululemon saw soaring growth
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How Vishal Bali is giving a fresh life to India's crippled healthcare sector and making his investors richer
At a time multi-specialty players dominate the landscape, the executive chairman of Asia Healthcare Holdings has turned around loss-making entities like Motherhood Hospitals and Nova IVF and pushed them on a growth trajectory
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Apple rolls out its latest, with improvements around the edges
Apple is betting that by adding new features and making slight design improvements, customers will keep shelling out more money, a strategy that has worked for years
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As India's lethal Covid-19 wave neared, politics overrode science
India, a vast country with an underfunded health care system, would have struggled to contain the second wave no matter what, as a more contagious new variant fuelled the spread and people stopped wearing masks
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Bitcoin uses more electricity than many countries. How is that possible?
The process of creating Bitcoin consumes around 96 terawatt-hours of electricity annually, more than is used by the Philippines, a nation of about 110 million
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Nuts and bolts of GoMechanic's 'why' and 'why not'
How car service and workshop brand GoMechanic cracked the unorganised garage market with its asset-light model and direct sourcing of spares
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Indians unhappy with amendments in smoking law: New report
A majority of people say the proposed Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) Amendment Bill, 2020, could fuel more illicit cigarette trade, according to a survey; in fact, more than 63% of those surveyed believe they were harassed for responsible tobacco consumption
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Access to Covid-19 vaccines and hesitancy around it are biggest challenges: Neera Nundy, co-founder of Dasra
Neera Nundy, co-founder of Dasra, talks about the difficulties in India achieving its Covid-19 vaccination targets, and the role philanthropy plays in it
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Apple issues emergency security updates to close a spyware flaw
The software updates fix a critical vulnerability in its products after security researchers uncovered a flaw that allows the highly invasive Pegasus spyware from Israel's NSO Group to infect anyone's iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch or Mac computer without so much as a click