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Seven listed Adani Group firms see a sell-off worth $112bn in under two weeks as the opposition widens protests. Legislators of India’s main opposition party have kicked off protests at some state-run companies over the crisis at Adani Group, whose seven listed firms saw another sell-off that drove their market loss to $112bn in less…

Snow, rain and freezing conditions impede search and rescue operations as the quake death toll neared 1,400. Bad weather is hampering rescue efforts after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck southern Turkey and northwest Syria, killing about 1,400 people and injuring many more. According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake struck at 4:17am (01:17 GMT)…

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Tremor measured at magnitude 7.8 was also felt in Syria, Lebanon and Cyprus causing buildings to collapse. An earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude 7.8 has hit southern Turkey near the Syrian border, the US Geological Service has said, killing dozens of people as it sent shockwaves across northern Syria, Cyprus and Lebanon….

The race to build better, brighter and blazingly fast conversational AI is heating up the BigTech circuit. Silicon Valley’s investors can’t keep calm. OpenAI’s ChatGPT has potentially become the iPhone moment in the valley, with every other BigTech giving it a shot at. Microsoft’s investment in ChatGPT rang alarm to competitors like Google. Alphabet’s shareholder…

While bilateral tension has risen over the balloon incident, China and the US have been seeking to improve ties. Regional analysts and diplomats are closely watching China’s response after a US fighter jet shot down a suspected “spy” balloon – which Beijing says was an errant weather-monitoring craft – in the Atlantic Ocean off the…

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for the first time by 2% to $167 billion, according to the latest “State…

Move comes after the bloc found new supplies of diesel from the US, Middle East and India to replace Russian energy supplies. Europe has imposed a ban on Russian diesel fuel and other refined oil products, slashing energy dependency on Moscow and seeking to further crimp the Kremlin’s fossil fuel earnings as punishment for invading…

The craft, which Beijing says was a meteorological airship blown off course, was shot down in the Atlantic Ocean. The United States Navy is working to recover the debris of a Chinese surveillance balloon that fell into the Atlantic Ocean after being shot down off the coast of South Carolina over the weekend. The balloon,…

Your relentless quest for the coolest, most epic smartphone ends here with Samsung’s Galaxy S23 Ultra. Samsung unveiled its epic flagship at the spectacular Galaxy Unpacked event in San Francisco on Feb 1. An incredible upgrade over its predecessors, the Galaxy S23 Ultra is quite literally the best android smartphone in its category. A powerhouse…

In the past, I found it easy to root against the imperialist teams, but that calculus gets complicated the more those teams change. Paris-born star Kylian Mbappé is the son of a Cameroonian father and a mother of Algerian descent. Canada’s Alphonso Davies was born in a refugee camp in Ghana. Twelve of the 26…