A US woman is dealing with felony charges after she allegedly set her Tinder date and his automobile on fireplace, media experiences mentioned on Sunday (December 10, 2023).
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The alleged assault befell on November 25 between Destiny Lenai Johnson and a man she met in particular person as soon as after connecting on the Tinder courting app, in accordance with an arrest report obtained by USA TODAY on Wednesday.
The man advised police that Johnson messaged him round 5 a.m. asking to satisfy at her resort, the place she subsequently requested him for cash, the American newspaper reported.
He advised police that she was angered by his response and poured what smelled like gasoline on the passenger’s seat earlier than igniting it with a lighter.
According to court docket information, Johnson was charged with aggravated battery, tried homicide and arson.
The woman has been booked right into a Miami-Dade county jail.
She has been held on a bond of $10,000 for every cost.
Meanwhile, she reportedly advised the police on the scene that she was being trafficked and was requested to carry out sexual acts for cash.
She mentioned she declined to carry out the act and set the automobile on fireplace.
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Battery tech startup Log9 Materials on Tuesday introduced the launch of India’s fastest-charging two-wheeler industrial electrical car (CEV) in partnership with Hyderabad-headquartered EV agency Quantum Energy.
The two corporations collectively unveiled a brand new car mannequin referred to as ‘Bzinesslite InstaCharged by Log9’ which is powered by Log9’s RapidX 2000 batteries, enabling it to go zero to zip within 12 minutes.
The e-2W has been designed with distinctive options reminiscent of nice pace, fast acceleration, superior vary (80-90 kms), multi-theft alarm and a number of driving modes.
Log9 and Quantum Energy might be working hand-in-hand to satisfy their goal of deploying 10,000 2W InstaCharged EVs throughout India by March 2024, in areas like e-commerce, meals supply and courier providers, amongst others, in the last-mile logistics sector.
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“With our fast-charging and long-lasting RapidX 2000 battery built-in in Quantum’s 2W, Bzinesslite, we’re bringing India’s quickest charging electric 2W to the logistics sector that fits tropical weather conditions,” stated Kartik Hajela, Co-founder and COO, Log9.
The corporations will quickly deploy 200 Bzinesslite e-2Ws in Hyderabad by way of Whizzy Logistics — a logistics fleet service supplier enabling hyperlocal deliveries.
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“We are thrilled to introduce our revolutionary product ‘Bzinesslite’ developed in partnership with Log9. Plug it, cost it, and repeat. Unlimited quick cost and stress free,” stated Chakravarthy C., Director, Quantum Energy.
The Bzinesslite e-2W can also be appropriate with public chargers, enabling excessive utilisation of the present charging infrastructure.
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Indian-origin Nishad Singh, the previous director of engineering at collapsed crypto trade FTX, has lastly pleaded guilty to criminal charges and was at present cooperating with the US prosecutors within the alleged billion-dollar rip-off on the crypto buying and selling platform run by former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried who can also be dealing with a trial.
Singh pleaded guilty to six conspiracy charges, together with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit cash laundering and conspiracy to violate federal marketing campaign finance legal guidelines.
Bankman-Fried, together with Gary Wang, co-founder of FTX, and Caroline Ellison, the previous head of FTX’s sister hedge fund Alameda Research, have all pleaded guilty within the ongoing case.
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Singh for his function in a multi-year scheme to defraud fairness buyers in FTX.
According to the SEC’s grievance, Singh created software program code that allowed FTX buyer funds to be diverted to Alameda Research, a crypto hedge fund owned by Bankman-Fried and Wang, regardless of false assurances by Bankman-Fried to buyers that FTX was a secure crypto asset buying and selling platform.
The grievance alleged that Singh knew or ought to have recognized that such statements have been false and deceptive.
“We allege that this was fraud, pure and easy: whereas on the one hand FTX touted its supposed efficient threat mitigation measures to buyers, on the opposite Singh and his co-defendants have been stealing buyer funds utilizing software program code Singh helped create,” mentioned Gurbir S. Grewal, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement.
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The grievance additionally alleged that Singh was an energetic participant within the scheme to deceive FTX’s buyers.
Moreover, in accordance to the grievance, as FTX neared collapse, Singh withdrew roughly $6 million from FTX for private use and expenditures, together with the acquisition of a multi-million greenback home and donations to charitable causes.
In a parallel motion, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) additionally introduced charges towards Singh.
“Today’s guilty plea underscores as soon as once more that the crimes at FTX have been huge in scope and consequence,” mentioned Damian Williams, US lawyer for the Southern District of New York.
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The US Army paused a planned sponsorship with Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty (CoD) esports league after allegations of sexual harassment at its workplace came to light, the media reported.
The US Army allocated millions of dollars to sponsor a wide range of esports tournaments, individual ‘Call of Duty’, according to a report in Vice citing internal documents.
The Army aimed to spend $750,000 on the official ‘Call of Duty League Esports’ tournament, streaming service Paramount+, and the HALO TV show, which aired on Paramount+.
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The US Army also planned to spend $200,000 on sponsoring the mobile version of Call of Duty, including with “reward-based inventory”, said the report.
However, the US Army “ordered a stop of all spending with Call of Duty’s publisher Activision after the company faced a wave of sexual harassment complaints”.
The documents show that the US military considered gaming and, in particular, CoD, as a potentially useful branding and recruiting tool to woo Gen Z gamers.
In October, gaming company Activision Blizzard’s chief compliance officer, Frances Townsend, stepped down after several sexual assault allegations surfaced at the company.
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She quit after hundreds of employees last year criticised her response to workers’ sexual harassment complaints, a charge Townsend has denied.
Her departure came as Activision is in the process of its $68.7 billion all-cash acquisition by Microsoft which has been hit by investigations by regulators from the European Commission, the UK and the US.
Activision Blizzard has some of the world’s best-selling and most recognisable gaming franchises, such as CoD and World of Warcraft.
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Stepping into a swanky multiplex or a high-end restaurant or an airport lounge and purchasing eatables can cost you a bomb.
The Department of Consumer Affairs frequently receives complaints of overcharging, when people complain that they have been charged more than the maximum retail price (MRP) mentioned on a product.
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However, if you feel that you have been cheated of your hard-earned money into paying a premium for a burger or a bucket of popcorn in a multiplex or at a posh hotel, there is little that any governmental authority can do, as this is something called paying for an ‘ambience’, which basically refers to operational costs, said government sources.
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Since this cost is inbuilt in the displayed price of the item, it cannot be termed as overcharging, sources pointed out.
In such cases, there is hardly anything that the authorities can do, as additional tax is charged on a simple snack as part of the ambience cost, industry watchers said. In these cases, action is warranted, sources within the department said.
However, if it comes to paying an extraordinarily high amount for snacks at a multiplex or a high-end restaurant, that is something which is charged by the service provider for the ambience which is being made available to the customer and the cost for providing it.
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“This is inbuilt in the MRP for that particular product, therefore, it is something which is expected in such places. We can only intervene if in case of an over the counter payment, the amount being charged is more than the MRP mentioned on the product (in other words overcharging),” sources in the Consumer Affairs Department said.
This is evident from the fact that in the past, the government had taken serious note of complaints of bottled water or packaged food items and drinks being sold at prices higher than the MRP.
The Consumer Affairs Department had earlier said that it keeps receiving complaints of products being sold at a price higher than the MRP.
There are provisions to prevent charging above the MRP in the Legal Metrology Act 2009, sources said, adding that penalties are imposed on violation of the Act’s provisions by the concerned authorities.
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