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Fifteen years ago there was almost no market for avocados in India, remembers Sunil Bopaiah.Ripe fruit would fall off trees and be eaten by dogs, earning avocados the unappetising name dog fruit, he says.Bopaiah has been working in India’s plantation industry for 26 years, he’s currently group manager at Cottanad Plantations, which grows cocoa, rubber, coffee, spices and fruits, including avocado, in the hills of Wayanad in the southern Indian state of Kerala.”We never planted avocado as our main crop. We introduced it as a shade tree for coffee plantations, and only later realised it could become a profitable business,”…

But industry bodies argue that starting production at the sites would provide much-needed jobs and improve the UK’s energy security as overseas conflicts threaten supply.Advocates of the project also told the BBC that Jackdaw’s output is critical to extending the life of other North Sea infrastructure including Shearwater – a large offshore oil and gas production hub that processes hydrocarbons before piping them to coastal refineries and terminals.Adura said that if approval comes in September, the field could start delivering gas to UK homes by this winter as the construction is “99% complete”.A public consultation on the future of Jackdaw…

Argentina’s President, Javier Milei, has heightened tensions with the UK over the Falklands, warning he will impose economic sanctions on firms which exploit oil close to the British overseas territory.In a national address, Milei said the “winds of change” favoured Argentina’s claim to the islands, emboldened by signs the US might reconsider its stance of neutrality on the issue.Milei said the Sea Lion oilfield, where a British and an Israeli firm are due to begin exploration work, was a “clear and present danger”.More than 40 years after the war over the territory, sovereignty of the archipelago in the south-west Atlantic…

Pooja Bhatt, an associate professor at OP Jindal Global University, says that mismatch is increasingly difficult to ignore.”Given its young demographics and ‘Digital India’ aspirations, it makes sense for the nation to build and maintain its own internet infrastructure for security and governance purposes,” she says.India has already taken a step: the government now treats submarine cable systems as critical telecommunications infrastructure, recognising their importance to international connectivity. Sundararajan says the designation should bring faster clearances, emergency repair mechanisms and an Indian cable-repair capability, along with legally protected cable zones around landing sites and routes, restricting anchoring and trawling.Technology could…

Cyber-security researcher Charlie Kelly from Have I Been Squatted carried out an analysis of how the attack worked and said the new wave of recruitment scams were hard to spot.”This wasn’t a badly written email with a suspicious attachment – this person was walked through what looked like a real job interview, on real Google pages, behind a real Google login, and the software they were asked to install was digitally signed like any legitimate app.”The case comes as others have reported similar attacks through the job listing platform Indeed, which put out advice in July about avoiding scams, external.Criminals…

The board of German car giant Volkswagen has approved a plan to cut another 50,000 jobs as part of a sweeping turnaround programme. It brings the total number of roles the company plans to shed by 2030 to 100,000.The group – which includes Audi, Porsche, Skoda as well as the VW brand – said in March that it would cut 50,000 roles by the end of the decade.The move is a “strong signal” for the future of the firm, which is “taking responsibility for our entire workforce”, VW’s chief executive Oliver Blume said in a statement on Thursday.Blume told the…

Next-generation healthcare tech stock Phressia (PHR -6.33%) was looking quite under the weather on Thursday. After it published its latest set of quarterly figures just after market close the day before, its equity was hit by a determined sell-off. It closed down more than 6% on Thursday. Improved outcomes Phreesia, which automates numerous processes underpinning the patient-doctor relationship, posted revenue of $129.5 million in its second quarter of fiscal 2027. That bettered the year-ago result by 10%, and was on the back of a 6% rise in the average number of healthcare services clients (AHSCs, a crucial metric for the…

Today could be the day Tesla changes forever.   In a couple of hours, Tesla will “launch” the Cybercab — a small, gold, two-seater sedan with no steering wheel or pedals that uses cameras and AI to navigate the world — in its hometown of Austin, Texas.  The company hasn’t said what the launch will entail, exactly. It could be a few cars offering rides in a small area downtown, or a far grander affair in both size and scope.  Tesla certainly wants you to believe it’s the latter.   In the runup to the event, Tesla staged dozens — perhaps more…

Zscaler stock soared on Thursday after the cloud security company beat Wall Street’s fiscal fourth-quarter estimates as rising artificial intelligence risk spurred urgent demand for cyber tools. Here’s how the company performed compared to LSEG estimates:Earnings per share: $1.19 adjusted vs. $1.09 expectedRevenue: $898 million vs. $877 million expectedRevenue jumped 25% from about $719 million last year. Zscaler reported a net loss of $3.4million, a loss of 2 cents per share, up from a net loss of $17.6 million, a loss of 11 cents per share, a year ago. CEO Jay Chaudhry highlighted the adoption of the company’s Zero Trust…

Bitcoin (BTC) rallied 5% during US trading hours, reaching $81,000. Key points: Bitcoin rallies above $81,000 in US trading, having risen more than 5% over the past 24 hours.USD/JPY drops to 155.4 amid suspected Bank of Japan (BOJ) intervention, dragging the US Dollar Index (DXY) down to 99.Polymarket odds for a BOJ rate hold collapse further from 12% to 1%, with a 98% probability now priced in for a 25-basis-point hike on Sept. 18.Weaker dollar drags crypto higherAt the time of writing, BTC stands at $81,000, near the highs seen during last month’s surprise upside. The move comes as the Japanese yen (JPY)…