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Devices powered by lithium-ion batteries are overheating more often during airline flights and passengers often put them in checked bags that go into the cargo hold, where a fire might not be detected as quickly. Overheating incidents rose 28 per cent from 2019 to 2023, although such events remain relatively rare, UL Standards said in a report released on Monday. E-cigarettes overheated more often than any other device, based on reports from 35 airlines, according to the report. In 60 per cent of the cases, the overheating called thermal runaway happened near the seat of the passenger who brought the device on board. In July, a smoking laptop in a passenger's bag led to the evacuation of a plane awaiting takeoff at San Francisco International Airport. Last year, a flight from Dallas to Orlando, Florida, made an emergency landing in Jacksonville, Florida, after a battery caught fire in an overhead bin. More than one-quarter of passengers surveyed for the study said they put vapin

That said, Chris Wood believes that the 'picks and shovels theme' for AI remains the most compelling story for now, which is why Nvidia remains his core holding despite valuation at 41x sales.

The parent company behind short-video platform Moj and regional social network ShareChat, is in the process of raising about $300 million in fresh funding from Alphabet Inc's Google and Singapore's Te

The survey revealed that two out of three Indians are willing to pay up to Rs 50,000 for connected technologies.

We would like to use it for every computer because everyone needs privacy: Scientists

Technology can use the data and connectivity on the user's behalf