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Apple’s Flagship Mumbai Store to Open in April, Followed by Second Store in New Delhi
Located in the Jio World Drive mall and covering 22,000 square feet, the Mumbai store will be a retail landmark similar to Apple stores in Los Angeles, New York, Beijing, and Singapore.
The second, smaller 10,000 to 12,000-square-feet store in New Delhi’s Select CityWalk mall is expected to launch in April-June, potentially just a few days after the Mumbai store opening, according to the paper’s sources. Apple stared hiring for the stores in January.
“Fitouts are completed for both the stores,” the person said. “In fact, the fitout was completed for the Delhi store ahead of the Mumbai one.”
“But since Mumbai will be the flagship Apple Store in India, it will open first next month. The Delhi one will open soon after,” said the industry executive.
India has become more important at Apple over the last few years due to the growing demand for Apple products. In 2020 Apple opened its online store in India, offering Indian customers a direct way to purchase products directly from Apple without having to go through an authorized premium reseller.
While most people in India use Android devices, it is the second largest smartphone market in the world and Apple has the potential to make inroads with more affordable product options.
Apple has started producing some iPhone models in India, including the iPhone 14, as it looks to diversify beyond China. Apple supplier Foxconn has invested $500 million in the country to boost production capabilities.
India has been one of the best-performing markets for Apple over the last few years. In the quarter ended December, the company achieved record overall sales in the country. India is also set to be its own sales region within Apple, which will give the country “increased prominence” within the company, according to one report.
This article, “Apple’s Flagship Mumbai Store to Open in April, Followed by Second Store in New Delhi” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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SCARY HIKE While Being Followed For Days on Virginia’s Appalachian Trail
A young couple is on the Appalachian Trail in southern Virginia when they become aware of someone or something following them. The next few days were a harrowing experience.
I received the following account recently:
‘Back in 2018 my girlfriend and I decided to hike the Appalachian Trail in Virginia. We had hiked other parts of the AT north of Virginia but had never gone this far south. The section we took ran through George Washington and Jefferson National Forests from Roanoke County to Giles County. It is one of the more remote parts of the trail, which is exactly what we were looking for.
We gathered our gear and made our way to the Virginia Creeper Trail to begin our journey. It was early October and the air was crisp and cool. Perfect hiking weather with beautiful scenery. The majority of the trip was pretty uneventful. Just your typical hike. But, our last couple of nights is where things got strange
On this portion of the trail, you are supposed to camp on the trail or at a designated shelter. We didn’t really want to run into other people and didn’t want anyone coming up on us in the middle of the night. We decided to ignore those suggestions and find our own little spot off the trail. After a little searching around and we found a spot a little ways off the trail in the middle of a small clearing. We set up camp, cooked some food, talked for a while then snuggled up and went to sleep for the night.
Somewhere around 2 am, I was awakened by my girlfriend shaking me awake and telling me “Get your gun! Someone is outside walking around our tent!” She told me that she woke up to what sounded like someone right outside the tent running a knife or something along the side while circling us. When hiking I carry a .45 automatic. You never know exactly who or what you might run into when at a remote location. I got the gun out of my pack and then we sat silently listening for any sounds.
After a while, we heard snapping and crunching sounds of someone or something walking in the woods behind our tent. I got the flashlight and silently made my way out of the tent. Our fire had gone out so it was nearly pitch black. I told my girlfriend to stay put while I checked it out. I didn’t flick the flashlight on right away. I waited to hear more noises. After a few minutes, the sounds were bipedal. I turned on the flashlight and flooded the area with light. I thought I saw someone move behind a tree. I yelled out and told them to go away and that I was armed. I kept the light on the area with my gun drawn and slowly approached the area where I thought I saw the figure. Then, from my right, I hear what sounds like someone running away through the woods. I spin and face my light that way, and then from the original spot hear who or whatever was there take off into the woods. There’s no way I am giving chase, so I return to the campsite. I end up sitting guard outside the tent, in the darkness until daybreak.
In the morning, I looked around a bit for signs of who or whatever it was and I discovered a boot print in some soft moist dirt not far from our tent. It wasn’t mine and it wasn’t my girl’s. This freaked me out as it confirmed that someone, perhaps more than one, was stalking around our tent. I kept it to myself because I didn’t want to freak my girl out any more than she already was. At this point, we were pretty deep in and still had 2 days left.
When it came time to set up camp, I found a spot near a cliff where we could place the tent in a small overhang and prevent anyone from coming up behind us. The whole day up to this point I had a feeling we were being followed. I had no confirmation of this as I hadn’t seen or heard anyone else, but it was just a gut feeling. We set up camp and made some food, then retreated to the tent. I kept the gun right next to me and I assured her that if I slept at all it would be with one eye open. After a while, she drifted off to sleep and I stayed awake listening to the sounds of the woods at night.
I was awake for a few hours, just waiting to see if anything was going to happen. At some point, I drifted off. I awoke sometime later to what sounded like someone going through our stuff outside the tent. I grabbed my gun and woke my girlfriend. From the faint glow of the fire, I could see someone’s silhouette against the tent. There was really someone out there. I yelled out to them that I was armed! They stopped what they were doing and bolted. I came out of the tent, gun drawn and ready to shoot someone. Our stuff was strewn all about. I walked to the edge of the woods in the direction of whoever was out there who had fled. There was a creek nearby and I walked to the edge, where there was a small trail running alongside it. Down the creek, I could see a light. it looked like a lantern the way it flickered. Then I saw 3 more emerge from the other side of the woods.
I told my girlfriend to start packing up whatever she could and that we were leaving. Now! We packed up everything of value, left the tent and a few other items, and headed back onto the trail, in the middle of the night. I kept hearing people talking off in the woods and hearing branches snap for quite some ways. I kept looking behind us every few seconds to make sure nobody was coming up to us. It was completely nerve-wracking. If something happened, we were still a long way from anywhere and quite literally on our own, since we hadn’t seen another hiker the entire time we had been out there. I really felt we were in serious danger.
We had been walking for quite some time when I heard something in the woods behind us. As we rounded a corner I turned around and saw someone step out onto the trail and just stand there watching us. It was just as the sun was coming up and barely any light. I couldn’t make out any features, just the silhouette. I stopped and looked at them for a second and asked them who they were and what they wanted. They just stood there silently, watching us, and then turned and walked back into the woods.
We picked up the pace and kept going, looking back every so often. We didn’t see them again. But my gut told me they were still there for quite a ways.
We eventually reached the end of the trail and got to where we had parked my girlfriend’s car, extremely exhausted. We made it out of the Virginia woods without becoming a victim of whoever was following us.” AA
NOTE: This section of the Appalachian Trail is well-known for Bigfoot encounters and other unexplained incidents, including ‘Not Deer.’ It’s difficult to determine who or what was actually following them. Lon
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Young Woman’s GREY ALIEN ABDUCTION Followed By PLEIADIAN ENCOUNTER (VIDEO)
In 2012, Elizabeth April, then 18, had gone away to a ten-day spiritual retreat in Los Angeles, California. On the second night, she claims that she was abducted by Grey aliens.
It was the middle of the night. She was dead asleep. She just remembers waking up and seeing a large head hovering over top of her. She then realized that it was not humanoid looking. Suddenly she was surrounded. There were now three of these beings in the room. One was on her left ankle and wrist. One was on her right ankle and wrist. They started dragging her out of bed into the hallway.
The only part of the experience she could not recall is how they got from the hallway to their ship. They put her in a stiff metal chair in the middle of a room She was paralyzed but could look around. She observed a machine in her periphery on her right side. It had a cylindrical mechanism. It got smaller and smaller the closer it got to her head. It then went into her right ear. She sensed that they were chipping her. She next remembers being placed into bed. There was one drop of blood in her ear.
A couple months later, she was greeted by a Pleiadian being that entered her room one evening. He was an etheric, seven-foot-tall, male humanoid-looking being. He spoke to her telepathically:
“Elisabeth, I would love to invite you to a meeting that is being held with the Galactic Federation.”
Elizabeth insisted that this Federation was peaceful and looked for unity.
Source: UFO Witness, Season 2, Episode 7, “Pleiadians and Alien Conspiracy” Episode aired Aug 9, 2022
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Kevin Conroy Defined Batman For All Those That Followed
James Bond fans will argue until they’re blue in the face which actor is the best 007. But when it comes to Batman, there is no argument: Kevin Conroy, who voiced Batman for nearly 30 years beginning with Batman: The Animated Series, is unquestionably the best. On this, Batman fans are in near universal agreement. Conroy passed away this week at age 66, but leaves behind a permanent mark on the legendary comic book hero.
When Conroy stepped into the role, Batman had already been around for over half a century, and already had two iconic live-action performances in Adam West and Michael Keaton. In fact the timing of the series made it almost look like a cash-in on Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman film. But the work that artist Bruce Timm, writer Paul Dini, and voice actor Kevin Conroy did with the character swept those portrayals and those that would follow right off the board.
It’s not that any of the other actors who have played the character are bad. Nearly every one of them brings something fresh to the role. But Conroy’s voice work helped to define Batman and Bruce Wayne as separate, individual people.
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Pterosaur Sighting, Followed by UFO Encounter & Missing Time
A woman and her ex-husband are fishing late at night when they hear a loud screech and flapping wings. They make out the figure of a pterosaur-shaped creature but then experience a UFO and lost time.
I recently came across the following account:
“About 9 years ago, I was fishing in a boat with my ex in central Iowa. It was a quiet night and things were very still. This was during a 4-year span of sobriety, so we can rule drugs or alcohol out immediately. Anyway, it’s early in the morning. I didn’t have a cellphone then and in the chaos, I forget to ask him. But if I had to guess I’d say around 3 AM or so.
The air around us suddenly chilled and I got goosebumps on my arm. We hear this wicked screech like how I imagine a pterodactyl would sound and flapping wings. Out of nowhere this “thing” (I have no idea how to describe it. It had wings and looked very prehistoric, but wasn’t really a bird). My ex saw it before I did and when he stopped talking I noted his silence and followed his gaze and found it. It was well over 10 feet long. I’m not a small girl by any means, I easily weigh enough for two people but I had the sense it would be able to carry me off effortlessly. I couldn’t even scream. It was a crippling fear. I had knowledge of things I shouldn’t. Like I know it wanted to attack me because I wasn’t alone but absolutely no reason to feel that way. We packed up and left.
Somehow, on the two-hour drive to my house, I check the clock and it’s 10 AM. Now, I don’t remember the exact time we saw the creature but it was absolutely pitch black. That time of year in the Midwest the sun rises around 6 AM. So even if it was 5 AM or something, it wouldn’t be 10 AM after the better part of a two-hour drive. I mentioned this to my ex and he agreed it was weird. I’m hyper-aware at this point and I begin noticing cars pulling off the road. They are looking at the sky so I look too and what I can only describe as an almost cliché-looking UFO was overhead keeping pace with the car. I say this because a static object would have gotten smaller but for at least 15 miles this thing kept pace with us, stopping when we did at intersections and then resuming.
I submit this to you because I don’t feel a possible Thunderbird or dinosaur sighting is paranormal. Likewise, a UFO story doesn’t belong with those either. These two events coupled with missing time is what lead me to report this.” T
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Raspberry Pi-Powered Anti-Tracking Tool Checks If You’re Being Followed
Edmondson says Kismet makes a record of the first time it sees a device and then the most recent time it was detected. But to make the anti-tracking system work, he had to write code in Python to create lists of what Kismet detects over time. There are lists for devices spotted in the past five to 10 minutes, 10 to 15 minutes, and 15 to 20 minutes. If a device appears twice, an alert flashes up on the screen. The system can show a phone’s MAC address, although this is not much use if it’s been randomized. It can also record the names of Wi-Fi networks that devices around it are looking for — a phone that’s trying to connect to a Wi-Fi network called Langley may give some clues about its owner. “If you have a device on you, I should see it,” he says. In an example, he showed WIRED that a device was looking for a network called SAMSUNGSMART.
To stop the system from detecting your own phone or those of other people traveling with you, it has an “ignore” list. By tapping one of the device’s onscreen buttons, it’s possible to “ignore everything that it has already seen.” Edmondson says that in the future, the device could be modified to send a text alert instead of showing them on the screen. He is also interested in adding the capability to detect tire-pressure monitoring systems that could show recurring nearby vehicles. A GPS unit could also be added so you can see where you were when you were being tracked, he says. […] Edmondson has no plans to make the device into a commercial product, but he says the design could easily be copied and reused by anyone with some technical knowledge. Many of the parts involved are easy to obtain or may be lying around the homes of people in tech communities. For those interested, Edmondson open-sourced its underlying code and plans to present the research project at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas this week.
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