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Elon Musk’s X sues Indian govt over alleged censorship, IT Act violations
Elon Musk’s X sues Indian govt over alleged censorship, IT Act violations
Social media giant ‘X’ (formerly Twitter), owned by US billionaire Elon Musk, has filed a lawsuit in the Karnataka High Court against Government of India, challenging what it called unlawful content regulation and arbitrary censorship. MORE..
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space
Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, hitching a different ride home to close out a saga that began with a bungled test flight more than nine months ago. MORE..
NASA’s stuck astronauts are finally on their way back to Earth after 9 months in space
NASA’s stuck astronauts are finally on their way back to Earth after 9 months in space
NASA’s two stuck astronauts headed back to Earth with SpaceX on Tuesday to close out a dramatic marathon mission that began with a bungled Boeing test flight more than nine months ago. MORE..
OpenAI and Musk agree to fast tracked trial over for-profit shift
OpenAI and Musk agree to fast tracked trial over for-profit shift
OpenAI and Elon Musk have agreed to fast-track a trial over OpenAI’s for-profit shift, the latest turn in a grudge match between the world’s richest person and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman playing out publicly in court. MORE..
Apple plans AirPods feature that can live-translate conversations
Apple plans AirPods feature that can live-translate conversations
Apple is planning a new AirPods feature that would allow the device to live-translate conversations with people into another language, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. MORE..
Intel appoints chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as CEO
Intel appoints chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as CEO
Intel on Wednesday named former board member and chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as its CEO and signaled the struggling but storied chipmaker was unlikely to split up its chip-design and manufacturing operations. MORE..
Researchers create gel that can self-heal like human skin: Study
Researchers create gel that can self-heal like human skin: Study
Gels are commonly used products that are soft and sticky. They can be applied to hair or to the jelly-like components in various foodstuffs. While human skin shares gel-like characteristics, it has unique qualities that are very hard to replicate. MORE..
All but one of world’s top 20 most polluted cities are in Asia, new study shows
All but one of world’s top 20 most polluted cities are in Asia, new study shows
All but one of the world’s top 20 most polluted cities last year were in Asia, a new study shows. MORE..
X outages ‘a massive cyberattack’, Musk says
X outages ‘a massive cyberattack’, Musk says
Elon Musk’s X was hit by waves of outages earlier Monday, which the billionaire claims was due to a cyberattack with IP addresses originating in Ukraine. MORE..
Japan’s Nissan tests driverless vehicles in city streets filled with cars and people
Japan’s Nissan tests driverless vehicles in city streets filled with cars and people
The van makes its way slowly but surely through the city streets, braking gently when a car swerves into its lane. But its steering wheel is turning on its own, and there’s no one in the driver’s seat. MORE..
Worm Blood Moon: Total lunar eclipse to grace the skies this week
Worm Blood Moon: Total lunar eclipse to grace the skies this week
Are you ready for one of the most extraordinary full moons of the decade? Later this week, one of the most beautiful celestial sights of all comes to North America as the full “Worm Moon” is totally eclipsed by Earth. MORE..
Trump says US talking to four different groups on sale of TikTok
Trump says US talking to four different groups on sale of TikTok
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that his administration was in touch with four different groups about the sale of Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok, and that all options were good. MORE..
Google Doodle celebrates women in STEM on International Women’s day
Google Doodle celebrates women in STEM on International Women’s day
To celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day, Google is honouring the achievements of visionary women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields with a special doodle. MORE..
SpaceX’s Starship explodes in space, again raining debris over Caribbean
SpaceX’s Starship explodes in space, again raining debris over Caribbean
SpaceX’s massive Starship spacecraft exploded in space on Thursday minutes after lifting off from Texas, prompting the FAA to halt air traffic in parts of Florida, in the second straight failure this year for Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program. MORE..
Intel defeats shareholder lawsuit over foundry losses, $32 billion plunge
Intel defeats shareholder lawsuit over foundry losses, $32 billion plunge
Intel won the dismissal of a shareholder lawsuit accusing the chipmaker of fraudulently concealing problems in its foundry business, leading to job cuts and a dividend suspension that wiped out more than $32 billion of market value in one day. MORE..
Trump and TSMC announce $100 billion plan to build five new US factories
Trump and TSMC announce $100 billion plan to build five new US factories
Taiwan semiconductor company TSMC plans to make a fresh $100 billion investment in the United States that involves building five additional chip facilities there in coming years, its CEO announced with President Donald Trump on Monday. MORE..
UK launches investigation into TikTok, Reddit over children’s personal data practices
UK launches investigation into TikTok, Reddit over children’s personal data practices
Britain’s privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office, on Monday launched an investigation into how TikTok, Reddit and online image sharing website Imgur safeguard children’s privacy. MORE..
US firm Firefly scores its first moon landing with Blue Ghost spacecraft
US firm Firefly scores its first moon landing with Blue Ghost spacecraft
Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of private firms compete to reach the frontlines of a global moon race. MORE..
Microsoft shutting down Skype in May
Microsoft shutting down Skype in May
Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011, which had helped spark a transformation in how people communicate online. MORE..
Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez among Blue Origin’s planned all-female crew to space
Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez among Blue Origin’s planned all-female crew to space
Pop star Katy Perry and journalists Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez, who is also billionaire Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, are set to blast off into space on a Blue Origin rocket, marking the first all-female flight crew in more than six decades. MORE..
‘World’s first mobile renewable energy’ prepares to set sail
‘World’s first mobile renewable energy’ prepares to set sail
Wind power has been rising significantly in recent years, and now accounts for about 8% of the world’s energy production. By the end of the decade, it will be the second-largest renewable source after solar, having surpassed hydropower, according to the International Energy Agency. MORE..
North Korean hackers steal record $1.5 billion in single crypto hack, security firm says
North Korean hackers steal record $1.5 billion in single crypto hack, security firm says
North Korean hackers have stolen $1.5 billion in cryptocurrency in a single heist, making it the largest crypto hack on record, security experts told CNN. MORE..
Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone
Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone
Apple has released a sleeker and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone in an attempt to widen the audience for a bundle of artificial intelligence technology that the company has been hoping will revive demand for its most profitable product lineup. MORE..
Trump says he is speaking to China about TikTok
Trump says he is speaking to China about TikTok
U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Wednesday that he was talking to China about TikTok as the United States seeks to broker a sale of the popular app. MORE..
How clever designs helped save 80 people after Delta plane caught fire, lost a wing and skidded upside down
How clever designs helped save 80 people after Delta plane caught fire, lost a wing and skidded upside down
When Delta Flight 4819 from Minneapolis to Toronto landed in a fiery crash that ripped off a wing and rolled the plane upside down, panicked onlookers feared the worst. MORE..
