India’s Moon rover has confirmed the presence of sulphur on the lunar south pole, the country’s space agency said. Last week, India became the first country to land a craft near the largely unexplored south pole, and just the fourth nation to land on the Moon. “The Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument onboard Chandrayaan-3 Rover has made the first-ever in-situ …
Skywatchers rejoice! Today, you will have the opportunity to witness a rare celestial event known as the “Blue Moon” in your skies and the event is made even more fascinating by the phenomenon of the supermoon, which causes the moon to appear slightly larger and brighter than usual. To add to the excitement, the moon happens to be in …
Billionaire Elon Musk has said that his upcoming fight with rival Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be at an ‘epic location’ in Italy. According to the owner of the social media platform X, proceeds from the fight will be donated to a charity, while viewers can live stream the fight on Meta and X. “The fight will be managed by my …
On Aug 5, NASA’s Curiosity rover will notch its 11th year on Mars by doing what it does best: studying the Red Planet’s surface. The intrepid bot recently investigated a location nicknamed “Jau” that is pockmarked with dozens of impact craters. Scientists have rarely gotten a close-up view of so many Martian craters in one place. The largest is …
NEW DELHI: Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn (2317.TW) announced on Monday that it has withdrawn from a joint venture with Indian conglomerate Vedanta (VDAN.NS), delivering a setback to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chip-making ambitions. The timeline below outlines the key events since the signing of the $19.5 billion joint venture: Feb. 14, 2022: Foxconn partners with Vedanta to establish semiconductor manufacturing …
TIANJIN, July 2 (INP): Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) technology was showcased at the Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park of the 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC). Humans controlling machines with their minds may sound like stuff of science fiction movies. Imagine if you could prepare for your next meeting using only your thoughts – a scenario that might soon become a …
India threatened to shut Twitter down unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts, co-founder Jack Dorsey said, an accusation the Indian government dismissed as an “outright lie”. Dorsey, who quit as Twitter CEO in 2021, said on Monday that India threatened the company with a shutdown and raids on employees if it did not comply with government requests to …
LONDON, may 16 (EW): Margherita Della Valle, the new CEO of Vodafone (VOD.L), announced plans to simplify the telecoms business and cut 11,000 jobs over the course of three years because it “must change” in light of the telecoms company’s 1.5 billion euro decline in free cash flow predicted for this year. Della Valle, who was appointed last month …
New York, Mar 30 (EW): American financial services company Goldman Sachs has warned that the latest artificial intelligence (AI) advancements, especially platforms like ChatGPT, could affect as many as 300 million full-time global jobs. In a report, Goldman Sachs said that most of the jobs could be automated in some way or the other by the newest wave of …
CALIFORNIA, Mar 27 (EW): Twitter Inc, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, is seeking information on the person responsible for leaking parts of its source code, according to a legal filing. The code used to run the social media platform was posted on the Microsoft-owned platform Github by a user named ‘FreeSpeechEnthusiast’. The filing stated that “various excerpts” of the …
