India has declared that all space missions by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be “debris-free” by the year 2030. NEW DELHI: India’s President, Droupadi Murmu, has declared that all space missions by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be “debris-free” by the year 2030. “We have to be prepared for challenges ahead. […]
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and leadership host a live news conference on Saturday, Aug. 24 at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to give a status update about NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. NASA will return Boeing’s Starliner to Earth without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard the spacecraft, the agency announced Saturday. The uncrewed return allows […]
SHARJAH: Sharjah Media City (Shams) is hosting the Shams eSports Championship from 23-25 August 2024 at the Shams Business Centre. The event is part of Shams’ efforts to boost eSports in Sharjah and the UAE. The three-day championship, held in collaboration with Sharjah Summer Promotions, will feature FIFA 24 on the first day, Tekken 8 […]
Zoom customers can now choose webinars for 10K, 50K, 100K, 250K, 500K, and 1M attendee capacities. Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM) announced the launch of its new single-use webinar offering, which can host up to one million attendees. In addition to its monthly and annual webinar subscription options, Zoom now offers a range of […]
Heman Bekele, an Ethiopian-born teen, has been named Time’s 2024 Kid of the Year for his groundbreaking work on a skin cancer soap, announced on August 15. “It’s amazing to think that my soap could one day directly impact someone’s life,” Heman shared with Time. “That’s why I started this project.” His soap aims to […]
Swiss technology firm FinalSpark has introduced a groundbreaking program allowing scientists to rent ‘biocomputers’ made from human brain cells for $500 a month. These biocomputers, named Neurospark, are designed to provide a more efficient and energy-saving alternative for training artificial intelligence (AI) models. FinalSpark claims that using human brain cells for AI training could be […]
Interstellar Lab, a small business comprised of team members from France, Texas, and Florida, took home the $750,000 grand prize for their food system, NUCLEUS, which uses a multi-pronged approach to growing and harvesting food outputs for astronauts on long-duration human space exploration missions. OHIO/USA: NASA has awarded $1.25 million to three U.S. teams in […]
NEW DELHI: India will celebrate its first National Space Day on 23rd August 2024, marking a significant achievement in space exploration. The day honours the success of Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar mission, which achieved a historic soft landing of the Vikram Lander on the Moon’s surface on 23rd August 2023. According to an Asian News […]
BEIJING: Beijing has launched its first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) drone logistics delivery route in the Badaling section of the Great Wall, which enables tourists to receive summer relief items and emergency supplies within minutes. According to state news agency Xinhua, the south ninth watchtower on the extended line of the Badaling Great Wall serves […]
TOKYO: Less than 20 percent of Japanese companies are using generative artificial intelligence in their operations, due largely to worries about inadequate internal expertise, a recent survey by a research organisation showed. Kyodo News quoted Teikoku Databank Ltd as saying that concerns about the reliability of generative AI, which has started to gain attention as […]
Addressing the tussle with Brazil, X said last night, Alexandre de Moraes threatened their legal representative in Brazil with arrest if the platform does not comply with his censorship orders. BRAZIL: X, formerly Twitter has delved further into the terrain of insurmountable uncertainties as the social media platform has decided to shut down its operations […]
