Science-Tech

SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 with 54 satellites

San Francisco: SpaceX has launched 54 more of its Starlink broadband satellites in orbit and landed a rocket on a ship at sea. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 54 Starlink spacecraft, lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida recently. That was about 80 minutes later than initially planned, as SpaceX waited […]

NASA postpones test flight of next-generation Moon rocket

Washington: NASA was all geared up to send its debut Space Launch System (SLS) mission called Artemis I into deep space to perform a long orbit around the Moon before coming back to Earth has decided to postpone the launch. The uncrewed Artemis I mission that originally had a two-hour launch window today from Kennedy […]

Netflix is likely testing a feature that will allow multiplayer gaming

San Francisco: Netflix is working on features that will let customers play its mobile games against one another and rank themselves on gaming leaderboards. Starting last month, Netflix quietly launched the ability for users to create unique “game handles” in a subset of its mobile games, including Into The Breach, followed by Bowling Ballers, Mahjong Solitaire […]

Chat with Google’s AI chatbot at your own risk, warns Google

World: Google has opened its experimental artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to the public and you can now register to chat with the AI-driven bot trained on the company’s language model. The company has already warned that early previews of its LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) model may display inaccurate or inappropriate content. ‘AI Test […]

Strange celebrity newsfeed bug is affecting thousands of users

World: Several Facebook users across the world have reported a ‘glitch’ after noticing their news feeds were filled with odd celebrity posts recently. Instead of updates from pages they follow, many people shared screenshots of their homepage feeds crowded by random messages from fans to the pages of major celebs. Among the most frequent stars […]

UK roads will welcome self-driving cars by 2025 as per the government

London: The UK’s roads could see self-driving vehicles rolled out by 2025 under new government plans backed by a 100 million pound (AED434m) investment. Some vehicles, including cars, coaches and lorries, with self-driving features could be operating on motorways in the next year, and the current plans set out new legislation which will allow for […]

NASA’s Webb telescope captures Jupiter’s faint rings

USA: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new stunning images of Jupiter that will give scientists even more clues to the planet’s inner life. With giant storms, powerful winds, auroras, and extreme temperature and pressure conditions, Jupiter have a lot going on. In the standalone view of Jupiter, created from a composite of several images […]

NASA approves the launch of uncrewed Moon mission Artemis I

New York: NASA has given a go-ahead for August 29 for the first uncrewed flight of Artemis I on its mission beyond the Moon and returns to Earth. The ‘Flight Readiness Review’ for NASA’s Artemis I mission has concluded, and teams are now proceeding toward a two-hour launch window on August 29 from Kennedy Space […]

Apple likely to show ads in the Maps app next year

San Francisco: Apple is reportedly planning to show search ads in its Maps app on the iPhone starting next year. In his newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that he believes the engineering work is already underway. “I believe the engineering work is already underway to launch search ads in the Apple Maps app, and we […]

iOS device users will soon see Stories on their WhatsApp chats

San Francisco: WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out the ability to watch Status directly from WhatsApp’s chat list for iOS users. The beta version 22.18.0.70 is bringing the ability to view Status updates within the chat list. It has been released to certain beta testers, and therefore, it is still not available to everyone. Using this […]

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