USA: Netflix is likely planning not to show ads during kids’ movies and TV series, and will keep kids’ programming ad-free as its rival Disney+ announced earlier this year. Netflix has told its partners that kids’ programming would stay commercial-free. However, original series such as ‘Stranger Things’, ‘Bridgerton‘, and ‘Squid Game’ are expected to still see […]
USA: After facing memes on his poorly-designed metaverse avatar, Mark Zuckerberg has posted new screenshots on Facebook and Instagram, showing off a more life-like version of himself. Zuckerberg posted a screenshot of his digital avatar standing in front of the Eiffel Tower, as the company expanded its Horizon World’s metaverse experience to more countries in […]
Washington: NASA has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar south pole, as it prepares to send humans back to the Moon under the Artemis programme in 2024. Each region contains multiple potential landing sites for Artemis III, which will be the first of the Artemis missions to bring crew to the lunar surface, […]
New York: Studying bizarre underwater snow below ice shelves on Earth can help understand the ice shell of Jupiter‘s moon Europa, as per researchers. Europa is a rocky world about the size of the Earth’s moon that is surrounded by a global ocean and a miles-thick ice shell. Below Europa’s thick icy crust is a massive, […]
Seoul: Samsung has revealed an ambitious augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) project that leverages compact artificial muscle actuators to enable fast image focus in AR/VR and tactile feedback for VR controllers. Two of the tallest barriers to VR/AR immersion are the lack of variable focus and tactile feedback. An image rendered inside a VR headset does […]
San Francisco: Google is inviting Nest product owners to join the testing phase for a new design of its Home app, an online listing reveals, suggesting that users may soon see a revamped experience on the service. The company is “recruiting for a group of highly engaged testers that are willing to help Google Nest test […]
USA: YouTube is working on launching an online store like Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video to let users subscribe to other streaming services and the new platform could be available as early as this fall. The YouTube ‘Channel Store’ will allow consumers to choose streaming services through the main YouTube app. The company is already […]
Washington: NASA has asked university students to design a metal production pipeline on the Moon — from extracting metal from lunar minerals to creating structures and tools. The ability to extract metal and build needed infrastructure on the Moon advances the Artemis Programme goal of a sustained human presence on the lunar surface, NASA. “Here […]
New York: Martian equator contains little or no ice as per a new analysis of seismic data from NASA’s Mars InSight mission. The findings, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, describe the dry conditions in the top 300 metres of the subsurface beneath the landing site near the Martian equator. “We find that Mars’ […]
San Francisco: Professional networking platform LinkedIn has announced that it is rolling out new tools to make it easier for users to create visual content that helps them stand out and inspire their professional community. The company revealed a 20 per cent increase year-on-year (YoY) among users adding visual content in their posts on the platform. […]
Washington: A “potentially hazardous” giant asteroid is likely to come within about 4.3 million km of Earth, according to NASA. The asteroid, named 2015 FF, has an estimated diameter of between 13 and 28 metres, as per NASA‘s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). It will zoom past the Earth at a speed of about […]
