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Apple unveils $3,500 ‘Vision Pro’ goggles

At its annual software developer conference on Monday, Apple Inc. revealed the Apple Vision Pro, the company’s first significant entry into a new product category since the launch of the Apple Watch nine years ago. With a starting price of $3,499, Vision Pro is more than three times more expensive than the most expensive headgear […]

How chocolate can help climate change

Hamburg: At a red-brick factory in Hamburg, Germany, cocoa bean shells are fed into one end, and come out the other as an incredible black powder that could be used to counter climate change. The process of making the substance, biochar, involves heating cocoa husks to 600 degrees Celsius in an oxygen-free space. The procedure […]

Harry Potter publisher witnesses record sales

The UK publisher Bloomsbury, known for publishing the Harry Potter books, revealed on Wednesday that sales were up 15% year over year to February 28 and profits were up 16%. The business seems to credit TikTok and the current macroeconomic hellscape as its two odd companions for its success. Nigel Newton, CEO of Bloomsbury, claims […]

14 year-old crowned 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion

Dev Shah, a 14 year-old American-Indian eighth-grader from Florida, won the renowned 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee with the word “psammophile” correctly spelled. On Thursday, Shah won the 95th national bee and the USD 50,000 prize by accurately spelling the word. “It’s surreal…My legs are still shaking,” he said at the competition in National Harbor, […]

China is drilling a 10,000-meter-deep hole into Earth’s crust

As the second-largest economy in the world explores new frontiers above and below the planet’s surface, Chinese scientists have started drilling a 10,000-meter (32,808 foot) hole into the Earth’s crust. According to the official Xinhua News Agency, drilling for what is expected to be China’s deepest ever borehole started on Tuesday in the nation’s oil-rich […]

NASA holds public event examining UFO sightings for the first time

Washington: The U.S. government officially refers to UFOs as “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP. Members of an independent NASA panel examining UFOs said in their first public meeting on Wednesday that a lack of high-quality evidence and a pervasive stigma pose the biggest obstacles to solving such riddles. The 16-member group, which was established last […]

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