New Delhi, March 11, 2016: Huggies has announced that it is donating 22 million free Huggies diapers to the National Diaper Bank Network (NDBN) in response to President Obama’s call for companies to bring even more attention to diaper need in America. Kimberly-Clark first brought the issue of diaper need to the forefront in 2010, […]
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NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns to Earth after 1-Year
NASA astronaut and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth Tuesday after a historic 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station. They landed in Kazakhstan at 11:26 p.m. EST (10:26 a.m. March 2 Kazakhstan time). Here is an official statement by NASA reproduced below: Joining their return trip […]
Scott Kelly back on earth after spending 1 year in space!
New Delhi, March 2, 2016: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is back on planet Earth after spending a year in space! The official Twitter handle tweeted: “After 340 days in space, @StationCDRKelly is back on Earth from his #YearInSpace mission.” And here is a welcome message for the crew that spent the time in space: […]
NASA to build quieter Supersonic passenger jet
New York, March 1, 2016: The return of supersonic passenger air travel is one step closer to reality with NASA’s award of a contract for the preliminary design of a “low boom” flight demonstration aircraft. This is the first in a series of ‘X-planes’ in NASA’s New Aviation Horizons initiative, introduced in the agency’s Fiscal […]
Mark Zuckerberg joins Samsung for new line of Galaxy Smartphones
New York, February 22, 2016: Mark Zuckerberg, just posted an important update on his Facebook account. He wrote that he “joined Samsung to launch their new Galaxy smartphones and talk about the future of virtual reality.” Mark Zuckerberg also wrote that to the audience present he told the story of his childhood and said that […]
Bitcoin Breaches First Resistance; More Gains to Follow?
Bitcoin, now trading at $434.67, has successfully breached the first resistance of $416, discussed earlier in Bitcoin Could Be Preparing For A Mega-Bull Rally. At the current level, Bitcoin is repeatedly testing the next overhead resistance beyond which lies a huge upside. The technical indicators are also becoming conducive for a bullish breakout. In this […]
Volvo Cars To launch a car without a key!
Gothenburg, Sweden, 21th February 2016 –For decades, drivers have been accustomed to accessing and driving cars with physical keys. But no longer. In a ground-breaking move for the automotive industry, Volvo Cars plans to become the world’s first car manufacturer to offer cars without keys from 2017. Volvo customers will be offered an application for […]
IBM Just Proved How Serious It Is About Blockchain
Technology giant IBM (NYSE: IBM) has officially declared its love for the blockchain – the technology that supports virtual currencies such as bitcoin. New York-based IBM has officially said that it is committed to making blockchain a business-friendly technology. In a press release, Arvind Krishna, Senior Vice President, IBM Research said, “In just a few […]
US: Delta Employees Take Home Largest Profit Sharing Payout
USA, February 13, 2016: Delta Air Lines employees today received their portion of the company’s $1.5 billion profit sharing earned in 2015 – the largest payout in the history of corporate profit sharing programs. Individual payouts equal more than 21 percent of employees’ eligible 2015 earnings. “We are often asked what makes Delta different,” said Delta’s […]
NASA, University Study Shows Rising Seas Slowed by Increasing Water on Land
A new study by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth’s continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in […]