In a statement issued on his Facebook account Mark Zuckerberg declared that he is joining a space initiative that will have names like Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking as well. Here is his full statement: I’m proud to join Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking for a new space initiative to go beyond our nearby planets […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mumbai, February 8th, 2016: Kathleen Wynn, Premier of Ontario, Canada on Friday unveiled an energy storage project at the signing of an MOU between L&T Technology Services, Ontario based eCamion Inc, Ryerson University, Canada and Anna University, India. The innovative project combines eCamion’s modular storage solution with L&T Technology Services’ Smart Inverter solution, designed with cutting edge […]
Dubai, February 7th, 2016: The winners of the second UAE Drones for Good Award and the first UAE AI & Robotics Award for Good, the world’s biggest awards in civilian applications of drones and robotics technology, were announced today in the presence of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE […]
Recently, ISIS threatened Britain with so savage a terror attack that it will ‘turn babies’ hair white.’ The threat was enough to send chills down the spines of anyone, and everyone. The European Commission has laid out an Action Plan for strengthening the fight against terrorist financing in its 15-page report a couple of days […]
