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Twitters new boss Elon Musk says blue tick on sale for USD 8 per month
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Twitter's new boss Elon Musk says blue tick on sale for USD 8 per month

New York, Nov 2: Twitter's new owner billionaire Elon Musk announced that the verification blue tick in front of a user's name that authenticates the account will now be available at a price of eight dollars per month. Musk blasted the "current lords and peasants' system for who has or doesn't have...
Elon Musk ropes in Indian-origin technology executive as he implements changes in Twitter
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Elon Musk ropes in Indian-origin technology executive as he implements changes...

New York, Nov 1: Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-origin technology executive, is "helping out" Twitter's new owner Elon Musk as he revamps the social media giant following its acquisition by the billionaire entrepreneur. Krishnan is a general partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen...
ISRO carries out key test of its heaviest rockets engine
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ISRO carries out key test of its heaviest rocket's engine

Bengaluru, Oct 29: The flight acceptance hot test of CE-20 engine has been carried out in the High-Altitude Test facility of ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC) at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu. The engine is assigned for the LVM3-M3 mission identified for launching the next 36 OneWeb India-1 satellites,...
Parag Agrawals 11-month tenure as Twitter CEO ends as Elon Musk takes control
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Parag Agrawal's 11-month tenure as Twitter CEO ends as Elon Musk takes control

New York, Oct 28: When Parag Agrawal was appointed CEO of Twitter in November 2021, the IIT graduate joined a steadily growing club of executives from India rising to the top of global corporations, but the 38-year-old executive's brief tenure at the helm of the social media giant was challenging...
NASAs Lucy spacecraft captures images of Earth, Moon ahead of gravity assist
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft captures images of Earth, Moon ahead of gravity assist

Washington, Oct 26: A NASA spacecraft named Lucy, the first mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, has captured an stunning image of Earth, along with a photo of the Earth and the Moon, as part of gravity assist to gain some of the orbital energy it needs to travel to this never-before-visited...
Musk to sign takeover deal as Twitter employees slam his layoff threat
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Musk to sign takeover deal as Twitter employees slam his layoff threat

San Francisco, Oct 26: Elon Musk has reportedly told investors and bankers that he is going to close the $44 billion Twitter takeover deal by Friday, as employees at the micro-blogging platform protest his plan to fire 75 per cent of the Twitter workforce. Musk must complete the acquisition by...
ISRO scripts history with successful commercial mission LVM3-M2
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ISRO scripts history with successful commercial mission LVM3-M2

Sriharikota/Bengaluru, Oct 23: Indian Space Research Organisations' heaviest rocket LVM3-M2 on its maiden commercial mission on Sunday successfully placed 36 broadband communication satellites of a UK-based customer into the intended orbits, the space agency said, describing the mission as...
Countdown begins for ISROs historic rocket launch
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Countdown begins for ISRO's historic rocket launch

Chennai, Oct 22: The Indian space agency on Saturday at 12.07 a.m. began the 24-hour countdown for the launch of its heavy-lift rocket GSLV Mk III - renamed for this mission as LVM3 M2 - carrying 36 'OneWeb' satellites.The 43.5 metre tall and weighing 644-ton LVM3 M2 rocket is scheduled to...
IIT-Madras and NASA researchers study microbes on space station
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IIT-Madras and NASA researchers study microbes on space station

Chennai, Oct 21: The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) researchers have studied the interactions between microbes in the International Space Station (ISS), the institute said on Friday. A key finding is that a microbe that resides on the ISS,...
Astronaut James McDivitt commander of Apollo 9 mission dies at 93
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Astronaut James McDivitt commander of Apollo 9 mission dies at 93

Washington, Oct 18: James A. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, has died. He was 93. McDivitt was also the commander of 1965's Gemini 4 mission, where his best friend and colleague Ed White made the first U.S. spacewalk. His...
Steve Jobs Macintosh SE from NeXT likely to fetch $300K at auction: Report
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Steve Jobs' Macintosh SE from NeXT likely to fetch $300K at auction: Report

San Francisco, Oct 16: A Macintosh SE used by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at NeXt will be the highlight at an upcoming technology auction that could fetch $300,000. The History of Science and Technology, including the Space History auction held by Bonhams, features a wide array of documents and...
NASA set to break sound barrier again for future air travel
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NASA set to break sound barrier again for future air travel

Washington, Oct 16: NASA aeronautical innovators are poised to break the sound barrier again, this time in a very different way that could make it possible for all of us to one day travel by air just as fast as any of the X-1 pilots who flew supersonic. NASA's X-59, the centerpiece of the...
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