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NASAs solar probe creates history, touches Suns upper atmosphere
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NASA's solar probe creates history, touches Sun's upper atmosphere

Washington, Dec 15: For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun's upper atmosphere -- the corona -- and sampled particles and magnetic fields there, the US space agency has said.The first-ever passage through the corona at...
IIT-K develops device to detect soil health in 90 seconds
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IIT-K develops device to detect soil health in 90 seconds

Kanpur, Dec 13: The Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) has developed a portable soil testing device that can detect soil health in just 90 seconds through an embedded mobile application.The technology titled Portable Soil Testing Device or BhuParikshak will assist individual farmers in...
Scientists find faster method of predicting space weather
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Scientists find faster method of predicting space weather

New Delhi, Dec 10: Scientists have identified a faster method of predicting space weather using the Solar Radio Bursts (SRBs) from eruptions driven by Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) of the Sun that have been found to predict space weather hazards rapidly, with the help of ground-based instruments. ...
Twitter bans posting images of people without their consent
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Twitter bans posting images of people without their consent

Norwich (UK), Dec 8: Twitter recently announced that it will no longer allow "the sharing of private media, such as images or videos of private individuals without their consent". The move takes effect through an expansion of the social media platform's private information and media policy. In...
NASA picks Anil Menon among 10 new astronauts for Moon mission
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NASA picks Anil Menon among 10 new astronauts for Moon mission

Washington, Dec 7: Indian-origin Anil Menon, a lieutenant colonel with the US Air Force and SpaceX's first flight surgeon, has been selected by NASA among the 10 new astronauts who could fly to the Moon someday.Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Menon helped launch the Elon Musk-run SpaceX's...
Now book your Uber ride via WhatsApp in India
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Now book your Uber ride via WhatsApp in India

New Delhi, Dec 2: In a global-first move, ride-hailing major Uber and Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp on Thursday announced that people in India can now book an Uber ride via the company's official WhatsApp chatbot.The service is being rolled out on a pilot basis in Lucknow first, and will...
Twitter bans sharing of images, videos without people
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Twitter bans sharing of images, videos without people's consent

New Delhi, Dec 1: Twitter has announced to ban sharing of private media, such as photos and videos, without permission from the individuals that are shown in those images.The micro-blogging platform already covers explicit instances of abusive behaviour under its policies, the expansion of the...
Mystery behind high abundance of Lithium in some evolved stars traced
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Mystery behind high abundance of Lithium in some evolved stars traced

New Delhi, Dec 1: Scientists have found a clue to the mystery behind the high abundance of Lithium - a trace element on Earth and a key component of rechargeable batteries - in some evolved stars.For more than four decades, astronomers have known that a class of stars has an anomalous amount of...
Twitter mistakenly verifies Norwegian ministers fake account
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Twitter mistakenly verifies Norwegian minister's fake account

London, Nov 24: Twitter verified a fake account for the new Minister of Finance in Norway after the Prime Minister's Office and Norway's Security Authority (NSM) mistakenly passed along that fake account for verification to the micro-blogging platform.Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, Norway's Minister of...
Satellite for tracking worlds water to launch in 2022
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Satellite for tracking world's water to launch in 2022

Washington, Nov 22: An international team of engineers and technicians has finished assembling a next-generation satellite that will make the first global survey of the Earth's surface water and study fine-scale ocean currents.The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission is scheduled for...
Twitter no longer auto-loads new tweets on web
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Twitter no longer auto-loads new tweets on web

San Francisco, Nov 16: Micro-blogging site Twitter will no longer automatically refresh timelines on the web with new tweets and users can now decide when they want to load new tweets. Twitter acknowledged that in the past, tweets would often disappear from view mid-read when a user's timeline...
Snoopy to fly on NASAs Artemis I Moon mission next yr
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Snoopy to fly on NASA's Artemis I Moon mission next yr

Washington, Nov 14: US space agency NASA has announced that Snoopy will ride on the Artemis I mission, slated for 2022, as the zero gravity indicator.Snoopy is an anthropomorphic beagle in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, and has contributed to the excitement for NASA human...
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