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Longest partial lunar eclipse in 580 years on Nov 19, to be visible from India
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Longest partial lunar eclipse in 580 years on Nov 19, to be visible from India

Kolkata, Nov 13: The longest partial lunar eclipse in 580 years will occur on November 19 and will be visible from parts of Northeast India, an astrophysicist said on Saturday. The rare phenomenon will be visible from a few areas in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, Director of Research and Academic...
FB announces Shops in Groups, Live Shopping for Creators
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FB announces Shops in Groups, Live Shopping for Creators

San Francisco, Nov 13: Meta, formerly Facebook, is rolling out new shopping features -- Shops in Groups, product recommendations and a test of Live Shopping -- for Creators. Shops in Groups enables admins of Facebook groups to set up an online store on their associated Facebook Page. According...
Scientists decode why humans are getting taller
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Scientists decode why humans are getting taller

London, Nov 6: An international team of scientists has for the first time discovered a brain receptor that explains why people are growing taller and maturing fast. The study, published in the journal Nature, describes melanocortin 3 receptor (MC3R) -- a member of a family of proteins that have...
NASAs Landsat 9 satellite releases first images of Earth
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NASA's Landsat 9 satellite releases first images of Earth

Washington, Nov 6: NASA's Earth-observing satellite Landsat 9 has collected its first light images of Earth, capturing critical observations about our changing planet. Launched on September 27, Landsat 9 is a joint mission between NASA and the US Geological Survey (USGS). The images, all...
Social Media: A saviour or a predator?
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Social Media: A saviour or a predator?

The details published by The Washington Post of a misinformation campaign pursued by Facebook against the Covid-19 vaccine, also outlines other irregularities committed by the tech giant. A consortium of media organisations, including The Washington Post, reviewed the information, which was...
Facebook, WhatsApp, Insta apps retain name, as parent finds a new one, Meta
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Facebook, WhatsApp, Insta apps retain name, as parent finds a new one, Meta

New York, Oct 29: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday announced that his company will have a new name, Meta. Somewhat predictably, Zuckerberg downplayed that this rebranding, the first in Facebook's 17 years of existence, is to divert a barrage of bad PR. "We are a company that builds...
NASAs new Lucy asteroid spacecraft faces solar panel glitch
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NASA's new Lucy asteroid spacecraft faces solar panel glitch

Washington, Oct 19: NASA's newly launched Lucy spacecraft, the US space agency's first-ever mission to explore distant asteroids and seek out the origin of our solar system, has faced some issues with one of its solar panels, the agency has said. Lucy successfully lifted off on October 16)from...
PM Modi launches Indian Space Association
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PM Modi launches Indian Space Association

New Delhi, Oct 11: Launching the Indian Space Association (ISpA) on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government ensured that space technology became the delivery tool for leakage-free and transparent governance during the last seven years. "Our vision of 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' is a...
FB says outage affecting Insta, Messenger fixed after 2nd attempt in a week
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FB says outage affecting Insta, Messenger fixed after 2nd attempt in a week

San Francisco, Oct 9: Facebook has said the issues that blocked access to its apps and services for nearly two hours on Friday have been fixed. On Friday, some users were unable to load their Instagram feeds, while others were not able to send messages on Facebook Messenger. "We are so sorry...
Facebook blames outage on error during routine maintenance
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Facebook blames outage on error during routine maintenance

London, Oct 6: The global outage that knocked Facebook and its other platforms offline for hours was caused by an error during routine maintenance, the company said. Santosh Janardhan, Facebook's vice president of infrastructure, said in a blog post that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp going...
Nobel in chemistry honours pair for way to build molecules
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Nobel in chemistry honours pair for way to build molecules

Stockholm, Oct 6: The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to German scientist Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and Scotland-born scientist David WC MacMillan of Princeton University. They were cited for their work in developing a new way for building molecules known as "asymmetric...
Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram back after outage
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Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram back after outage

New Delhi, Oct 5: Services of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp started coming back online on Tuesday after an outage that lasted almost six hours. The services went down at about 16:00 GMT with users beginning to gain access to the sites at around 22:00. "Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and...
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