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Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer major global outage
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Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer major global outage

New Delhi, Oct 4: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger went down for millions of users, including in India, on Monday evening, as they were unable to send or receive messages on social media platforms."We are aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We are...
NASA completes rocket engine test series for lunar mission
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NASA completes rocket engine test series for lunar mission

Washington, Oct 4: NASA has successfully completed its rocket engine test series for its upcoming missions to the Moon and, eventually, Mars. The US space agency conducted RS-25 single-engine Retrofit-2 test series at Stennis Space Center near Bay St Louis in Mississippi on September 30, the...
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Elon Musk's Starlink aims to start broadband service in India from Dec next year

New Delhi, Oct 1: Elon Musk-led SpaceX's satellite broadband arm Starlink aims to start broadband service in India from December 2022, with 2 lakh active terminals subject to permission from the government, a top company official said on Friday. Starlink Country Director for India Sanjay Bhargava...
Indian SMBs are more worried about cyber threats than before: Study
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Indian SMBs are more worried about cyber threats than before: Study

New Delhi, Sept 27: Three out of four (74 per cent) small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in India suffered a cyber incident in the past year, resulting in 85 per cent losing customer information to malicious actors, in addition to a tangible impact on business, a new study by Cisco revealed on...
iPhone 13 Pro Max reinvents camera, filmmaking via smartphone
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iPhone 13 Pro Max reinvents camera, filmmaking via smartphone

New Delhi, Sept 25: When Apple launched iPhone 13 series earlier this month, murmurs surfaced that the new devices have striking similarities with the earlier 12 series. Well, seeing is believing and experiencing iPhone 13 Pro Max certainly brings the murmurs to stop. The simple fact is: iPhone...
Indias airspace map for drone operations released
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India's airspace map for drone operations released

New Delhi, Sept 25: India's airspace map for drone operations has been released and is available on aviation regulator DGCA's digital sky platform, an official statement said on Friday. The drone airspace map comes as a follow-through of the liberalised Drone Rules, 2021 which were released by...
SpaceXs all-civilian crew returns to Earth safely
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SpaceX's all-civilian crew returns to Earth safely

San Francisco, Sept 19: After spending three days on-orbit, the world's first civilian mission of SpaceX's Inspiration4 returned to Earth on Sunday. The crew, onboard the Dragon spacecraft re-entered Earth's atmosphere for a soft water landing off the coast of Florida at 7.06 p.m. EDT (4.36 a.m....
SpaceX, Blue Origin to make Moon lander design for NASA
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SpaceX, Blue Origin to make Moon lander design for NASA

Washington, Sept 16: Tech billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin features in the list of five US companies NASA selected for making Moon lander designs, the US space agency has said. NASA has awarded a total of $146 million for the contracts, under the agency's...
Thousands of massive, ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars: NASA
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Thousands of massive, ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars: NASA

Washington, Sept 16: Scientists at NASA have found evidence that a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra experienced thousands of "super eruptions," the biggest volcanic eruptions known, over a 500 million year period. Spewing water vapour, carbon dioxide, and sulphur dioxide into the air,...
1 in 2 South Asians concerned about the damage smartphones causes to wellbeing
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1 in 2 South Asians concerned about the damage smartphones causes to wellbeing

New Delhi, Sept 16: As the world adjusts to a post-pandemic reality dominated by technology, public concerns about the dangers of over-consumption are gathering pace. According to a major new survey from Saudi-based cultural institute, Ithra, over one in two (56 per cent) South Asians are worried...
For 1st time, Apple puts India at par with other countries in launching new iPhones
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For 1st time, Apple puts India at par with other countries in launching new...

New Delhi, Sep 17: Apple is betting high on the Indian market as the tech giant has launched its most anticipated iPhone 13 series simultaneously in India for the first time along with the global launch. Earlier, iPhones used to take at least two-three weeks to reach the Indian market. However,...
South Korea to fine Google $177M for forcing software on devices
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South Korea to fine Google $177M for forcing software on devices

Seoul, Sep 14: South Korea's competition watchdog plans to fine Google at least 207.4 billion won ($177 million) for allegedly blocking smartphone makers like Samsung from using other operating systems, in what would be one of the country's biggest antitrust penalties ever. The announcement on...
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