Author: Manish Tripathi

SpaceX became the first-time spacecraft to circle the Earth with an all-amateur crew and no professional astronauts. It was the first time a spacecraft orbited Earth with an all-amateur team and no professional astronauts. The crew of two men and two women of the Dragon capsule are going to spend seventy-two hours going round and round the planet from a extremely high orbit — 100 miles (160 kilometres) higher than the International Space Station, and then finally splashing down just off the Florida coast this weekend. It’s SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s very first entry in the competition for space tourism…

A new company is receiving funds from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, dedicated to reversing the ageing process. Altos Labs is a research-based company founded earlier this year which is currently hiring scientists with offers of $1 million annual salaries. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, 57, has invested in Altos Labs, a US startup dedicated to reversing the ageing process and extending the human lifespan. MIT Tech Review recently reported that Bezos and other billionaires interested in living forever invested substantially in the biotech Silicon Valley startup founded earlier this year. Altos Labs is currently pursuing biological reprogramming technology, which adds proteins…

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday endorsed the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. According to the cricketer-turned-politician, the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan is “breaking the chains of slavery”. Imran Khan made these remarks while speaking at a ceremony to inaugurate the first phase of the Single National Curriculum (SNC), which is part of his ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party’s platform and covers grades 1 to 5. For the unversed, Pakistan is accused of supporting and harbouring the Taliban rebellion, which captured the country after being ousted two decades ago. Officially, Pakistan maintained that it wanted an inclusive government in Afghanistan and…

Airbus Defense and Space and Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) will jointly execute the project to equip the air force with the new transport aircraft under the Make-in-India initiative in the aerospace sector.  The approval was granted on Sept. 8 by the Indian government’s apex armament review and clearance body, the Cabinet Committee on Security, led by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The procurement is the first project in which a military aircraft will be manufactured in India under the structure of technology transfer by a private company, according to the release given by the Ministry of Defense.  A $2.5…

A Texas law banning abortion at six weeks, before most people even realize they’re pregnant or have missed a period, officially took effect on Wednesday, Sept. 1, months after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed it last May. Roe v. Wade is an awful Supreme Court ruling. Roe and the string of orders that have followed upholding the original don’t even attempt to be strict constitutional law or have a consistent justification for defending abortion rights. Texas has recently passed a law banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy went into effect on Wednesday, despite the 1973 Supreme Court…

India’s premier defence establishment, Defense Research and Development Organization, will produce next-generation missile BrahMos in Lucknow node of Uttar Pradesh Defense Industrial Corridor. BrahMos Missile Supersonic Cruise Missile will be delivered in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh. Sudhir Kumar Mishra, CEO and M.D. of BrahMos Aerospace, met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday at his residence 5 Kalidas Marg. The missile based on Russia’s P-800 Oniks cruise missile technology will give about 500 engineers direct employment in the BrahMos Production Centre. According to the official sources, the centre is most likely to be built by investing Rs 300 crores…

The Roomba S9+ sweeps away a lot of bugbears that have plagued robot vacuums since it is conception: emptying itself, capturing allergens, conquering and cleaning tight corners, and providing genuinely customizable vacuuming from an app on your phone. The most expensive Roomba vacuum anyone can buy costs $1,100, and it is worth every penny. Its price tag might be steep compared to other Roomba vacuums, but if you value spotlessly clean floors with almost no effort on your part, the cost is reasonable, and it is worth every penny. Design and Specs Rather than the standard circular shape we see…

China on Monday introduced new rules that limit the number of time under-18s can spend on video games to a mere three hours a week, a move it said was necessary to combat the growing gaming addiction. China has recently restricted young gamers from playing video games, including online games, to a mere three hours a week, a move that it believes will reduce gaming addiction drastically. As per a report by Statista, it has been reported that the worldwide PC gaming market is a 37 billion US dollar industry. In contrast, the mobile gaming market alone generated way over…

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has recently fined WhatsApp Ireland €225m for infringements of data protection rules. It’s the largest fine imposed by the DPC, and the second-largest penalty ever levied on an organization under EU data laws. The regulator has ordered the messaging service to bring its processing into compliance by taking a range of specified remedial actions. WhatsApp has stated that it disagrees with the decision and has claimed that the penalties are disproportionate. It claimed that it is going to appeal the ruling in the court of law. The DPC acts as the leading supervisory authority for…

NATO allies are already preparing for a future without America’s “forever wars”. The United States’ then-president Donald Trump and current president Joe Biden plan to withdraw from Afghanistan. Still, the rapid and strategic collapse of the democratically elected Afghan government and the swiftness of the power-hungry Taliban takeover turned that departure into chaos. The United States looked blundering at every step and dragged its allies down with it in the process. Slowly but surely, all had to come to terms with the reality that after 20 years of bloodshed, all the lives lost, and billions of dollars spent, little was…