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Instagram is back after being down for several users
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Instagram is back after being down for several users

San Francisco, May 27: Services of Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram started coming back online after being down for several users. On Thursday, reports across the internet noted issues, with many people seeing screens saying they were not logged in, blank image posts, "Welcome to...
Front suspension of Ola Electric scooter broke while riding, claims user
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Front suspension of Ola Electric scooter broke while riding, claims user

New Delhi, May 26: In yet another tragic incident involving Ola Electric Scooter, a user has claimed that his Ola S1 Pro's front suspension broke while riding. On the microblogging site Twitter, Sreenadh Menon requested the company for a replacement of the vehicle. "The front fork is breaking...
Huge asteroid to zoom past Earth this week
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Huge asteroid to zoom past Earth this week

Washington, May 25: A "potentially hazardous" enormous asteroid that is more than a mile long will zoom past Earth on May 27, according to NASA's Centre for Near Earth Object Studies The asteroid named 1989 JA is estimated to be 1.1 miles long, or 5,905 feet, USA Today reported. While there...
NASA figuring out mysterious readings from interstellar spacecraft Voyager 1
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NASA figuring out mysterious readings from interstellar spacecraft Voyager 1

Washington, May 22: Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 has been exploring the cosmos for nearly half a century and now, NASA engineers are baffled at mysterious readings coming from the ageing interstellar aircraft. The interstellar explorer is operating normally, receiving and executing commands from...
Twitter, Tesla, Musk see billions evaporate
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Twitter, Tesla, Musk see billions evaporate

New York, May 14: Elon Musk, still the world's richest man, is poorer by nearly $39 billion since he spoke of buying out Twitter. Irony. At $231 billion of worth on the Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index at close of play on Friday, only part of Musk's losses are because of his still single-digit...
Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Ways huge black hole
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Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way's huge black hole

Washington, May 13: The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy.Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies, including our own, have these giant black holes at their centre, where light and matter cannot escape,...
Instagram testing NFTs this week, Facebook soon: Zuckerberg
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Instagram testing NFTs this week, Facebook soon: Zuckerberg

New Delhi, May 10: Meta-owned Instagram is starting to test digital collectibles or non-fungible tokens (NFTs) this week, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday, as the global NFT market sees downturn. Zuckerberg confirmed that the social network is testing NFTs on Instagram, with "similar...
Twitter to focus more on engineering, design if acquisition completes: Musk
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Twitter to focus more on engineering, design if acquisition completes: Musk

San Francisco, May 7: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed that Twitter will focus deeply on hardcore software engineering, design, and more, following the completion of the acquisition of the micro-blogging site. The Tesla CEO also mentioned that he strongly believes that all managers in a technical...
Indian consumers start buying virtual products amid metaverse buzz
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Indian consumers start buying virtual products amid metaverse buzz

New Delhi, May 5: Amid the buzz around metaverse, nearly two-thirds (64 per cent) of consumers globally, including in India, purchased a virtual good or participated in a virtual experience in the past year, a figure that is set to rise as 83 per cent now show interest in making purchases via...
Smartphone app that could help screen neurological disease at home
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Smartphone app that could help screen neurological disease at home

New York, May 1: A team of researchers has developed a smartphone app that could allow people to screen for Alzheimer's disease, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other neurological diseases and disorders, by recording closeups of their eyes. The app uses a near-infrared...
2 largest marsquakes recorded on Red Planets far side
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2 largest marsquakes recorded on Red Planet's far side

London, April 23: A seismometer placed on Mars by NASA's InSight lander has recorded two largest seismic events on the Red Planet to date: a magnitude 4.2 and a magnitude 4.1 marsquakes. The pair are the first recorded events to occur on the planet's far side from the lander and are five times...
Scientists urge NASA to probe Uranus, search for life on Saturns moon
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Scientists urge NASA to probe Uranus, search for life on Saturn's moon

Washington, April 22: A team of scientists has urged NASA to probe the ice giant Uranus and look for life on Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, on priority in the coming decade. In a report, the team at National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS), recommended NASA to focus on...
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