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Fresh $360 million fundraise catapults AI startup Fractal Analytics into unicorn club

The AI industry has been growing steadily in recent times. In fact,…

Qualcomm and Microsoft team up to develop custom AR chips for metaverse

Metaverse — a fancy term that translates to culmination of all things…

NASA launches the James Webb Space telescope, will look to answer questions on origins of our Universe

This Christmas is going to be extra-special as a new chapter in…

Indian govt asks public not to sign up for SpaceX Starlink, says it does not have license to offer internet services in India

Starlink has been Elon Musk’s mission to provide high-speed, low-latency internet to…

NASA launches a “DART” at space to kick asteroid off course amid a planned planetary defense test

If you have watched Mimi Leder’s film “Deep Impact,” where a manned…

Virgin Galactic creates history, flies Richard Branson and crew to space and back

In what was perhaps unconceivable for well near our nearest past, Richard…

SpaceX blasts off 88 satellites into orbit as part of Transporter-2 mission, marks first onshore landing of Falcon 9 first stage

SpaceX has launched one mission after the other, whether it be leading…

Nvidia Canvas AI will allow you to create almost photorealistic images through random blobs, here’s how

If you love art (like me) but can’t paint to save your…
Xiaomi

Xiaomi files patent for a new ‘sound based’ charging tech for smartphones

Sound can charge your smartphone and other electronic devices. Sounds crazy right?…

China’s first crewed mission in five years, to new space station, launches successfully

It may be the Americans, with NASA and SpaceX at the helm,…

Alphabet’s Waymo raises $2.5 billion in second external funding round

Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. and Google’s former self-driving project, has…

Tesla Model S ‘Plaid’ now open for delivery in the US, reaches 0-60 mph in ‘under 2 seconds’

Tesla has ruled the electric market for quite some time, with a…
SpaceX starship launch

SpaceX’s ocean spaceport Deimos could launch Starships as early as 2022, confirms Elon Musk

From multiple Starlink missions a month to planning lunar satellite launches funded…
Xiaomi

Xiaomi introduces wired HyperCharge technology which can charge most phones in 8 minutes flat

Imagine needing your smartphone immediately (like making that presentation that’s due tomorrow,…

Google’s ‘Project Starline’ is an experimental 3D imaging tech that makes communication, more life-like

It is pretty common for big tech companies to spend part of…
Google I/O

Google AI advancements: next gen AI chips and LaMDA to make AI conversations better

AI (and by extension Quantum Computing) is the future of computing, whether…

China lands maiden Mars rover Zhurong, becomes 2nd nation after the US to land a rover on red planet

Humanity’s conquest of space just recorded a significant victory, and got etched…

SpaceX sends another batch of 60 Starlink sats into space on record 10th flight for Falcon 9

SpaceX has had a busy 2021 so far – not only did…
NASA Mars helicopter Ingenuity

History made! NASA flies Ingenuity helicopter on Martian surface for the first time

A few centuries ago, taking flight was nothing but a dream for…

An IIT Madras team creates new way of digitally restoring blurred photographs

Every one of us loves photographs, right? Those small pieces of laminated…