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Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore would return to Earth around March 19, 2025.Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been aboard the International Space Station (ISS) since September, mentioned their date of return while speaking to CNN.The new schedule shortens Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore’s extended stay in space, which officially reached the eight-month mark last week.The astronauts were initially scheduled to return by late March or early April. This shift in plans follows NASA and SpaceX’s decision to change the capsules for upcoming astronaut flights.According to the earlier schedule, Wilmore and Sunita Williams were to return after a…
While tea remains India’s dominant beverage, growing café culture in metropolitan areas over the past decade has fuelled the rise of speciality coffee shops. From boutique roasters to global chains, coffee consumption is steadily rising—making price hikes more impactful than ever. Read this | The champagne of coffees: Gesha’s rise in India Prices of Arabica and Robusta beans—the world’s two most widely consumed coffee varieties—are at multi-year highs due to supply shocks in Brazil and Vietnam, the world’s top producers. Coffee futures in New York and London have surged over the past year, forcing Indian brands from Blue Tokai to…
OpenAI is reportedly accelerating its efforts to reduce dependence on Nvidia by developing its own artificial intelligence (AI) silicon, with plans to finalise the design of its first in-house chip in the coming months. The ChatGPT maker is preparing to send its design for fabrication to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), according to sources familiar with the matter, reported Reuters.Reportedly, the process of submitting a chip design for production, known as ‘taping out’, marks a significant milestone in OpenAI’s ambition to mass-produce its AI chips by 2026. Given that an initial tape-out can cost tens of millions of dollars and…
OnePlus 12R is getting another price cut after the launch of the OnePlus 13R and the new smartphone is available at its lowest ever price. The OnePlus flagship killer was one of the most powerful phones last year and after being available for under ₹30,000, it is sure to give some serious competition to other performance-centric phones in the category like the Poco X7 Pro and Realme GT 6T.OnePlus 12R at its lowest ever price:OnePlus 12R is currently priced at ₹32,999 on Amazon for the 8GB RAM/256GB storage variant. However, Amazon Pay ICICI Bank card holders can get an additional…
US farmers would bear the cost of tariffs on imported Canadian fertilizers should President Donald Trump’s levies take effect, according to top supplier Nutrien Ltd. “The tariff costs and tariff impact will be passed on,” Chief Executive Officer Ken Seitz said in a conference call with analysts. “It is going to mean rising costs for the US grower.” The US relies on Canada for more than 80% of the potash used to nourish its crops, leaving farmers particularly exposed to the impacts of a trade war. Fertilizer prices are already at the highest seasonal level since 2022, when Russia’s war…
(Bloomberg) — US prosecutors and regulators are investigating a $32 million deal between CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and a technology distributor to provide cybersecurity tools to the Internal Revenue Service, according to two people familiar with the matter and a document seen by Bloomberg News. Investigators for the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission have been interviewing people and collecting records related to the deal, according to the document and people. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the matter. Carahsoft Technology Corp. paid CrowdStrike for the deal that the cybersecurity firm closed…
For a long time, gold has been a common investment for people in India as it not only is a financial investment but also resonates religious and emotional sentiments. With rising gold rates, financing gold can become tough. Hence, people often resort to borrowing personal loans to buy gold. Let us understand the benefits and considerations of using a personal loan for buying gold in detail so that you can make the right choice.Personal loans for gold purchasesPersonal loans are unsecured loans that allow you to use the fund for any purpose including the purchase of gold. These loans are…
In 2010 researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (EVA), in Leipzig, published the genome of Homo neanderthalensis, a species known in less progressive days as Neanderthal man. This contained stretches of DNA also found in Homo sapiens genomes—specifically, non-African ones. That suggested past interbreeding between the two, but only outside Africa. This is not surprising. Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its homeland to embark on its conquest of the world. But the details were unclear.Now, two papers by researchers at EVA and elsewhere have provided…
The ministry of information and broadcasting has issued an advisory to publishers of online curated content (OTT platforms) and social media regarding alleged spread of obscene, pornographic and vulgar content after having received references from members of Parliament, representations from statutory organizations and public grievances.The notification comes on the heels of podcaster Ranveer Allahabadia having been caught in the eye of the storm for his controversial remarks on the stand-up show India’s Got Latent on YouTube. The advisory pointed to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media, Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, that provide for a Code of Ethics for OTT…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the AI Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday, emphasising the transformative potential of artificial intelligence while highlighting the need for global collaboration in AI governance. His speech underscored India’s vision of responsible AI development and the importance of addressing biases, sustainability and accessibility in AI advancements. Here are ten key takeaways from his address:1. AI’s potential and challengesModi acknowledged that AI has the potential to reshape multiple aspects of human life, from governance to education, but also warned about inherent biases in AI models. He pointed out how AI applications sometimes misinterpret requests due to…