Billionaire Branson soars to space aboard Virgin Galactic flight.

British billionaire Richard Branson on Sunday (11) soared more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket plane and safely returned in the vehicle’s first fully crewed test flight to space, a symbolic milestone for a venture he started 17 ye…

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Fourteen living descendants of Leonardo da Vinci are identified.

Fourteen people alive today in Italy can claim that they are descendants of Leonardo da Vinci, according to a study of the Renaissance genius' family tree. Researchers traced da Vinci's genealogy over nearly 700 years and 21 generations, from 1331 to the present day,…

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Richard Branson reaches space on Virgin Galactic flight.

Sir Richard Branson, after nearly 17 years of development and over a billion of dollars invested in Virgin Galactic, achieved his dream and reached space. Speaking from the spacecraft’s cabin, Branson called the spaceflight the “complete experience of a lifetime.” The company…

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Former Microsoft CEO becomes ninth member of $100B club.

Steve Ballmer, the former chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., has a net worth of more than $100 billion, making him the ninth person in the world to reach that lofty plateau.  Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison fell just short of making it an even 10, ending Wednesda…

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China launches new Fengyun-3E meteorological satellite.

China has launched the new Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) meteorological satellite from the SLS-2 launch site at China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. The satellite is launched onboard the Long March-4C carrier rocket, which placed it into its planned orbit. Equipped with 11 remote se…

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Chinese astronauts carry out country's first spacewalk outside space station

Chinese astronauts on Sunday successfully carried out the country's first spacewalk outside their space station -- a significant milestone in its rapidly expanding space program. The spacewalk is only the second by Chinese astronauts since the Shenzhou 7 manned mission o…

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Sirisha Bandla, the 3rd Indian-born woman astronaut to fly to space.

Andhra Pradesh-born astronaut Sirisha Bandla will be flying to space with UK billionaire and founder of the Virgin Galactic company Richard Branson on July 11, 2021. Bandla will be taking care of the researcher's experience on the Unity22 mission. She will be one of the …

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Israeli researchers develop world's tiniest technology.

Israeli researchers have engineered the world's tiniest technology, with a thickness of only two atoms. The new technology, described in a study published in the journal Science, enables the storage of information in the thinnest unit known to science in one of the most …

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OneWeb has launched 36 satellites.

British based tech company OneWeb has launched 36 satellites on 01 July, at 6:18 pm IST. Named Flight ST33, the launch took place from the Soyuz launch complex in Vostochny Cosmodrome, a Russian spaceport.  Arianespace will be operating this launch on OneWeb's behalf, an…

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UN confirms 18.3C record heat in Antarctica.

The United Nations recognised a new record high temperature for the Antarctic continent, confirming a reading of 18.3 degrees Celsius (64.9 degrees Fahrenheit) made last year. The record heat was reached at Argentina's Esperanza research station on the Antarctic Peninsul…

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IBM President Jim Whitehurst steps down.

IBM has announced that Jim Whitehurst has decided to step down as President of the company just 14 months after joining in that role. Whitehurst has played a pivotal role in the $34 billion IBM and Red Hat integration announced in 2018. He will continue to work as senior advi…

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Rafael unveils Sea Breaker AI missile with 300 km range.

Israeli defense electronics company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has unveiled Sea Breaker, a 5th generation long range, autonomous, precision-guided missile system, which can precisely target sea and land targets up to a range of 300 kilometers. Sea Breaker features an ad…

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Global Cybersecurity Index 2020

The United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) published its 2020 Global Cyber Security Index on Tuesday 29 June 2021, and listed the US first in overall ranking, followed by a tie for second place tie between the UK and Saudi Arabia. The index ranks nations …

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Europe's Space Agency to hire first Disabled Astronaut.

The European Space Agency hopes to hire and launch the world’s first physically disabled astronaut. The 22-member space programme has just closed its latest decennial recruitment call for astronauts and received 22,000 applicants. The ESA, whose Ariane rocket once dominated t…

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Scientists find Neanderthal ancestor, challenging what we thought about human evolution.

Scientists had discovered a new kind of early human in Israel after studying pieces of fossilized bone dug up at a site used by a cement plant in central Israel. After studying fossils in Israel, scientists said they discovered a new kind of early human. Researchers from Tel…

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AWS has acquired messaging service Wickr.

Amazon’s cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting into the encrypted messaging business. The company has just announced that it has acquired secure communications service Wickr — a messaging app that has geared itself towards providing services to governmen…

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Microsoft Officially Launches ‘Windows 11’

Microsoft officially launched its new Windows operating system ‘Windows 11’. It is being called as the “next generation” of Windows. The release comes nearly six year after the current latest Windows Operating System ‘Windows 10’ was launched in July 2015. Windows 11 is spe…

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Great Barrier Reef should be listed as 'in danger'.

Australia's government has lashed out after a United Nations report claimed it had not done enough to protect the Great Barrier Reef from climate change. UN body Unesco said the reef should be put on a list of World Heritage Sites that are "in danger" due to th…

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ISRO, NOAA-led multinational project endorsed by UN body world News.

A multinational project co-led by ISRO and NOAA from the US, which aims to improve the accuracy of coastal data based on satellite and land-based observations, was recently approved by a United Nations body on the use and promotion of innovative technology.  The project is c…

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John McAfee, founder of McAfee antivirus software, passes away.

British-American Software pioneer, John David McAfee, the creator of the McAfee antivirus software, has passed away. John was found dead in his cell in a jail near Barcelona, where he had been since October 2020, for evading taxes. The incident happened shortly after his ext…

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