Month: June 2022

Combining data obtained from several sources, scientists have managed to unravel the mystery behind the red cap on Pluto’s moon Charon and its composition. NASA’s interplanetary space probe New Horizons had captured the reddish region on the top of Charon and collected data in 2015. After the encounter, scientists soon speculated that the tholin-like material
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Alphabet’s Google and Comcast’s NBCUniversal are leading the race for a tie-up with Netflix to help it create an advertisement-supported subscription plan, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing sources. Comcast‘s video advertisement division, Freewheel, can help Netflix with technology to deliver ads, while NBCUniversal’s sales team can assist the streaming service provider with
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The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has cautioned of a new set of spear-phishing attacks exploiting the “Follina” flaw in the Windows operating system to deploy password-stealing malware. Attributing the intrusions to a Russian nation-state group tracked as APT28 (aka Fancy Bear or Sofacy), the agency said the attacks commence with a lure
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s GSAT-24 satellite, built NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), was successfully launched by French company Arianespace from Kourou in French Guiana (South America) on Thursday. GSAT-24 is a 24-Ku band communication satellite weighing 4180kg with pan-India coverage for meeting DTH application needs. It was the first “demand driven” communication satellite mission
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Montblanc Summit 3 smartwatch is going to be the first wearable running Wear OS 3 apart from Google Pixel Watch. The wearable will be available soon globally for purchase. However, the smartwatch may not be available in India. Montblanc Summit 3 smartwatch features a 1.28-inch full-circle AMOLED display with Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100+ SoC. It
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Apple is reportedly going to introduce filter extensions for messages in 12 sub-categories within Transactions and Promotions on iOS 16 only for the Indian users. These sub-categories include Finance, Reminders, Orders, Health, Public Services, Weather, Carrier, Rewards, and more. The new update is said to allow developers to incorporate these filters to classify non-personal messages
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In a groundbreaking finding, researchers have developed a technology that can help effectively treat heart diseases in humans. The technology repairs heart muscles in mice after a heart attack and also successfully regenerates them. Researchers, from the University of Houston, have used a synthetic messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) to deliver mutated transcription factors to the
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