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Bengaluru-based space data company, Pixxel is working towards launching six satellites in 2024 and 18 satellites by 2025, said its founding chief executive Awais Ahmed in an interaction with ET on December 16.Ahmed spoke to ET ahead of Pixxel’s inauguration of its spacecraft manufacturing facility in the city soon. The company is nearly five years old now.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIndian School of BusinessISB…

Have you heard the story about crabs in a bucket? When one tries to escape, others claw it down, giving rise to the term “crab mentality”. I find the tale, often proffered with trite self-help nuggets, grating. Not only do we ascribe imagined motivations to crabs, we place them in a situation they would have never encountered without human intervention and then make generalizations about their “mentality”. Narratives that unfold parallelly even as they inform each other. (Little, Brown and Company) Beyond…

Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivelä‘s supernatural noir series Abbott is getting set for its concluding installment. BOOM! Studios will release Abbott: 1979, the third and final entry in the trilogy, this fall. The first issue of the miniseries will hit stores in October. Here’s how BOOM! describes Abbott: 1979: On the eve of the 1980s and the Reagan Administration, Detroit is burdened with an oppressive darkness–both political and supernatural. Dejected and tough tabloid reporter Elena Abbott, who previously defeated the…

The release of 2018’s Black Panther continues to make an impact on Disney’s output. You can see how the success of that movie (and its own sub-franchise) led to the creation of Shang-Chi and Ms. Marvel, and even non-MCU projects like American Born Chinese. Disney+’s Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire very much feels like part of the reason Disney picked it up in the first place was to scratch an itch for African science-fiction adventures that audiences may have had after seeing the two Panther movies.Could They Recast Chadwick…

From Maha’s 80s Egyptian orchestral pop to Fadoul’s 70s Moroccan psych-funk, independent label Habibi Funk has spent the best part of the last decade platforming fascinating, cross-cultural music from the Arab world. Their latest niche is Libyan reggae, a popular genre in the country since Bob Marley’s music arrived in the 70s and local acts honed their own takes on the sound. The label previously released 2021’s dub-laden single Tendme by Tripoli-born Ibrahim Hesnawi; their latest record, singer Ahmed Ben Ali’s Subhana,…

Photo via Disney Plus Back when the Star Wars prequel trilogy released in theaters, it’s safe to say that most fans would have named Jar Jar Binks as their least-favorite character from the franchise. And the actor behind the CG creation, Ahmed Best, felt the full weight of that hatred. Disney is offering Best quite the do-over with a small role in The Mandalorian — and has even put the actor up for an Emmy nomination for his work. On its Debut Disney website, the company has listed its offerings for Emmy…

What drew you to write this book about the plight of Rohingya people in exile and how is this narrative different from other non-fiction books on Rohingyas in refugee camps? Author Kaamil Ahmed. (Photo RGB) When I started my career as a journalist covering South Asia, there would be very regular reports of boats capsizing in the Bay of Bengal, with many of the passengers dying before they could be saved. Most passengers were Rohingya and so, it seemed, no one cared much to look too deeply into why so many were…

Saladin Ahmed and Aaron Kuder as the new Daredevil #1 creative team for Marvel Comics from September 2023.Earlier this week, after running the Marvel August 2023 solicits way early, Bleeding Cool broke the news that Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto's run on Daredevil would be coming to an end with #14 in August. But also that a new Daredevil volume (wight at this count) would be starting in September. And now Marvel has released those details, with Saladin Ahmed and Aaron Kuder as the new Daredevil #1 creative team. And…

As writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Marco Checchetto‘s acclaimed run on Daredevil nears its conclusion, the question has already been raised of who will follow the creative team in guiding the adventures of Marvel’s Man Without Fear. Asked and answered now, as Marvel announced this morning that writer Saladin Ahmed and artist Aaron Kuder will take the reins of the series, which will relaunch with a new #1 in September. The first issue of the series will feature a cover by legendary DD artist John Romita Jr., with Scott…

Here’s a one-minute demo of the app.Video by the author — A quick demoWith the ever-increasing number of open-source ML models that solve a huge variety of tasks, software applications will gradually become some sort of AI application that integrates pre-trained models, self-trained models, or models accessed through APIs.Given that many SOTA models are large and require powerful hardware and distributed deployment, fitting everything in one machine will not be a practical solution, especially if the application combines…