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A Skoda Slavia parked in an apartment complex in Lucknow caught fire late last month. The owner of the sedan, who runs a YouTube channel by the name of Car Blogger, narrated the whole incident through a video. The Czech company had promised to look into the situation when the video surfaced on the Internet. True to their word, Skoda has delivered the aggrieved customer with a brand new model of the Slavia, Cartoq reported. In his video, shared in September, the owner narrated the ordeal of his car being burnt to a crisp.…

Birds sing, dogs bark, and turtles – well, it turns out they have a surprisingly wide vocabulary too. A new study has found that they, along with dozens of other “mute” species, do actually vocalize, leading to the conclusion that all acoustic communication can be traced back to a single ancestor more than 400 million years ago.Vocalizations are specifically sounds that animals make with their mouths by drawing air from their lungs, and animals use them to communicate a wide range of messages to their own and other…

It appears that there might be a problem with the 16-pin connector that powers the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090. According to a Redditor who owns the card, their GPU actually went up in flames, and parts of it have melted as a result. Is this a more widespread issue, and should you keep a fire extinguisher nearby at all times if you own an RTX 4090? reggie_gakil One of the first reports of power-related issues with the RTX 4090 is here, and it’s a huge one from the get-go. A Redditor, reggie_gakil, posted on the Nvidia…

A group of researchers in Portugal discovered the largest fish ever found back in 2019. The giant sunfish, which weighed over 6,000 pounds, was dead, floating on the surface of the water when they found it. The researchers were in the area, working off the coast of the Azores when they spotted the carcass and hauled it to shore. Researchers looking into the beast recently published a report on the largest fish ever found in the Journal of Fish Biology. The creature they found weighed a total of 6,049 pounds…

The smartphones in our pockets have changed our lives in a multitude of ways – not least because we always have a camera to hand to capture special occasions, strange events, and perhaps the occasional rare wildlife sighting.On 29 August 2020, near the town of Whitehorse in Yukon, Canada, Thomas Jung – a wildlife biologist with the Government of Yukon's Department of Environment – saw a sight he knew few had ever witness before.Luckily for us, he managed to quickly get his phone out and film it, giving the world a good…

This underreporting results in worldwide pandemic estimates ranging from 600 million to 2.4 billion cases.A new mathematical model suggests that as few as 1 in 5 COVID cases were counted globally. According to mathematical models, as few as one in every five instances of <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>COVID-19</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019…

Black holes actually burp up material when they eat stars, previous observations have found. But, what scientists didn’t expect was to find a black hole that consumed a star three years before starting to burp up that material so long afterward. The black hole in question is located around 665 million light-years from Earth. In October 2018, that black hole ripped a small star to shreds when it wandered too close to the black hole’s strong gravitational pull. Black holes often consume stars when…

Disney has pushed back the release dates for numerous films, including four huge projects.The studio has overhauled its film schedule, with some highly anticipated films being caught up in the shuffle.Blade fans will have to wait an additional year for the reboot starring Mahershala Ali. The film, which was scheduled for release on 3 November 2023, has been delayed to 6 September 2024.The movement of Blade had a knock-on effect on the rest of the MCU, as reported by Variety. Thankfully for fans, the much-anticipated third…

Vaibhav Balghare on Sunday became a well-known Twitter follower of Elon Musk after the Tesla CEO responded to his tweet about how the electric car maker caught an employee who leaked trade secrets in 2008. Balghare who has a Twitter handle @NASAEarthMars asked Musk how did he catch “that employee who leaked the confidential data of Tesla and sold it to the news outlet?” in 2008. The Tesla CEO replied: “That is quite an interesting story. We sent what appeared to be identical emails to all, but each was actually coded with…

Vaibhav Balghare became a well-known Twitter follower of Elon Musk after the Tesla CEO responded to his tweet about how the electric car-maker caught an employee who leaked the trade secrets in 2008.Balghare who has a Twitter handle @NASAEarthMars asked Musk that how did he caught "that employee who leaked the confidential data of Tesla and sold it to the news outlet?" in 2008.Read AlsoThe Tesla CEO replied: "That is quite an interesting story. We sent what appeared to be identical emails to all, but each was actually…