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A prototype all-electric passenger plane took off for the first time yesterday in a test flight that marks a significant milestone for carbon pollution-free aviation. The nine-passenger commuter aircraft called Alice took off at 7:10AM yesterday from Washington state’s Grant County International Airport.Alice is ahead of much of the pack when it comes to all-electric aircraft under development. It could become the “first all-new, all-electric commercial airplane” if the Federal Aviation Administration certifies it to…

The Merge, which took place early Thursday morning ET, will cut Ethereum’s energy consumption by an even bigger margin than previously expected, a new analysis finds. It’s also expected to slash the cryptocurrency network’s greenhouse gas emissions dramatically.Ethereum’s electricity use is expected to drop by a whopping 99.988 percent post-Merge, according to the analysis published today by research company Crypto Carbon Ratings Institute (CCRI). The network was previously using about 23 million megawatt-hours per year,…

The new volume driver from Volkswagen, the Virtus sedan, is off to a flying start in the Indian car market. According to a new sales report, more than 5,000 units of the Volkswagen Virtus have been delivered by the German carmaker in the last two months of July and August. The Virtus was launched in India in June 2022, and since then, it has joined the Taigun in Volkswagen’s India 2.0 strategy. In addition to achieving this sales milestone, the new Volkswagen Virtus has also created two new records – one each for the…

The Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize new Covid-19 booster shots this week without a staple of its normal decision-making process: data from a study showing whether the shots were safe and worked in humans. Instead, the agency plans to assess the shots using data from other sources such as research in mice, the profiles of the original vaccines and the performance of earlier iterations of boosters targeting older forms of Omicron. “Real world evidence from the current mRNA Covid-19…

In India Toyota is a brand that we often associate with reliability. There are many first generation Toyota Innova and Qualis with lakh km on odometer and are doing pretty well without any major issues. Volvo is also one such manufacturer who is popular among buyers for making some of the safest cars. They not only make cars that are safe but reliable too. Don’t believe us? Here we have a video of a Volvo owner who has managed to complete 10 lakh miles in his car. The video has been shared by FOX 2 St. Louis on their…

Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: D-Wave completed its planned SPAC merger last week, the third quantum computing startup, after Rigetti and IonQ, to go public via SPAC within the last year — Yet another quantum computing company has gone public via SPAC. — D-Wave completed a planned merger on Monday with DPCM Capital … Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: D-Wave completed its planned SPAC merger last week, the third quantum computing startup, after Rigetti and IonQ, to go public…

Vodafone Idea started migrating Idea Nirvana postpaid users to the Vodafone Red postpaid umbrella starting May 11. The company was to shift Idea Nirvana subscribers in Gujarat, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Punjab, and Rajasthan initially in its first phase of transition. Now, the Idea website confirms that the transition has been completed. If you click on any of the above mentioned circles on the website, it redirects you to the Vodafone Red website. A separate report suggests that…

Without a doubt, the can rental services and can-aggregators rely heavily on the Toyota Innova these days because of the impeccable quality and highly-reliable engine and mechanicals. Before the Innova, the Toyota Qualis ruled the roads and if you’re a 90’s kid, you would remember that MPV quite well. Here is a Qualis that is a prime example of the reliability of Toyota cars. This one has completed more than 8 lakh km. The video by Nipp0n Toyota shows a Qualis that they had sold and serviced all through its journey to…

Netflix Having played Marvel’s paragon of American values for Joe and Anthony Russo on Captain America: Winter Soldier and Civil War, Chris Evans is finally getting a chance to stretch a bit and play a different kind of character. Specifically, a character with facial hair. In the Netflix original movie The Gray Man, Evans plays a former colleague of a CIA assassin, played by American treasure Ryan Gosling, who’s discovered “dark agency secrets.” Evans’ assassin must then lead a manhunt to find and kill Gosling.…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to inaugurate 296-km-long Bundelkhand Expressway on July 12. The expressway, from Chitrakoot to Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, has been completed eight months ahead of deadline. Laying the foundation stone on February 29, 2020 PM Modi had said that “this project will create thousands of job opportunities and connect the common people with facilities in bigger cities.” https://twitter.com/upeidaofficial/status/1514148103691014144?s=20&t=81IPwA_AhMk0oXMPwf8c6Q Here’s all you need to know…