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Image Source : ISRO ISRO The moon lander named Odysseus is reportedly 'alive and well' a day after its white-knuckle touchdown as the first private spacecraft ever to reach the lunar surface, and the first from the United States since 1972, the company behind the vehicle, Intuitive Machines said. Flight controllers at the company's mission operations centre in…

Our world is constantly evolving, and there always seems to be some “next big thing” that’s supposed to have a major impact on our lives. But while some of these promises come true, many more are heavily underdelivered.There have been plenty of occasions when something seemingly so impressive turned out to be nothing more than an absolute flop. As one Reddit user found out, these oversold disappointments are not so easily forgotten because when they asked other netizens to point them out, the answers came pouring…

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharman presented the Budget 2024 in Parliament today, February 1. Interestingly, this was an Interim budget, while a full-fledged budget will be announced after the culmination of the general elections by the new government. As expected, the FM made several key tech announcements, introducing reforms in the sector. The FM herself presented the budget 2024 in paperless format via a digital tablet kept inside a red-coloured 'bahi khata' with the national emblem embossed on it. Industry experts…

A federal judge in Los Angeles has found Tom Girardi competent to stand trial, paving the way for the disgraced former lawyer to go before a jury this year and answer charges that he stole more than $15 million from his clients as part of a long-running fraud scheme at his law firm.The decision was announced Tuesday in a brief notation on the case docket that said U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton had filed an “order finding defendant competent to stand trial.” The order was placed under seal until lawyers for both…

Java Stingarees are the first marine fish to be declared extinct as a result of human activity.This troubling news was released with the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) latest update of its Red List of Threatened Species last week, along with reports of escalating climate impacts on freshwater fishes presented at COP28.A shocking quarter of all known freshwater fish species are currently at risk of extinction, with 20 percent impacted directly by climate change."Freshwater fishes make up more than…

Donald Trump was in Iowa on Saturday for two campaign stops, the first in Ankeny, followed by a stop in Cedar Rapids. And his obsession with the 2020 election continues to be a subject he seems to think is crucial as he campaigns to win the Republican presidential nomination, despite his position being unsubstantiated time and again. His fixation appeared to be a strategy to sow doubt should the 2024 election not go his way. During his “Commit to Caucus” speech in Ankeny, he went over similar tropes he’s been…

HSSC Group D CET result 2023: Haryana Staff Selection Commission (HSSC) is expected to announce the HSSC Group D CET result 2023 any moment now. The group D Common Eligibility Test was conducted in collaboration with NTA and the answer key window was closed on November 13. Now, the results will be declared any time online. HSSC announced 13536 vacancies for which over 13,75,151 candidates registered for the CET exam. The HSSC Group D CET exam was conducted in 798 centres in Haryana and Chandigarh.HSSC and NTA have not…

Global music fans are demanding authenticity of fare amid huge AI advancements; a Global coalition, including the US and the UK, has unveiled a landmark agreement for secure AI design; Amazon accelerates holiday deliveries with AI precision; Children creating AI-generated explicit images, warns UK charity- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look..1. Global music fans demand authenticity amid AI advancementsThe IFPI Engaging with Music 2023 report, the largest study of its kind with responses from over…

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has declared the UGC NET results 2023 online. The University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test was held in June 2023. Candidates can check their scorecard on the official website of ugcnet.nta.nic.in. The UGC NET June exam was held in two phases one was conducted between June 13 to 17 and the second phase was held between June 19 to 22, 2023.The purpose of the UGC NET exam is to assess the eligibility of candidates for the positions of 'Assistant Professor' and 'Junior Research…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJulian Sands’s official cause of death has been declared “untermined” by the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department on Monday 24 July.The 65-year-old British actor’s remains were discovered in late June more than five months after he failed to return from a hike in California’s Mount Baldy region on 13 January.Coroners have now officially ruled Sands’ cause of death as “undetermined”,…