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NASA Loses Observatory After 36 Hours in the Air The space agency is working tirelessly on various missions that will pave the way for advancements in the field of space exploration, but sometimes, accidents happen. Recently, one such mishap caused a balloon, the size of a football stadium, to settle over the ocean, which prevented a new mission from coming to fruition. Space missions do not always go smoothly, but tests must be conducted to ensure future launches are perfect. Elon Musk can attest to this with…

African cross-border payments platform Chipper Cash conducted a second round of layoffs last Friday just ten weeks after it cut approximately 12.5% of its workforce (affecting its engineering team the most). The company’s V.P. of revenue shared the news on LinkedIn, saying “all areas” across Chipper Cash’s markets were impacted this time. “Friday was a sad day for Chipper Cash, as many talented people were let go,” his post read. “For my network: there is an incredibly talented pool of…

via Prime Video It’s something of a battle of the streaming services today in sci-fi land, and one is clearly coming out the winner. While Amazon’s new entry in the ever-popular The Boys franchise is shaping up nicely— i.e. it’s looking to be as gleefully inappropriate as you would expect—Netflix has turned yet more subscribers against it by pulling the plug on another genre series that fans had fallen for. Elsewhere, the Disney Plus-backed Doctor Who spills the secrets of its latest regeneration. Seth Rogen…

Google’s AI might eventually speak a thousand languages in the future! Read more tech news here Good morning tech fam, here are some quick tech updates for you to catch on to! What’s New Today: Picsart deploys Generative AI to yield innovative images and empower creative workflow among the art community! Fast-Track Insights: AI lending platform Upstart has laid off almost 7% of its employees as it experiences weakening demands for loans in the US with significant interest rate hikes by the Fed. Google says that it…

By NASA July 29, 2022The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, is a CubeSat that will fly a unique orbit around the Moon intended for NASA’s future Artemis lunar outpost Gateway. Its six-month mission will help launch a new era of deep space exploration. Credit: NASA Ames Research Center<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div…

Russia's dominant lender Sberbank on Saturday said it had carried out the first digital financial asset transaction on its own platform, with its subsidiary SberFactoring executing a 1-billion rouble ($16 million) issue with three-month maturity. The Bank of Russia has long voiced scepticism over cryptocurrencies, but is more open to other digital assets and gave blockchain platform Atomyze Russia the first licence to exchange digital assets. No.2 lender VTB and fintech company Lighthouse carried out the country's first…

Star Wars, a diverse galaxy filled to the brim with astonishing ideas and love, is home to an absolute cesspool of a fandom at times, and the official account took no prisoners responding to a hater on Twitter. Star Wars Celebration, the annual convention for hardcore fans to, well, celebrate, Star Wars announced two of its guests in Billie Lourd and Kelly Marie Tran, and while the sheer majority of fans are delighted to see them, a few dissenting trolls have decided to let everyone know for their opinion that…