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The North-Western Railway has decided to temporarily increase the second sleeper class coaches to two pairs of trains for the convenience of the passengers. This has been done to help increase the rail travel experience of passengers. The trains include two pairs of Durg-Ajmer-Durg weekly express. Additional coaches are being installed to help control the increasing rush of passengers in trains and to give them more convenience. Along with this, an extension is also being provided to trains as per requirement. As per…

Think the computers at your office are overdue for an update? They probably don't compare to one of the European Space Agency's best-known spacecraft. The ESA is upgrading its Mars Express orbiter's MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ioniospheric Sounding) software 19 years after its June 2003 launch. For context, the original code was created using a toolset built for Windows 98 — there are computers in museums that are newer than Microsoft's OS. The update promises to dramatically improve the Mars Express…

Engineers at the European Space Agency (ESA) are getting ready for a Windows 98 upgrade on an orbiter circling Mars. The Mars Express spacecraft has been operating for more than 19 years, and the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) instrument onboard has been using software based on Windows 98. Thankfully for humanity and the Red Planet’s sake, the ESA isn’t upgrading to Windows ME. The MARSIS instrument on ESA’s Mars Express was key to the discovery of a huge underground aquifer of…

ShutterstockOne of the European Space Agency's lowest cost and most successful missions, the Mars Express, is finally receiving a software upgrade. Nineteen years after its launch, the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) instrument on the Mars Express is no longer operating on Microsoft Windows 98 software. This system update will allow it to view the surfaces of Mars and its moon Phobos in greater detail.MARSIS's first major scientific discovery occurred in 2018, when it was…

American Express announced Thursday that Business Checking account clients will now earn Membership Rewards points for using their debit card. Cardholders will earn 1x point per $2 spent, with no monthly fee.Membership Rewards points are worth 0.6 cents each and can be deposited directly into Business Checking accounts. Other features of the Business Checking account include an annual percentage yield (APY) of 1.1% on balances up to $500,000. Account holders can manage their account and any American Express cards they…

The North-Western Railway has decided to give an additional halt to the Bikaner-Dadar-Bikaner Express train at the Dhanera station from June 25 for the convenience of passengers. The stoppage will be for a few minutes only.For the convenience of railway passengers, continuous steps have been taken by the Indian Railways. The Railways always tries to make sure that there is no inconvenience to the passengers during their journey. Now another passenger-friendly step has been taken by the North Western Railway, and it will…

PCI Expresss (aka PCIe) version 5.0 was first demoed in 2017, but is only now coming to prominence. AMD’s next AM5 socket will support PCIe 5.0, as will Intel’s new LGA1700. A few motherboards and CPUs with PCIe 5.0 are already on the market (e.g. Intel’s Adler Lake desktop CPUs), but not many. Today the PCI-SIG unveiled PCI Express 7.0, the final specification for which is expected to be released in 2025, while the first PCIe 7.0 devices should hit the market in 2027 or thereabouts. This will be preceded by PCIe 6.0,…

Netflix users are expressing confusion following the release of new movie Spiderhead.The thriller, based on George Saunders’ dystopian short story Escape from Spiderhead, was added to the streaming service on Friday (18 June). It follows two inmates who form a connection while grappling with their pasts in a state-of-the-art prison run by a visionary who experiments on his subjects using mind-altering drugs.The film shot to the top of Netflix’s worldwide charts just one day after release.However, viewers are confused as…

The stoppage will be for a few minutes only.The step will greatly benefit the commuters during their journey.The Indian Railways always tries to ensure that there is no inconvenience to the passengers on their train journey. Now, another passenger-friendly step has been taken by the North Western Railway, and it will greatly benefit the commuters during their journey. The North Western Railway has decided to give the Howrah-Bikaner-Howrah weekly Express train service an additional halt at the Sasaram station from June 20…

Coffee Data ScienceKim is the Reigning ChampI bought a Decent Espresso (DE) in January, and I worked through making the best profile I could. I bought the DE1Pro model. I thought it was time to do a head to head comparison with my beloved Kim Express.The Kim didn’t just win; the Kim destroyed. This made me question what did I even know about espresso?We can comeback to that question another day, but today, let’s focus on how different the performance was and some initial thoughts as to why.All images by authorThe Kim…