CHINA SENDS ITS FIRST CIVILIAN INTO SPACE AS SHENZHOU-16 LIFTS OFF

Tue 30 May 2023: On Tuesday, China launched the Shenzhou-16 mission to the space station for its second in-orbit crew rotation, bringing in a new era in the country’s ambitious space program by launching the first civilian astronaut into orbit. The three Shenzhou-16 astronauts blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in the desert […]

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TWITTER APPROVED 83% OF CENSORSHIP REQUESTS UNDER ELON MUSK

Mon 29 May 2023: Twitter granted 83% of all requests from governments to censor or prohibit content overseas, including in Turkey and India. Since Musk’s takeover in October 2022, the micro-blogging platform received 971 requests from governments (compared to only 338 in the six-month period from October 2021 to April 2022), according to a report […]

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WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL SOLAR TELESCOPE PHOTOGRAPHS SUN’S SURFACE

  A mosaic of new solar images produced by the Inouye Solar Telescope, Images include sunspots and quiet-Sun features. Credit: NSF/AURA/NSO Sat 27 May 2023: The Sun’s surface has recently been shown in breath-taking new photographs by the largest and most potent solar telescope ever built. 93 million miles from the nearest star — the […]

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ELON MUSK’S BRAIN CHIP COMPANY NEURALINK APPROVED FOR IN-HUMAN STUDY

  Elon Musk’s Neuralink video shows monkey playing video gams with its brain. Apr 11, 2021 Fri 26 May 2023: Elon Musk’s neurotech company, Neuralink, announced Thursday that it has gained Food and Drug Administration approval to undertake its first in-human clinical study. Neuralink is developing the Link, a brain implant that will allow individuals […]

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POSSIBLE DEBRIS FROM CRASHED JAPANESE SPACECRAFT FOUND ON MOON BY NASA

Fri 26 May 2023: Possible lunar debris from a wrecked Japanese lunar lander has been found, according to NASA. The Hakuto-R Mission 1 crash site was perhaps visible in photographs posted by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Satellite on its website on Tuesday. The spacecraft was launched in December of last year, but an anomaly occurred, resulting […]

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WHATSAPP TO ALLOW USERS TO EDIT MESSAGES WITHIN A 15-MINUTE LIMIT

Tue 23 May 2023: The long-awaited feature of ‘editing message’ on the widely used texting and chatting platform , WhatsApp has finally been launched on the app. “For the moments when you make a mistake or simply change your mind, you can now edit your sent messages on WhatsApp,” the Meta Platforms Inc-owned messaging app […]

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