Tue 27 April 2021: The first supermoon of 2021brought some cheer on Twitter amid the pandemic and people across the globe has been sharing pictures of the Monday night’s Full Moon, which is also called the Super Pink Moon. This was the first of two supermoons of 2021. According to NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), […]
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Sun 25 April 2021: Four astronauts have arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on board SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour, NASA said on Saturday, becoming the first crew to be sent into orbit by a rocket booster recycled from a previous spaceflight. The three men and one woman crew from the United States, Japan […]
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Fri 23 April 2021: Turkish police on Friday have detained 62 people as they continue to investigate into the cryptocurrency trading platform Thodex, which is accused of defrauding investors after thousands of users filed criminal complaints saying they had been scammed. An Anadolu Agency (AA) report said prosecutors issued detention warrants for 16 more people linked […]
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Fri 23 April 2021: NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed its second Mars flight on April 22 – the 18th sol, or Martian day, of its experimental flight test window. Lasting 51.9 seconds, the flight added several new challenges to the first, which took place on April 19, including a higher maximum altitude, longer duration, and sideways […]
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Fri 23 April 2021: Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has offered inventors $100m in prize money to develop ways to fight global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or ocean. “Right now we’ve only got one planet,” said Musk, the CEO of electric carmaker Tesla Inc. “Even a 0.1 percent chance of disaster – […]
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Thu 22 April 2021: Facebook Inc’s Instagram is rolling out a feature to prevent users from viewing possibly abusive messages by filtering offensive words, phrases and emojis on the photo-sharing app. The company said on Wednesday that along with the filter option for abusive direct messages, it will also make it harder for people blocked […]
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Wed 21 April 2021: Facebook on Monday said it is adding podcasts and “live audio rooms” in a push to get people talking and take on the fast-growing audio-based app Clubhouse. “We think a lot of magic happens at the intersection of audio formats, as well as at the confluence of text, audio and video,” […]
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Mon 19 April 2021: A users, has closed a new Series C round of financing, the company reported Sunday during its weekly town hall without disclosing the amount raised. A source familiar with the matter confirmed to Reuters that the new financing would value the company at $4 billion. The social media app said the […]
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Sat 17 April 2021: The Chinese Ministry of Public Security has passed an appraisal of a hand-held drug detector developed by researchers of the Chinese academy of Sciences (CAS). The device can give quick test results to identify morphine, methamphetamine and ketamine and assess the quantity. Independently developed by scientists with the Dalian Institute of […]
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Sat 17 April 2021: Instagram on Wednesday said it is dabbling with letting users hide “like” counts in an effort to ease the pressure of seeking approval from others. If an experiment at Instagram shows the option is a hit, it could be made permanent and even extended to Facebook, which owns the image-centric social […]
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