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Venus Shows Increased Volcanic Activity, Study Reveals

May 31, 2024

According to scientists, Venus, Earth’s nearest neighbor planet, has more volcanic activity than was thought before. Researchers concluded by looking at old radar images collected by NASA’s Magellan probe during its time orbiting Venus from 1990 to 1992. Magellan’s Role ..

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News Corp Signs Content Deal With OpenAI

May 30, 2024

Recently, there have been a lot of agreements between news organizations and AI companies. Now, News Corp has joined forces with OpenAI. With this partnership, standard ways of spreading news will be replaced by ones that use AI technologies. News ..

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IIT Bombay, TCS Develop India’s First Quantum Diamond Microchip Imager

May 29, 2024

IIT Bombay and TCS, India’s biggest IT services company, are working together to make the country’s first quantum diamond computer imager. This technology was just announced and it looks like it will completely change how semiconductor chips are inspected. What ..

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Government Cracks Down on SMS Scam Entities

May 29, 2024

As part of the Sanchar Saathi program, the Department of Telecom (DoT) and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) have recently taken strong steps to stop SMS fraud. Over 10,000 fake texts sent in the last three months have been ..

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ATMF Report Tackles Global Access to Antibiotics

May 29, 2024

The Access to Medicine Foundation (ATMF) Netherlands,  just put out a very important study that talks about some of the biggest problems in the pharmaceutical industry. “How can pharma get the few promising drugs in development to patients battling superbugs?” ..

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Caterpillars Sense Electric Fields to Detect Predators

May 28, 2024

British scientists have found something very interesting about caterpillars: they have a sixth sense that most land animals don’t have. Through special hairs on their bodies called setae, they can pick up on electric fields with this sense, called electroreception. ..

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CET and IIT Madras Secure Patent for Novel Voltage Device

May 28, 2024

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) and the College of Engineering Thiruvananthapuram (CET) have made big steps forward in electrical measurement technology by getting a patent for a new device that measures voltage without touching it. This new ..

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New Algal Species Discovered in Kerala’s Western Ghats by Phycologists

May 28, 2024

Scientists from Catholicate College’s Department of Botany have found a new species of algae. This is a big step forward in our knowledge of the variety in the Western Ghats, an area of India’s mountains known for its many plant ..

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FIDE Unveils BecknGPT, an AI Agent Combining ChatGPT and Beckn Protocol

May 28, 2024

An important part of e-commerce innovation is the Foundation for Interoperability in the Digital Economy (FIDE). They just released a new AI agent called Beckn Generative Pre-trained Transformer (BecknGPT). This AI agent is made to handle business deals on its ..

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NASA Launches Satellite PREFIRE to Monitor and Mitigate Climate Change

May 27, 2024

The urgent global problem of climate change continues to call for new scientific discoveries and technological advances. NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far Infrared Experiment) mission began on May 25. This was a big step toward better climate ..

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