ISRO Chief S Somnath on Saturday said that four astronauts have been selected for the country’s first human space flight programme – Gaganyaan- and the selected astronauts are ready for the mission and are waiting for the flight to happen. Under the Gaganyaan mission, ISRO plans to send four astronauts to space…

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Smart rings have marked the next phase of technological progress, following the advent of smartwatches. Leading tech brands such as Oura, Pi, and others have already unveiled their versions of smart rings, and Samsung is also poised to join the trend.

Meizu brings smart MYVY Rings, offering wearable AR tech with gesture…

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Johnson & Johnson is making one of the biggest bets in the healthcare industry on using data science and artificial intelligence to bolster its work.

The 137-year-old pharmaceutical and medical-device company has hired 6,000 data scientists and digital specialists in recent years, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on their work, such…

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This year is the hottest on record, and evidence is growing that climate systems are hitting dangerous tipping points. That backdrop is intensifying a fight over the future of fossil fuels that is set to dominate the annual United Nations climate conference over the next two weeks.

Clash Over Climate Tipping Points…

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Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods on Saturday said the “problem statement” that countries need to focus on at the COP28 climate summit is reducing emissions, in contrast to calls for a collective commitment to phase out all fossil fuels.

Exxon Mobil CEO urges COP28 climate summit to…

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The Samsung Galaxy S24 is coming soon, but the Galaxy S23 saw great deals for Black Friday and Cyber Week, so you might wonder if it’s worth waiting for the next big thing or if you should just buy a phone now while the price is right.

Yes, you should wait for the…

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The UK Snooker Championship – the first of this season’s Triple Crown events – is under way at York’s Barbican Centre and you can watch live coverage across the BBC.

The BBC has live action from every round on BBC TV and you can watch uninterrupted coverage on…

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Jean-Daniel Pasche at the last general assembly meeting of the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry in Biel on June 29, 2023. Keystone/Marcel Bieri

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Jean-Daniel Pasche, president of the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, believes that the takeover of Swiss watch brands by foreign groups is not a problem.

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A high-tech facility is being built on Western Australia’s remote north-west coast under AUKUS efforts to improve “deep-space object tracking”, as militaries across the world focus on future warfare involving satellites.

Key points: The Exmouth site is the location for a new ground-based radar in the American-led Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability

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How it does this no one is quite sure – machine learning is often a black box . But it seems likely it is at least partly learning which characters are likely to occur in sequence, thus determining that you are unlikely to want to be shopping for “qvjx”, however much the…

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