Asus ZenBook A14 and Vivobook 16 India launch is set to take place soon. Although Asus is yet to announce the exact date of their debut, the e-commerce website Amazon India has teased the pre-order date and specifications of the laptops in the country. Both Copilot+ PCs run on Snapdragon X series processors. They are…
The crypto market took a hit over the weekend following a memecoin controversy. Argentina’s President Javier Milei promoted the Libra memecoin on his official X account last Friday. According to the Buenos Aires Herald, his now-deleted tweet claimed the token could boost the national economy. Reports indicate that within hours of launch, Libra’s price surged…
Instagram has finally confirmed that it is testing a new ‘dislike’ button that lets users downvote a distasteful or irrelevant comment on the platform. The dislike button will appear across both Feed posts and Reels. The Meta-owned photo and video-sharing platform will not show the dislike count but it will be considered in ranking comments….
Dubai’s crypto regulatory body has issued an alert about the risks related to memecoin investments owing to their increasing market penetration. The Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) of Dubai has strictly asked the city’s investor community to be cautious while engaging with memecoins, calling them “highly speculative” assets. As per VARA, memecoins pose a significant…
The emission properties of three long-period pulsars have been observed through the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Detailed findings of the study highlight various pulsar emission behaviours, including null phases, asymmetric emissions, and microstructure pulses. The research, conducted as part of the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey (CRAFTS), aimed to deepen the understanding of…
The rise of “pig butchering” scams and the increasing use of generative artificial intelligence likely lifted revenues from crypto scams to a record high in 2024, according to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. Revenue from pig butchering scams, where perpetrators cultivate relationships with individuals and convince them to participate in fraudulent schemes, increased nearly 40 percent…
MediaTek Dimensity 6400 was recently launched as the company’s latest chipset for affordable smartphones. It is a rebranded version of the company’s Dimensity 6300 processor from 2024, with slightly faster performance cores. Readers might also recall that last year’s chip was also a rebadged version of the older Dimensity 6100+ model that arrived in 2023. The…
NASA’s Artemis campaign aims to propel astronauts, scientific experiments, and essential payloads into deep space, utilising the Space Launch System (SLS). The upcoming Artemis IV mission will introduce the Block 1B variant of the SLS, equipped with an upgraded Exploration Upper Stage (EUS). The enhanced system will enable the transportation of larger payloads, including the…
Robotaxi services are spreading broadly. While they’ve clearly had issues in San Francisco — as have I, driving in San Francisco — those challenges are improving. Now, both Uber and Lyft appear to be taking steps toward replacing their ride-share drivers with AI. We may be on the verge of one of the first large-scale…
A planet believed to be a Neptune-like world is suspected to be orbiting a hypervelocity star moving at a staggering 1.9 million kilometres per hour, making it the fastest known exoplanetary system ever observed. If confirmed, this would mark the first instance of a planet being found accompanying such a rapidly moving star. The discovery…