High above the Mojave Desert, NASA’s two F-15 jets completed a pivotal series of May flights to validate airborne tools essential for the agency’s Quesst mission, aimed at enabling quiet supersonic travel. Flying faster than the speed of sound, the jets replicated the conditions under which NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft will fly. The campaign tested…
Zoom Communications expanded its Phone service in India to four more circles on Wednesday. With this expansion, Zoom Phone is now available in Mumbai, Delhi National Capital Region (NCR), Karnataka, and the Andhra Pradesh & Telangana telecom circles. It was previously available in two circles. Notably, the service is licenced by the Department of Telecommunications…
Smartphones under Rs. 30,000 fall into the upper mid-range category and generally serve as entry points into the premium segment. They are an excellent value proposition, offering a good price to performance ratio. While the smartphones in our sub-Rs. 25,000 list are still great options to go for, it might be prudent to check our…
In a landmark survey, University of Newcastle researchers mapped a previously hidden koala population on the outskirts of Newcastle, NSW. The study estimated about 4,357 koalas across roughly 67,300 hectares of bushland (208 sites). They also found more than 290 koalas in Sugarloaf State Conservation Area, a region with few prior records. Local researcher Daryn…
A black hole 11.6 billion light years from Earth has unleashed a compelling jet, according to new observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array (VLA). Seen when the universe was at its early “cosmic noon”, or about 3 billion years after the Big Bang, the jet is visible…
MindsEye, the third-person action-adventure game from Build A Rocket Boy, has had a rough launch, with players reporting severe technical issues. The studio, which is led by Rockstar Games veteran Leslie Benzies, has released a statement acknowledging the problems and has said it is working “around the clock [sic]” to improve performance on PC and…
OpenAI is reportedly planning to use Google Cloud’s services to fuel its computational requirements. As per the report, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm and the Mountain View-based tech giant have been discussing this partnership for several months. With this move, OpenAI could shift some of the server requirements for ChatGPT and Sora to…
IBM has revealed its roadmap for bringing a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, IBM Quantum Starling, online by 2029, which is significantly earlier than many technologists thought possible. The post IBM Plans Large-Scale Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer by 2029 appeared first on TechNewsWorld.
Apple rolled out the first iOS 26 developer beta earlier this week, and details that were not announced by the company during its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2025) keynote event have begun to surface online. One of the most notable discoveries is the mention of a new AirPods Pro 3 model that is expected to…
Mistral released its first reasoning-focused artificial intelligence (AI) models on Tuesday. Dubbed Magistral, the large language model (LLM) is available in two variants — Small and Medium. While Magistral Small is an open-source model, the Medium variant is an enterprise-focused closed model. Both models are capable of multi-step reasoning and show transparent chain-of-thought (CoT). The…