Buzz Aldrin’s jacket front displays NASA’s logo and the Apollo 11 mission emblem, slightly below Aldrin’s name tag. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s flight jacket, which he wore on the historic mission to the moon in 1969, was sold for about $2.8 million (roughly Rs. 20 crore) in New York, auction house Sotheby’s said. The jacket front displays NASA’s logo and the...
Infinix Smart 6 Plus will sport a 6.82-inch HD+ display. Infinix Smart 6 Plus launch in India is set for July 29. A microsite is now live on Flipkart, which lists key specifications of the upcoming handset ahead of its debut in the country. The Infinix Smart 6 Plus was launched in Nigeria back in March. The dedicated microsite reveals...
NASA also plans to retire the ISS after 2030 as it transitions to working with commercial space stations. The United States on Tuesday voiced regret over Russia’s announcement that it would exit the International Space Station after 2024 and said it was taken by surprise. “It’s an unfortunate development given the critical scientific work performed at the ISS, the valuable professional...
Fomo Pay will now use Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) feature to enable quick and cost-efficient payments. Fomo Pay, the online payment major from Singapore, is looking to add a crypto twist to refine its cross-border payments. Founded in 2015, Fomo Pay will now use Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) feature to enable quick and cost-efficient oversees payments. The US dollar and...
Senators Pat Toomey and Kyrsten Sinema are behind introducing this bill, that aims to simplify the use of cryptocurrencies. In a bid to allow Americans to use cryptocurrencies with ease, US senators have proposed to bring in some relaxation in crypto taxes. A new bipartisan bill has been introduced in the US Senate that allows tax exemption for crypto transactions...
The global crypto market cap saw a dip of 0.01 percent in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin sank to a one-week low, impacted by general investor reluctance to do much ahead of a looming Federal Reserve interest-rate hike and amid harsher regulatory scrutiny of the cryptocurrency sector. The value of Bitcoin witnessed a 0.01 percent dip in the last 24...
The pulsar was first discovered in 2017 and was dubbed the “black widow” as it has the tendency to eat its companion with female black widow spiders. In an intriguing celestial event, a collapsed dense neutron star was caught shredding and devouring its stellar companion to become one of the heaviest neutron stars ever spotted. The star has a mass...
Itel A23S is an entry-level smartphone priced at Rs. 5,299. Itel A23S entry-level smartphone launched in India on Tuesday. It supports high-speed dual 4G VoLTE connectivity and HD video calling. The smartphone supports English and 14 additional Indian languages, including Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Assamese, Bengalese, Kannada, Malayalam, Kashmiri, Urdu, Nepali, Marathi, and Oriya. Under the hood, it packs...
Lenovo Legion Y70 was teased in a poster shared by the company via Weibo. Lenovo Legion Y70 has been teased by the company online, revealing the design and some of the handset’s specifications. Lenovo has also announced that the smarthphone will launch in August. In the teaser image shared by the company also shows the design of the 50-megapixel triple...
Investment in crypto firms from venture capitalists is on course to top the record $26.9 billion (roughly Rs. 2,14,630 crore) raised last year. It’s not all doom and gloom. Even as the cryptocurrency sector shivers in the bleak winter, venture capitalists are pouring money into digital currency and blockchain startups at a pace that’s set to outstrip last year’s record. In the first...