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Titanic tourist submersible missing: Difference between a submersible and a submarine
June 20, 2023 1:00 pm
Titan is a submersible capable of taking five people — one pilot and four crew members — to depths of 4,000 meters, or more than 13,100 feet.
Titanic tourist submersible missing: Why are undersea rescues so difficult?
June 20, 2023 11:13 am
Human divers wearing specialized equipment and breathing helium-rich air mixtures can safely reach depths of just a few hundred feet below the surface before having to spend long amounts of time decompressing on the way back up.
Adipurush 'poor' graphics controversy: What motion capture technology and CGI are, how they are used
June 18, 2023 1:14 pm
Adipurush has received a torrent of criticism since its release. While makers have decided to change dialogue due to the backlash received regarding the language used, other problems persist. Notably, gaudily utilised motion capture technology and computer-generated imagery (CGI).
India to buy Predator UAVs from the US: Capabilities, countries which use them
June 17, 2023 12:32 pm
The MQ-9 UAV has an endurance of over 27 hours, speeds of 240 KTAS, can operate up to 50,000 feet, and has a 3,850 pound (1,746 kilogram) payload capacity that includes 3,000 pound (1,361 kilograms) of external stores
Species with 'objectionable' scientific names: The naming process, the debate around it
June 16, 2023 11:58 am
Rare insects, exotic flowers and deadly arachnids have been named in honour of people linked to racism and anti-Semitism. Racial slurs have figured in names of flora and fauna. Now, a debate about changing these names is brewing. Here is what you need to know.
Reddit protest: Why are thousands of subreddits going dark?
June 14, 2023 10:56 am
Reddit's conversation fora have a lot of data that can be used to train tools such as ChatGPT, the viral chatbot from Microsoft-backed OpenAI. Here is how this is linked to the protest.
Vision Pro: Apple's breakthrough AR headset, and why it is a big deal
June 08, 2023 10:08 am
“It’s the first Apple product you look through and not at,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said, describing Apple's first major new product category in eight years.
A short history of China's rise as a space power
June 10, 2023 6:30 pm
The successful completion of the Shenzhou 15 mission and the glitch-free launch of Shenzhou 16 underscore the strength and scope of China’s space programme. In recent years, it has become one of the few countries to reach Mars, build its own space station, and launch an increasingly large number of rockets in space
How did birds first take off?
June 08, 2023 9:42 am
Feathered dinosaurs have become a well-established fact, thanks largely to a trove of remarkable fossils that were unearthed in northeast China since the mid-1990s.
How researchers used AI to find an antibiotic against a superbug
June 05, 2023 7:00 pm
Narrowing down the right antibacterial chemicals against bacteria can be a long, difficult process. This is where Artificial Intelligence can be helpful for researchers.
