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February 28, 2025 8:34 AM

National Geospatial Policy: Liberalizing access to geospatial data

The National Geospatial Policy (NGP), announced by the Centre on December 28, 2022, seeks to liberalize access to geospatial data, foster innovation in governance, business, and academia, and drive India toward its vision of a self-reliant "Viksit Bh...

February 27, 2025 4:40 PM

Amazon unveils quantum chip, aiming to shave years off development time

Amazon Web Services on Thursday showed a quantum computing chip with new technology that it hopes will shave as much as five years off its effort to build a commercially useful quantum computer. The chip, named Ocelot, is a prototype that has only a...

February 27, 2025 4:18 PM

National Science Day 2025 to celebrate the spirit of scientific innovation

National Science Day celebrated annually on February 28 every year commemorates the anniversary of Sir C.V. Raman's ground-breaking discovery of the ‘Raman Effect’ in 1928. This discovery earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930, making him ...

February 27, 2025 3:26 PM

Intuitive Machines embarks on second moon landing mission with Athena lander

Intuitive Machines' second moon lander was launched on Wednesday atop a SpaceX rocket, setting off for the latest private U.S. moonshot one year after the company's first attempt ended early with a lopsided landing. The six-legged lander, na...

February 27, 2025 11:48 AM

NASA launches satellite on mission to detect water on the moon

A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify where water - a precious resource for lunar missions - resides on the moon's surface in places such as the permanently shadowed craters at its poles. A S...

February 26, 2025 4:14 PM

Meta must face lawsuit claiming it prefers cheaper foreign workers

A federal judge on Tuesday said Meta Platforms must face a lawsuit claiming that the Facebook and Instagram parent prefers to hire foreign workers because it can pay them less than American workers. U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francis...

February 25, 2025 6:36 PM

DeepSeek rushes to launch new AI model as China goes all in

DeepSeek is looking to press home its advantage. The Chinese startup triggered a $1 trillion-plus sell-off in global equities markets last month with a cut-price AI reasoning model that outperformed many Western competitors. Now, the Hangzhou-based...

February 25, 2025 4:51 PM

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope to explore what happened right after the Big Bang

NASA is preparing to launch a megaphone-shaped observatory on a mission to better understand what happened immediately after the Big Bang that initiated the universe and to search the Milky Way for reservoirs of water, a crucial ingredient for life. ...

February 25, 2025 1:11 PM

Evidence of beaches from ancient Martian ocean detected by Chinese rover

Ground-penetrating radar data obtained by China's Zhurong rover has revealed buried beneath the Martian surface evidence of what look like sandy beaches from the shoreline of a large ocean that may have existed long ago on the northern plains of Mars...

February 24, 2025 3:15 PM

Indian tech industry to hit $300 billion revenue in FY26, workforce to reach 5.8 million in FY25

The Indian technology industry is projected to achieve $300 billion in revenue by the financial year 2026, according to a report by Nasscom. For the current fiscal year (FY25), the sector is expected to add approximately 126,000 net new employees, br...

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