The asteroid sample is rich in life’s building blocks
NASA has shared its first glimpse of the asteroid Bennu’s material, which it collected last year with the aid of the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx. It contains organic material and iron-rich minerals, which are believed to have come from early Earth. Bennu is an asteroid about the size of a football field, about 75 million kilometres away from Earth.
X is defending itself against accusations that it played host to Israel-Hamas misinformation
The European Union has sent a letter to Meta, the parent company of social media platform X, asking it to take immediate action to remove any posts that may violate its new rules. The letter comes after Breton, an EU member, said that he wants to join Bluesky, a competing social media platform, to protest against the EU’s new social media rules.
In this first look at NASA’s OSIRIS-REx capsule, you can see how it looks back in time
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has revealed that it found rare Metals in asteroid Bennu’s outer sample canister. NASA said that Bennu’s materials include water in hydrated clay minerals and carbon and organic molecule. The analysis done by NASA shows that they contain water in hydrated clay minerals, as well as carbon and organic molecule.
Mexican Biobank is able to use medical and population genetics
A genome-wide association study of SNPs and Causal groups in FUMA SNP2GENE was performed using Shapeit. To phase an array dataset of 138,511 samples and 539,315 variants, we used Shapeit to phase the array dataset. Allele frequencies of variants that passed array QC procedure were retained in the positive and negative labels across each frequency bin.
Prime Day is a great time to get smart home deals
Amazon has started its ‘Prime Day’ sale that runs until July 27. This year, Amazon will give away nearly 3 lakh worth of Alexa-enabled devices for free. Amazon has been offering deals and discounts on products such as smart home speakers, smart light bulbs, video doorbells and security cameras. The sale will last until July 27.
The EV buyers will get a instant rebate of up to $7,500
The IRS has said that electric vehicles (EVs) will now be able to receive a tax credit at the point of sale, instead of filing a tax return. Dealers will be able to apply the credit at the time of purchase, or provide the rebate to the buyer as cash. The tax credit is still capped for low-income buyers.
Graphcore was the UK’s artificial intelligence champion
Google Executive Vice President of Hardware, Software, and Services Rick Osterloh revealed the first Pixel was launched in 2016 and was called ‘Pixel’. “At the first launch, I see a few individuals who were at the first launch seven years ago and they explained thatPixel is designed to bring together hardware and software with artificial intelligence at the centre,” he said.
New House speaker search; wind-powered cargo ships
Republicans will find a new Speaker of the House after the House members voted Kevin McCarthy out of the role on Tuesday, reports said. Majority Leader Steve Scalise and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan are seeking the post. Kevin Hern, who chairs the Republican Study Committee may also run but hasn’t publicly announced his candidacy.
The best feature of the phone is guaranteed to be updated
Google has announced that it’ll release its new Pixel 8 and 8 Pro smartphones with over seven years of Android and security updates. This comes days after Apple announced that its new iPhone models will have security updates for at least five years. Google has claimed that the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro will also be free from hardware-related issues for seven years.
ThePixel 8 is a little bit smarter than the previous one
Google on Monday unveiled its latest Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones with a starting price of $699 and $999 respectively. The Pixel 8 will be the first phone to get Google’s ‘Android U’ update, while the Pixel 8 Pro will get Google’s ‘Android 20’ update. Both the Pixel 8 models will get at least seven years of Android updates, Google said.