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With the increase in global rocket launches, scientists are reporting concerns about their impact on the ozone layer, our planet’s natural shield against harmful UV radiation. The research team, which includes Sandro Vattioni and other scientists, put emphasis on the environmental risks that can increase with the rocket emissions are still now underestimated. However, it can be addressed with proactive and coordinated efforts. With a boom in the commercial space industry, there comes opportunity; however, with this comes a lot of threat to the environment by causing ozone layer depletion during the launch and re-entry of the spacecrafts.Rocket Emissions Pose…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, in orbit around Jupiter, had a huge problem when its JunoCam imager started to fail after sitting through the planet’s harsh radiation belts for so many orbits. Designed to only last through the initial few orbits, JunoCam astonishingly endured 34 orbits. Yet by the 47th orbit, the effects of radiation damage became visible, and by the 56th orbit, images were almost illegible. With few alternatives and time slipping away before a close flyby of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, engineers made a daring but creative gamble. Employing an annealing process, they sought to resuscitate the imager by warming…
Infinix Smart 10 will be launched in India today. The handset is already available in select global markets. The Transsion Holdings subsidiary has already revealed several details about the handset ahead of its anticipated debut. It is teased to come with a 120Hz screen and a 5,000mAh battery. Additionally, Infinix will also offer a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) features which can be accessed via a dedicated AI button on the Infinix Smart 10.Infinix Smart 10 Price in India, Availability (Expected)The official pricing of the Infinix Smart 10 in India currently remains under wraps. It is expected to be an…
India’s reinsurance market poised for massive growth, driven by infrastructure boom: Policybazaar July 25 2025 by Joana Nguyen India’s reinsurance sector is set to double in size in the next three to five years, thanks to the country’s rapid infrastructure expansion, Tarun Mathur, co-founder and chief business officer at (r… To continue reading the full article and get full access to the InsuranceAsia News platform, please enquire about a subscription. Your company may already have a corporate license in place. Already a Subscriber? Please Login Join the mailing list Designed to help you stay ahead, our daily newsletter provides a…
GfK’s headline consumer confidence score declined by one point this month, thanks to cost of living pressures and the prospect of rising taxes. Consumer confidence has fallen again in July, after moderate improvement last month, as people anticipate possible tax rises and worsening inflation. This is according to GfK’s Consumer Confidence Barometer, which shows a one-point decrease in the headline figure. The overall index score remains firmly in the negatives at -19, and far lower than July 2024, when it sat at -13. Consumer confidence has fallen again in July, after moderate improvement last month, as people anticipate possible tax…
Alibaba’s Qwen team released a new artificial intelligence (AI) coding model on Tuesday. Dubbed Qwen 3 Coder, the model comes with several agentic capabilities including agentic coding, agentic browser-use, and agentic tool-use. The researchers have released only one variant of the model so far, the Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, which is the most powerful variant in the family. In terms of performance in coding, Alibaba’s AI team claims the open-source model is comparable to Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 model. The new large language model (LLM) is available to download locally.Qwen 3 Coder Model With Agentic Capabilities ReleasedIn a blog post, the researchers detailed…
Apple is planning to launch its first iPhone with a foldable screen next year, according to recent reports, and details of the handset’s displays have now surfaced online. A market research firm has corroborated a previous leak that gave us an idea about the sizes of the inner and outer screens on the foldable iPhone (or iPhone Fold). It also seems like both the displays on the Apple’s foldable iPhone will be smaller than the recently launched Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7.Foldable iPhone Display Dimensions (Expected)A report by TrendForce claims that the foldable iPhone will sport a 5.5-inch cover display. Apple…
On Tuesday, Meta announced that it is improving Threads Insights for content creators. The tech giant also said that it is attempting to make it easier for people to view the performance of their posts and understand where their content is being discovered. This could be an attempt from Threads to onboard more content creators on its platform, as its daily active users (DAUs) increase. The development comes days after Connor Hayes, a long time Meta executive, was appointed to take over the reins of the microblogging platform as the Head of Threads.Improved Threads Insights for Content CreatorsIn a blog…
Illustration: Uli Knörzer for BloombergThe former Australian prime minister says more world leaders should be putting their countries’ interests first, and standing up to the US president.July 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM EDTHow does the tariff story end?It’s a question many have been asking ahead of another Trump administration deadline on Aug. 1. Australia is among the countries in the firing line, despite the fact that it imports more goods from the US than it exports there. And tariff threats have come alongside a major submarine deal being reviewed at the Pentagon. For this weekend, we turned to the man…
Google has announced the Google Play X Unity Game Developer Training programme at the I/O Connect event on Wednesday. The free training and certification programme, supported by the Game Developer Association of India (GDAI), offers online training for participants. The tech giant has collaborated with Unity for the initiative. Google will start the programme with 500 developers in partnership with the governments of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Google also announced the second edition of the Gen AI Exchange Hackathon in the country, following the strong response to its Gen AI Exchange Program.Google and Unity Launch Game Developer Training Programme At…