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Fadnavis during his visit to the Virgin Hyperloop test track

Mumbai-Pune Hyperloop inches towards reality with Fadnavis' visit to Virgin test track

The Maharashtra chief minister visited the Virgin Hyperloop test track in Las Vegas to understand the technology better. Virgin plans to build the first Hyperloop in India to connect Mumbai and Pune, reducing travel time to 25 minutes.

Jun 17, 2018

Tesla layoff ordeal: Employees were caught off-guard by vague midnight mail

Explaining the move Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company had never made annual profits since it was founded, which proves that profit is not the only motivational factor. But the expansion of the company in the last 14 years has led to "some duplication of job roles and some job functions."

Jun 15, 2018

Elon Musk-owned The Boring Company to bring high-speed transit tunnels to Chicago

The SpaceX owner's infrastructure and tunnel construction firm, The Boring Company gets the green signal to operate a high-speed underground transportation system from O'Hare airport to downtown Chicago.

Jun 15, 2018

Could artificial intelligence cause World War 3? Elon Musk fears it might

Elon Musk promises 'full self-driving features' by August this year for Tesla cars

The only thing holding this tech back are software-based gates that the company has imposed on their vehicles.

Jun 14, 2018

Real life terminator on cards? Japanese scientists make robots with live human tissues

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have successfully integrated living muscular tissues in robots, which could prove a breakthrough and herald even terminator-like robots moving among us.

Jun 13, 2018

Tesla sends home 9% workers as Elon Musk chases elusive profits

The measure means that some 4,100 of the firm's 46,000 employees will lose their jobs. The layoffs will not affect operations at the factory producing the Model 3.

Jun 13, 2018

SpaceX wants to build new facility in Florida to support over 60 rocket launches per year

SpaceX has asked for a 67-acre land to help facilitate their ambitious launch plans of approximately 64 launches per year.

Jun 10, 2018

Nasa is hiring a planetary protection officer to protect the Earth from aliens

After NASA, now SpaceX delays manned moon mission fearing extraterrestrial aliens, say conspiracy theorists

As SpaceX has delayed its moon mission, with NASA dragging its feet for more than 3 decades, conspiracy theorists have started alleging that the mission has been delayed due to the alleged alien presence in lunar surface

Jun 10, 2018

Carbon dioxide can be sucked out of the air and transformed into fuel – here's how

Air can be transformed into diesel, petrol and, jet fuel, making existing cars and aircraft effectively carbon-zero.

Jun 8, 2018

Rajinikanth's 'Kaala' Mahindra Thar finds new home in Chennai, thanks to Anand Mahindra

Anand Mahindra had earlier showed interest in procuring the Mahindra Thar used by the 'legend Superstar' in the movie Kaala. The chairman of Mahindra Group has finally got the SUV and he has given a special place to park the Thar.

Jun 8, 2018

India's ISRO to help build Oman's space programme

The MoU was signed between Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Oman's Ministry of Transport and Communications in Muscat in February and will provide impetus to explore newer research activities and application possibilities.

Jun 7, 2018

Is Johnny Depp 'sick'? Fans concerned as he looks unrecognisable in new photo

In the newly-emerged pictures, which sparked concerns about his health, Depp is seen posing with female fans at a Four Seasons hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia, last week after a performance of his band The Hollywood Vampire.

Jun 4, 2018

Humans to colonise Mars? 5 reasons why that might not happen

Though colonising Mars is on the cards for scientists, there are some factors that will prove to be detrimental to life on the Red Planet.

Jun 2, 2018

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Elon Musk and Malala Yousafzai Twitter banter leaves internet in splits

It all started when the satirical website ClickHole wrote an article on the failure of the car that Musk launched into the space orbit. The parody article is titled --"More Bad Press For Elon: The Car Elon Musk Launched Into Orbit Has Fallen Back Down To Earth And Crushed Malala Yousafzai."

Jun 1, 2018

Mahindra signs MOUs with Government of Maharashtra

Mahindra signs MOUs with Maharashtra government for electric vehicle manufacture, deployment

Mahindra & Mahindra plans to become fully electric ready by further investing in its Chakan plant for the manufacture of EVs, e-motor, controller, battery pack and other electric vehicle components for multiple mobility applications.