Are you job ready?

The pandemic has thrown open fresh challenges and unknown opportunities. Jobs of the future will never be the same.  The lockdown has unlocked new unchartered avenues for the e-commerce industry, which has become India’s fastest-growing digital business with players like Amazon India’s Flex Delivery programme expanding to 35 cities. This initiative has opened up part-time job … Read more

Chinese probe begins collecting rocks from lunar surface

A China National Space Administration spacecraft has touched down successfully on the Moon and started to collect its first rock samples, state media has reported.  The lunar probe, known as Chang’e 5, was launched last week from the tropical island of Hainan. The uncrewed mission aims to retrieve 2kg of lunar samples from a previously … Read more

Telescope maps unseen galaxies in record time

A radio telescope located in the Australian outback has mapped approximately three million galaxies in just 300 hours, the country’s national science agency (CSIRO) has said.  The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) carried out a continuum survey to create a map of the universe. Most of the millions of star-like points on the map … Read more

SpaceX’s Starship explodes in crash-landing fireball after highest test flight

SpaceX’s latest altitude test of its Starship rocket ended in disaster, when the craft burst into flames as it attempted to land. However, the company hailed the test flight as a success.  The Starship SN8 (Serial Number 8) was the latest iteration of a prototype rocket that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hopes will one day send … Read more

800,000 trees to be planted across UK as part of Green Recovery Challenge

Sixty-eight projects in the UK will receive a multi-million pound boost from the government for green jobs and nature recovery.  The funding is to create over 300 hectares of woodlands, restore hedgerows and plant trees in cities as the UK government aims to deliver on its pledge to “build back greener” from the coronavirus pandemic. … Read more

US antitrust action could force Facebook to divest Instagram and WhatsApp

Facebook is facing what may be its greatest legal battle yet, with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and nearly every US state separately filing antitrust lawsuits against the company.  The competition watchdog has accused Facebook of engaging in a “bury or buy” strategy to eliminate competition, including by purchasing growing rivals Instagram (acquired in 2012 … Read more