Iran’s suspected Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site sees surge in construction (Picture credit: CSIS & CNN) A suspected Iranian nuclear site buried beneath a granite mountain has seen a sharp increase in construction activity this year as the war between the US and Iran has unfolded, according to a satellite imagery analysis reviewed by CNN.The Pickaxe…
Image Credit: Helen(City of Helsinki) Helsinki is finding a practical use for the enormous amounts of heat produced by the equipment running inside data centres. Through a collaboration between Finnish energy company Helen and telecommunications company Telia, waste heat from Telia’s Pitäjänmäki data centre is being fed into the city’s district heating network. The system…
White House aide Natalie Harp, right, looks after President Donald Trump, left. (AP Photo) US President Donald Trump gave USD 45,000 (about Rs 42 lakh) in cash holiday gifts to three White House aides, including executive assistant Natalie Harp, according to newly released financial disclosures. Another senior aide received USD 20,000 (about Rs 19 lakh).The…
Mayne is challenging drilling rights beneath the mountain where he lives and has brought other landowners into the dispute. (Photo: The Slope) A Colorado motorcycle instructor and Desert Storm veteran is continuing his fight against oil and gas drilling rights beneath his mountain after federal regulators rejected his protest. Joel Mayne, who lives near Craig…
For Riteish Deshmukh, a seemingly ordinary moment outside a Mumbai restaurant turned into a reminder that kindness can come from the most unexpected places. The actor recently recalled how a paparazzo he had never met before stepped in to help him when he was trying to buy something from a child but realised he had…
US official said they have suspended the Green Card filings of Cognizant and Cloudera. Thousands of foreign technology workers hoping to secure US Green Cards through employer sponsorship are facing fresh uncertainty after the US Department of Labor suspended PERM filings by IT services giant Cognizant and software company Cloudera amid an investigation into alleged…
Naga Chaitanya will be next seen in the mystical action adventure thriller, ‘Vrushakarma’ directed by Karthik Dandu. According to the latest reports, the makers are planning to release the film in theatres on December 3. Interestingly, the date is also set for the release of Prabhas’ war action drama ‘Fauzi’, directed by Hanu Raghavapudi. ‘Vrushakarma’…
Long before Shah Rukh Khan became one of Bollywood’s biggest stars, he was simply the charming schoolboy known for winning over classmates and teachers at St. Columba’s School in Delhi. Singer Palash Sen, who was his senior by a year, recently looked back at their school days and recalled a friendship that he described as…
A small planting on a South African farm in 1976 was meant to solve an immediate problem: stopping floodwater from washing away soil and threatening livestock. The spekboom cuttings survived, but their story did not end there. More than four decades later, the same hillside had become a valuable example of how degraded land can…
3D printed RHIB hull. Image Credit: Voltage Vessels A Hawaii-based company is taking a unique approach to boat manufacturing by combining recycled plastic with volcanic rock-derived basalt fibre. Voltage Vessels, a startup based in Hawaii, has developed a material called ‘Eclipse X9’ which can be used in large-scale 3D printing and is being tested for…