Author: Kanhaiya Suthar

Japan just pulled off a bold move in space exploration—it’s sent a spacecraft on a first-of-its-kind round trip to Mars’s mysterious moons, with plans to scoop up soil from Phobos and bring it back to Earth. Nobody’s done this before. Early Tuesday morning, Japan’s MMX spacecraft—short for Martian Moons eXploration—launched on an H3 rocket from Tanegashima Space Center. JAXA, Japan’s space agency, streamed the launch live. Now the spacecraft is heading toward Mars, ready to make history. So, what’s so special about MMX? It’s set to become the first mission ever to snag material from the Martian system and bring…

A US federal court has ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan, a former OpenAI engineer, to stay in custody while he faces charges connected to planting a secret recording device in the company’s San Francisco office. Prosecutors say he had regular contact with a member of the Saudi royal family and got significant help from Saudi authorities. Alfozan, age 35 and a Saudi national who once led engineering at OpenAI, was arrested on October 9. He’s charged with using—or trying to use—an electronic device to secretly record conversations. He’s not charged with espionage or spying for a foreign government, and nothing has been…

Elon Musk says he’ll give every child in the United States a share of SpaceX next year. He made the promise online but left out almost all the details: no word on who exactly counts as a “kid,” how parents would claim shares for them, or how the whole thing would work. Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 19, 2026 He posted early in the morning on Monday, October 19, writing, “Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX…

Central government employees and pensioners are waiting for the Union Cabinet’s meeting on Wednesday, October 21, hoping for a decision on the overdue hike in dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief (DR), which should have kicked in from July 1, 2026. The government hasn’t confirmed whether this issue is even on the table for that meeting, or what the new rate might be. Still, employee groups are expecting good news. They think DA will go up by 3 percentage points—from 60% of basic pay to 63%. If that happens, it’ll be backdated to July 1, 2026, and everyone covered will…

Jaguar Land Rover is getting more serious about its partnership with Aiimi, a British AI and data company. They started out mapping JLR’s AI strategy, and now they’re rolling out more hands-on tools for engineering teams. This isn’t just another vague announcement — Just Auto reported it on October 16, 2026, and it builds on their already public cooperation. No surprise twists or big money claims thrown in. So, what’s actually happening? JLR and Aiimi are moving from planning to real action. Aiimi’s Enterprise Search and data classification tech is being expanded across JLR’s product-engineering docs. That means about 16,000…

Ramayana: Rise of a Legend is already making waves overseas, racking up over $770,000 in advance ticket sales—and with more than two weeks left before it hits theaters on November 5, 2026. That’s not even counting India, where bookings start Tuesday, right as the country celebrates Dussehra. North America is leading the charge. The US and Canada together have contributed about $558,000, making up nearly three-quarters of the total international pre-sales so far. The UK follows with $141,000, and Australia has pitched in around $72,000. Reports from Moneycontrol and The Times of India put the movie’s overseas sales close to…

American ultrarunner Mark Dowdle outlasted 168 rivals to win the 2026 Last Soul Ultra in Germany, covering roughly 630 km (392 miles) over 94 hours in one of the year’s most brutal endurance contests. Held at a former military base near Düsseldorf from August 14, the race featured 169 starters. Every athlete had to finish a 4.17-mile loop within each hour and start the next one on time; anyone who failed was eliminated. No deaths, but severe exhaustion Despite the extreme format, no runner died during the 2026 edition. The official results classify every non-winner as a DNF—“did not finish”—regardless…

Amazon is saying goodbye to its long-running Fire tablets and rolling out a new line: the Alexa Tablets. That’s a huge shift—probably the biggest change they’ve made to their hardware lineup in about 15 years. These new tablets run regular Android and come with the Google Play Store. That means the days of Fire OS and the old Amazon Appstore, which defined Amazon’s budget tablets for more than a decade, are over. This isn’t just about changing software, either. Amazon’s clearly going after a different market now. The Fire tablets were known for being cheap and cheerful, but the new…

OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-6 to ChatGPT users worldwide, introducing a new feature called “Intelligent UI” that allows the chatbot to respond with interactive interfaces instead of relying only on text. The update is designed to make answers more visual, simplify complex explanations and create task-specific tools inside conversations. The rollout began on October 7 for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users through the Chat tab. OpenAI said access would expand to Free and Go users from October 8, making GPT-6 available across both paid and free ChatGPT plans. Enterprise access may depend on workplace administrator settings. Interactive…

Last week, hackers managed to break into the domain registries for Ghana, Sierra Leone, and American Samoa. They messed around with DNS records and snagged unauthorized TLS certificates for a bunch of Google domains—as well as other big names and popular online services. Google spilled the news, but at least their own systems stayed safe. The attack wasn’t against Google itself. Instead, the hackers took advantage of the country-specific top-level domains—.gh for Ghana, .sl for Sierra Leone, and .as for American Samoa. That put every website using those endings in danger while the registry hijack was happening. Google said it…