On Tuesday morning at 4:02 am IST, Elon Musk’s SpaceX Dragon 9 rocket will take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, barring any extraordinary weather conditions. On board will be NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS for short. This…
It’s perhaps the best time to launch a social media company – with all the scrutiny about user data privacy and transparency of social media companies. However, one…
In 1997, the Mexican state of Jalisco faced unnaturally cold temperatures of -17° Celsius. It was so cold that that it froze the shallow roots of the young…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvYetxgR4bk&feature=youtu.be With the furore around the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal fresh in everyone’s minds, Facebook’s stock price has inevitably plummeted. From a high of $185.09 on NASDAQ on 16…
On Tuesday, a 39-year-old woman fired indiscriminately at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, injuring three people, before taking her own life. The shooter was identified as Nasim…
In 2001, American businessman Dennis Tito paid $20 million to become the first ever space tourist. He was sent to the International Space Station (ISS) by the Russian…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCro7sppw4o In the first episode of our new show ‘Startup Stars’, TheBigScope talks to Deepak Solanki of Vélmenni. Deepak Solanki graduated college with just one thought in his…
As of March 29, Intel had applied for a patent in USA to create a Bitcoin mining hardware accelerator. The American technology company is famous for its computer…
It’s an hour past midnight on Saturday. In a seedy looking hotel room somewhere in Uttar Pradesh, a woman in her mid-twenties, draped in a red gown is…
Yesterday, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie told a committee from the UK House of Commons that the controversial company had “worked extensively in India.” More importantly, Wylie claimed…