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In rare genuinely good news coming out of North Korea: the country has banned smoking in public places to “protect lives and health”. Smoking will now be banned in theaters,…

As they say, “Imitation is the greatest form of flattery”. Rocket Lab, a re-usable rocket startup based in New Zealand will attempt to recover one of it’s Electron boosters on…

While the world knows about the first African American / South Asian Vice President running for office (Kamala Harris), two young Indian Americans made history in New York as the…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has announced a launch window for the 15km hop test for the Starship SN8! Weather permitting, Monday November 9th, 2020 should be a spectacular show! More here:…

The king of Crypto currencies, Bitcoin (BTC), has just cleared over 100 days of staying above the $10,000 per coin mark. It has reached a new 2 year high of…

China’s UnionPay, a Chinese equivalent of Visa or Mastercard, has teamed up with South Korean payment company Danal to offer a crypto-currency supporting debit card! What with Coinbase’s Visa card…

A once in a lifetime view of celestial giants Saturn and Jupiter are coming up on December 21st, 2020, called the “Great Conjunction”. They will appear so close to each…

Following on the heels of the Chinese Digital Yuan initiative, Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central bank, has announced it has started official exploration of a Digital Euro. Unlike…

Fugitive Myanmar Buddhist monk, Wirathu, widely known as the “Burmese Bin Ladin” has turned himself in to authorities after 18 months on the run. Wirathu was often seen with a…

Hope, even in the midst of utter destruction and death: A 2 year old child was found alive and rescued after 91 hours in the rubbles of the 7.0 earthquake…

In another sign of humanity, rescuers in Columbo, Sri Lanka have helped return 100 whales back to sea after a mass beaching. The Sri Lankan Navy, Coastguard, life guards and…

SpaceX has announced that it will live stream its historic 15km high altitude hop of its Starship SN8. The company is aiming for the flight test before end of 2020…

In a win for diversity, New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Arden has announced her new cabinet includes Nanaia Mahuta, the first indigenous Maori female foreign minister and Grand Robertson, the…

SpaceX’s Starlink high speed satellite internet service is off to a good start. Users in rural Montana have confirmed download speeds of 175 Mbps! Using a network of nearly 900…

Narita International Airport in Japan will begin offering a rapid Coronavirus test that can yield results in 2 hours time. The tests are meant for outbound travelers that require proof…

In a message of hope, a 70 year old survivor was pulled out alive after 34 hours of search and rescue in Turkey. A 7.0 earthquake hit the Aegean Sea…

Not all news in 2020 is bad: Scientists have announced the success of an experimental drug called ISRIB that has shown to reverse age-related cognitive decline in days! Scientists at…

New discoveries continue to come in. Scientists have discovered the smallest (Mars-sized) exoplanet that is free floating in the Milky Way galaxy. More than 4000 exoplanets have been discovered to…

The king of crypto currencies, Bitcoin (BTC) briefly hit a high of $14,098 per coin today. This is the highest level reached in 33 months (since January 2018). In 3…

In a first for an Asian Military, the first same sex couples were officially married in Taiwan. Taiwan was the first place in Asia to legalize the union of same…