Here is a look at the news in the world of science and technology this week. The new Apple MacBook Air M2 looks exciting At the highly anticipated Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this week, Apple unveiled a number of new hardware and software updates. But nothing surpassed the excitement surrounding the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, which will feature the new M2 chip. Let’s talk about the MacBook Air. Completely redesigned, the new Air is now slimmer and available in four colors. It also has a larger 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display, FaceTime HD 1080p camera, four-speaker audio system, up to 18 hours of battery life and MagSafe charging. Apple says the M2 MacBook Air – priced at around 9 119,900 – will be available from next month. India fails at the green hurdle In another indictment of the country’s sensitive environmental situation, India ranked lowest among 180 countries in the 2022 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), an analysis by Yale and Columbia University researchers that provides a summary summary of its situation data. sustainability. worldwide. Denmark topped the list. The EPI, released earlier this week, uses 40 performance indicators across 11 subject categories to rank countries in terms of climate change performance, environmental health and ecosystem vitality.
In addition to Explorer, Instagram users will now be able to control the volume of sensitive content and accounts you see in Search, scrolls, accounts you might follow, Hashtag pages, and In-Feed suggestions. (Instagram)
Instagram: More control over sensitive content Last year, Instagram released “Sensitive Content Control”, which allowed users to choose how much or how little sensitive content they wanted to see in the “Explore” section of unlinked accounts. Earlier this week, the platform announced updates to this feature, saying that all users will now be able to control sensitive content and accounts they see in Search, scrolls, accounts you can follow, Hashtag pages and In-Feed suggestions. Instagram says the update will be available to everyone in the coming weeks.
The capture of an artist for a neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field, called a magnet, emitting radio waves (red). Magnets are a leading candidate for what creates phenomena called rapid radio bursts. (via REUTERS)
Another cosmic mystery Rapid radio bursts (FRBs) first detected in 2007 are a mystery that astronomers have struggled to solve. On June 8, Reuters The researchers said they had identified an FRB from a dwarf galaxy nearly 3 billion light-years from Earth. A light year, he adds, is the distance light travels in a year: 9.5 trillion kilometers. The total mass of stars in this galaxy is about 2,500th of our galaxy. Scientists say this FRB is a repeater that always stays on and was detected by a huge telescope in China, the report adds. Could this offer lead to the solution of the mystery? – Compiled by Nitin Sreedhar Read also: Nasa forms a scientific team to study UFOs