The four biggest names are about to give evidence to the US congress.

Unprecedented is one of the dangerous words in journalism, through this really hasn't happened before.

On Wednesday, the biggest and the richest four names in tech will give evidence to members of the US Congress.

That well known Mark Zuckerberg founder of (Facebook), Sundar Pichai CEO of(Google), Tim Cook now he is the current CEO(Apple) and all over the world, the well knows shopping mart owner Jeff Bezos from(Amazon) will all be grilled.

Here abt them that Jeff Bezos - is the world's top 10 richest man - has been never testified before either house. They have never at all been quizzed together.

We all know that how do these tech bosses do, how they stand up to scrutiny could be a defining moment in their future relationship with the government.

The Covid-19 pandemic has put this into a crucial and sharp focus, where the other big and moderate companies have struggled, these Big Tech companies have thrived. Together they are now worth $5tn dollars. It's led to accusations that -  it just like the banks - they are simply too big to have failed.

There is More complaints that have been leveled at these companies are so numerous and they are too many to name individually here.

In pre-released comments, Mark Zuckerberg argued that Facebook has become one of the successful "the American ways" - providing products that people find valuable after starting with nothing.

"Our story would not have been possible without some of the  US critical laws that encourage competition and innovation," Mark Zuckerberg stated.

But he acknowledged that there were concerns about the size and perceived power of the technology companies and that there should be a more active and genuine role for governments and regulators - and updated rules into the internet.

"At Amazon, customer obsession that they have made us what we are in and to allowed us to do even greater things," he said.

"I know what Amazon could do when we were one of the 10 people. I know what we could do when we were 1,000 people, and when we were 10,000 people. And well I know what we can do today when we're nearly a million" he added.

EIA: Things you must know about EIA. Click here to know the complete details about EIA.

EIA: Things you must know about EIA. Click here to know the complete details about EIA

 The draft EIA information requires more extensive consultation and progressive changes. The Union Ministry of Environment has been in the spotlight on more than one moment throughout the pandemic, as it served to push through retrograde environmental decisions in an atmosphere of general paralysis.

In April, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar adopted a virtual conference to ensure that the National Board for Wildlife’s Standing Committee stamped its consent on several projects, with serious implications for conservation. 

He now wants to quickly make a significant change to the method of project approvals, by introducing a new Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification. Now in the draft, it attempts to replace the current EIA notification of 2006. 

The proposed provisions show that the Ministry has gone to excellent lengths to diminish or even eliminate public participation, and by extension independent expert opinion, from the process of allowing environmental clearances; public reporting of violations may also not be taken notice of. 

While there can be no discussion about the consequence of development projects, it has resorted to inconsistency in classifying activity for exemptions. Section 26 presents a list of projects that would not attract environmental clearance or permission, including coal mining and seismic surveys for oil, methane, and shale gas on some lands. 

Section 14 presents an exception for these and some other projects from the public discussion, also restricting the range of public engagement to the districts concerned, in the case of national parks and sanctuaries where pipeline infrastructure will pass. 

Roads and highways get liberal permissions. Further, it retains the clause that if a public agency or authority recognizes the local circumstances not favorable to participation by citizens, the public discussion need not include a public hearing.

Despite the far-reaching nature of its intended actions, the Centre has presented unseemly haste to get them in place and Mr. Javadekar has not supported reliability by trying to shut down public responses to the draft early. 

Prakash Javadekar (Environment minister of India)

It took a Delhi High Court order to prolong the deadline to August 11. The exercise has been moreover muddied by the mysterious blocking of some activist websites asking for the EIA proposal to be abandoned and asking a new method towards preserving natural resources for future generations.

The Centre’s efforts at weakening checks and balances are not new. A study of coal mining clearances confirms that 4,302 hectares of forest were diverted during 2014-18, supporting extraction over conservation. 

COVID-19 has effectively demonstrated the significance of nature for the well-being of lost forests and captured wildlife bringing virus reservoirs closer to humans and foul air ruining their health. While there might be a case for some changes, much of the proposed EIA system can only make things more serious, and should not be pushed through.

4 spacecraft missions to mars planned to be launched within this summer. Click here to know the reasons.

4 spacecraft missions to mars planned to be launched within this summer. Click here to know the reasons

 Four missions were intended to launch to Mars this summer, including three rovers, from various space agencies. Two, including China's Tianwen-1 (which is taking a rover) and United Arab Emirates' Hope Probe, launched last week and are now on their route to Mars. NASA's Perseverance rover is up next, planned to launch on July 30. And Europe's first planetary rover will have to wait a little longer to commence its mission to Mars.

The European Space Agency and Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, have delayed the launch of their ExoMars rover, partly due to anxieties over the coronavirus, they declared in March. The agencies indicated anxieties over the coronavirus and spacecraft component readiness as reasons for the postponement. Additional analyses will ensure that the spacecraft's components are completed and ready. The rover was scheduled to launch in July 2020. Now, the joint-agency project crews are eyeing a new launch window between August and October 2022.

While the pandemic has caused difficulties and caused obstacles to other missions, crews operating on missions scheduled to land on Mars were motivated to get everything set by the planned launch date.

The other hurdles also include that the Earth is moving at a much fast clip of 67,000 miles per hour as it orbits the sun -- which creates our 365-day orbit. But Mars is far away from the sun, so it's slower and takes longer. A year on Mars is around 687 Earth days. The planets aren't going in definite circular paths around the sun, either. Instead, they have egg-shaped, or more oval-shaped, orbits. And Mars' orbit is pulled on by massive gas giant Jupiter, which can alter the orbit shape as well.

Mars and Earth are also somewhat tilted in their orbits. But every 26 months, Mars and Earth settle up in an accurate alignment on the same side of the sun and are closer together than normal. Launches to Mars are targeted at this time because any spacecraft leaving Earth will have a quicker journey to Mars -- which means fewer supplies such as fuel are required as well.

While Mars will obtain its nearest approach to Earth in October, at only 38.6 million miles from Earth, the highest distance between Earth and Mars can reach as many as 249 million miles, according to NASA.

If the rover doesn't launch the July 13 to August 15 window, it will be stored in the storage and the crews will have to wait two years for another launch opportunity.

Storage of the spacecraft and other factors of the postponement would cost NASA $500 million and affect the long-term aims of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, according to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.

"I hope people watch this mission and that they're inspired that we can strive and achieve even amid challenging times," he stated during a press conference in June.

Reliance excels ExxonMobil: Reliance becomes the world's second-largest energy company.

Reliance excels ExxonMobil: Reliance becomes the world's second-largest energy company

 Reliance Industries Ltd., owned by Asia’s richest man, excelled ExxonMobil Corp. to become the world’s biggest energy company after Saudi Aramco, as investors gathered into the conglomerate attracted by the Indian firm’s digital and retail forays.

Reliance, which operates the largest refinery complex, gained 4.3% in Mumbai on Friday combining $8 billion to take its market value to $189 billion, while Exxon Mobil canceled about $1 billion. Reliance’s shares have surged 43% this year compared with a 39% drop in Exxon’s shares as refiners over the globe strived with a fall in fuel demand. Aramco with a market capitalization of $1.76 trillion is the world’s largest energy company.

Ambani’s deal-making has attracted investments from Google to Facebook Inc. into his digital platform in recent months. 

The 63-year-old industrialist has recognized technology and retail as future growth fields in a pivot away from the energy businesses he acquired from his father who died in 2002.

Meanwhile, massive scale global oil demand consumption — some 30 million barrels a day, or a third of normal usage, in April — sent energy markets into a second-quarter tailspin, from which they’ve only recently begun to recover. 

Worst-in-a-generation oil prices combined with OPEC production cuts, dropping refining margins and millions of barrels of unsold crude have irritated big oil companies including Exxon and Chevron Corp.

The UK and the US blame Russia for launching a satellite weapon in space. To whom does space belong?

The UK and the US blame Russia for launching a satellite weapon in space. To whom does space belong?

 The UK and the US have blamed Russia for testing a weapon-like projectile in space that could be utilized to target satellites in orbit.

The US State Department described the recent use of "what would appear to be actual in-orbit anti-satellite weaponry" as concerning.

Russia's defence ministry earlier announced it was adopting new technology to perform tests on Russian space equipment.

The US has earlier established attention about new Russian satellite activity. But it is the first time the UK has produced complaints about Russian test-firing in space. They come just days after an inquiry stated the UK government "badly underestimated" the warning posed by Russia.

In a report on Thursday, US Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-proliferation, Christopher Ford, blamed Moscow of hypocrisy after it stated it wanted arms control to be increased to space.

"Moscow aims to restrict the capabilities of the United States while clearly having no intention of halting its own counter-space program," he stated.

"Actions like this threaten the peaceful use of space and risk causing debris that could pose a threat to satellites and the space systems on which the world depends," he stated. He asked Russia to be "responsible" and to "avoid any further such testing".

The UK, Russia, China, and the US, are among more than 100 countries to have performed to a space treaty that specifies that outer space is to be explored by all and completely for nonviolent intentions.

The treaty adds that weapons should not be stored in orbit or in space. This Russian test of what the Americans say is an anti-satellite weapon that is part of a pattern of recent Russian space activity. In February, the US military declared that two Russian satellites shifted close to an American one, and in April Moscow test-fired a ground-based satellite interceptor.

Only four countries -India, the US, Russia, and China - have demonstrated an anti-satellite capability over the past decades. Anti-satellite warheads have been taken over by aircraft or rockets, and satellites have also been illuminated by lasers.

A test of a new Russian satellite took place on 15 July to conduct tests on the country's space equipment, Russia's defence ministry said at the time.

"During testing of the latest space technology, one of the domestic satellites was examined close up using the specialized equipment of small spacecraft," the ministry stated, according to Interfax news agency.

It continued that "valuable information about the technical condition of the object under investigation" had been recorded.

The Russo brothers away from MCU: Will they come back to MCU for "Secret Wars"?

The Russo brothers away from MCU: Will they come back to MCU for "Secret Wars"?

Joe Russo and Anthony Russo

 When Anthony and Joe Russo were promoting Avengers: Endgame they made it obvious that this would be their last Marvel movie for a while.

However, the directors did tell MTV that there was one comic-book adaptation that both would return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for Secret Wars.

During a recent interview with Bro Bible, the two were once again questioned about their curiosity in the crossover story, which features the Spider-Man, Avengers, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four fighting on Battleworld after being abducted.

Joe Russo couldn’t help but repeat his love for the 1984 comic series, revealing that he first read Secret Wars when he was 10 or 11 and was quickly fascinated by the “scale of getting all of the heroes together.”

“It was one of the first major books to do that was really event-storytelling to me at its finest. And what happens when you put all of those personalities together.”

But there is a different reason why, all these years later, the Russo Brothers are still so attracted to the Secret Wars.

“I also like the idea of villains having to team up with heroes. [Anthony Russo] and I like complicated relationships between heroes and villains, we like villains who believe they’re heroes in their own stories, so it’s all sort of built into this notion of Secret Wars.”

“So that’s what really excites us about the story — the ambition of it is even bigger than the ambition of the Infinity Saga.”

Mesmerising view of lightning from space: Here's the video shared by NASA Astronaut from space.

Mesmerising view of lightning from space: Here's the video shared by NASA Astronaut from space

 Y'all may have witnessed numerous lightning strikes, but chances are you haven't seen anything like this one. NASA astronaut Bob Behnken, who is currently aboard the International Space Station, has shared a mesmerizing view of "lightning from above" on social media - making us amazed. 

The video shared by Mr.Behnken on Twitter presents a dark cloud spread above Earth, as viewed from space. Taken from 400 km above Earth, the clip presents violet flashes of lightning illuminate the clouds at intervals in a sight that many on the microblogging platform have defined as "amazing". "Lightning from above. The violet fringes are mesmerizing," wrote Mr.Behnken while sharing.

Since being shared a day ago, the clip has received over 71,000 views and hundreds of responses, with many thanking the astronaut for sharing the video.

Lightning from above. The violet fringes are mesmerizing. pic.twitter.com/eLCGMTbfTY

— Bob Behnken (@AstroBehnken) July 21, 2020

Bob Behnken is one of the two astronauts who went to the International Space Station on SpaceX's first crewed flight in May. He departed there along with friend and colleague, Doug Hurley.

The two have shared many marvelous views of planet Earth from space. Earlier this month, Mr.Behnken had also shared stunning visuals of Comet Neowise as it seemed like a glowing dot near the curvature of Earth.

According to news agency AFP, the two US astronauts will depart for Earth on August 1. "Splashdown is targeted for August 2. Weather will drive the actual date. Stay tuned," tweeted the US space agency's administrator Jim Bridenstine.