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.

Three Gorges Dam in danger: Most serious flood in China raises concerns over its economy.

Three Gorges Dam in danger: Most serious flood in China raises concerns over its economy

Three Gorges Dam

 The water level in the giant dam’s reservoir increases beyond the flood-limit level after two months of heavy rain, 40 million people are affected.

The severest flooding in six decades in China is relocating millions and straining the Three Gorges Dam. WSJ’s Jonathan Cheng describes how the natural disaster is hindering the country’s struggles to restart an economy already smashed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Two months of extraordinarily strong rains in central and southern China have expanded the Yangtze River, triggering the most serious flooding in decades and increasing attention about the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s greatest hydroelectric facility. Last week, several days of fresh rain brought the water level at the dam, located several hundred miles upstream from Wuhan in central Hubei province, to its highest point since construction was finished in 2009.

Cities in the country’s central region along the Yangtze River — China’s longest river — have been submerged in the past week due to huge rains this monsoon season. It was announced to be the most serious flood since 1998, and not 100 years as some in Beijing have said. All told, more than 400 Yangtze tributary rivers have overflowed, with almost 200 people dead and properties underwater. The average rainfall is about 12% higher than the last monsoon season. The economic destruction from flooding is supposed to reach 86.2 billion yuan ($12 billion), according to some government calculations executed on Friday.

On Sunday, the AP reported from Beijing that authorities destroyed down an entire dam to discharge rising waters behind it and let it run. State broadcaster CCTV reported the dam on the Chuhe River in Anhui province was blasted to bits with explosives early Sunday morning drop by two feet.

Floods are supposed to pose a threat to parts of  Henan, Shanxi, Anhui, Shandong, and Jiangsu provinces this week, while heavy mountain rains will likely hit parts of Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, according to the AP, though this shouldn’t have any influence on the strength of Three Gorges.

The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s biggest hydroelectric power station, with an installed potential of 22,500 megawatts of power production. The thing is, that the power station is down the Yangtze River from a few other dams that are at a higher altitude than the Three Gorges. And because of the floods and difficulties at those dams upstream, Three Gorges is buckling under the stress of extensive flows of water.

The last thing is that if the dam collapses it would be a bitter pill for Beijing.

Wildlife in distress: 96 animals including 8 precious one-horned rhinos are dead in Kaziranga flood.

Wildlife in distress: 96 animals including 8 precious one-horned rhinos are dead in Kaziranga flood

 Amid the floods in the Northeast states of India, the officials, and associates of the Kaziranga national park are struggling day and night to protect the animals in the park.

The director of the Kaziranga national park P.Sivakumar stated that they have recovered 132 wild animals from the natural disaster.

As Kaziranga Park being one of the greatest and most visited parks in the world, wildlife activists and other supporters are praying that the park and animals should be rehabilitated soon.

As the area is mountainous and due to the uneven land surfaces many avalanches have occurred.

The most miserable part of the disaster is that 96 wild animals have died because of the flood. The officials have also informed that eight precious one-horned rhinoceros are dead.

There is always an expectation that the landslides occur in North-Eastern India during the monsoon, but this time the park is almost sunk and only 15% of the land is above the water.

The flood has also killed almost 200 people whereas the animals in the red book such as the elephants, one-horned rhinoceros, and porcupines, are also dead.

The geological department had declared that the water running in the Brahmaputra will rise by 32cm by today.

The matter we all should worry the most is that the flood has occurred amid the pandemic whereas the central and state governments are striving to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The flood has made collateral damage in  Bangladesh and Nepal too.

US transport department: Passenger flights transportation between US and India commences from July 23.

US transport department: Passenger flights transportation between the US and India commences from July 23

 US transport department declared that passenger flights to and from India can recommence from 23 July. The US had blamed India of involving in “discriminatory practices” after New Delhi banned all scheduled services June citing coronavirus.

The Indian government has agreed to grant US air transports to resume passenger services in the US-India market starting 23 July, the US Transportation Department announced on Friday. The Indian government, citing the coronavirus, had banned all scheduled services, prompting the US Transportation Department in June to blame India for engaging in “unfair and discriminatory practices” on charter air transports serving India.

The Transportation Department announced it was withdrawing an order it had issued demanding Indian air carriers to apply for permission before conducting charter flights and stated it had approved an Air India application for passenger charter flights between the United States and India. A group representing major US airlines and the Indian Embassy in Washington did not quickly comment on Friday.

India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation stated on Twitter it was moving to "further expand our international civil aviation operations" and arrangements from some flights "with US, UAE, France & Germany are being put in place while similar arrangements are also being worked out with several other countries." 

"Under this arrangement,” it continued, “airlines from the concerned countries will be able to operate flights from & to India along with Indian carriers. "The US Transportation Department order was estimated to take influence next week. The Trump administration stated in June it wanted “to restore a level playing field for US airlines" under the US-India Air Transport Agreement. The Indian government had banned all scheduled services and neglected to approve US carriers for charter operations, it continued. The US government stated in June that Air India had been operating "repatriation" charter flights between India and the United States in both directions since 7 May.

Carbon emissions reduction: A new CO2 emission target has been announced by oil and gas companies.

Carbon emissions reduction: A new CO2 emission target has been announced by oil and gas companies

 An alliance of oil and gas companies declared a new emissions target recently to reduce the “carbon intensity” of their actions over the next five years, but critics stated the plan didn’t go far enough.

The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), a coalition striving to “accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future,” announced its member companies promised to reduce the intensity—or emissions per unit of output—of their aggregated upstream oil and gas services by as much as 13% from 2017 levels. That indicates they would decrease the carbon intensity of their actions to 20 to 21 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent per barrel of crude oil by 2025—down from a baseline of 23 kilograms.

“An intensity target allows for the shifts that will occur across the portfolios of our member companies, as well as allow new members to join the target if required and others to adopt this metric as a benchmark,” OGCI stated in a statement. Yet some observers stated working after carbon intensity reductions is “low-hanging fruit” and an effort that should have been adopted by companies decades ago.

“They need to be phasing out the oil and gas ... and instead they are kind of making their fossil fuel production ever so slightly cleaner,” stated Lorne Stockman, a senior research analyst at Oil Change International. Making per-barrel emissions cleaner won’t make a genuine difference if production remains to rise, he continued. “We don’t just need to be a little bit cleaner a decade from now; we need to be ... cutting emissions 7, 8% per year to get to a 1.5 [degrees Celsius] target,” Stockman stated.

Andrew Grant, leader of oil, gas, and mining at London-based think tank the Carbon Tracker Initiative, told a target based on intensity “allows increases in emissions overall” and that the group average could let “poor performers off the hook.” “Having some targets to reduce carbon pollution is better than none,” Grant stated in a statement. “But the industry can never consider itself ‘aligned’ with the Paris goals when business plans assume steady investment in fossil fuel production on a planet with absolute limits."

Jennifer Layke, the global head of the energy program at the World Resources Institute, advanced further and described the target “weak” because it only includes upstream emissions. But OGCI declared the new target is “consistent” with reductions required across the industry to maintain Paris Agreement goals. Jerome Schmitt, chairman of the OGCI Executive Committee, stated on a YouTube video that the target is a “practical one” because it’s near term.

“It is pushing us to improve and reduce the collective emissions of the OGCI member companies by minus 9 to 13% to support the Paris Agreement aims,” Schmitt stated, continuing, “This target is covering about 30% of the oil and gas industries, with companies coming from everywhere in the world.” The target would cut the similar carbon emissions generated by energy usage in up to 6 million homes, according to the group.

India is witnessing a surge of tech investments: Apple iPhone assembler initiates efforts for a new plant.

India is witnessing a surge of tech investments: Apple iPhone assembler initiates efforts for a new plant

India has witnessed a surge of inward investment in recent weeks, with Facebook, Google, and others issuing close to $20 billion into Jio Platforms, billionaire Mukesh Ambani's mobile internet venture.

Apple assembly partner Pegatron is initiating arrangements for its first plant in India, summing to a massive entrance of foreign tech investments in the country this year. 

In June, the government set out a $6.6 billion plan to woo the world's top smartphone producers, granting financial incentives and ready-to-use manufacturing clusters. Pegatron is now establishing up a local subsidiary and joining fellow Taiwanese electronics assemblers Foxconn Technology Group and Wistron, who have previously been making some iPhone handsets in southern India.

With numerous factories in China, Pegatron is the second-largest iPhone assembler and relies on Apple for more than half of its business. Like its peers, it will set up in southern India, according to a person close with its plans who requested not to be named. 

Foxconn, also recognized as Hon Hai, and Wistron are contemplating to develop their operations in the country, and Pegatron's entrance can be marked as a defensive move to defend its part of budget iPhone manufacturing, according to Matthew Kanterman of Bloomberg Intelligence.

Google has committed to contributing $10 billion (Rs. 75,000 crores) over the next five to seven years to advance India's digital transformation and Amazon.com has announced it aims to export $10 billion of made-in-India goods by 2025. When Jeff Bezos visited the country in January, he stated “The 21st century is going to be the Indian century.”

The country contributes an enormous supply of skilled labour as well as a domestic market of a billion mobile connections. Only about half of those are smartphones, however, leaving untapped potential that is attractive to growth-hungry global brands like Apple, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Samsung Electronics. 

For assemblers like Pegatron, exports would also be an attractive opportunity, particularly at a time of worsening business relationships between Washington and Beijing making it necessary to have a different geographic base. Smartphones are a focal point for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's much-touted Make in India program. Ravi Shankar Prasad, minister for information technology and electronics, has announced the goal is for brands and manufacturers to transport the complete supply chain to the country, not just the end-stage assembly. 

Quoted by local media, Prasad stated India requires not only the “bridegroom” but also the “wedding procession.” He also displayed an 'Assembled in India' iPhone XR.

iPhone XR

India will grow as a global manufacturing core for both components and the entire assembly of smartphones and other devices, announced Pankaj Mohindroo, chairman of the Indian Cellular & Electronics Association. 

The group's three dozen members include Foxconn, Wistron, Google,  Apple, Oppo, and others. “The focus is shifting from making for India to exports and the $400 billion electronics manufacturing that India is targeting by 2025 will be dominated by exports,” Mohindroo spoke through the phone from New Delhi.

New ASUS premium gaming laptop powered by AMD, to launch soon in India.

New ASUS premium gaming laptop powered by AMD, to launch soon in India

 According to a trustworthy source, ASUS is intending to launch a new premium gaming notebook powered by AMD in India pretty soon.

ASUS newly launched a slew of new products powered by AMD’s series of Ryzen processors. These comprised the A17 gaming notebooks and TUF A15 and the ROG Strix GA15 and GA35 gaming desktops. We presently have exclusive news that the company is intending to produce a premium gaming notebook powered by AMD Ryzen processors.

While there is no evidence on the specific model, the information comes from a reliable source. “We are speculating that this product could be the ROG Zephyrus G14. For those of you who don’t know, the ROG Zephyrus G14 made a lot of buzz in the global markets and received a lot of positive feedback in various reviews. The gaming notebook comes with one of the most unique designs having fully-customisable dot-matrix LEDs embedded right into the lid” the source stated.

The notebook was originally revealed earlier this year and recently started exporting to certain global markets. The notebook was proclaimed with up to AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS CPU an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB NVMEe M.2 SSD.

Of course, this information is not official, and even though the company’s present premium gaming notebook is the Zephyrus G14, take this with a pinch of salt. The Republic of Gamers or ROG brand from ASUS recently grew as the topmost gaming laptop brand in India with a 32.5 percent market share as per IDC, Q1 2020.

A deleted scene from Avengers: Infinity war starring Hulk-Black widow has been shared. Watch smart Hulk here.

A deleted scene from Avengers: Infinity war starring Hulk-Black widow has been shared. Watch smart Hulk here

 Avengers fans can’t believe Marvel took out this Hulk-Black Widow scene from Infinity War. A removed scene starring Hulk and Black Widow, from Avengers: Infinity War, has been released online.

A removed scene from Avengers: Infinity War, starring Smart Hulk, Black Widow and The Falcon, has found its way online. The scene serves as Natasha’s intro to Smart Hulk, a character that was finally entered in Infinity War’s follow-up, Avengers: Endgame.

“I love Infinity War, but we deserved to see Smart Hulk’s transformation in the final film,” one fan wrote on Twitter, sharing the scene, which requires finished effects and for an important portion, presents actor Mark Ruffalo in his motion-capture suit, and not as the Angry Green Giant. “Agreed, this would have been awesome to see finished. Have smart Hulk vs Thanos at the end too,” one fan wrote a reply. “If this scene was in infinity war I would be sooooooo much more down with professor hulk that scene in Endgame makes me cringe so hard I seriously cannot believe that’s what they chose over this,” wrote another.

The scene was designed as an echo of an identical scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron, in which Natasha tries to calm Hulk down after a battle, but here, she understands that he no longer lacks calming down. The Bruce Banner and Hulk sides of his character have combined.

With this reveal delayed, Banner spent the whole of Infinity War attempting to coax Hulk out and was forced to fight with the Hulkbuster armour in the film’s climax battle. Writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely had talked to The New York Times regarding the decision to remove the scene.

I love Infinity War, but we deserved to see Smart Hulk’s transformation in the final film. pic.twitter.com/UnbAjH3lE0

— Into The Bork-verse | BLM (@bork_21) July 8, 2020

“There was a time when Banner became Smart Hulk in the first movie. It was a lot of fun, but it came at the wrong moment. It was an up, right when everyone else was down,” Markus stated. “It happened in Wakanda. His arc was designed like, I am not getting along with the Hulk, the Hulk won’t come out. And then they compromise and become Smart Hulk,” McFeely continued.

Astronomers discover South Pole Wall, a massive structure extending 1.4 billion light-years across.

Astronomers discover South Pole Wall, a massive structure extending 1.4 billion light-years across

Galaxy

 Magnificent 3D maps of the universe have unveiled one of the greatest cosmic structures ever discovered — an almost-inconceivable wall reaching 1.4 billion light-years across that includes hundreds of thousands of galaxies.

The South Pole Wall, as it's been christened, has been hiding in plain sight, residing undetected till now because huge portions of it remain half a billion light-years away behind the bright Milky Way galaxy. The South Pole Wall rivals in size the Sloan Great Wall, the sixth-largest cosmic structure found. (One light-year is approximately 6 trillion miles or 9 trillion kilometers, so this "biggest cosmic structure" is mind-bending humongous.)

Astronomers have long observed that galaxies are not scattered randomly throughout the universe but somewhat clump together in what's recognized as the cosmic web, tremendous strands of hydrogen gas in which galaxies are strung like pearls on a necklace that circle gigantic and mostly empty voids.

Mapping these intergalactic threads belongs to the range of cosmography, which is "the cartography of the cosmos," study researcher Daniel Pomarede, a cosmographer at Paris-Saclay University in France, described Live Science. Previous cosmographic work has mapped the size of other galactic assemblies, such as the present structural record holder, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, which spans 10 billion light-years, or more than a tenth the size of the noticeable universe.

NASA are now admitting there is a wall in the South Pole, however they are saying it's in space to keep the sheep on side. https://t.co/57QZ8rF2ax

— THE FLAT EARTHER 🗯 (@TheFlatEartherr) July 11, 2020

In 2014, Pomarede and his partners exposed the Laniakea supercluster, a galactic collection in which our own Milky Way remains. Lanaikea is 520 million light-years wide and includes approximately the mass of 100 million billion suns.

For their new map, the crew used newly-created sky surveys to inspect into a region termed the Zone of Galactic Obscuration. This is an area in the southern region of the sky in which the bright light of the Milky Way obstructs out much of what's behind and around it.

Cosmographers typically determine the distance to objects utilizing redshift, the speed at which an object is dropping from Earth due to the expansion in the size of the universe, which depends on their distance, Pomarede stated. The farther away an object is, the quicker it will appear to be dropping from Earth, research first made by astronomer Edwin Hubble in 1929 and which has held up ever since.

But he and his partners applied a somewhat distinctive method, watching at the wonderful velocity of galaxies. This measurement constitutes redshift but also takes into account the movement of galaxies around one another as they tug at each other gravitationally, Pomarede stated.

The benefit of the technique is that it can recognize hidden mass that is gravitationally affecting how galaxies move and therefore reveal the dark matter, that invisible stuff that emits no light but exerts a gravitational tug on anything near enough. (Dark matter also makes up the majority of the matter in the universe.) By working algorithms studying at peculiar motion in galactic records, the team was able to plot the three-dimensional arrangement of matter in and around the Zone of Galactic Obscuration. Their findings are described today (July 9) in The Astrophysical Journal.

The resulting map presents a mind-boggling bubble of matter more or less centered on the southernmost point of the sky, with a great sweeping wing stretching north on one side in the direction of the constellation Cetus and another stubbier arm opposite it in the direction of the constellation Apus.

Understanding how the universe seems on such huge scales helps validate our current cosmological models, Neta Bahcall, an astrophysicist at Princeton University in New Jersey who was not included in the work described Live Science. But deciding where precisely these huge, crisscrossing structures begin and end is critical, she continued. "When you look at the network of filaments and voids, it becomes a semantic question of what's connected," she stated. In their paper, the crew admits that they may not have plotted yet the entirety of the vast South Pole Wall. "We will not be certain of its full extent, nor whether it is unusual until we map the universe on a significantly grander scale," they wrote.

New virus outbreak in Hong Kong: Hong Kong follows a new tactic to battle the second wave of COVID-19.

New virus outbreak in Hong Kong: Hong Kong follows a new tactic to battle the second wave of COVID-19

 Hong Kong strengthened social distancing rules on Thursday to resist a new coronavirus outbreak in a city that had extensively managed to defeat local transmissions in recent months.

Health officials have been confused by a clump of new infections that have quickly developed through the tightly compressed business core of 7.5 million people. The city registered 34 locally spread coronavirus cases on Thursday, the highest daily tally in more than three months.

“Now that the pandemic is coming back, I appeal to everyone to reduce outings, gatherings, and dining together,” health minister Sophia Chan reported reporters.

Authorities declared a reintroduction of limits to how many people can group, a repeat of steps practiced earlier in the year that helped extinguish the coronavirus outbreak. A maximum of eight people can sit together at restaurants while bars, pubs, and nightclubs are limited to four people per table.

Catering businesses can only function at 60 percent of their normal size. Gyms and karaoke rooms must have no more than 16 people per room or facility. Hong Kong was one of the first places to be hit by the coronavirus earlier this year after it broke out of central China.

But authorities obtained remarkable headway against the disease, supported by a population with earlier experience of outbreaks who immediately adopted social distancing and facemasks. The city has recorded 1,365 cases of the disease after January, with seven deaths.

However, the novel outbreak displays the stubborn toughness of the coronavirus, even in a city with a solid record of ending its spread. New virus clumps began to develop in the past two days, including at an elderly care home that reported at least 32 cases.

At least 12 new infections in the last five days have been listed as unknown in origin, indicating authorities are striving to work out how the infection is expanding in those cases. Last month, Hong Kong loosened its social distancing rules to permit public meetings of up to 50 people,  scrap customer restrictions for restaurants, and reopen theme parks.''

The UK to pay 50% of restaurants, cafe bills. Rishi Sunak offers a set of programs to recover the UK's economy.

The UK to pay 50% of restaurants, cafe bills. Rishi Sunak offers a set of programs to recover the UK's economy

Rishi Sunak

 Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Wednesday declared more billions of pounds to recover the economy cracked by the coronavirus pandemic, including a program to boost people to ‘eat out to help out’ by paying 50 percent of their bills in pubs, cafes, and restaurants.

Presenting his Summer Economic Update in the House of Commons, Sunak declared a bunch of measures to promote jobs, give businesses the faith to retain and hire, and equip people with the means they require to get greater jobs.

The government's plan of paying 50% of customer bills in pubs, restaurants, and cafés will be available throughout August, he stated, amidst reports of a crippling impression on the hospitality and tourism sectors. Diminishing recent figures of new infections have indicated an easing of lockdown curbs.

Officials announced the tourism and hospitality sectors – both major employers – have been seriously affected by the pandemic due to significant closures to shield public health. Almost 80% of hospitality firms suspended trading in April and 1.4 million hospitality workers have been furloughed – the largest proportions of any sector.

To boost demand for firms to reopen, Sunak set out the new ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ discount project that will provide a 50% discount for sit-down meals in cafes, pubs, and restaurants across the UK from Monday to Wednesday every week throughout August.

Sunak stated, “Throughout this crisis, I have never been the prisoner of ideology. For me, this has never just been a question of economics, but of values….Our plan has a clear goal: to protect, support, and create jobs. It will give businesses the confidence to retain and hire”.

Since March, the Boris Johnson government has been paying 80% wages of private-sector workers and 80% of the incomes of the self-employed people, together amounting to billions of pounds, combining to the mounting borrowing bill to deal with the economic influence of the pandemic.

The new programs constitute a momentary growth in the threshold of house prices at which customers need to pay the necessary stamp duty to the government: from property worth £125,000 to £500,000 till March 31, 2021, to help restore the housing sector.

World's top 10 richest persons: Mukesh Ambani excels Warren Buffett. Here's the list of the world's top 10 richest persons.

World's top 10 richest persons: Mukesh Ambani excels Warren Buffett. Here's the list of the world's top 10 richest persons

Mukesh Ambani

 Mukesh Ambani is presently the eighth richest person on the planet, and Buffett is ninth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which began in 2012. Mukesh Ambani is presently worth $68.3 billion, exceeding Buffett’s $67.9 billion as of Thursday.

Mukesh Ambani had a rollercoaster 2020, cutting a chain of deals for his digital business, experiencing wild swings in his wealth, and holding his brother’s finances set exposed for the world to see. Now he can attach another chapter -- exceeding the wealth of Warren Buffett.

The chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) is now worth $68.3 billion, excelling Buffett’s $67.9 billion as of Thursday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Shares of Ambani’s Indian conglomerate have more than multiplied since a low in March as its digital system got more than $15 billion in investments from companies including Facebook Inc. and Silver Lake. This week BP Plc funded $1 billion for a stake in Reliance’s fuel-retail business. While Ambani’s wealth has jumped, he became the unique Asian tycoon in the exclusive club of the world’s topmost 10 richest people last month. Buffett’s wealth sank this week after he gave away $2.9 billion to charity.

The 89-year-old, recognized as the Oracle of Omaha, has slipped below the rankings after donating more than $37 billion of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. funds since 2006. Berkshire Hathaway’s stock performance has also sunk recently. Ambani, 63, is presently the eighth richest person on the planet, and Buffett is ninth, according to the index, which commenced in 2012.

 Appreciations to Ambani’s dealings, India has developed as a hot-spot for M&A this year, accounting for more than 12% of those published in the Asia Pacific, the highest ratio since at least 1998.

List of the world's top 10 richest persons:

Rank	Name	Total net worth
1	Jeff Bezos	$189B
2	Bill Gates	$116B
3	Mark Zuckerberg	$93.0B
4	Bernard Arnault	$92.6B
5	Steve Ballmer	$76.8B
6	Larry Page	$72.7B
7	Elon R Musk	$70.5B
8	Sergey Brin	$70.4B
9	Mukesh Ambani	$70.2B
10	Warren Buffett	$69.2B

Mount Merapi erupted in Indonesia: Ashes spread up to 5000 m which urged an immediate airport shutdown.

Mount Merapi erupted in Indonesia: Ashes spread up to 5000 m which urged an immediate airport shutdown

Mount Merapi

 The country's most powerful volcano has spread ash 5,000 meters into the air, urging officials to inform residents to "stay calm and not panic." It's the second incident in the June month that Mount Merapi has exploded.

Indonesia's Mount Merapi, located in central Java, exploded on Friday, spreading a huge cloud of ash some 5,000 meters  (16,000 feet) into the air. The eruption persisted almost 7 minutes, the Geological Disaster Research and Development Centre announced on its website.

Despite the tremendous eruption, residents were instructed to stay and not to panic. Authorities did not raise Merapi's warning from its current third-highest level. "Stay alert! Local residents are advised to remain calm and go about their activities as usual, but stay alert for volcanic ash," the agency announced.

This is the second time that Merapi, Indonesia's most active volcano, has exploded in the June month. The first eruption was somewhat larger and a massive ash and sand cloud from the explosion covered Yogyakarta and neighboring city Solo with grey dust and made an airport shutdown.

The mountain's last extreme explosion was in 2010. More than 300 people were killed and 280,000 residents had to be vacated. Indonesia remains on the so-called "ring of fire" where the collision of the Earth's tectonic plates creates frequent earthquakes and extreme volcanic activity. Indonesia has approximately 130 active volcanoes alone.

Google detects "Joker" malware in 11 apps. Uninstall them now itself! Here's the list of the apps.

Google detects "Joker" malware in 11 apps. Uninstall them now itself! Here's the list of the apps

 A new modification of Joker malware made it back to the Google Play Store and in 11 applications. Google has eliminated 11 apps from the Play Store which were affected by the infamous Joker malware. Google has been tracking these applications since 2017. Check Point researchers found a new modification of the Joker malware that was present inside legitimate apps. These hackers discovered a method to get users to subscribe to premium services out of their knowledge. Since hackers developed this old method of getting inside apps they could pass Google Play’s protections.

Joker is one of the most commonly found malware for Android and has produced its way to apps on Google Play Store in the past. Google in January had declared that it had eliminated over 1,700 apps that included the malware Bread, also recognized as Joker.

Google Play Protect identified and eliminated 1.7k unique Bread apps from the Play Store before being downloaded by users. Bread apps originally did SMS fraud, but have mostly rejected this for WAP billing following the initiation of new Play policies limiting the use of the SEND_SMS permission and expanded coverage by Google Play Protect.

If you doubt you may have one of these affected apps on your device, here’s what you should do:

1) Uninstall the affected app from the device.

2) Monitor your mobile and credit-card bills to notice if you have been signed up for any subscriptions and unsubscribe if possible.

3) Install a security solution to restrict future problems.

As of now, the new Joker malware has been detected on 11 apps on the Google Play Store. Here’s the list of the apps that have been halted from the Play Store now:

com.peason.lovinglovemessage

com.file.recovefiles

com.LPlocker.lockapps

com.remindme.alram

com.training.memorygame

com.imagecompress.android

com.contact.withme.texts

com.hmvoice.friendsms

com.relax.relaxation.androidsms

com.cheery.message.sendsms (two different instances)