Rohan
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@Phonenurd Phones have saturated so I get him, pivot to a fresh exciting thing. Atleast we have Gyan Therapy.
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A California university is offering scholarships to students who have completed some of gaming’s toughest challenges.
The University of Silicon Valley offers up to $15,000 a year through its Max Achievement Scholarship.
To qualify, students must earn specific achievements in games like Elden Ring, Final Fantasy XIV, Dark Souls, Sekiro, Minecraft, World of Warcraft, Stardew Valley, and more.
For example, earning the Platinum Trophy in Elden Ring or reaching level 100 with every combat, crafting, and gathering job in Final Fantasy XIV can help qualify.
Gaming skills alone aren’t enough. Students must be accepted into the university, maintain at least a 3.0 GPA, and write an essay about what they learned from those in-game challenges.


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@VenomsTech Honestly thought deluxe would be 10k, this is hella reasonable.
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Seeing so many gamers feeling left out today because they couldn't pre-order GTA 6.
Guys, it's a digital purchase, not a limited stock item. It isn't going anywhere. Buy it whenever you're comfortable.
The FOMO is real, we've waited 13 years, after all.
Also, ₹5,999 for the Standard Edition and ₹7,699 for the Deluxe Edition feels quite reasonable to me.
Which edition are you buying? 🎮

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If the Germans had won, we would be interstellar by now.
Yet the most we can manage is Musk playing with rockets that von Braun would have considered laughable — or pitiable — given the number of elapsed years.
Beaver 🦁@beaverd
late WW2 German engineering was unbelievable They built a B2 bomber out of plywood 50 years before we built the b2. It was a distillation of their will to defend their cities from allied bombers HO 229 is a 10/10 rabbit hole
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@mxtaverse Big corps in India are boring, they only scale and never use the profits to drive any meaningful R&D inhouse. India's major chunk of innovation and R&D will come from startups only.
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The Chinese company that refused to lend its tech to Reliance was founded in 2019.
They hired 1000+ researchers and spent $200M on R&D over the past 5 years.
What stopped Reliance from spending $40M/year on R&D, creating 1000 high-end jobs and building the tech in India?
RedboxGlobal India@REDBOXINDIA
From Bloomberg Reliance has paused plans to make lithium-ion battery cells in India after failing to secure Chinese technology, sources say
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@deepigoyal Crashes are part of the fun, same story with the drones we work with.
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Video of Lat One v0.1 test flight.
uSTOL achieved. Achievement unlocked 🛫
The plane crashed a bit later, which we knew was going to happen, and our simulations had already suggested so, due to structural defects. However, the main objective of the test flight was to test uSTOL, which was successfully demonstrated.
We are already building Lat One v0.2, which should hopefully complete a mission. Making a plane take off is only 20% of the problem. Making it land safely is where the work lies.
Overall, we learnt so much from this entire experience. We will come out better and stronger from this.
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To know why we are so bullish on Lat Aerospace and how it will change the future of our country, tune into my recent podcast with Raj Shamani
And follow @lataerospace for future updates.

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Last one on this topic, and I have been holding this in myself for a while.
For centuries, class divides kept the labor of the poor invisible to the rich. Factory workers toiled behind walls, farmers in distant fields, domestic help in backrooms. The wealthy consumed the fruits of that labor without ever seeing the faces or the fatigue behind it. No direct encounter, no personal guilt.
The gig economy shattered that invisibility, at unprecedented scale.
Suddenly, the poor aren't hidden away. They're at your doorstep: the delivery partner handing over your ₹1000+ biryani, late-night groceries, or quick-commerce essentials. You see them in the rain, heat, traffic, often on borrowed bikes, working 8–10 hours for earnings that give them sustenance. You see their exhaustion, their polite smile masking frustration with life in general.
This is the first time in history at this scale that the working class and consuming class interact face-to-face, transaction after transaction. And that discomfort with our own selves is why we are uncomfortable about the gig economy. We want these people to look our part, so that the guilt we feel while taking orders from them feels less.
We aren't just debating economics. We are confronting guilt. That ₹800 order might equal their entire day's earnings after fuel, bike rent, and app cuts. We tip awkwardly, or avoid eye contact, because the inequality is no longer abstract. It's personal.
Pre-gig era, the rich could enjoy luxury without moral discomfort. Labor was out of sight. Now, every doorbell ring is a reminder of systemic inequality. That's why debates explode. It's not just policy. It's emotional reckoning. Some defend the system (“they choose it”), others demand change (“this isn't progress, its exploitation”).
And here’s the uncomfortable twist: the unsaid ask of clumsy ‘solutions’ isn’t dignity. It is about returning to invisibility.
Ban gig work and you don’t solve inequality. You remove livelihoods. These jobs don’t magically reappear as formal, protected employment the next day. They disappear, or they get pushed back into the informal economy where there are even fewer protections and even less accountability. Over-regulate it until the model breaks, and you achieve the same outcome through paperwork instead of slogans: the work evaporates, prices rise, demand collapses, and the people we claim to protect are the first to lose income.
And then what happens?
The rich get their old comfort back. Convenience returns without faces. Guilt dissolves. We go back to clean abstractions and moral posturing from a distance. The poor don’t become safer, they become invisible again: back in cash economies, back in backrooms, back in shadows where regulation rarely reaches and dignity isn’t even debated.
The gig economy just exposed the reality of inequality to the people who previously had the luxury of not seeing it. The doorbell is not the problem. The question is what we do after opening the door.
Visibility is the price of progress. We can either use this discomfort to build something better (which we keep doing continuously as delivery partners are our backbone), or we can ban and over-regulate our way back into ignorance. One of those choices improves lives. The other simply helps the consuming class feel virtuous in the dark.
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@indianspacepost Its a tough line of work, cant change anything up in space. Only way to get better is with time, I believe in our space peeps!
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⚠️ ISRO's IRNSS / NAVIC programme is just a single atomic clock failure away (most likely on IRNSS-1F) to see a complete collapse of the constellation, India will thus lose navigational independence.
Sad fate for a programme with so much promise in making India's satellite navigation independent, with plans extending even as far as a Global Indian Navigation System (GINS) which looks like a far fetched dream now.

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It's a DRAMATIC first corner in Las Vegas 😱
Here's how the race start unfolded! 👀⬇️
#F1 #LasVegasGP
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Despite my concerns with bad software being sold or imposed via govt in the name of patriotism, I think sovereignty of tech infrastructure is too important to ignore for India.
So, I am putting together this catalog of Indian-made alternatives to popular global software products.
What are some high-quality made-in-india software products that compete well globally? Would love to add them here.

Nilesh Trivedi@nileshtrivedi
I am not an isolationist but I do think capability building is important. "Focus only on your strengths" is not a good advice, from risk management perspective - for individuals, companies & nations alike. What happens when your "strengths" are no longer valued by the market?
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@VishakhRanotra Paul was my go to when I was trying to implement an anpr system on a Jetson Nano, godsend!
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Awesome channel on YouTube to learn Python, Arduino, Fusion 360 and more.

Kritika@kritikakodes
Which is the best source for learning Python? 🧐
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