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Power Bank: Off the Shelf Satellite Battery to Earn Flight Heritage on a Private Indian Orbital Launch

TakeMe2Space announced that its PowerBank-50 satellite battery pack is officially space proven, having successfully completed its first mission aboard Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 on its maiden flight, Mission ‘Aagaman’, launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, on 18 July 2026.

“Every satellite mission lives or dies by its power system, which is why nobody wants to be the first to fly a new battery. We are grateful that Cosmoserve trusted PowerBank-50 on a mission of this significance. Flying on the first private Indian rocket to reach orbit, and performing flawlessly at 450 km, is the strongest validation a product can earn. PowerBank-50 is now space proven, made in India, and ready for every satellite builder in the world,” said...

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How Cognizant is rewiring Application Management for the Agentic AI era

For decades, enterprise application management ran on a simple, almost unquestioned logic: keep the lights on, and keep costs down. Support desks triaged tickets, engineers patched code, and IT leaders measured success in dollars saved per year. Cognizant is now pulling that model apart and rebuilding it around a different

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The messy politics behind Google’s big AI shakeup

In the AI industry, Google prides itself on seeming like the adult in the room: quiet, stable, time-tested. On Wednesday, even as the company announced its largest AI org shakeup yet, Google and its leaders presented a unified front, keeping their messaging focused on how the changes tee up future

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Buggy microcontrollers making up some of the world's most important servers can be easily backdoored

* runZero disclosed 12+ new flaws in BMCs from HPE, Supermicro, Dell, Lenovo, Huawei, and others at Black Hat * Scans found 86k internet‑exposed BMCs and 120k internal devices * Researchers warn BMCs form a widespread, under‑patched parallel attack surface Security researchers have discovered more than a dozen new vulnerabilities in

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Don't tell Tim Cook, but Apple's M5 MacBook Pro 14-inch just got a price cut at Amazon

Despite Apple promising price increases across its devices, I've found a welcome discount on the MacBook Pro 14-inch (M5) for $1848 (was $2000) at Amazon. Given soaring prices, that's a very welcome discount on one of the most capable laptops Apple currently sells, and it'

Power Bank: Off the Shelf Satellite Battery to Earn Flight Heritage on a Private Indian Orbital Launch

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How Cognizant is rewiring Application Management for the Agentic AI era

The messy politics behind Google’s big AI shakeup

Buggy microcontrollers making up some of the world's most important servers can be easily backdoored

Don't tell Tim Cook, but Apple's M5 MacBook Pro 14-inch just got a price cut at Amazon