Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to turn X, formerly Twitter, into an “everything app” has for long sparked speculations about what the would encompass the “everything”. In a recent internal meet, the billionaire dropped a hint at an unlikely new feature for the micro-blogging site — dating.

Musk has in the past said that X needs to compete with sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, FaceTime as well as banking apps to become a one-stop solution for a user’s every need. Now, the Tesla CEO is also aiming to add a dating app-like feature for people to find love on the platform, a report by Verge said.

In an internal meet, which marked one year since Musk officially bought Twitter for $44 billion, the X owner along with CEO Linda Yaccarino told employees that the company is “rapidly transforming from Twitter 1.0, to the everything app.”

Referring to the recent X update, which allows verified organisations to post job listings, Musk said a person’s X posts can be “the biggest indicator” on whether they someone you’d want to hire.

“I think the same is true also on the romantic front. Finding someone on the platform. Obviously, I found someone and friends of mine have found people on the platform. And you can tell if you’re a good match based on what they write,” he said.

“So, X Dating around the corner then?,” asked Ms Yaccarino.

“Yeah. There’s already some stuff happening to some degree. But I think we might be able to improve the dating situation. Part of it is how do you discover interesting people? Discovery is tough,” Musk replied.

The tech billionaire’s Musk’s tumultuous takeover of Twitter last year has been marked by drastic changes in the platform including renaming it to X. Since he bought it, X has lost a majority of advertisers as well as many users and has seen a string of job cuts affecting even the most senior employees including the CEO.

The Manipur Police sent the reinforcements to the border town, 115 km from the state capital Imphal, after police officer Chingtham Anand was shot dead by an insurgent sniper while he was overseeing the construction of a helipad.A combined force of police commandos and the army’s Assam Rifles were ambushed at two places on the hilly Imphal-Moreh highway while they were going to the border town. Three police commandos were injured in the attack by insurgents.Subsequently, despite two ambushes in a single day, the police commandos pressed on towards Moreh and reached the border town by midnight, sources said. Night visuals show a long column of armoured SUVs and other vehicles entering Moreh.The Manipur government extended the mobile internet ban till November 5 to prevent law and order issues following the killing of the police officer, whose colleagues said they remember him as a pleasant, cheerful officer who maintained a good rapport with locals.The Manipur government in a statement after an emergency cabinet meeting yesterday said a first information report (FIR) has been filed against an organisation called ‘World Kuki-Zo Intellectual Council’ (WKZIC) for issuing a statement on October 24 asking “volunteers” in the Kuki-Zo community to take up arms.The WKZIC in the statement allegedly said the Kuki National Army and other insurgent groups cannot “join the war” due to the tripartite suspension of operations (SoO) agreement with the centre and the state government, so they needed “volunteers”.At least 25 Kuki insurgent groups have signed the SoO agreement, under which they have to stay at designated camps, and keep their weapons in locked storage for regular joint monitoring with the security forces.Kuki civil society groups, meanwhile, in statements alleged the ambushes were shoot-outs with village volunteers over alleged indiscriminate use of force by police commandos. The Kuki groups alleged the Manipur government has been pouring in state forces to Moreh to harass civilians and have demanded the centre to withdraw the police from the border town.Commandos of the Manipur Police have arrested at least 10 Myanmar nationals in as many days for looting homes of Moreh residents, who left the border town when ethnic clashes broke out on May 3 between the hill-majority Kuki tribes and the valley-majority Meiteis.Though the Manipur ethnic violence is said to be over the Meities’ demand for inclusion under the Scheduled Tribes category, many leaders including Union Minister Home Minister Amit Shah and Foreign Minister S Jaishankar have said entry of illegal immigrants is one of the main factors behind the unrest in the northeast state, which is ruled by the BJP.

NASA’s Chandra and IXPE telescopes have revealed the complex magnetic field structure of the “hand”-shaped pulsar wind nebula MSH 15-52, providing new insights into how X-rays are polarized and how magnetic fields evolve in these extreme environments.

The “ghostly hand” was created by the death of a massive star. This catastrophic event, called a supernova explosion, left behind a fast-spinning, superdense stellar corpse known as a pulsar.

According to a statement from NASA, pulsars are spinning stars that have very strong magnetic fields. These magnetic fields create powerful jets of charged particles and a strong wind. This wind forms a cloud of gas and plasma called a pulsar wind nebula. The pulsar PSR B1509-58 is in the middle of the image, at the base of the “palm” of the pulsar wind nebula MSH 15-52. The pulsar releases particles into space, which create a glowing shape that looks like a human hand.

In 2001, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory first observed the pulsar PSR B1509-58 and revealed that its pulsar wind nebula (referred to as MSH 15-52) resembles a human hand. The pulsar is located at the base of the “palm” of the nebula. MSH 15-52 is located 16,000 light-years from Earth.

Now, NASA’s newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), has observed MSH 15-52 for about 17 days, the longest it has looked at any single object since it launched in December 2021.

“The IXPE data gives us the first map of the magnetic field in the ‘hand’,” said Roger Romani of Stanford University in California, who led the study. “The charged particles producing the X-rays travel along the magnetic field, determining the basic shape of the nebula, like the bones do in a person’s hand.”