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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the GSLV Mark III rocket carrying the GSAT-29 communication satellite from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on Wednesday. Marking ISRO’s fifth launch for the current year, the communication satellite carries high throughput communication transponders in the Ka and Ku bands which can expand high-speed data transfer Read More…
A curator at the UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium and Savannah, Georgia revealed the shocking moment he realised one of his octopus charges had been given the wrong sex. According to MailOnline, Devin Dumont found that the tank holding Octavius, the aquarium’s sole octopus resident, was full of tiny particles that looked like confetti. Read More…
Apple is reported to be teaming up exclusively with Intel to develop the first 5G iPhone to come to the market. But , Intel’s struggle to engineer a prototype chip the 8060 that properly dissipates heat is delaying the company’s 5G release with respect to other companies. Typical amount of thermal energy, which can be Read More…
In a first for India, British banking major HSBC has executed a trade finance transaction involving an export by Reliance Industries to an American client using the blockchain, which massively reduced the time taken for processing the documents. The blockchain-enabled letter of credit transaction facilitated a shipment between Reliance and the US-based Tricon Energy, a Read More…
In Silicon Valley, women also are becoming fed up with the male-dominated composition of the technology industry’s workforce a glaring imbalance that critics say fosters unsavoury behaviour akin to a college fraternity house. Hundreds of Google engineers and other workers around the world walked off the job Thursday to protest the internet company’s lenient treatment Read More…
The Long-Range Surface-to-Air Missile system is an operational Air and Missile Defence (AMD) system used by Israel’s navy as well as by India’s navy, air and land forces. India has awarded an additional USD 777 million deal to a leading Israeli defence firm for supplying Barak 8 LR-SAM Air and Missile Defence Systems to seven Read More…
The lunar meteorite unofficially known as “Buagaba” or “The Moon Puzzle” is seen ahead of the auction of the meteorite by RR Auctions in New York. An extremely rare lunar meteorite comprised of six fragments that fit together like a puzzle has been sold for USD 612,500, according to US based RR Auction. The meteorite Read More…
Though Apple’s first update to iOS 12 has cured the iPhone charging problem, iOS version 12.0.1 is causing users to complain about frequently broken calls, network and signal connectivity problems and battery life issues, the media reported. “Since upgrading, owners of both new and old iPhones are finding their phones either don’t make or receive Read More…
Cyber attackers stole data from 29 million Facebook accounts using an automated program that moved from one friend to the next, Facebook Inc (FB.O) announced on Friday, as the social media company said its largest-ever data theft hit fewer than the 50 million profiles it initially reported. The company said it would message affected users Read More…
Rajasthan Additional Chief Secretary (Health), Veenu Gupta said, “So far, there are a total of 29 people who have tested positive for Zika virus.” As one of those affected in Jaipur hailed from Bihar and visited his Siwan home recently, the eastern state has issued advisories to all its 38 districts to keep a close Read More…
Mobile messaging platform WhatsApp Tuesday said it has built a system that stores payments-related data in India, in line with RBI’s data localisation policy. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in a circular in April, had said all system providers will have to ensure that the entire data relating to payment systems operated by them Read More…
“The future policing will be mainly with the help of technology, especially robotics,” Inspector General Manoj Abraham, the nodal officer of Cyber Dome, told media “The future policing will be mainly with the help of technology, especially robotics,” Inspector General Manoj Abraham, the nodal officer of Cyber Dome, said Robots will soon receive you at Read More…
The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal, BS Dhanoa, taken ruling bjp position and defended the Rafale purchase as “a game changer” at the annual Air Force press conference here. “We have lots of advantages in the Rafale deal…this and the S400 will enhance capabilities to counter our shortfalls,” the Air Chief pointed Read More…
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT/HTT) provided the first look of their full-scale passenger Hyperloop capsule at an unveiling ceremony in Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain. The capsule, “Quintero One” is constructed almost completely out of HyperloopTT’s Vibranium — a specially made dual-layer smart composite material. It was built at the Southern Spain aerospace facilities of HyperloopTT’s Read More…
The Supreme Court, last week, struck down Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act, which allowed private companies to use the 12-digit biometric ID-based eKYC. Days after the Supreme Court imposed curbs on the use of Aadhaar, biometric-issuing authority UIDAI Monday asked telecom companies to submit, within the next 15 days, a plan to stop using Read More…
Medicine is the first of the Nobel Prizes awarded each year .The prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace were created in accordance with the will of dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel and have been awarded since 1901. James Allison and Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for Read More…
Facebook Inc’s worst security breach ever is a major blow to the company’s effort to rebuild trust with users of the social network after a privacy scandal in March. Facebook shares dropped more than 3% Friday after the company disclosed that hackers took advantage of a security issue to attack its systems, impacting almost 50 million accounts. A Read More…
ISRO Mars Orbiter sent back fabulous photos of the Red Planet .Mars is home to craters and soaring peaks, and gets its reddish hue from oxidised iron minerals. ISRO’s Mars Orbiter, which took this picture, has now been in orbit for four years. The space agency said the Mars Colour Camera had acquired more than Read More…
India is WhatsApp’s biggest market with more than 200 million users. It, in July, limited message forwards to five chats at a time and had also removed the quick forward button placed next to media messages to discourage mass forwarding. It has also introduced a ‘forward’ label to help users identify such messages. The Indian Read More…
The WHO has emphasized on the development, implementation and evaluation of cost-effective interventions for harmful use of alcohol as well as creating, compiling and disseminating scientific information on alcohol use and dependence, and related health and social consequences. The “Global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol”, negotiated and agreed by WHO Member States Read More…
After 33-hour countdown, India’s premier space agency ISRO launched two commercial satellites from Sri Harikota on Sunday. The British satellites NovaSAR and S1-4 together weighing about 889 kilograms were launched at 10.08 PM. The foreign satellites, meant for forest mapping and flood and disaster monitoring, among other uses, would be released into sun synchronous orbit Read More…
Apple today launched all three new iPhones share Apple’s latest A12 Bionic processor, a 7nm chip that, according to the company, represents a breakthrough in mobile computational power. Its two performance cores (which handle intensive tasks) are “up to 15 percent faster” than the iPhone X The new iPhone XS and XS Max will have Read More…
Japanese auto major Suzuki Motor Corporation chairman Osamu Suzuki said at the Global Mobility Summit ‘MOVE’ in New Delhi , his company plans to start road tests of its electric vehicles (EVs) in India next month as a precursor to launch of EV in 2020 . Suzuki said the company has decided to launch EV Read More…
According to a WHO report published on medical journal The Lancet, Kuwait has ranked last out of 168 countries with only 67 per cent of it’s population who are physically inactive. Uganda tops the list with being the most energetic country where only 5.5 per cent are physically inactive. India was ranked 117 with 34 Read More…
Copenhagen University researchers discovered pills taken during the later stages of pregnancy, gave children higher body mass indexes (BMI), but they did not gain more body fat than children’s whose mothers didn’t take it. “Fish oil supplementation from the 24th week of pregnancy led to a higher BMI in the offspring from 0 to six Read More…
Ekkehard Ernst, Chief of Macro-economic policies and job unit at the UN International Labour Organization (ILO), says the manufacturing sector does not stand to profit most from AI, at least not in developed countries, and will not suffer the forecast demise. The jobs more likely to be impacted are in service sectors such as construction Read More…
A MiG-27 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed in an agriculture field in Jodhpur’s Banad area during a routine mission on Tuesday morning, but no loss of life was reported. The pilot ejected safely from the single-seater fighter aircraft and was taken to a hospital in an IAF helicopter, defence spokesperson Colonel Sombit Read More…
Globally, in particular after Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data scandal, there has been popular demand that tech companies be transparent about how they use users’ data. Data privacy has also grown among tech companies after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law was put into effect from May 25. The European law is touted as Read More…
Wipro, India’s third largest IT services company, on Sunday announced that it has won a $1.5 billion deal from US-based Alight Solutions. The deal, spanning 10-years, is the largest one ever taken up by the company in its history. It will mandate Wipro to provide a comprehensive suite of solutions and services to Lincolnshire, Illinois-based Read More…
August 2018 Floods have wreacked havoc across kerala this year, Hundreds have lost their lives, while thousands have been rendered homeless. More than 7.8 lakh people are estimated to be in relief camps. It is important to note how how Google, on its part, has launched a series of measures to provide help and assistance Read More…
Olectra Greetech (formerly Goldstone Infratech Ltd) manufactures electric buses in technical collaboration with Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD Auto Industry Co Ltd. It has set up a plant in Hyderabad to assemble electric buses. Olectra Greentech Ltd said on Wednesday that it is ready to supply electric buses to BMTC. The company is waiting for Read More…
Researchers conducted the study on mice, which were the human equivalent of 30-years-old. They were fed half the recommended amount of protein. The dietary imbalance of protein resulted in the mice containing lower quality sperm and seminal fluid. Their offspring were also bigger and developed type 2 diabetes. Not having enough protein affects the quality Read More…
According to the policy unveiled by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which will be the regulating agency for such vehicles, drones have been classified into four parts based on their weight. For the lightest category Nano, a payload of up to 250 grams and flight to a maximum height of 50 feet, have Read More…
WhatsApp claims that chats and media exchanged on its app are fully (end-to-end) encrypted. WhatsApp is set to undergo a big change. WhatsApp’s new partnership with Google sets the WhatsApp backups free from the limited 15GB storage space on Google Drive. Until now, WhatsApp data that were stored on Google Drive were counted against the Read More…
Outdoor air pollution leads to 4.2 million premature deaths worldwide each year, with close to 60% of the deaths from heart attacks and strokes, according to the World Health Organisation. Finally, scientists appear to have figured out just how fine dust attacks the cardiovascular system. An analysis of the effect of the different components of Read More…
Scientists have confirmed the presence of frozen water deposits in the darkest and coldest parts of the Moon’s polar regions using data from the Chandrayaan-I spacecraft, that was launched by India 10 years ago, NASA said today. With enough ice sitting at the surface within the top few millimetres water would possibly be accessible as Read More…
Edward Snowden said during the ‘Talk Journalism’ event held in Jaipur last weekend. Snowden ex-CIA employee responsible for exposing multiple global surveillance programmes run by the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US, was speaking his mind on digital privacy and India’s Aadhaar initiative which has been mired by various controversies since its weak data Read More…
Screens are killing your eyeballs, and now we know howThe “blue screen of death” is taking on a whole new meaning. Humans can see a thin spectrum of light, ranging from red to violet. Shorter wavelengths appear blue, while the longer ones appear red. What appears as white light, whether it’s from sunlight or screen Read More…
The Parker Solar Probe was set to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday, but last-minute investigations have delayed it for 24 hours. It is now scheduled to blast off – on board the mammoth Delta-IV Heavy rocket – on Sunday morning. The probe is set to become the fastest-moving manmade object in history. The Read More…
Thousands of smart phone users in India woke up puzzled on Friday with a Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) toll-free helpline number saved in their phonebooks by default. The UIDAI, however said it had not asked or communicated to any manufacturer or service provider to provide such facility. UIDAI, which is yet to issue Read More…