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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - May 2015

May 2015

Jan 08, 2019

Robots for Health Care and Retail Stores

Samsung Electronics Co. showed off robots at the CES technology conference in Las Vegas, including one for retail stores and another in the health care space.
The Bot Care can measure blood pressure and heart rate, detect falls and administer medicine.
The Bot Retail communicates with consumers in stores, while the Bot Air robot detects air quality. Samsung didn't say when it intends to release the robots or how they would be priced.

Jan 05, 2019

Chinese Lunar Rover Named As Yutu 2

China has named the lunar rover, successfully deployed to carry out a string of experiments on the unexplored far side of the moon, as 'Yutu 2'.
Analysts say that China's lunar probe is part of its 'Made in China-2025' project, which focuses on advanced technology, including space applications.

Jan 04, 2019

Chinese Space Probe Landed on Dark Side

A Chinese space probe landed on the far side of the moon, making it the first spacecraft to touch down on the part of moon, which is never visible from earth.
The soft-landing by the Chang'e-4 probe on the dark side of the moon is an important milestone in China's rapidly developing space programme and contribution to the world's exploration of the moon.
Previous space expeditions had seen the "dark" side of the moon but none had landed there.

Jan 03, 2019

India Planning to Launch 32 Space Missions

As per reports, India is planning to launch 32 space missions in 2019. The year 2019 promises to be challenging to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) community with 32 planned missions.
The missions include the second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 to land on the moon with lander and rover.
India`s maiden human space mission in 2021-22, Gaganyaan, will also be pursued this year.

First Detailed Images of Ultima Thule

The first detailed images beamed back from the US agency's New Horizons mission allowed scientists to confidently determine the body was formed when two spheres, or "lobes," slowly gravitated towards each other until they stuck together.
The New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule, which was discovered via telescope in 2014 and is the farthest and potentially the oldest cosmic body ever observed by a spacecraft.

Dec 30, 2018

Algorithm to Detect Rare Cells Developed

A new algorithm developed by Delhi-based researchers has made it very easy to find rare cells from a very large pool of cells in a matter of seconds.
The algorithm, Finder of Rare Entities (FiRE), assigns a rareness score to each cell that is computed based on the gene expression profile of about twenty thousand genes.
Cells having scores above a certain threshold are reported as rare cells.

Google Introduces Spam Protection

Google has begun rolling out its spam protection feature for Messages after almost over six months of developing it for Android users.
This spam protection feature is now going live, though not everyone seems to have it just yet.
Once introduced, users can disable this feature in the Settings and then in the Advanced menu.
Earlier this week, Google announced it was planning to shift its Messages web app -- which allows users to manage SMS/MMS messages on their phone from another device, from Android.com to Google.com.

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