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Oct 18, 2021

Telangana Develops India's First Smartphone-based eVoting Solution

Telangana has developed India's first smartphone-based eVoting solution considering the Covid-19 pandemic. The system will undergo a dry run in the form of a dummy election being conducted in Khammam district with the registration on the application open from October 8-18 and the dummy voting on October 20.
The eVoting solution has been developed by Telangana State Election Commission (TSEC) with the implementation support of the Emerging Technologies Wing of the IT Department of the State and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC).

Lucy NASA's Spacecraft on 12-year Cruise to Trojan Asteroids

NASA's newest asteroid probe, named Lucy, blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to embark on a 12-year mission to study two different clusters of asteroids around Jupiter known as Trojans.
These swarms represent the final unexplored regions of asteroids in the solar system. Lucy, acting as a robotic archaeologist, will help to answer questions about how the giant planets formed.
Lucy will spend the next six years cruising through the solar system, looping around the Earth twice in order to build up enough momentum to reach Jupiter. The spacecraft will fly by a total of eight different asteroids (seven Trojans, which are located in two separate swarms, ahead of and behind the massive planet in its orbit, and one main belt) in order to help scientists better understand how the solar system evolved. Researchers believe that the Trojans are perfectly preserved cosmic time capsules and hope that studying them could shed more light on the origin of the solar system and how the giant planets formed.

Oct 17, 2021

China Sends 3 Astronauts on 6-month Mission

Changzheng-2F, the Chinese launch vehicle, with manned spacecraft Shenzhou-13 was launched to the Tiangong space station.
There are three taikonauts on board.
The launch took place from the Jiuquan cosmodrome in Gansu province in northwestern China.
The Shenzhou 13 crew will spend at least 180 days at the station.
The crew included Zhai Zhigang, female taikonaut Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu.

Jupiter-Mass Exoplanet Found Orbiting White Dwarf

Using a technique called gravitational microlensing, which occurs when a star close to Earth momentarily aligns with a more distant star, astronomers discovered a giant exoplanet in a Jupiter-like orbit around a white dwarf star. Located at approximately 2,000 parsecs (6,523 light-years) towards the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, this system is likely to represent an analogue to the end stages of the Sun and Jupiter in our own Solar System.

Oct 16, 2021

India 6th most Affected Country by Ransomware, Says Google

A Google report that analysed more than 80 million ransomware samples submitted over the last year and a half revealed that India is at the sixth place in the list of 140 countries most affected by ransomware.
Israel was far and away an outlier, with the highest number of submissions and nearly a 600 per cent increase in the number of submissions compared to its baseline.
It was followed by South Korea, Vietnam, China, Singapore, India, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Iran, and the UK as the most affected top 10 territories, based on the number of submissions to VirusTotal.
Launched in June 2004, VirusTotal was acquired by Google in September 2012. The company's ownership switched in January 2018 to Chronicle Security, a cybersecurity company which is part of Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Oct 15, 2021

William Shatner Becomes World's Oldest Space Traveler

Actor William Shatner soared aboard a Blue Origin rocket ship on a suborbital trip and landed in the Texas desert to become at age 90 the oldest person ever in space as U.S. billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos's company carried out its second tourist flight.
Shatner was one of four passengers to journey to the edge of space aboard the white fully autonomous 60-foot-tall (18.3 meters-tall) New Shepard spacecraft.

Oct 14, 2021

Germany Launches World's First Self-Driving Train

German rail operator, Deutsche Bahn and industrial group, Siemens launched the first automated & driverless train of the world.
The self-driving train was launched in the city of Hamburg, Germany.
This train is more punctual and energy efficient as compared to traditional trains.
The country has planned to add four such trains to the S-Bahn rapid urban rail network of northern city.
These trains will start carrying passengers from December on the existing rail infrastructure.
Other cities such as Paris have driverless metros on the other hand, airports often have automated monorail trains plying terminals. However, these trains run on exclusive single tracks while the Hamburg train will share tracks with other regular trains.

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