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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - August 2016

Aug 2016

May 09, 2023

Rocket Lab Launches Two Small NASA Satellites to Monitor Tropical Storms

Rocket Lab launched two toaster-size satellites for NASA, the first of four "cubesats" designed to provide hourly updates of typhoon and hurricane development in a bid to improve forecasting and provide new insights into how tropical storms evolve and intensify.
The TROPICS mission aims to improve the scientific understanding by obtaining microwave observations that allow seeing the inner structure of these storms approximately hourly.
These observations will complement the existing weather satellites, and ultimately then can be tied to the broader understanding of the entire earth system.
TROPICS, one of NASA's more convoluted acronyms, stands for Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats. The bargain-basement $30 million mission takes advantage of miniaturized electronics and the evolution of cubesats capable of taking on big-ticket science.
The cubesats aren't intended to replace larger, much more powerful and much more expensive weather satellites. But they offer a low-cost way to augment those "flagship" missions with complementary science and much shorter development times.

China's 'Mystery' Spacecraft Returns to Earth after 276 Days

An experimental Chinese spacecraft returned to Earth after staying in orbit for 276 days, completing a landmark mission to test the country's reusable space technologies.
The uncrewed spacecraft returned to the Jiuquan launch centre in north-west China as scheduled.
No details were given on what the spacecraft was, what technologies were tested, how high it flew, and where its orbits had taken it since its launch in early August 2022.

May 08, 2023

Technology Business Park in Vizag to be Setup by AdaniConneX

AdaniConneX, a company owned by Adani Enterprises, is constructing an Integrated Data Center and Technology Business Park in Madhurawada, Vizag with the goal of boosting the local technology ecosystem. According to the company, the facility will include a data centre, technology and business park, as well as a skill development centre.
It is the first of three planned technology zones in Vizag and will be one of India's largest hyperscale parks. The facility is expected to create new opportunities for growth in the region, connecting Vizag to the APAC IT ecosystem.

May 07, 2023

RBI, BIS Launch Global Technology Competition 'G20 TechSprint'

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Bank for International Settlements (BIS) launched G20 TechSprint, a global technology competition. RBI and the BIS Innovation Hub jointly announced the fourth edition of the G20 TechSprint. RBI said that the 2023 TechSprint focuses on developing innovative technology solutions for cross-border payments. The competition is open for developers around the world. The results will be announced at a final event in August or September 2023.
Shortlisted teams will be invited to develop their solutions over a six-week period and each team will be eligible for a stipend of eight lakh rupees approximately 10,000 US dollar. An independent panel of experts will select the most promising solution to each problem statement from the shortlisted solutions. The winners for each problem statement will receive an award of forty lakh rupees approximately 50,000 US dollar.

May 06, 2023

Scientists Discover Leftovers from the Universe's Very First Stars

Astronomers have not yet seen the universe's initial stars, but they are now beginning to discover the ruins of those first stars. Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), researchers have discovered the fingerprints left by the explosion of the first stars in the cosmos for the first time.
Using data taken with ESO's VLT in Chile, the team found three very distant gas clouds, seen when the universe was just 10-15% of its current age, and with a chemical fingerprint matching what we expect from the explosions of the first stars.
Depending on the mass of these early stars and the energy of their explosions, these first supernovae released different chemical elements such as carbon, oxygen, and magnesium, which are present in the outer layers of stars.

May 05, 2023

TCS to Develop its Own ChatGPT with Focus on Enterprise Code Generation

Country's largest IT firm, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is working to build its own ChatGPT-type tool. Chief operating officer of the company, N. Ganapathy Subramaniam said that TCS will use it for enterprise code generation.
The development work has begun and TCS is looking to collect large amounts of internal code, data, and resources. TCS already maintains a large repository of such data.
The tool will leverage in-house algorithms that use large language modelling functions, very much similar to what generative artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT use. However, the solution TCS is building will focus on enterprise code generation.

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