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Jun 12, 2020

Google Removes TikTok Clone App from Play Store

Google has been keeping a close eye on new apps that try to mimic other popular applications. This time around, the search giant removed a Chinese video app called Zynn from the Play Store. The app was a clone of the hugely popular video app TikTok. This happened due to allegations of plagiarism.
According to a report by Wired, TikTok users pointed out that their entire accounts had been plagiarised on this application. The information included profile pictures, names, dating back to months.
The app Zynn surfaced on Apple's App Store and Android's Google Play Store in the month of May. Within the end of the first month, the app had become the most downloaded free iOS app and was featured in the top 10 downloads in Google Play Store.
The app had a rewards programme where users got paid for watching videos and also to get other users on the app. Users were offered $1 for signing up, $20 for the first person they get to join and $10 for every five users afterward.

Jun 11, 2020

Titan is Drifting Away From Saturn 100 Times Faster

Scientists say that Saturn's largest moon Titan is moving away from the ringed planet must faster than previously believed. In fact, it is drifting away a hundred times faster.
The fact was discovered using data collected during NASA's Cassini spacecraft to study Saturn and some of its moons which revealed that Titan, one of Saturn's 80 moons, is moving away from the planet at a rate of about four inches per year.
Moons' moving away from their planet is a common phenomenon. Earth's own Moon, for instance, moves about 1.5 inches away every year, according to American space agency NASA.
The movement away is caused by the moon's gravity tugging on the planet, which creates a temporary bulge in the planet. That energy pushes the moon further away.

Jun 10, 2020

Pratik Tirodkar Develops World's First 'Internet-controlled' Robot 'Coro-bot'

Thane engineer, Pratik Tirodkar, founder of a start-up PNT Solutions, Dombivali developed the world's 1st 'Internet-controlled' robot named 'Coro-bot' to address the needs of the hospitals treating COVID-19 patients. It is deployed for the 1st time in Holy Cross Hospital, Kalyan, Maharashtra.
The company has created a special application to operate Coro-bot from any location in the world using Internet of Things (IoT) technology, the 1st time in the world that this technique is being deployed in the medical field.
The robot delivers food, water and medicines to Corona patients in the hospitals without needing the physical presence of nurses and other care-givers.
By using a camera it can interact with patients and also can caution them by audio reminders to sanitise their hands before they pick up things from trays.

Jun 09, 2020

UAE Mars Mission

The first Arab space mission to Mars is preparing to lift off within weeks.
It will take seven months to travel the 493 million km (308 million miles) to reach Mars and begin its orbit, sending back ground-breaking new data about its climate and atmosphere.
The probe will remain orbiting Mars for an entire Martian year, 687 days, to gather sufficient data.
A single orbit around Mars will take the probe 55 hours.
According to programme director Sarah Al-Amiri, the project should be a major incentive for young Arab scientists to embark on a career in space engineering.
Named Amal, meaning Hope, the unmanned craft is due to lift off from a remote Japanese island, Tanegashima, during a narrow launch window on 14th July.

Scientist Discover Mirror Image of Earth and Sun

Scientists have discovered a new exoplanet-star pair which resembles our Earth-Sun system.
According to a team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Gottingen, Germany, the star Kepler-160 and the planet KOI-456, are quite similar to the Sun and the Earth, more than any other planets previously discovered which makes the planet more conducive to life.
The Kepler-160 has at least three planets in its orbit.
The planet is approximately 3,000 light-years away from Earth.
The new discovery is different from previously discovered exoplanets. One of the key reasons for the same is its Sun-like host star.

Jun 07, 2020

ISRO Signs MoU with ARIES

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has entered into an agreement with Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) for cooperation in the field of Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Astrophysics.
Space objects orbital tracking, analysis and space weather studies are important aspects in Space Situational Awareness and Management to safeguard Indian space assets from critical conjunction threats from space debris.
This MoU will pave the way for future collaborations between ISRO and ARIES in establishing optical telescope observational facilities for space object tracking, R&D studies in space weather, astrophysics and Near Earth Object (NEO).

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