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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - December 2018

Dec 2018

Oct 08, 2023

Chinese, Europeans Creating Incredibly Sensitive Space Telescope for Monitoring Cosmic Explosions

Scientists in China are collaborating with European researchers to create an incredibly sensitive space telescope designed to monitor the universe's most violent explosions. This project, known as the Polar-2 mission, is a joint effort involving scientists from Switzerland, Poland, Germany, and China. The goal of the mission is to deliver this ultimate telescope to China's Tiangong space station in 2025.
The primary objective of the Polar-2 mission is monitor any gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are energetic particles of light resulting from some of the most powerful cosmic explosions since the Big Bang.

Oct 07, 2023

Microsoft Adds Four More Indian Languages to Microsoft Translator

Microsoft India announced the introduction of four new languages to Microsoft Translator: Bhojpuri, Bodo, Dogri, and Kashmiri. This new update will benefit nearly 61 million people.
With this new addition, Microsoft Translator now supports a total of 20 Indian languages, including Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. This update moves Microsoft Translator closer to its ambition of supporting all 22 official Indian languages, covering the languages spoken by almost 95 per cent of the country's population.
Users can access the translation feature through the Microsoft Translator app, Edge browser, Office 365, Bing Translator, and the Azure AI Translator API for businesses and developers.

Oct 06, 2023

India Surpasses Japan and the UK in Global Mobile Speed Ranking

India has witnessed significant boost in mobile download speed, making it to the top 50 in the Ookla Speedtest Global Index list. Ookla, the Seattle-headquartered company is known for its fixed broadband and mobile network testing application, data and analysis.
According to the report, India has now jumped 72 places higher and clinched the 47th spot in the index, a feat attributed to the launch of 5G services in the country.
Besides eclipsing neighbours like Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, India also eclipsed of some G20 nations like Mexico (90th), Turkey (68th), the UK (62nd), Japan (58th), Brazil (50th place), and South Africa (48th place).
As per the report, India's download speed performance has seen a 3.59 times increase since the introduction of 5G, with median download speeds improving to 50.21 Mbps in August 2023, from 13.87 Mbps in September 2022.

Oct 05, 2023

NASA to Launch Psyche Mission to Study an Asteroid

NASA is all set to send a high-tech spacecraft called Psyche on a 2.2 billion mile journey to study a metal-rich asteroid of the same name on October 12. The asteroid is known as 16 Psyche.
The asteroid lies in the outer portion of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
The goal of the mission is to study this space rock in great detail as it can tell us more about planetary cores and Earth's own formation.
The agency says that this will be the first mission to an asteroid with substantial amounts of metal, as previous missions have explored asteroids made mostly of rock or ice. The asteroid Psyche may be part of the interior of a planetesimal, a building block of a rocky planet.

Oct 03, 2023

India to Launch Mangalyaan-2

Nine years after its wildly successful Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), aka Mangalyaan, India is preparing to send another spacecraft to the red planet.
The Mars Orbiter Mission-2 or MOM-2 would reportedly carry four payloads. As per reports, these payloads would contain scientific instruments that will study aspects of the barren planet, including interplanetary dust, the Martian atmosphere and the environment.
According to the mission document, payloads will include: a Mars Orbit Dust Experiment (MODEX), a Radio Occultation (RO) experiment, an Energetic Ion Spectrometer (EIS) and a Langmuir Probe and Electric Field Experiment (LPEX).

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