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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - December 2018

Dec 2018

Nov 22, 2022

Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence

On November 21, 2022, India took over the chair of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) for 2022-23.
The Global Partnership in Artificial Intelligence was launched on June 15, 2020. It is a multi-stakeholder initiative that was developed by the G7 alliance. Its objective is to fill the gap between theory and practice on artificial intelligence by promoting cutting-edge research and related activities.
This initiative promotes global cooperation on artificial intelligence technology by bringing together experts from fields like science, industry, civil society, governments, international bodies and academia on a single platform.
The GPAI currently has 25 member states. These are: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, the Republic of Korea (South Korea), Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the UK, the US and the EU. India became part of this international alliance in 2020 as a founding member.
The inaugural edition of the GPAI summit was held on December 3 and 4 of 2020. The third edition of the summit, which is being held in 2022, was organized in Tokyo. It was held in Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo. It focuses on 4 themes. These are: (1) Responsible AI (2) Data governance (3) Future of work (4) Innovation and commercialisation

Nov 21, 2022

India Fastest Growing Market for Microsoft Owned LinkedIn

India became LinkedIn's fastest-growing market as more companies and advertisers come online, with sales in the country rising at a 50% year-on-year clip. LinkedIn is a "Microsoft" owned business networking service company.
The business networking service owned by Microsoft Corp. is looking abroad for new growth opportunities as the worsening economic climate weighs on its US home market.
The majority of LinkedIn's growth is happening outside of the United States. New members that are joining the networking site in markets are India, Indonesia and Western Europe.

Nov 20, 2022

Nvidia, Microsoft Team up to Build One of most Powerful AI Supercomputers

Nvidia announced a multi-year collaboration with Microsoft to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world.
The supercomputer will be powered by Microsoft Azure's advanced supercomputing infrastructure combined with Nvidia GPUs, networking and a full stack of AI software to help enterprises train, deploy and scale AI, including large, state-of-the-art models.
Nvidia collaboration with Microsoft will provide researchers and companies with state-of-the-art AI infrastructure and software to capitalise on the transformative power of AI.

Nov 19, 2022

"Password" most Widely Used Password in India

"Password" continues to be the most widely used password in India, according to a report by NordPass. It is used by nearly 3.5 million users in the country, and it would take less than one second for hackers to hack it. It is followed by "123456", which can also be cracked within one second.
The fourth most widely used password in India is the name of a start-up, the report released by NordPass showed. "Bigbasket" has been used by over 75,000 users in India as their password. It would, however, take about 5 minutes to crack it. The third most widely used password is 12345678.

Nov 18, 2022

NASA's Launches Artemis Mission Successfully

NASA launched the Artemis I mission from Florida, with the agency's most powerful rocket ever kicking off a nearly month-long journey with a ground-shaking liftoff.
While no astronauts are onboard, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carried the Orion capsule to space in a demonstration for NASA's lunar program. Artemis I will not land on the moon, but the spacecraft will orbit nearby before returning to Earth in 26 days.
According to NASA, this demonstration will help provide operational experience and performance data that cannot come from ground simulations. This will help in rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking and undocking operations, which will start with Artemis III.
The Artemis 1 flight test is aimed at demonstrating the performance and gathering engineering data of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. An important part of Orion's mission will be when it re-enters Earth at speeds of more than 40,000 kilometres per hour.

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