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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - December 2018

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Oct 24, 2021

Intel Unnati Data-Centric Labs

Intel has announced the launch of "Intel Unnati Program" on October 21, 2021 in order to help equip engineering students in India with data-centric skills that are relevant for industry.
Intel has also planned to setup 100 Intel Unnati Data Centric Labs by the year 2022.
This program was launched in order to bring academia and industry together for addressing the skills gap in new age technologies.
Programme also focuses on technology inclusion and seeks to broaden the access to technology infrastructure for educational institutions in all tiers.
These educational institutions will also get a choice of lab variants to suit their budgets as well as on the basis of where they stand in their infrastructure and technology journey.

Oct 22, 2021

South Korea Launches First Homegrown Space Rocket Nuri

South Korea launched its first homegrown rocket Nuri in its bid to join the race for space exploration.
Also known as the Korean Satellite Launch Vehicle II, it took off from Goheung. It put a 1.5 tonnes dummy satellite into orbit.
South Korea is the seventh country to successfully send a rocket into space.
But it also comes as an arms race heats up between North and South Korea. Both have recently test-fired new weapons.
Nuri cost South Korea an estimated 2 trillion won (£1.23bn or $1.6bn) to develop. Weighing 200 tonnes and measuring 47.2 metres long, it is fitted with six liquid-fuelled engines.

Oct 21, 2021

TRUTH Social: Donald Trump's New Social Media Platform

Former US President, Donald Trump, launched his own social media network called "TRUTH Social".
This platform was launched after Donald Trump faced bans from Facebook and Twitter.
Trump's social media platform will stand up to the pattern of Big Tech.
This app is the first project of "Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG)" following its merger with Digital World Acquisition Group. Former US President, Trump, is the chairman of the group.
Former President of United States launched this platform as his social media accounts either got temporarily suspended or even banned due to his controversial posts. Accounts were suspended following the attack on the Capitol back in January 2021.

Scientists Create most Detailed Map of Uranus' Mysterious Auroras

Scientists have imaged the whole globe of Uranus in the infrared part of the light spectrum for the first time, hoping to shed light on the planet's mysterious auroras and weird magnetic field.
The scientists, based at the University of Leicester in the U.K., used NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) in Hawaii to look at the odd ice giant that orbits the sun 19 times farther away than Earth does.
Just like on Earth, auroras on Uranus are triggered by the interaction of the solar wind, the stream of charged particles emanating from the sun, with the planet's magnetic field. But because so much is different about Uranus compared to our planet, these auroras behave very differently than the Earth's famous northern and southern polar lights.

Oct 19, 2021

Facebook Files: 'Orchestrated' Media Campaign Behind New Leaks, Alleges Company

Facebook continued its pushback against what it called "mischaracterisation" by the media over the "Facebook Files" series of Wall Street Journal exposes that allegedly reveal internal documents broadly holding the company accountable for prioritising its own growth over the safety of users.
In a carefully crafted response posted from the Facebook Newsroom Twitter handle to fend off the bad press, the company accused media organisations of reportage which "misrepresents" its actions and motivations.
A curated selection out of millions of documents at Facebook can in no way be used to draw fair conclusions about us. Internally, we share work in progress and debate options. Not every suggestion stands up to the scrutiny we must apply to decisions affecting so many people.

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.

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