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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - January 2022

Jan 2022

Apr 14, 2023

WhatsApp Launches 'Stay Safe' Campaign to Educate Users

WhatsApp announced a new campaign called "Stay Safe with WhatsApp," which highlights the several safety features that are pre-built on the messaging app. The campaign will run for a total of three months with a focus on several safety-centric features like 'Block and Report,' 'Two-Step Verification,' and 'Privacy and group settings.'
The campaign highlights why it is important to add two-step verification to WhatsApp, which requires a six-digit pin and an OTP to authenticate a user. This will be helpful if the smartphone is lost, as the miscreant will not be able to access WhatsApp without the security pin.

Apr 13, 2023

UAE's Rashid Rover to Land on Moon on April 25

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), a Dubai government organisation working on the UAE space programme, announced that the Rashid Rover, onboard the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander, is scheduled to land on the Moon on April 25.
The landing date is subject to change depending on operational conditions.
During the landing sequence, the lander will perform a braking burn, firing its main propulsion system to decelerate from orbit. Utilising a series of pre-set commands, the lander will adjust its altitude and reduce velocity to make a soft landing on the confirmed site of Atlas Crater in the Mare Frigoris.

Apr 10, 2023

Cabinet approves LIGO-India, gravitational-wave detector to be built in Maharashtra

The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a project to build an advanced gravitational-wave detector in Maharashtra at an estimated cost of Rs 2,600 crore. The facility's construction is expected to be completed by 2030.
By building it, "Indian S&T will leap-frog in a number of cutting-edge frontiers of great national relevance, in particular quantum-sensing and metrology," Tarun Souradeep, director of the Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, and former spokesperson (science) of LIGO-India,
According to Union minister Jitendra Singh, it will come up in Hingoli district, where land has been acquired to the tune of 174 acres.
The observatory will be the third of its kind, made to the exact specifications of the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories (LIGO), in Louisiana and Washington in the U.S. LIGO-India will work in tandem with them.
The project is a collaboration between a consortium of Indian research institutions and the U.S. observatories, plus several international partners.
LIGO-India will be built by the Department of Atomic Energy and the Department of Science and Technology, with a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. National Science Foundation and several national and international research institutions. The U.S. will provide key components for the lab worth around Rs 560 crore.

Apr 09, 2023

NASA's James Webb Telescope Spots Four Most Distant Galaxies ever Observed

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) found the four most distant galaxies ever seen, one of which formed only 320 million years after the Big Bang, when the cosmos was still in its infancy.
The galaxies date from 300 to 500 million years after the Big Bang, more than 13 billion years ago, when the universe was just two percent of its current age.
That means the galaxies are from what is called "the epoch of reionization," a period when the first stars are believed to have emerged. The epoch came directly after the cosmic dark ages brought about by the Big Bang.

Apr 05, 2023

Kenya to Launch its First Earth Observation Satellite

Kenya will launch its first-ever earth observation satellite on April 10, marking a significant milestone in the country's space exploration efforts.
Taifa-1 is scheduled to be launched on April 10 aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Taifa-1 has been fully designed and developed by a team of Kenyan engineers.

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