Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain to demonstrate his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface. Accordig to him, “It’s kind of like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires.” His start-up Neuralink applied to launch human trials last year.The interface […]
The world is facing climatic changes due to increased anthropogenic interventions in natural cycles in the industrial age. It was realized by the end of the twentieth century that the international fraternity should act together to halt adverse climatic changes produced by industrial and other activities, especially the activities which produce green house gases and […]
ISRO, India’s pride The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)) is the space agency of the Government of India headquartered in the city of Bengaluru. Its vision is to “harness space technology for national development while pursuing space science research and planetary exploration.” Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) was established by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of the Indian Government under the DAE in 1962, with the […]
South Korea launches the world’s first fully-fledged 5G mobile networks on March 29. This is a breakthrough in the use of a frontier and transformational technology. Thus South Korea has claimed to put first claim on control of an innovation that could potentially change the day-to-day lives of billions of people. The superfast communications heralded by […]
Tech giant Apple has deepened its interest in self-driving cars and now has expanded its fleet of autonomous cars in California, USA making it the second-largest fleet in the state. The news comes in days after Chinese ridesharing firm Didi Chuxing confirming that it will test its own driverless car technology. As per macReports by […]
In a milestone breakthrough, BrahMos, was successfully test fired with an indigenous seeker on March 22 at a Pokhran test range in Rajasthan. It is said to be the world’s fastest and most formidable anti-ship cruise missile. This test firing of supersonic missile has given a big boost to government’s ‘Make in India’ campaign as […]
In a forecast update in June 2017, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasted higher monsoon rainfall during the year than its forecast in April 2017 because of favourable developments in global conditions, particularly the lower prospects of rain-busting El Nino conditions in the Pacific Ocean. IMD’s optimistic forecast was corroborated by the widely respected Australian […]
According to Keith Coleman, global vice-president- product, Twitter, the social media platform is working to build new tools and features to stop bots or automated accounts from spreading misinformation, even as its primary strategy is to rely on other users to call out fake news. Globally, there is concern over social media platforms being used […]