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11 Sep

ISRO successfully conducts third earth-bound manoeuvre

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsIndia, Science & Tech, TechnologyINDIA, science

Aditya L1, India's first mission to study the Sun, took pictures of itself as well as the Earth and the Moon from the high elliptical orbit around Earth where it currently resides. “Onlooker! Aditya-L1, destined for the Sun-Earth L1 point, takes a selfie and images of the Earth and the Moon,” the space agency informed in a tweet on Thursday morning. https://twitter.com/isro/status/1699663615169818935?s=20 The video posted by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) shows an image of a portion of the spacecraft captured by its onboard camera. It features the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) which will study the solar corona,…

07 Sep

NASA shares new images of ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsIndia, TechnologyINDIA, tech byte

American space agency NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently captured a picture of the lander of Chandrayaan-3, India's third mission to the moon. It was the first spacecraft to successfully touch down near the lunar south pole, and this image was taken by LRO on August 27, just four days after the historic lunar landing.Sharing the image on social media platform X, the space agency wrote, "LRO spacecraft recently imaged the Chandrayaan-3 lander on the Moon's surface." According to NASA, the LRO camera achieved a diagonal view (42-degree slew angle) of the lander four days later. The plume of the…

05 Sep

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 safely returns to Earth after 186 days

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsInternational, Technologyinternational

Four astronauts aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor spacecraft that splashed off the coast of Florida on Monday morning have successfully returned to Earth after completing their Crew-6 mission from the International Space Station. US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoberg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedayev landed safely aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, at 12:17 am EDT after 186 days in space, the space agency informed. According to NASA, crew students have contributed to hundreds of experiments and technology demonstrations,…

30 Aug

Gujarat man arrested for poses as scientist who designed Chandrayaan-3 Lander

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsIndia, TechnologyINDIA

The Surat Crime Branch on Wednesday arrested tutor Mitul Trivedi after he gave a media interview claiming that he was an ISRO scientist who designed Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander. Trivedi forged documents and a letter to further his claim. According to the police, Trivedi — who has been giving tuition classes to students of class 12 and onwards — admitted that he created the letter because he felt that if he showed such a letter to the parents of the students, he would be able to register more students for his class. In support of his claim, Trivedi produced a fake…

24 Aug

India’s First AI School Launched In Kerala

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The first AI school in India has been launched at Santhigiri Vidyabhavan, in Kerala's capital city Thiruvananthapuram. The school was inaugurated by the president Ram Nath Kovind. And it was established with a collaboration between iLearning Engines (ILE) USA and Vedhik eSchool. This innovative technology will not replace human teachers with any other websites like ChatGPT instead traditional learning and human interaction will still remain the crucial part of the school. The innovation will help to enhance learning experience of students by offering guidance, resources, machine learning, natural language processing and many more.

21 Aug

German embassy shares footage of minister using UPI in India

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, India, TechnologyBusiness, INDIA

Germany's Federal Minister for Digital and Transport, Volker Weising, was able to feel the simplicity of UPI (Unified Payment Interface) payments at firsthand and was very "impressed" by the experience. On Sunday, the German Embassy in India took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to praise India's digital infrastructure, hailing it as one of the country's success stories. https://twitter.com/GermanyinIndia/status/1693162556918210966?s=20 The German Embassy in India shared videos and photos of Mr Wissing buying groceries and using UPI for payment. The accompanying caption read, "One of India’s success story is digital infrastructure. UPI enables everybody to make transactions in seconds. Millions of…

18 Aug

India’s first 3D printed post office is now open for business in Bengaluru

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Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw who holds the Railways, Communications, Electronics and IT portfolios inaugurated India's first 3D printed post office built up in an area of 1,021 square feet at Cambridge layout. The work was completed in 45 days. After the inauguration, Vaishnaw said: "The spirit of development, the spirit of developing our own technology, the spirit of doing something which was considered impossible in the earlier times. That's the defining feature of these times." Welcoming the development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted: "Every Indian would be proud to see India's first 3D printed Post Office at Cambridge Layout, Bengaluru.…

13 Aug

President Murmu to launch Navy’s stealth frigate in Kolkata on August 17

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President Droupadi Murmu will introduce frigate 'Vindhyagiri', the sixth ship of the Project 17A programme at Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited, Kolkata, on August 17(Thursday), the Indian Navy said on Sunday. "The newly christened Vindhyagiri stands as a symbol of India's determination to embrace its rich naval heritage while propelling itself towards a future of indigenous defence capabilities," the Navy said in a statement.

05 Aug

Google scanner to let Android phones read QR codes from across the room

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Google has come up with a decision to introduce a feature for Android users which will help them to automatically detect a QR code in a camera frame, zooms in and reads it. The Google code scanner API, doesn't require camera permission and automatically detect the bar code, while safeguarding user privacy. The feature will help eliminate manual zoom adjustments, and will give result faster and more accurate. "Starting with version 16.1.0, you can enable auto-zoom to allow the Google code scanner to automatically scan barcodes that are far away from the camera," Google added. "All image processing occurs on…

12 Jun

Center bans over 150 ‘anti-India’ sites, YouTube channels

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, India, TechnologyINDIA

YouTube News channels, which were reduced, had over 12,123,500 subscribers and a total of 1,320,426,964 views.The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (INB) has taken down more than 150 websites and YouTube-based news channels since May 2021 for producing "anti-India" content, officials aware of the details said. Websites and channels have been removed for violation of Section 69A of the Information Technology (IT) Act, which empowers any government agency or mediator to issue orders to block content in the interest of the sovereignty and integrity of India, defense of India. To prevent incitement to the commission of any cognizable offense relating…