Context Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska, chair of Number Theory at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, was on named as one of four recipients of the Fields Medal…

Context NASA launched CAPSTONE Mission, a microwave oven-sized CubeSat weighing just 55 pounds (25 kg). About CAPSTONE Mission CAPSTONE, short for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment,…

Context The PSLV Orbital Experimental Module is a platform that will help perform in-orbit experiments using the final, and otherwise discarded, stage of ISRO’s workhorse rocket, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle…

Context The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister, gave its nod for the auction of spectrum that can be used to offer 5G services, at its meeting held on June…

Context The Union Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has declared IT resources of ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and UPI managing entity NPCI as ‘critical information infrastructure’. What is critical…

Context The new data released by the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has revealed the surprise phenomena of ‘starquakes’—massive tsunami-like movements on the surface of stars. Key Findings The data has also…

Context Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently announced his vision for a new decentralized web platform that is being called Web 5.0 and is being built with an aim to…

Context A senior engineer at Google claimed that the company’s artificial intelligence-based chatbot LamDA i.e. Language Model for Dialogue Applications had become “sentient”. What is LaMDA? Google first announced LaMDA at…

Draft amendments to IT Rules 2021 Context The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has published a fresh draft of amendments to the Information Technology Rules, 2021, which proposes the creation…

Context Recently, astronomers have reported a fast radio burst (FRB) whose characteristics are different from almost all other FRBs previously detected, except one. The scientists used the National Science Foundation’s Karl G…