Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

First Satellite-Based Two-Way Messaging: Qualcomm launched the first satellite-based two-way messaging. It is called Snapdragon Satellite. .In two-way messaging like Whatsapp, both participants can send or receive messages simultaneously. Snap Dragon Satellite was launched at the CES 2023 It is powered by a 5G Modem RF system It can support 5G non-terrestrial networks. NTN is […]

Digital Payments Utsav: The Digital Payments Utsav is to be launched by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The main objective of the event is to create awareness of digital payments. Digital Payments Utsav is to be held in Lucknow, Pune, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru The above cities were chosen because the Digital Economy Working […]

Vikas Engine : ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully tested the throttling of Vikas, its workhorse launch-vehicle engine. VIKAS (an acronym for Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai) engine is a family of liquid-fuelled rocket engines conceptualized and designed by the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre of ISRO in the 1970s. The early productions involved imported […]

IEEE C-DOT Certified Telecom Expert Program (ICCTEP): The Secretary (Telecom) of, the Government of India launched the ‘IEEE C-DOT Certified Telecom Expert Program (ICCTEP)’ IEEE C-DOT Certified Telecom Expert Program is a concrete step in the furtherance of wide-ranging collaboration between the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Centre for Development of […]

Integrative Medicine Center: The Government of India is to inaugurate Integrative Medicine Centers. These centres will operate at Government hospitals. The centres will mainly focus on Ayurvedic medicines and will use modern technologies. The first Integrative Medicine Centre was inaugurated at the Safdarjang Hospital in Delhi. The main objective of the initiative is to use […]

Google To unveil Its New AI Chatbot Bard: Google will soon unveil its new AI chatbot Bard in response to Microsoft’s ChatGPT Bard is based on the Language Model for Dialogue Application (LaMDA), Google’s own conversational AI chatbot. It will give in-depth, conversational and essay-style answers just like ChatGPT does right now. However, the model […]

Quasicrystals : Third Natural Source Scientists have discovered a third natural source of quasicrystals. Quasicrystal, also called quasi-periodic crystal, matter formed atomically in a manner somewhere between the amorphous solids of glasses and the precise pattern of crystals. In quasicrystals, the atoms are arranged in a pattern that repeats itself at irregular, yet predictable, intervals. […]

SpaceX Starship: The chief of SpaceX recently said that SpaceX may attempt a Starship rocket system launch in March. Starship is a super-heavy-lift rocket and spacecraft built to carry immense cargo and numerous astronauts into deep space. Starship will be the world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, with the ability to carry up to […]

What Is amorphous Ice? Scientists have fashioned a previously unknown form of ice – one that might exist on our solar system’s icy moons. The researchers employed a process called ball milling to vigorously shake ordinary ice together with steel balls in a container cooled to minus-328 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-200 degrees Celsius). This yielded what […]