Lakshmi, the Banking Robot, may replace traditional ‘May I Help You Desk’ in Indian Banks. City Union Bank by installing a robot, Lakshmi, a humanoid, at its T. Nagar, Chennai branch in the lobby to greet its customers and explain bank’s products and technology services has become the first private sector bank in the country to deploy a robot with Artificial Intelligence to answer generic banking related questio...
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Growing Cyber Crimes
With the arrival of internet and social media the world has gone through a sea change in defining life, relations and interaction at the click of mouse. The convergence of ideas, new concepts and technological inventions have bonded the humanity together encompassing class and regions . It has tremendously changed the global knowledge scenario by harmonizing the innumerable knowledge islands spread and scattered...
Green Urban Transport Scheme
Green Urban Transport Scheme (GUTS) is an idea whose time has come, because the way, the veins and the arteries of cities are being choked due to abnormal rise in carbon level and depriving the citizens of pollution free life. The phenomenon of smog which recently engulfed New Delhi – India’s capital was an eye opener, requiring official intervention to deal with the rising pollution that has contaminated the ai...
India Born Vision Scientist Push Frontiers of Neuroscience to Better Understand Vision
Kolkata- India -born vision scientists Raunak Sinha and Mrinalini Hoon, who call themselves as a 'scientist couple', recently made comparisons of the physiological properties of fovea and peripheral retina and pushed the frontiers of neuroscience to better understand vision. This is a recent breakthrough in understanding how the most important aspects of our vision work at a cellular level. This work illustrate...
Intermittent Eruptions Observed on India’s Only Active Volcano
Barren Island Volcano, India’s only active volcano is erupting once again and spewing smoke, lava and ash as observed closely, by scientists from CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography (CSIR-NIO), Goa; on January 23 & 26, 2017. This Barren Island volcano is located 140 km Northeast of Port Blair, in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, had been dormant for more than 150 years but had started er...
Improvements to Stratospheric Craft of Google’s Project Loon to Make People’s Lives Better
Project Loon of Google is a reliable and cost-effective way to beam Internet service from the sky to places lacking it. It beams Internet connectivity hundreds of kilometers between balloons while they travel the stratospheric winds. To extend connectivity to billions of people for whom the closest Internet access point can be hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away and particularly to those in remote rura...
ISRO Scripts History Again by Launching 104 Satellites at One Go
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) with successful launch, on Wednesday the 15 May 2017, of a record 104 satellites and putting them into orbit in a single mission on board PSLV-C37, has once again done proud to the country. Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) injected India's weather observation Cartosat-2 Series satellite and 103 nano satellites in the polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) in a gap of abo...
Artificial Intelligence should be Beneficial and Not Harmful to the Future of Humankind
Fear of future machines surpassing the intelligence of humans and taking over the world could be real! As new technology brings in a new set of challenges and creating artificial intelligence -driven technology products is almost like replicating human intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already real. There are statistical machines that automate and increasingly can outpe...
Successful Trials of Agni IV & V Confirm India’s Nuclear Deterrence Capability
Agni IV was successfully test-fired for a range of about 3,100 km on 2 January 2017, as part of a user trial by the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) at 11.55 am from launch complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) Dr. Abdul Kalam Island (formerly known as Wheeler Island), off Damra village on the Odisha coast. Agni-IV is India’s two-stage, surface-to-surface long-range, strategic ballistic missile and can carry a nuclear war...
G-Triangulation Creates Digital Maps for Conclusive Land Titles
G-Triangulation is a high-impact project of Haryana Space Applications Centre (HARSAC) which has created digital maps of Gurugram (Gurgaon) to obtain a clear view of land claims. By using unmanned drones to create digital maps, Gurugram district administration has now the most accurate maps in land records in the entire India that have enabled the...