Category: Science and Technology

Facebook, Google and Microsoft ties-up for “Project Protect” to combat online child sexual abuse

Facebook and Google
  • Facebook joined Google, Microsoft and 15 other tech companies to declare the formation of “Project Protect”: A plan to fight online child sexual abuse – a renewed commitment and investment from the Technology Coalition growing its scope and impact to defend kids online and guide its work for the next 15 years.

Central Railways starts robotic ‘Captain Arjun’ for the screening of passengers for COVID-19

Captain Arjun
  • Central Railways has started a robot called ‘Captain Arjun” for the screening of travelers for COVID-19 infection and monitoring on railway premises in Pune.

“Ghar Ghar Nigrani”: Mobile Application started by Punjab Government

Ghar Ghar Nigrani
  • The Punjab government on 12th June started a mobile application named “Ghar Ghar Nigrani”.
  • Purpose: Undertaking house to house monitoring to check the spread of COVID-19. The application is to be utilized as a tool for early detection and testing of COVID-19 and stop community spread.

SahKathy Sullivan to be the first person to walk in space and reach ocean’s deepest point

NASA
  • Previous NASA astronaut Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the ocean. Sullivan was also the first American woman to perform a spacewalk over 36 years ago. So right now, she’s the first human to have done both.

India to be 2nd nation to have contact-free ATM cash withdrawals

contact-free ATM cash withdrawals
  • In order to exclude the use of the physical card or touch an ATM PIN pad, amid the expanse of coronavirus from contaminated surfaces, Empays Payment Systems has tied hands with Mastercard to begin “Cardless ATM powered by Mastercard” in India based on the standards of EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa).

Anil Valluri enters Google Cloud India as Senior Director

Anil Valluri
  • Google is making a change in its Google Cloud managerial division. It has selected Anil Valluri as the Senior Director for Google Cloud India. Valluri has over 30 years of knowledge in sales and marketing in the hi-tech industry.

Wipro pairs up with IBM to offer Cloud solutions

Wipro pairs up with IBM
  • Wipro has paired up with IBM to assist customers to embark on a hybrid cloud migration journey.
  • Through this alliance, Wipro would produce hybrid cloud offerings to support businesses migrate, manage and modify mission-critical operations and applications across public or private cloud and on-premise IT environments.

IndusInd Bank starts ‘India’s first’ mobile app ‘Indus Corporate’ based convenience for opening current accounts

IndusInd Bank
  • IndusInd Bank has declared the release of a first-of-its-kind assisted mobile application based convenience, that allows the bank to open current accounts for self-employed individuals and businesses digitally, in just a few hours.

DRDO prepares ‘Ultra Swachh’ for PPE disinfection

DRDO prepares ‘Ultra Swachh’ for PPE disinfection
  • The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on 2nd June said that it has prepared a disinfection unit called ”Ultra Swachh” to disinfect a broad range of materials, including Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs), electronics items and fabrics.

Centre started three new schemes to support electronics manufacturing in India

Electronics manufacturing
  • Central Government on 2nd June has declared three schemes worth Rs 50,000 crore. The schemes are Production Linked Incentive Scheme, Component Manufacturing Scheme, and Modified Electronics Manufacturing Clusters Scheme – will be executed from June 2 for the growth of the electronics manufacturing sector in India.