Chandrayaan-2: Third Orbit-Raising Activity Completed Successfully India’s second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2 lifts off onboard GSLV Mk III-M1 launch vehicle from Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The third orbit raising activity for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has been performed successfully at 3.12 p.m. on Monday, the Indian space agency said. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the orbit of the Chandrayaan-2 was raised to 276 x 71,792 km by firing the onboard motors for 989 seconds. All spacecraft parameters are normal, it said.
The digital traces of our lives on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat are being mined into a trillion-dollar-a-year industry and there is no way out. We are now the commodity for tech giants who are constantly watching us, sharing our data with third-party organizations who, then, are analyzing that in great details for individual-level targeting, swaying voters, benefitting advertisers and what not.
When Alexis Kerry Ohanian and Steve Huffman founded Reddit in 2005, little did they realize that the social discussion platform would one day unite young netizens across the world in a way that even social networking giant Facebook may feel threatened?
Microsoft is rolling out a new Windows 10 20H1 test build which includes some new adjustments to Cortana, among other new features. That Windows 10 20H1 test build, No. 18945, is rolling out on July 26, just days after Microsoft accidentally pushed an even newer Canary ring 20H1 build to testers in all rings.
Researchers and experts have slammed Facebook for making its Ad Library meant to bring a new level of transparency to online ad buy riddled with errors and technical glitches that make it virtually unusable.
Google is working towards making privacy controls more easily accessible, expanding its incognito mode to maps and adding new auto delete controls, the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai has said. “And we continue to challenge the notion that products need more data to be more helpful,” Pichai said on Thursday during an earnings call with analysts after Google’s parent company Alphabet reported revenue of $38.9 billion for the second quarter (Q2) of 2019. “For example, we invented a new technique called federated learning that allows us to train AI models and make products smarter without raw data leaving your device,” he said. Pichai’s comment came at a time when technology companies are facing challenges of protecting user privacy amid increased scrutiny by regulators. Google last week faced criticism for letting third-party organizations get access to users’ viewing habits even while browsing in ‘incognito’ mode.
India is a powerhouse in terms of smartphone sales. With a population of well over 1 billion people, it’s no surprise that the Indian market is a key area for smartphone companies. The constant jostling for position atop the heap has been won pretty convincingly by Xiaomi in the last few years. However, their lead over the opposition has never gotten completely out of control. Each time Xiaomi gains market share in a quarter, it’s usually quickly won back by rivals such as Samsung in the following quarter.
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