Science and Tech
Science and Tech
● Happy trivandrum games to reduce screen time among children and others
● “Technology delayed is technology denied” Air Chief Marshal
● Kaveri public service portal of Karnataka hacked
● $500 billion electronic manuf by 2030 target
sriperumbathur Noida clusters
● Telengana police data breach
● Tech sakhi helpline for women
● Popcorn brain is a term used to describe a person's inability to focus on a single task for
a long time due to an overstimulated brain
● Our attention span now is 9s ,which is less than a gold fish
● “India Techade”
● Foucault pendulum in Parliament #scientific temper
● UP ‘digital warriors’ to combat fake news and cyber crime
SOCIAL MEDIA
● Brainrot
● 5 Billion sm users worldwide-62% of population
PRIVATE SECTOR
● Agnikul rocket with 3D printed engine
SOrTeD technology
● Groundstation as a service(GSaaS) by IN SPACe
BIOTECH
● BioE3 (Biotechnology for Economy, Environment and Employment) policy
IPR
● Bharath Biotech un consented trial at People's hospital MP
SPACE DEBRIS
● ISRO deorbuted CARTOSAT 2
● NASA Harpoon capture technology
BLOCK CHAIN
● TRAI using Blockchain to register spam calls from customers
● Block chain traceable Kasturi cotton brand
● Blue Circle (China) uses blockchain technology and internet of things to track and
monitor full lifecycle of plastic pollution
● world coin crypto project collecting iris data from people .”proof of personhood”
NANO
● Nanozyme called NanoPtA,can degrade toxic chemicals in industrial
wastewater
SEMI CONDUCTOR
● GPU clusters -Ppp model to make sec chips
OTHER
● Launchpad for only pvt sector use at kulasekarapattinam
● Dawn of digital colonialism lead to data exploitation
● Draft National deeptech startup policy
TECHNOLOGY
● Digital apartheid
only 30% if women in india are digitally literate
● Non democratisation of Technology
● "Technology is transformative but it needs to be made inclusive"Modi
● Teacher Attendence Monitoring System(TAMS) East jaintia district -Facial
recognition,geofencing, recording time spent at school to Address absenteeism or proxy
teaching
DATA
● "personal data bill will boost digital economy " NASSCOM
● Data Sharing from cradle to pyre
DRONE
● Drones to monitor MGNREGS worksites
● ICMR ironed initiative for drug delivery
SAMUDRAYAAN
● 'MATSYA 6000' submersible under construction at National Institute of Ocean
Technology at Chennai.
● India’s first manned Deep Ocean Mission ‘Samudrayaan’ plans to send 3 humans in
6-km ocean depth in a submersible, to study the deep sea resources and biodiversity
assessment.
● The project will not disturb the ocean ecosystem.
AI
● Swami chatbot for sabarimala pilgrims
● 27% jobs can be replaced by AI OECD
● CureAI to early detect disease from scans
● Microsoft $3 billion AI investment in Telengana
● Rajni murder case solved through AI age projection ;after 18 years
● Google GenCast AI for weather prediction
● Trivandrum airport Wilbor robot for automated storm water drain maintanence
By Kerala startup Genrobotics
● Chitra khoji face recognition software used by Chandigarh police
● Mulehunter by RBI based on AL and ML
● O P Jindal University, failed a pg student for allegedly using AI to generate
"submissions" to questions on a particular subject.
● Double AI power of AI and Aspirational India
● “Deus in Machina” -the AI Jesus in Peter’s Church Switzerland
● Kerala IBM GenAI conclave
● EU estd AI office
● Gajraj suraksha AI-based algorithm to detects elephants approaching railway tracks
● IndiaAI portal by Meity for awareness unfo etc
● Estonia: Robot judge for adjudicating small claims.
● SEBI AI chatbot SEVA for investors
3D PRINT
● 3D printed gun used to kill Us United health CEO murder
DEEP FAKE
● Wrestlers posing wide smile for selfie after protest
● Barak Obama verbally abusing Donald Trump
● Revenge porn
Rashmika Mandana
+ve
● Voice cloning initiative to voice lost dye to sclerosis
Best practise
● China banned deep fake without consent of owner
GENERATIVE AI
● Trinetra crime gpt help police in crime reduction
● Newyork times copyright violation suit against OpenAI
● Fair use doctrine
● instances of users asking Mistral’s Instruct model how to build a bomb or to selfharm,
and the chatbot responded with detailed instructions
● Jugalbandi chatbot by chatgpt in rural India as universal translator
● MeitY’s BHASHINI is working on a ChatGPT-Powered WhatsApp Chatbot to help Indian
farmers learn about various government schemes.
● HC in Punjab and Haryana uses ChatGPT to decide bail for an assault
● EU AI act
Literature generated by generative AI need to be tagged
Trainning material used should be provided
● Suryast art work created by Raghav AI painting app registered by Indian copyright office
● Visual art by 'Creative Machine' rejected by US copyright office
US,author of copyright excludes non humans by law while India,no change to Copyright act
1957,ignores human authorship
● John Grisham,US authors sue OpenAI over copyrights
WF
● identity assurance framework
● -verification
● -content integrity
● -information validity
DPI
● Digilocker used to verify certificates in karnataka police recruitment led to process being
cut gym 6 months
● India's dpi marks our 2nd war for independence- economic freedom from day to day
drudgery of life and transactions
● New Cambrian explosion would gapped when chatgpt meets Indiastack
● MeitY has introduced the 'Entity Locker,' a secure, cloud-based platform aimed at
revolutionising the management and verification of business and organisational
documents.This initiative is a significant stride in India's Digital Public Infrastructure,
AWARDS
● Vigyan ratna
VOCAB
● In this 'techade',ensuring a safe secure and dynamic digital landscape is the need of the
hour