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Latest Science and Technology News-September 20, 2023

Questions:

1. When is the new iPhone 15 series releasing in India?
2. Which two models of the iPhone 15 series will be ‘Made in India’?
3. Where will the locally-manufactured iPhones be available in India on the global sales day?
4. Who is the founder and CEO of Meta?
5. What new payment feature did Mark Zuckerberg announce for WhatsApp users in India?
6. Which two payment solutions providers did WhatsApp partner with in India for its new payment feature?
7. What is Uber Auto?
8. How has Uber Auto affected the three-wheeler services in New Delhi?
9. What is the projected compound annual growth rate for the wearable tech industry from 2022 to 2030?
10. Who is the US Commerce Secretary?
11. What recent claim did the US Commerce Secretary make about Huawei?
12. Why is Elon Musk being investigated by the US Department of Justice?
13. What is the purpose of Elon Musk’s company Neuralink’s human trials?
14. Who is Larry Ellison and what recent statement did he make about AI?
15. What allegation was made by an intern at InMobi?
16. What is WhatsApp currently testing for Apple devices?
17. What new era is arising due to AI, as per Intel?
18. What did Intel unveil at the ‘Intel Innovation’ event?
19. Who is ‘Transparent Tribe’ and what malicious activity are they involved in?
20. How is the CapraRAT toolset being used by ‘Transparent Tribe’?
21. What feature did Google introduce to allow users to contribute to Google Maps?
22. How many kilometers of roads have been mapped since the launch of Road Mapper?

Answers:

1. September 22.
2. iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus.
3. Apple Online, Apple BKC in Mumbai, and Apple Saket in Delhi.
4. Mark Zuckerberg.
5. A feature to pay businesses using various payment options including UPI apps, debit, and credit cards.
6. PayU and Razorpay.
7. It is a three-wheeler service by Uber.
8. The service is at the forefront of Uber’s future growth initiatives.
9. 14.3%.
10. Gina Raimondo.
11. There’s no evidence that Huawei can produce smartphones with advanced semiconductors at scale.
12. For potential personal benefits Tesla may have provided him, especially in relation to ‘Project 42’.
13. To help those with paralysis control devices.
14. He is the CTO and Co-founder of Oracle, and he mentioned a “worldwide race to build what comes next” in AI technology.
15. Sexual harassment by a product manager of the team.
16. A version of its iOS app optimized for Apple iPad.
17. The ‘Siliconomy’.
18. Technologies to bring AI everywhere.
19. A suspected Pakistan-linked hacker group targeting military and diplomatic personnel.
20. For surveillance against targets related to the disputed region of Kashmir and human rights activists related to Pakistan.
21. Road Mapper.
22. Over 1.5 million kms.

Latest Science and Technology News- August 19, 2023

Questions:

1-What change did Google announce regarding the inactivity period for Google Accounts, and when will this change take effect?

2-According to a new study, what political bias has been identified in OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and in which political contexts does it show favoritism?

3-How has SpaceX upgraded its Starship vehicle for its upcoming flight, and what are the two main components of Starship?

4-What unconventional recommendations did a Microsoft travel guide for Ottawa make, and how did the company explain this?

5-How did US researchers restore vision in patients with eye injuries, and what innovative stem cell treatment was used?

6-How did the Indian space agency reduce its moon lander’s orbit, and what purpose does the Chandrayaan-3 mission serve?

7-What previous failure did the Chandrayaan-2 mission experience, and when is the Chandrayaan-3 lander expected to softly land on the Moon?

8-How did the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft achieve its orbit and trajectory towards the Moon?

Answers:

1-Google announced that it’s updating the inactivity period for Google Accounts to two years, with the change rolling out now and deletion of inactive accounts and content beginning on December 1, 2023.

2-A new study has shown that OpenAI’s ChatGPT has a significant Left-wing bias, favoring Democrats, Labour Party, and President Lula da Silva.

3-SpaceX upgraded its Starship vehicle for an impending flight, comprising a spacecraft called Starship and a giant first-stage booster known as Super Heavy.

4-A Microsoft travel guide for Ottawa mistakenly recommended tourists visit the Ottawa Food Bank, the National War Memorial, and a hockey game, citing “human error” as the reason.

5-US researchers restored vision in patients with eye injuries using cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cell transplantation (CALEC), a stem cell treatment involving the patient’s own cells.

6-The Indian space agency reduced its moon lander’s orbit to bring it closer to the Moon as part of the Chandrayaan-3 mission.

7-Chandrayaan-2’s lander ‘Vikram’ crashed, leading to the Chandrayaan-3 mission aiming to softly land the lander and is expected to do so on August 23 at 5.47 p.m.

8-Chandrayaan-3 was launched into orbit on July 14 by India’s heavy lift rocket LVM3 and headed towards the Moon on August 1 through a successful perigee-firing.

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