the help of Denmark.
It has been branded as a UK designed mobile air defense system.
This may re-purpose air-to-air missiles as ground-based air defense.
The missiles have a range of about 12 miles and a speed of Mach 2.5.
Largest Vertical Propellant Mixer in the World.
ISRO has managed to build a 10-tonne vertical planetary mixer, the largest solid propellant mixer in the world.
The Indian space transportation systems heavily rely on solid propulsion.
A propellant mixer is a device that combines the components of rocket propellants i.e. fuel and oxidiser.
It will provide a stable and consistent solid rocket motor mixture.
Grok 3 AI
The new Grok 3 models have been published by Elon Musk xAI.
Grok-3 is over 10-fold faster than Gerkel.
The Colossus supercomputer of xAI is supposed to be used in Grok 3.
It is alleged that this is the Smartest AI on Earth.
DDoS attack on Kaveri 2.0
In January, the web-based portal Kaveri 2.0, which automates the property registrations in Karnataka, suffered intermittent crippling server failures.
This virtually paralyzed the state in terms of property registration and document related citizen services.
It is an incentivized DDoS attack.
DDoS attack is a malicious effort to interfere with the regular operations of a targeted server, service or network by saturating it with a huge amount of internet traffic.
As opposed to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack, which usually involves only one source, a DDoS attack exploits many compromised systems, usually with malware running on them, to create the traffic.
A set of such compromised systems is called a botnet.
Microsoft - Majorana 1
Microsoft has announced the arrival of a new quantum chip, Majorana 1, that generates scalable and reliable qubits in large numbers compared to its predecessors.
Quantum computers are built out of qubits.
The eight-qubit chip is the Majorana 1, a modest size compared to quantum chips that have been developed by competitors, including Google Willow (106-qubit chip) and IBM R2 Heron (156-qubit chip).
Einstein ring galaxy NGC 6505
Very recently, an Einstein ring was observed in the galaxy NGC 6505 by the Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency (ESA).
This is only half a billion lightyears away.
Strong gravitational lensing is a special case of an Einstein ring.
More than 80 years after Einstein had predicted it, astronomers found the first Einstein ring in 1998.
When a gravitational lens bends the light of a very distant object in the background, such as a star or a galaxy, the effect is an Einstein ring.
Simulated Lunar Soil, Silicon Carbide.
IIT-Madras have already managed to extract the silicon carbide of (simulated) moon soil.
The result may be the creation of silicon carbide-based materials to construct lunar habitats.
Silicon carbide is a mixture of carbon and silicon.
The earth has only received 382 kg of moon rocks and soil.
Thus, simulated lunar soil is prepared by the entities.
Silicon (together with other elements like aluminium and calcium) is also abundant in the Lunar highlands.
Inkathazo galaxy
The MeerKAT telescope in South Africa has found a new giant radio galaxy which is colloquially called Inkathazo meaning trouble.
The size of the cosmic megastructure is 3.3 million light-years.
It is 32 times bigger than our Milky Way galaxy and is 1.44 billion light-years distant to Earth.
Soon MeerKAT will join the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
Indian neuromorphic device.
The Scientists have created a wearable device that can read strain and mimics the perception of pain and changes its electrical response to it.
Neuromorphic devices present numerous concepts of how the human body perceives pain and reacts to it.
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The device has been created based on the silver wire network on a stretchable surface.
Quantum Teleportation
The researchers were able to quantum teleport logical gates.
Qubits (quantum bits) replace the classical computer bits in quantum computers.
Scalability of quantum computing, however, has proved a challenge to the scientists.
The quantum teleportation is used to establish interactions between these two far systems.
Quantum teleportation is the exchange of information between two locations by the help of a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement.
It is not transmitting a physical object as is