Science & Technology Current Affairs

National Payment Corporation of India has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) based chatbot, PAi, to create awareness around its products like FASTag, RuPay, UPI, AePS on a real time basis. This is yet another NPCI’s initiative to improve digital financial inclusion in India. The AI virtual assistant, PAi is available round the clock helping users […]

Infosys has partnered Zurich-based Avaloq to provide end-to-end (e2e) wealth management capabilities through digital platforms. Infosys will be a strategic implementation partner for Avaloq”s wealth management suite of solutions to help clients modernize and transform their legacy systems into cutting-edge digital advisory platforms. Infosys will leverage its global delivery model and a standardised approach to

Facebook’s New Product Experimentation (NPE) team has launched a new app called CatchUp. The app makes it easier for friends and family in the US to coordinate or join a group call with up to eight participants. This audio-only unique app has been developed to coordinate call timings with friends and family members and enables

US Space agency NASA has renamed its Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, the US space agency’s first chief astronomer, who paved the way for space telescopes focused on the broader universe. The WFIRST Telescope will now be called Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (or Roman Space Telescope, for

Android version of Aarogya Setu becomes the first government product in the world to be made open source, bumping up its transparency credentials. Government informs 11.5 crore people have downloaded the app so far and 8 lakh people have done their self-assessment. Opening the source to the developer community means that the developers and privacy

The proto-type test samples of PPE Coveralls are tested and certified by Nine (9) authorized laboratories as per the technical specifications prescribed by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. The test standards are in conformity with the WHO Guidelines for COVID-19, and tested in accordance with ISO 16603 Class 3 and above for ‘Synthetic

Researchers have discovered two bacterial secreted proteins that can effectively inactivate a series of viruses, including the novel coronavirus, dengue, and the HIV. Initially, the researchers identified a soil bacterium from the gut of Aedes aegymosquitoes. The whole bacterial genome was sequenced to characterize the bacterium and the scientists identified two proteins that can effectively

Researchers have discovered a region in the genome of a rice, which seems to have the potential for improving productivity. The Researchers was conducted jointly by the Department of Biotechnology’s National Institute of Plant Genome Research (DBT-NIPGR), ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI), ICAR-National Rice Research Institute (ICAR-NRRI), Cuttack and University of Delhi South Campus (UDSC).

ESDS Software Solution has developed AA+ COVID-19 Testing Solution, a rapid COVID-19 detection solution powered by Deepiotics. The solution is an AI-enabled tool that detects COVID-19 from Chest X-rays (CXRs). AA+ COVID-19 Testing Solution has been designed in a way that it can indicate whether the patient is suffering from COVID-19 in less than 5

CSIR-IIIM, Jammu a constituent laboratory of CSIR and Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has signed a Memorandum of understanding with to develop and scale-up a new Reverse Transcriptase-Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification (RT-LAMP) based COVID-19 diagnostic kit. The partnership comes as testing is a vital component in COIVD-19 mitigation. For this project, CSIR has formed five verticals