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The US-European Solar Orbiter probe launched Sunday night from Florida on a voyage to deepen our understanding of the Sun and how it shapes the space weather that impacts technology back on Earth. The mission, a collaboration between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA, successfully blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral at 11:03 pm (0403 GMT Monday) and could last up to nine years or even beyond. Scientists say the craft is expected to provide unprecedented insights into the Sun's atmosphere, its winds and its magnetic fields, including how it shapes the heliosphere, the vast swath of space that encompasses our system. By journeying out of the ecliptic plane -- the belt of space roughly ali... To read the full article, please visit: https://www.htsyndication.com/the-citizen/article/solar-orbiter-launches-on-mission-to-reveal-sun-s-secrets/40653125

India has joined a select few countries that chase “Quantum Supremacy” with a Rs 8,000-crore national mission to crack into the nextgeneration technology, which promises exponential ‘compute’ power and to rewrite the rules of present-day computing. The Department of Science and Technology (DST), which is drafting the contours of the mission to be detailed in a month, is looking to build a homegrown 50 Qubit ‘Quantum Computer’ in 4-5 years as part of the mission, which will also include  .. Read more at: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/quantum-supremacy-chase-india-in-select-country-club/articleshow/74055777.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Scientists from five institutes across the country have devised a wastewater treatment technology that can treat domestic wastewater and produce energy simultaneously. A paper on the patented technology, which is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DSIR), Government of India, was published in the Elsevier’s journal Bioresource Technology on Wednesday. To read the full article, please visit: https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/scientists-devise-tech-to-treat-wastewater-generate-power/story-IVYXmP5ZYe9co5zjfepS0O.html

(1 st  January to 31 st January 2020)   All the below Active Users are eligible for one extra library book for the month of February 2020 Sr.No Member No of Transactions 1 CHAVAN ANKITA JEEVAN SARITA 26 2 DESAI YASH CHANDRAKANT CHETNA 24 3 DIVYA SANDEEP AHUJA 24 4 CHAVAN SEEDHITA DHONDU SANDHYA 23 5 NAIK TEJAS PRAKASH JYOSNA 22 6 GUPTA SHUBHAM VIJAY BABITA 22 7 JOSHI SHRIRANG SHRIDHAR SHREYA 20 8 PRASAD KAUSHAL CHHOTELAL MAYA 20 9 CHOTALIA JIGNESH SHAILESH REENA 20

Google is working towards its best digital assistant that is capable of having a conversation based Artificial Intelligence (AI) model known as Meena. Meena , a neural network that has 2.6 billion parameters, is a multi-turn open-domain chatbot and claimed to be better than any other AI chatbot available in the market. Conversational AI is a comprehensive term used to natural language models for AI that understand human language, speak and completes tasks given in simple words. To read the full article, please visit: https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2020/02/meet-meena-chatbot-a-most-advanced-conversational-ai-by-google.html