Around 75-80% of the new smartphone launches in India by 2023-end will be 5G-enabled, said Pankaj Mohindroo, Chairman, India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA). “India as a nation is an early adopter of 5G technology,” Mohindroo said. “[5G] has opened a vast opportunity for a new generation of telecom equipment manufacturers, application providers...among others,” he added. The mobile device ecosystem was an early starter for manufacturing 5G phones. Even before the launch of 5G services, approximately 80-100 million 5G-compatible phones were already in the market. By t
A solar-powered electric car built by students at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, has made it to the Guinness World Record for covering 1,000 km on a single charge in 11 hours 52.08 minutes. The car, named Sunswift 7, weighs 500 kg, about a quarter size of a Tesla. The student-produced car achieved the feat at the Australian Automotive Research Center in Wensleydale, Victoria. The Sunswift 7 set the new record after circling the facility’s test track 240 times in a hair over 11 hours and 52 minutes. The car travelled at an average speed of 52.8 mph. A few days later,
Shree K. Nayar, the T. C. Chang Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, has been awarded the prestigious Okawa Prize from Japan’s Okawa Foundation for his decisive work on computer vision and computational imaging. Nayar, who directs Columbia’s Computational Imaging and Vision Laboratory, is being recognised for “the invention of innovative imaging techniques and their widespread use in digital photography and computer vision.” The Computer Science Professor will receive the prize at a ceremony in Tokyo, Japan, in March 2023. The Okawa Prize “is intended to pay
Bharti Airtel and Apollo Hospitals have carried out India’s first 5G-driven, artificial intelligence (AI) guided colonoscopy trial in collaboration with HealthNet Global, AWS and Avesha. The trial was conducted using AI on Airtel’s 5G technology and led to faster and accurate detection of colon cancer. The successful AI-assisted colonoscopy polyp detection trial will now help doctors to improve quality of patient care, improve accuracy of detection rates by capturing information correctly, and reducing errors. Technologies like 5G, edge computing and artificial intelligence can signifi
IIT Madras Professor Thalappil Pradeep has bagged the VinFuture Special Prize for Innovators from Developing Countries for his development of a low-cost filtration system, which can remove arsenic and other heavy metals from groundwater, in Vietnam on December 20, 2022. Attracting 970 nominations from over 70 countries across six continents, the four most outstanding scientific works, aligned with this season’s theme of “Reviving and Reshaping”, were chosen as the winners. The winners include the breakthroughs that have made global network technology a reality, 3D protein structure p
The Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) have started providing 5G services in the country and a total of 20,980 base stations services were installed in 14 states and union territories till November 26, 2022, Minister of State for Communications Devusingh Chauhan told the Parliament. In a written reply to a question on 5G towers, the minister said the TSPs are installing approximately 2,500 base stations per week on average. The highest number of 5G base stations have been installed in Delhi at 5,829 (938 Airtel, 4,891 Reliance Jio), followed by Maharashtra with 4,051 base stations already se
The Geneva-based European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Cern, has expressed hopes that Singapore could become its partner one day, helping it tap the minds of top scientists. Professor Emmanuel Tsesmelis, Head of Associate Member and Non-Member State Relations at Cern, in an interview said this citing the strong physics, engineering and computing departments of eminent Singapore universities such as NUS (National University of Singapore) and NTU (Nanyang Technological University). Cern has formal partnerships with 80 countries: 23 members finance and decide the centre’s activitie
US scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, say reports. Net energy gain indicates that this technology could provide an abundant zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels. "Last week at the Lawrence Livermore National Library, scientists at the National Ignition Facility achieved fusion ignition," US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said at a press conference, adding, “That is creating more energy from fusion reactions than the energy used
Japanese space startup, ispace Inc launched its own private lander to the Moon on board a SpaceX rocket on Sunday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Tokyo-based start-up designed its craft to use minimal fuel to save money and leave more room for cargo. It is taking a slow, low-energy path to the Moon, flying 1.6 million km (one million miles) from Earth before turning back to make a planned landing by the end of April. In opposition, NASA’s Orion crew capsule with test dummies took five days to reach the Moon last month. The US lunar flyby mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Headquarters, Integrated Defence Staff jointly conducted hypersonic vehicle trials on Friday. The trials achieved all required parameters and demonstrated hypersonic vehicle capability, ISRO said in a statement. A hypersonic vehicle travels at least five times faster than the speed-of-sound, or greater than Mach 5. This vehicle can be an airplane, missile, or spacecraft. Considered to be the latest cutting-edge technology, hypersonic technology is a focus for many countries, including China, India, Russia and the US, which are engaged in fu