Science & technology

The robots are expected to collect minerals that may throw light on the origin of the solar system A Japanese space probe on Friday released a pair of exploring rovers towards an egg-shaped asteroid to collect mineral samples that may shed light on the origin of the solar system. The …

Dickinsonia had oval-shaped bodies and came in a variety of sizes A strange fossil that looks a bit like a giant leaf, or a fingerprint the size of a coffee table, has intrigued scientists for decades. Thousands of the fossils have been found over the past seven decades, revealing that …

Roadmap to put Indian crew in space The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is setting up a third launch pad at Sriharikota to undertake the Gaganyaan manned space flight programme, an ISRO official said on Friday. In addition, ISRO is scouting for a location on the western sea coast near …

We didn’t have a choice on offset partner, says Hollande Former French President Francois Hollande has claimed that the Indian government suggested industrialist Anil Ambani’s company as the offset partner for the €7.87 bn deal to purchase 36 Rafale fighter jets. Mr. Hollande was the French President at the time …

“As oxygen masks popped, we yelled for cabin crew” The sudden drop in cabin pressure on board the Jet Airways flight 9W 697 caused a situation of panic on Thursday, as people suddenly started feeling pain in their head and nose, with some of them bleeding from the nose and …

Jet Airways passengers suffer nosebleed, headache after cabin pressure drops Nearly 30 passengers on board a Jet Airways plane bound for Jaipur suffered nose-bleed and many others complained of headache during takeoff from Mumbai on Thursday after the pilots allegedly forgot to switch on a button that helps maintain cabin …

Yusaku Maezawa is a fashion tycoon A Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon, Yusaku Maezawa, will be the first man to fly on a monster SpaceX rocket around the moon as early as 2023, and he plans to bring six to eight artists along. Mr. Maezawa, 42, will be the …

The Army, which is inducting the indigenously developed Akash short-range surface-to-air missile (SRSAM) system, will get an upgraded variant. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) gave its procedural approval to the variant on Tuesday. The Army has already inducted two Akash regiments, and ordered two more last year after a global …

Agartala gets space technology incubation centre The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched a space technology incubation centre in Tripura capital Agartala on Tuesday. It is the first of six such centres planned nationally to build capacity in new locations. More such space research activities will be splashed in a …

Artificially intelligent (AI) machines can easily learn racism and sexism from each other, say scientists. Scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cardiff University showed that groups of autonomous machines could demonstrate prejudice by simply identifying, copying and learning this behaviour from one another.PTI Source :  https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-life/ai-robots-can-develop-prejudice-on-their-own/article24972495.ece