NIA cracks major ISIS module in India, detains 11 from Hyderabad

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday busted a suspected ISIS terror module and detained 11 people for questioning.

The agency conducted a series of raids in Hyderabad, and recovered arms, explosives and Rs 15 lakh.

The detained men were in touch with their handlers in Syria and were plotting attacks in India, NIA officials said.

Great Efforts by our Indian Security Agencies and intelligence

Intricate planning, sustained efforts by #intelligence, #SecurityAgencies leads to #terrorist arrests at many places pic.twitter.com/PQDcELsZ3N

— Samir Dattopadhye (@samirsinh189) June 29, 2016

ISRO sets record, launches PSLV-C34 with 20 satellites

Today (Wednesday, 22-June) marked another landmark day for ISRO, launching PSLV C-34 carrying 20 satellites into the space. This also happened to be the 34th successful launch of PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) in a row. The PSLV rocket has launched over 110 satellites, including 57 from international customers.

Every launch of PSLV comes with specific challenges that require innovative technical solutions.

PSLV-C34 posed two major challenges: It had to launch a record number of satellites — i.e. 20. Second, the primary satellite was Cartosat-2 weighing 727.5kg had to launch in a polar sun synchronous orbit (SSO), while 19 other satellites together weighing 560kg had to be launched in another orbit. This was the technological challenge that scientists successfully met in this mission.

Cartosat 2 is an advanced remote sensing satellite developed by India. The images sent by this satellite will be useful for cartographic, urban and rural applications, road network monitoring, water distribution, and other Geographical Information System (LIS & GIS).

The co-passenger satellites came from the US (13), Canada (2), Germany and Indonesia (one each), besides the 2 nano satellites from Indian academic institutions (Satyabama University and College of Engineering, Pune)

ref:

http://www.firstpost.com/india/isro-satellite-launch-success-has-become-a-way-of-life-at-indias-space-agency-2849258.html

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/big-boost-to-indias-space-mission-isro-sets-record-launches-pslv-c34-with-20-satellites/articleshow/52861909.cms

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Twitter and machine learning

From the recent developer conferences of Google (Google I/O) and Apple (WWDC 2016), it was very clear that these tech giants are focusing on machine learning and making their own Operating systems more smart.

Twitter today announced that they are buying AI Startup firm Magic Pony and that they are also focusing on Machine learning.

Magic Pony uses neural networks (system designed to 'think' like humans) to improve images and videos.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey also commented that “Machine learning is increasingly at the core of everything we build at Twitter”

Day is not far when the machines will be able to think and bear emotions like humans. (There are few such prototypes under testing even today).

It seems that machine learning is spreading everywhere and soon we may not be able to spot a difference between a machine and a real person ?