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India Finally Invested in Quantum Computing Research We experience the benefits of computing every day in our lives. Since the inception of computers, it has evolved in many ways. Getting much more powerful each year with more and more computing power and advanced hardware. However, there are certain computing tasks no classical computers can handle, no matter how much horsepower it acquires. As no traditional computers on Earth can carry out tasks above a certain size and complexity, researchers are developing a new kind of computing to tackle these problems....

Reddit Teamed up with an SMS Hotline to Prevent Suicides Reddit is a vast platform with a massive user-base. Within the platform, many users go through tough times and have suicidal thoughts. Reddit announced recently that they have teamed up with an SMS hotline service to help these users and provide them with proper counselling. The social media platform have collaborated with the Crisis Text Line which is a free SMS service for users in the US....

Researchers Developed a Robot Gripper That Can Hold a Jellyfish Without Hurting It Researchers from Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Baruch College at the City University of New York have developed a special robot gripper that canhold soft and delicate organisms without harming them. The robot gripper developed by the researchers iscapable of grabbing and holding a jellyfish without causing any harmto the organism....

The Mayflower Autonomous Ship Will Set Sail in the Atlantic Without a Crew In the quest to achieve autonomy in transport, more and more transport systems are turning to artificial intelligence (AI). Last year, IBM and non-profit organisation,ProMareteamed up to develop an autonomous shipthat will sail the Atlantic Ocean without a crew on board. Now, it is finally happening! The Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) is based on the originalMayflowership that existed 400 years ago....

The Nintendo PlayStation Became the Highest-Priced Gaming Set to Be Sold The Nintendo PlayStation was a thing back in the 1980s. Sony’s venture to enter the gaming market allowed the collaboration between the two gaming giants and the Nintendo PlayStation was born. And the only working prototype of the console was recently sold at a whopping price of $360,000! The Nintendo PlayStation was the first gaming console that could load games from SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) cartridges as well as gaming discs....

The US Law Enforcers Are Using This Secret App to Track Smartphones As the ClearView AI fiasco continues to unfold, a new report shows that the US law enforcers have been using a secret app to track smartphones for a long time. The report shows that many US law enforcement agencies signed contracts with a company that provided them with a smartphone tracking app. The Locate X app is created by a Virginia-based company, Babel Street....

The “Find My” App in an iPad Helped Police Track Down Two Burglars Back in December 2019, the “Find My” app in an iPhonehelped police track down a car that was stolen. This time, the app was used by the Australian Police force to track down two burglars, who invaded a house in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The incident took place more than a month ago, on February 4th, however, the police released a detailed report only recently....