Why in news? Virtual private network (VPN) service providers are up in arms against a new directive of Computer Emergency Response Team or Cert-In that mandates they must maintain all customer data for five years. ...

Why in news? The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has installed and commissioned Param Pravega, one of the most powerful supercomputers in India, and the largest in an Indian academic institution under the Nation...

Why in news? Newspapers across the world have released reports regarding the use of Pegasus spyware against journalists, opposition leaders and human rights activists in many countries including India. About P...

Why in news? The second phase of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) will be completed by September this year, taking India’s total computational capacity to 16 Petaflops. About the mission: ...

Why in news? Chinese scientists claim to have built a quantum computer that is able to perform certain computations nearly 100 trillion times faster than the world's most advanced supercomputer, thus crossing the q...

Why in news? India’s AI supercomputer Param Siddhi 63rd among top 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world. About Param Siddhi: It is a high-performance computing-artificial ...

Why in news? India will get 14 new supercomputers under the National Supercomputing Mission by 2020. Major boost to Supercomputing By the deployment of 14 more supercomputers the total number of supercomputer...

Why in news? Recently the union budget 2020-21 has announced the National Mission on Quantum Technologies & Applications (NM-QTA) with a total budget outlay of Rs 8000 Crore for a period of five years. The mission...

IN NEWS: Ministry of Human Resource development launched a campaign Bharat Padhe online. THE CAMPAIGN: It is a week long campaign for crowd sourcing of ideas for Improving online education ecosystem of I...

IN NEWS: The Centre for Augmenting WAR with COVID-19 Health Crisis (CAWACH) is an initiative by National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Department of Science and Technology (D...