Science and technology in the United States Current Affairs, GK & News
Saudis gained access to Amazon CEO’s phone
The security chief of the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos said that the Saudi government had access to Bezos phone. It has acquired private information from it. Initially a newspaper claimed that Bezos had an affair with a reporter and blackmailed to leak their intimate photos. The investigation team concuded that Saudis have hands in ..
Topics: Bezos • Businesspeople • Economy of the United States • Jeff Bezos • Science and technology in the United States
2012 Nobel for Economics to Roth and Shapley of U.S.
Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley of U.S. have been awarded the Nobel economics prize for studies on the match-making that takes place when doctors are coupled up with hospitals; students with schools; and human organs with transplant recipients. As per Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, their research has sparked a “flourishing field of research” and ..
Topics: Alvin E. Roth • Awards • Economists • Fellows of the Econometric Society • Lloyd Shapley • Organ transplantation • Science and technology in the United States
Concept of Computers
1. What is a computer? A computer is a programmable machine that allows users to store and process information quickly and automatically. A computer allows the user to store all sorts of information and then ‘process’ that information, or data, or carry out actions with the information, such as calculating numbers or organising words. Thus ..
Topics: IBM PC compatible • Laptop • Mainframe computer • Microcomputer • Minicomputer • Personal computer • Science and technology in the United States • Technology • Workstation
Nobel prize – Physics
Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith, fathers of fibre optics and digital imaging, won the 2009 Nobel prize for physics . Charles K Kao: Born in Shanghai in Nov. 1933 Chinese pioneer in the use of fiber optics in telecommunications. Widely regarded as the “Father of Fiber Optic Communications”. Shared 2009 Nobel Prize in ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2009
Topics: Bell Labs • Charge-coupled device • Engineering • Fiber-optic communication • George E. Smith • Image processing • Image sensors • Nobel laureates in Physics • Optical fiber • Science and technology in the United States • Technology • Willard Boyle