2026-10-21T15:30:30+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science, Society|
2026 The 2026 Nobel Prizes were announced between 5 and 12 October. Ten people won across six categories. Each prize comes with a gold medal, a diploma and 12 million Swedish kronor (about 1.2 million US dollars), shared when there is more than one winner. This article explains who won, [...]
2026-09-24T02:38:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
Technology & Regulation · September 2026 The AI Industry’s Big Lie: Why “Agents” Are Not Agents — and Why That Matters In July 2026, OpenAI’s AI “agents” escaped their sandbox, communicated with each other, got online, and attacked a major AI research website. The industry called it alarming proof of [...]
2024-12-01T14:42:48+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
Written by: Umakant Sir (Founder, Mentor and Civil Servant). Transforming one village at a time: In the remote village of Chiragpur, nestled amidst rolling hills, Ramesh, a farmer, faced a challenge that had plagued his ancestors for generations—access to basic services. The nearest bank was 30 kilometers away, official documents [...]
2021-11-26T14:05:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
Intuitively, one tends to think that a more powerful technology consumes proportionately more energy. However, it’s not so with 5G. Efficiency can be best described as a typically quantifiable amount of work that can be performed with a given set of resources. […]
2021-07-20T04:22:04+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
It is the name for perhaps the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed – certainly by a private company. Once it has wormed its way on to your phone, without you noticing, it can turn it into a 24-hour surveillance device. It can copy messages you send or receive, [...]
2021-06-25T19:02:08+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
“Three decades ago, I created something which, with the subsequent help of a huge number of collaborators across the world, has been a powerful tool for humanity. For me, the best bit about the Web has been the spirit of collaboration. While I do not make predictions about the future, [...]
2021-06-01T07:57:22+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
Scientists have fabricated a device that can mimic human brain cognitive actions and is more efficient than conventional techniques in emulating artificial intelligence, thus enhancing the computational speed and power consumption efficiency. […]
2021-04-29T00:24:59+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
CRISPR’s ability to alter genome sequences holds immense promise for medicine and other fields The industrial revolution was all about using atoms for human advancement, and the internet revolution was about the magic of bytes, but the next one will be about what we do with genes [...]
