Science & Technology - Current Affairs for January, 2015

Telepresence offers a more engaging video conference with cutting edge technology, so that the parties involved feel the immersive presence of participants at different locations. The service is designed to improve collaboration, save executive time, reduce costs and carbon footprint with no capital investment and obsolescence risk.

Lizard Squad group claimed responsibility for hacking everyone's favourite pop star Taylor Swift’s Twitter and Instagram accounts. The group also said they were responsible for a series of hacks on Microsoft and Sony’s online gaming networks over the Christmas period.

It is having the capability to carry a nuclear warhead of more than 1 tonne. With a range of 5000 km, the nuclear-capable missile Agni-V can carry a warhead in the east as far as all of China and in the west all over Europe.

The 325m-wide object, known as 2004 BL86, swept by earth at the very safe distance of 1.2 million km on 26th Jan’15.

The name of the divine bow (dhanush) wielded by Lord Shiva. Therefore, Lord Shiva is also known as Pinaki, the wielder of Pinaka. Pinaka is a rocket system used by the Indian Army.

The new messaging service works with Google's Chrome browser and is not available to iPhone users due to Apple platform limitations.

The project was sanctioned 32 years ago in 1983. This will be the start of a process of induction of the fighters being built at home under a project which has already estimated to have cost the exchequer over 17,000 crore rupees.

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing developed the BOSS OS. It is derived from Debian for enhancing the use of Free/ Open Source Software throughout India.

Idukki district of Kerala. National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) offers lot of people's friendly services like E-health, E-Commerce and E-Education. Under the Digital India programme, all 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats in the country will be connected on optical fibre.