Tag: Electricity

Technology

Tech Budget 2024: FM Nirmala Sitharaman announces 300 units of free electricity with rooftop solarization

Tech Budget 2024: Today, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the interim budget for 2024-25 with the aim of fostering and speeding up the greater development of India. As part of the announcement, Sitharaman highlighted the installation of rooftop solarization in 1 crore households which will help obtain up to 300 units of free electricity every month. FM further said, “This scheme follows the resolve of the Prime Minister on the historic day of the consecration of Shri Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.” This move will improve India's sustainability goals.Tech Budget 2024The Finance Minister while presenting the interim budget 2024 announcement talked about the rooftop scheme following the resolve of the Prime Minister. The new scheme will empower 1 crore households with a rooftop solar...
Technology

How AI could upend the world even more than electricity or the internet

The rise of artificial general intelligence -- now seen as inevitable in Silicon Valley -- will bring change that is "orders of magnitude" greater than anything the world has yet seen, observers say. But are we ready?AGI -- defined as artificial intelligence with human cognitive abilities, as opposed to more narrow artificial intelligence, such as the headline-grabbing ChatGPT -- could free people from menial tasks and usher in a new era of creativity. But such a historic paradigm shift could also threaten jobs and raise insurmountable social issues, experts warn. Previous technological advances from electricity to the internet ignited powerful social change, says Siqi Chen, chief executive of San Francisco startup Runway."But what we're looking at now is intelligence itself... This i...
Technology

Thunderstorm in the Hive! Bees can produce electricity up to 1000 volts, camera shows

A new research published in the journal iScience has explained that a swarm of honey bees can generate as much electricity as a thunderstorm. Can you believe swarms of honeybees can help in electricity generation? Yes! A new research published in the journal iScience has suggested that swarms of honeybees can generate as much electrical charge as a thunderstorm. Researchers from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom have found this. Biologist Ellard Hunting, first author on the study, has informed CNN that the Bristol team was studying about different organisms that use the static electric fields available in the environment. Atmospheric electricity even affects weather events and helps organisms in their functions like finding food. Explaining the study, Hunting said,...
Latest

Watch: African Kids Dancing And Lip-Syncing To Popular Songs Warm Millions Of Hearts Online

Masaka Kids Africana have around 4.4 million followers on Instagram.A group of African children is taking the internet by storm with their back-to-back viral dance and lip-sync videos. The clips were posted on Instagram by an Uganda-based NGO called Masaka Kids Africana which supports the life of children who have lost one or both parents to famine, war and other diseases. On Sunday, the organisation posted yet another video of three kids dancing and lip-syncing to the song 'Electricity' by Pheelz and Davido. In the clip, while one of the boys was seen lip-syncing to the song and holding a stick in front of like a mic, another was seen playing the drums made of paint buckets. A third was seen simply showing off his killer dance moves. Watch the adorable video below: "Good vibes all the ...