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Technology giant Google announced on September 3, 2018 that it is employing a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to combat online spreading of contents involving child sexual abuse. The tool uses deep neural networks for image processing to help discover and detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online. "Using the Internet as a means to spread content that sexually exploits children is one of the worst abuses imaginable," wrote Google’s Engineering Lead Nikola Todorovic and Product Manager Abhi Chaudhuri in the company's official blog post. Key Highlights •  The new AI technology will be made available for free to non-governmental organiSations (NGOs) and other industry partners including other technology companies through a new content safety API service that could be offered upon request. •  The technology is expected to significantly help service providers, NGOs and other tech firms to improve the efficiency of child sexual abuse materi

Up to 90% reduction in severity of fungal infection in tomato plants was seen Researchers at the University of Hyderabad have found that harpin biopesticide brought about 80-90% reduction in severity of fungal infection in tomato plants when it is encapsulated in chitosan nanoparticles. The fungal infection was caused by Rhizoctonia solani.  The reduction in disease severity is only about 50-55% when the biopesticide is used without loading it in nanoparticles. The results were published in the journal Carbohydrate Polymers. Though harpin is used against several bacterial, fungal and viral infections, poor bioavailability is a major hurdle when harpin protein, taken from the bacteria  Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae, is just sprayed on the leaves like any other pesticide. Chitosan to the rescue To address the issue of poor bioavailability of harpin arising from the inability to permeate into plants, the researchers led by Prof. Appa Rao Podile from the Depa

Technology has been infused into our lives so much so that it gets difficult to imagine a life without smartphones. The moment they enter early adolescence they raise a demand for smartphones. According to a recent study, on an average college going students check their mobile phones more than 150 times a day. THE RESEARCH: Aligarh Muslim University and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) together went to over 20 central universities and interviewed 200 students. The study conducted by researchers at AMU has been funded by the ICSSR with an aim to understand various facets of smartphone dependency and addiction among college-going students. The title of the research paper is "Smartphone Dependency, Hedonism and Purchase Behaviour: Implications for Digital India Initiatives". "Anxiety and fear of missing out on information make university students check their mobile devices as many as 150 times a day on an average, an activity which can hav

NASA plans to install ECOSTRESS on the International Space Station (ISS)  that will measure the temperature of plants from space, enabling researchers to determine plant water use and to study how drought conditions affect plant health. ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometre Experiment on Space Station, or ECOSTRESS  will hitch a ride to the space station on a SpaceX cargo resupply mission scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on June 29, NASA said on Tuesday. ECOSTRESS is one of two instruments selected in July for NASA's Earth Venture-Instrument series of missions. These missions are part of the Earth System Science Pathfinder program, managed by NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The water is released through pores on the plants’ leaves through a process called transpiration. If there is not enough water available to the plants, they close their pores to conserve water, ca