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The 11th generation of Intel Processors "TIGER LAKE" announced

Intel has recently announced their 11th gen processors code name "Tiger Lake" on September 2, 2020. They have also integrated Intel Iris as their GPU. They announced many features and specifications of the CPU in a tweet. We will now look at the features and what the 11th gen processors are capable of in-depth. This new generation processor is built with a 10nm chipset, also called SuperFin by Intel Tiger Lake. The new generation offers 2.7x faster content creation, 20% office productivity, and more than 2x faster gaming with the help of the Iris Graphics. Intel also provides Thunderbolt 4 support, Wifi 6, and PCIe-4 support. Intel provides 4 cores and 8 threads with Overclocking support up to 4.8 GHz. Iris Graphics Card would support consistent gaming on FHD while streaming. They have also announced the Intel Evo platform bran which is based on the 11th gen processors. Many laptop manufacturers like Acer, Asus, Dell, Dynabook, HP, Lenovo, LG, MSI, Razer, Sa

Inevitable fate of Milky Way galaxy: Cosmic Collision with Andromeda

Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula )  is our nearest galaxy about 2.5 million  light-years  far. The mass of the Andromeda Galaxy is of the same order of magnitude as that of the Milky Way.  The Halo if it is visible. It is expected to collide with Milky Way in about 4.5 billion years and form an elliptical galaxy. It is recently proven as scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the halo of Andromeda entering our Milky Way! Halo:  an immense envelope of gas. This light and invisible halo extends from her parent galaxy(about 1.3 million light-years) and are halfway through of ours. It is a layered structure with a complex one inside it.  The outer shell is smoother and hotter, whereas the inner is long. The difference may have formed due to numerous supernova explosions.  The halo is found by quasars, which acts as a torchlight. Because we live inside the Milky Way, scientists cannot easily interpret the signature of o

Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking: Review and Shop

Brief History of Time   by Stephen Hawking was the first physics book I finished. Stephen Hawking,  the renowned pop-star theoretical physicist, has done a great job in writing a book which can be read by average readers! Though it is a little old compared to today's science. I assure you that you will receive a lot of knowledge after reading the book. A book required for any science enthusiast. This is a small book, so you can finish in 2 days! I'm going to give an outline of the book. Don't worry, this won't be counted as spoilers. This is not a storybook! OUR PICTURE OF UNIVERSE Hawking travels through time to show us the mankind's interpretation of the world. From the earth standing on top of tortoises to flat-earthers to Copernican theory (The Earth is spherical). From static universe to an ever-expanding universe!  QUANTUM MECHANICS The well-known but not well-understood theory is the  Quantum Mechanics.  The book teaches us the Uncertainty principle and a lot

RTX 3000 Series - The Game Changer

NVidia Geforce RTX 3080 The new RTX 3000 series announced yesterday live on YouTube. The CEO of NVidia, Jensen Huang, announced the features, release date and many more. Computer graphics have improved a lot since the start of computing. RTX 3000 series would be a game-changer in the GPU industries. Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia announced 3 RTX 3000 Series Graphics Cards - RTX 3070, RTX 3080, RTX 3090. This new-gen graphics card design with Ampere Architecture. RTX 2000 series uses Turing architecture and GTX 1000 series use Pascal architecture. Ampere Architecture is said to have better performances and features (1.9 times) than previous GPUs. It also has 28 billion transistors, having the world’s fastest Graphics speed (760GB/s) with 3rd gen Tensor cores. This time Nvidia has joined with Samsung to produce the 7nm processors.  The game Marbles with RTX enabled “ Ampere is the biggest generation leap we had ”  The pricing of the RTX 3000 series is lower than e

Boston Dynamics Spot, the robot dog!

You would have known  Boston Dynamics,  a world leader in mobile robots (that's why they have "Dynamics" in their name!). They create robots with advanced mobility, dexterity and intelligence. One of the most famous is the humanoid robot Atlas, whose hobby is parkour! FUN FACT:  Those guys kick their robots to test stability! Recently in June, the Boston Dynamics debuted sales for Spot, the agile robot that climbs stairs and traverses rough terrain with ease. FEATURES MOBILITY Spot's leg was designed to move fast ( 1.6 m/s ). The system automatically adapts to keep the robot moving smoothly. It knows how to climb stairs and avoid wars. Spot can also "get up" when it falls most of the time PERCEPTIVE Spot cameras on all four sides to know where it is walking.  AUTONOMOUS Spot's movements are remote-controlled by an operator. But Spot can automatically do some basic things. Spot also comes equipped with  Autowalk , an easy-to-use tablet feature that allows

Earth's Magnetic Field is splitting into Two! NASA Announced.

The SAA (South Atlantic Anomaly) present over South America and South Atlantic Ocean is weakening.  As it gets bigger, it expands westwards and split the magnetic field into two!  NASA says that it can poses little risk to life!  WHAT IS SAA? The South Atlantic Anamoly (SAA) is an evolving weak spot of Earth's Magnetic Field. This unique region has been expanding for over a decade. NASA concludes that it is splitting into two distinct zones.     HOW DID EARTH GET  A MAGNETIC FIELD? To understand the consequence of splitting, we have to know about magnetic fields. Processes of Earth's iron outer core generates the electric field continuously. This makes the most part of the magnetic field. The magnetic field acts like a shield preventing harmful particles from the sun. The particles are trapped by the magnetic field and thus, prevents it from reaching the surface. SO WHAT'S WITH SAA? The mantle and core magnetic variations below the SAA are the causes. Due to the reducti

Discovery of the closest asteroid by IIT Bombay students.

On  August 16 2020 ,  An asteroid sized 3 to 6 metres (10 to 20 feet) was found just 2950 km above the Earth's surface! The astonishing discovery was recorded by the students of IIT Bombay and Taiwan.   Helping make a discovery like this, so early in my research project, is beyond what I had ever imagined   -Sharma,  a third-year student of mechanical engineering at IIT-B. Named  2020QG,  the closest asteroid ever to be found near Earth without impacting it became an early success for the students. The discovers Kunal Deshmukh and Kritti Sharma and Chen-Yen Hsu at National Central University in Taiwan are a part of an international team seeking out Near-Earth Asteroids.          This is the first image of Asteroid 2020 QG, captured by Caltech's Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) after the asteroid's closest approach to Earth at a distance of 1,830 miles above the planet's surface. The asteroid shows up as a stre