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The  Quantum Computing Applications Lab will provide quantum computing as a service to government ministries and departments, researchers, scientists, academia, and developers, to enable advances in areas such as manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and aerospace engineering. AWS will provide hosting with technical and programmatic support for the Lab. The government body said that the Quantum Computing Applications Lab will work with subject matter experts from the government sector to define the problem statements, and make them public, inviting applications from researchers, academia, and organizations to address them. It will then provide select applicants with access to quantum computing hardware, simulators, and programming tools, on-demand and at no cost, via Amazon Braket that enables scientists and developers to build algorithms, conduct advanced simulations, and run experiments. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Tuesday announced it will est

3 Amazon.com Inc has launched an online academy to train students for one of India's most competitive college entrance tests, the e-commerce giant said on Wednesday, as it taps a boom in virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Amazon Academy", available as a website and an Android smartphone app, will offer learning material, live lectures and assessments to help students prepare for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), which allows entry into top engineering schools across India. Content on the platform is currently available free and will remain free for "the next few months", Amazon India said in a statement. Each year, close to two million aspirants to coveted undergraduate engineering courses take the government-run JEE, for which some take additional classes with private tutors. Many of those tuition centers have either moved online or shut during the pandemic. India has seen a boom in online education, or ed-tech, a market which has only expanded

Pravaig Dynamics, an Indian electric car company, recently took the wraps off of its very first product in the form of the Extinction Mk1. The designed and made in India all-electric two-door coupe-style car is set to launch . Pravaig Dynamics, an Indian electric car company, recently took the wraps off of its very first product in the form of the Extinction Mk1. The all-electric car will be launched sometime next year and will be available on lease for commercial fleet operators. The electric vehicle will first be launched in Delhi and Bengaluru. Pravaig claims that the car will deliver 504 km of range on one full charge with a 0-80 percent charging capability in 30 minutes. The power output is slated to be about 202 hp and 2,400 Nm of torque. It claims a top speed of 196 km/h and a 0-100 sprint time of 5.4 seconds.

 WhatsApp has officially updated its terms of service and privacy policy and given users till February 8, 2021 to accept the same to continue using the messaging platform. For those who do not accept the new terms, there is the option to delete their accounts, which is a standard practice in the industry. So what are the key changes in the new privacy policy and terms of service for WhatsApp? According to the message, the new updates include more information about WhatsApp’s service and how it processes user data. Further, there are updates on how businesses use Facebook hosted services to store and manage their WhatsApp chats. The new privacy policy also looks at how WhatsApp partners with Facebook to offer integrations across the Facebook Company. Users in India would have noticed the new policy popup when they logged into the messaging app for the first time today. The WhatsApp  message for users notes at the end, “By tapping AGREE, you accept the new terms and privacy policy, which

 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working to power its rockets and satellites using non-hazardous and environment-friendly fuels. In addition, the Indian space agency is also aiming to use electric propulsion for its satellites, as has been confirmed by the ISRO Chairman recently. "Since humans will be inside the rocket, we want only non-hazardous fuel and not the hazardous one to power the human space mission's Gaganyaan rocket," ISRO chief K Sivan told IANS. For this, ISRO has decided to make use of hydrogen peroxide in its future rockets that will be a part of the missions like 'Gaganyaan'. The hydrogen peroxide can be used as a mono-propellant or as a bi-propellant along with ethanol. In addition to hydrogen peroxide, ISRO is also looking at another green fuel - LOX/Methane. This would constitute liquid oxygen which will work as oxidiser while the methane will work as fuel. As per the space agency, LOX/Methane propellant is better than the existing