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Rare comet will be visible from Earth for first
time NASA

• A rare comet discovered by NASA scientists will
  be visible using just binoculars to skywatchers
  on Earth this week for the first time, before the
  object heads back into outer reaches of the solar
  system for an orbit lasting thousands of years.
• The comet, C/2016 U1 NEOWISE, "has a good chance
  of becoming visible through a good pair of
  binoculars, although we can't be sure because a
  comet's brightness is notoriously unpredictable,"
  said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Centre for
  Near-Earth Object (NEO) Studies at the Jet
  Propulsion Laboratory in the US.

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NASA image shows Saturn's north pole basking in
sunlight

• NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured a stunning
  image of Saturn, showing the whole northern
  region of the ringed planet bathed in sunlight.
• The image from late 2016 obtained at a distance
  of about 1.2 million kilometres from Saturn shows
  a hexagon-shaped jet-stream which is fully
  illuminated.
• The planet appears darker in regions where the
  cloud deck is lower, such the region interior to
  the hexagon, NASA said.
• Mission experts on Saturn's atmosphere are taking
  advantage of the season and Cassini's favourable
  viewing geometry to study this and other weather
  patterns as Saturn's northern hemisphere
  approaches Summer solstice.

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Top trends in the technology space in 2016

• The year 2016 has been a packed year when it
  comes to technology, with some of the biggest
  trends emerging out of India. From a 20 billion
  investment on setting up a 4G network to Aadhaar
  now becoming part of the billion club that only
  companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and
  Microsoft have been members of.
• Here are the top 10 technology trends for the
  year gone by
• A Billion Aadhaar
• Year of Make in India for phones
• Google becomes a hardware maker
• Reusable rockets
• Reliance Jio

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Top trends in the technology space in 2016

• Year of self-driving
• Uber out of China
• Drone deliveries
• Google WiFi at Indian train stations
• ISRO goes private

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Five important technological breakthroughs in
2016

• The digital and technology space is changing at
  such a rapid space that it's easy to get lost in
  the sea of new developments. However, there are
  some disruptions that leave an indelible mark and
  make a great impact in our lives. Business
  Standard takes a look at five such technological
  breakthroughs in 2016
• The concept of AI has been there for a long time.
  What speeded up RD in this field is the increase
  in computing power of systems and advancement in
  AI research. Instead of programming everything a
  computer has to do, researchers fed large amount
  of data into the system and got the computer to
  figure out how to get the result with the given
  inputs. In March 2016, Google's AlphaGo, a
  computer algorithm, beat world champion Lee Se-do
  in the ancient Chinese board game of Go. The
  event was significant because the game involves
  moves based on intuition. This year AI entered
  the mainstream, already giving a taste of its
  power through chatbots and personal
  assistants. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg built
  his own a home Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  assistant called Jarvis, which can perform tasks
  like switching lights on and off, identifying
  people at the door, playing music, preparing
  toasts, scheduling etc. Although at the
  experimental stage, the AI is coming to home
  sooner than though with other products like
  Amazon's Echo and Google's Google Home.