Current Affairs on Technology

Yahoo Mail's smart "contact cards" now include support for which 2 social media websites information and will allow users to see a contact's most recent tweets in addition to company, title, phone number and more, when they hover over a person's name in a message?: Twitter and LinkedIn

Explanation: Yahoo Mail had first rolled out contact cards as an enhancement in March in response to Google's revamp of its own Google Contacts service. The new yahoo cards were designed to pull out extra information about the person you're emailing with from outside sources as well as from your own inbox. Thus with the new social media integrations, Yahoo users will now be able to pull in names for email addresses, profile photos and links to their social media profiles. 

Samsung has removed its corporate logo from its new smartphones sold in Japan. Which are those smartphones?: Samsung Galaxy S6 and its curved-edge variant

Explanation: These samsung models are presented as Docomo Galaxy and au Galaxy, carrying the names of its associated Japanese telecom service providers. The following step is taken since Samsung is struggling in the Japanese market, where archrival Apple is dominant, followed by key Japanese makers such as Sony, Sharp and Fujitsu. The firm rolled out its new smartphone in South Korea last week.

On 16 April 2015, in the first of its kind project outside the US, Apple will help which country to build a 40-megawatt solar power project as part of the company's environmental and climate commitments?: China

Explanation: The world's most populous nation is now the biggest market for Apple's iPhone surpassing the US for the total number of smart devices in operation. Thus the Solar panel maker SunPower Corp would partner with Apple Inc to build solar power projects in China's southwestern plateau. The project will contain two arrays of solar panels, which will be installed 85 miles apart in Hongyuan County and Zoige County of Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province.

Fair trade regulator CCI has joined which social media platform to provide prompt updates to all stakeholders as well as the public?: Twitter

Explanation: The micro blogging site Twitter has about 18 million users in India and looking to its increasing trend and usage in India, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has opened a Twitter Account. The twitter handle name is “@CCI_India” to provide prompt updates to all stakeholders, including general public, legal community, business and the media. Earlier this week, another regulator Reserve Bank of India too went live on Twitter. Besides, banking sector regulator, capital markets watchdog SEBI is already using this social media platform. 

Which rocket of SpaceX's failed on 14 April 2015 to land in upright position in their latest attempt on an ocean platform after a successful launch of its cargo mission to space?: Falcon 9

Explanation: The California-based company headed by Internet entrepreneur and billionaire Musk is aiming to revolutionize the rocket industry by making the equipment as reusable as commercial plane, in order to save million of dollars in lost equipment. The last attempt in January also failed, when the rocket broke to pieces after colliding with the autonomous droneship, the floating platform which is marked with an X.

What is the name of the furious botnet which is one of the deadliest botnets (malware virus) ever was neutralized by a network of firms; according to the information released on 13 April 2015. These firms included Microsoft, Japan’s Cyber Defense Institute, and Internet security solutions firms Trend Micro and Kaspersky and they launched an attack on the said virus resulting in its neutralization?: Simda

Explanation: Simda is a ‘pay-per-install’ malware used to distribute illicit software and different types of malware. It assumed to be one of the most dreaded and strongest botnets ever and it affected over 7.70 lakh PCs across 190 countries. These malware could siphon off financial information from infected PCs. Botnet is a network of PCs that are taken as slaves by cyber criminals. Russia-based Internet security solutions firm Kaspersky Labs estimated that hundreds of thousands of computers across the world, with the vast majority of victims located in the US, had became slave PCs in the Simda botnet.

RIL's telecom arm Reliance Jio Infocomm has launched its an instant messaging and calling application. What is the name of the Application?: 'Jio Chat'

Explanation: Jio Chat is launched with the feature where user’s not only get to chat with others but also have video and audio conferencing with them. Users would also get chat in groups, enjoy the rich text features like stickers, emoticons, doodles, media share, location share and more. Reliance Jio has plans to start 4G service this year covering all states, around 5,000 towns and cities, accounting for over 90 per cent of urban India and over 215,000 villages.

What is the name of the first of the Indian Navy’s six Scorpene class stealth submarines that was undocked on 6 April 2015 for conducting sea trials?: Kalvari

Explanation: It was the first submarine operated by India. Undocking of “Kalvari” submarine was done by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar at Mumbai and its eventual commissioning is in September, 2016. “Kalvari is the first of the six Scorpene class stealth submarines to be built under the ambitious ‘Project 75’ of the Indian Navy. The first Scorpene submarine has been named after Russian ‘Foxtrot’ class submarine, Kalvari. The six Scorpenes are being built by Mazagon Docks Ltd in collaboration with French firm DCNS. The remaining five boats (under “Project 75”) would be delivered by the yard by 2020 and would form the core of the navy’s submarine arm for the next two decades.