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2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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 R&D 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.