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TECH ROUND

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TECH ROUND

TECH ROUND

1. Connect.

Y COMBINATOR:All these start-ups were incubated at the legendary Y combinator.

2. . Id the company X?The cover story of the January 1975 issue of POPULAR ELECTRONICS featuring the ALTAIR 8800 inspired the founders of X to write an interpreter for the device.Pic follows.

Microsoft

3. Id the player X In December 2016 , A player Magist from South korea became active in the online servers of a game Y and started ratcheting up victories against some of the best players of the game in the worldXs playing style has been described as "conservative by observers. X strongly favours greater probability of winning by fewer points over lesser probability of winning by more points.Xs strategy of maximising its probability of winning is distinct from what normally players of game Y tend to do, which is to maximise territorial gainsAfter a final tally of 60 wins and 0 losses ,Magist was revealed as a pseudonym of X

Al developed by google, which became the first computer programme to defeat a professional human Go player without any handicaps.

4.Id the company X.? Company X which was started by Rahul Narayan in 2010, moved its base from Delhi to Bangalore , partly to work more closely with a Govt.Organisation, a partnership which has proved highly fruitful in the last year. X follows a system of Stars wars based designation( Fleet commander, Jedi commander etc) for its 100 odd employees and counts amongst its advisors Nandan Nilekani, Ratan Tata, Sachin and Binny bansal etc.

Team INDUS or Axiom Research Labs is the only Indian team competing In the google lunar X prize,

5. Give funda.OnSeptember 9, 1945, U.S. Navy officerGrace Hopperfound a moth between the relays on the Harvard Mark II computer she was working on. In those days , warmth of the internal components attracted moths, flies and other flying creatures. Those creatures then shortened circuits and caused the computer to malfunction.

The First Computer Bug

6. Connect all these.The moons of Jupiter Callisto, Europa, Ganymede.The discoverer of the moons of Jupiter.Sun god- Helios.Indigo one of the seven colors of the rainbow produced by the sun.Astronomy- Juno, Kepler, Luna, Mars.Elements Neon and Oxygen.

Eclipse IDE