GK current affairs 2022

  🔆Interpol launches first-ever metaverse ✅ Interpol unveiled the first-ever ‘ metaverse ’ specifically designed for law enforcement worldwide, at the 90th General Assembly in Delhi. Key Highlights: ✅WEF: The World Economic Forum has partnered with Interpol on Meta. ✅Virtual tour: It allows the registered users to take a virtual tour of its general secretariat headquarters in France’s Lyon. Interact with other officers via their avatars ✅Take training courses in forensic investigation and other policing skills, it said. ✅Secure cloud: The facility is provided through the global police organization’s secure cloud. ✅Creation of an expert group on the metaverse: To represent the concerns of law enforcement on the global stage Ensure that the new virtual world is secure by design.   ✅ Challenges for metaverse: Social engineering scams Violent extremism Misinformation   List of possible crimes likely to expand: ✅Crimes against children Data theft ✅Money laundering ✅Financial fraud ✅Counte

 🔆 Sampurnanand Telescope (ST) ✅ The Governor of Uttarakhand  recently highlighted the need for discussing future possibilities of the 104 cm Sampurnanand Telescope (ST) , at a workshop organised to commemorate the completion of 50 years of successful operations of the telescope. ✅It is a world-class telescope located near Nainital. The telescope at Manora Peak was established in 1972 when ARIES was known as the UP State Observatory (UPSO). ✅It has been extensively used for optical observations of comets, occultation by planets and asteroids, star-forming regions and star clusters, variable stars, transients, active galactic nuclei, etc. ✅Some of the breakthrough science results contributed by the telescope include the discovery of new rings around Saturn and the rings of Uranus. ✅The instrumentation and science capabilities of ST have paved the way for setting up National and International facilities by ARIES, such as the 3.6m DOT and the 4 meter International Liquid Mirror Telescope

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