Columns The Future of Space Exploration Posted on November 30, 2017 By Team SPark Seemingly impossible achievements of yesterday have become realities of today and the revered space agency NASA has always been a step forward in supporting and encouraging the technology of tomorrow. Earlier this year, NASA funded 22 technology concepts that could spur giant leaps in space science and exploration via… Read more
Alumni Alumni- Aditya Menon Posted on November 27, 2017 By Team SPark Alumni: Aditya Menon Aditya Menon graduated in Electronics and Telecommunications branch from Sardar Patel Institute of Technology in the Year 2016. He has interned at IBM and FIMMDA and is currently working at JP Morgan. He has answered our queries to help us traverse the path that lies ahead. Q.1) You graduated… Read more
Recommends The Best War Classics Posted on November 26, 2017 By Team SPark Love the smell of napalm in the morning? Then you might just be in luck! This article is for those of you who grew up watching adrenaline filled, breath taking, ground breaking and cover taking films that give you the war-zone chills. Everyone is a war-hero in their own little… Read more
Columns Geekonic – Quantum Computing Posted on November 22, 2017 By Team SPark Imagine you only have five minutes to find an “X” written on a page of a book in the Library of Congress (which has 50 million books). It would be impossible. But if you were in 50 million parallel realities, and in each reality you could look through the pages… Read more
Columns Grazie Gigi Posted on November 18, 2017 By Team SPark “For me, he’s the pinnacle of passion for your country, and belief for your country. The pride he has when he puts on the Italy jersey, you can see it when he sings the national anthem, and when they don’t qualify for the World Cup and he’s just bawling and… Read more
Geekonic Geekonic: Music Unravelled (Part 2) Posted on November 16, 2017 By Team SPark If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, we highly recommend doing so. Before we see how compression works, there are two terms you should know, Codec and Container. 1) CODEC Say you recorded sound as digital data and want to listen to it now. To do this, you need a… Read more
Geekonic Geekonic: Music Unravelled (Part 1) Posted on November 15, 2017 By Team SPark Who hasn’t heard of MP3s? Chances are, you might’ve also heard of formats like WAV, OGG, AAC, and FLAC. Also when downloading music online, you may have seen terms like 128kbps and 320kbps. What do these mean exactly? We’ve compiled a detailed guide just for that. To understand these terms,… Read more
Columns Geekonic : The Dawn of 5G Posted on November 8, 2017 By Team SPark With network speeds that are blazingly fast, the next generation of mobile networks, 5G, will not only connect people to each other but also machines, automobiles, city infrastructure and more. Read on to learn about 5G and India’s efforts to adopt it. Read more
Columns SPark Recommends: Psychological Horror/Thriller Movies Posted on November 4, 2017 By Team SPark Horror does not necessarily mean possessed people and distorted faces and voices. Sometimes the most effective tool for scaring and scarring you is psychological tension and human depravity. Here are some movies which do just that, making you wish you had seen The Conjuring instead. Oldboy (South Korea, 2003) On… Read more
Ayntka AYNTKA – Antimatter Posted on November 3, 2017 By Team SPark In the wake of the recent news, the bizarre claim by a few scientists at the CERN facility in Switzerland that “Our Universe shouldn’t exist” is making headlines everywhere. All the buzz is around the very famous concept of ‘Antimatter.’ So what’s so special about Antimatter that has captured the… Read more