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May 11 is celebrated as National Technology Day in India. The date was designated by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to commemorate an event that took place in 1998 on this date. Known as ‘Operation Shakti’, what did the Indian Army do in Pokhran, Rajasthan?

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Born on May 11, 1918, Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize winning American physicist. In 1959, he delivered a lecture titled ‘There’s plenty of room at the bottom’, which is about manipulating matter at the atomic level. This led to the development of what technology that works at 10-9 scale?

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On May 11, 1947, the company BF Goodrich announced the development of a new tire. This was the first major innovation since its invention. Their tire had an airtight seal between the tire and the rim. What was this innovation?

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On May 11, 1997, an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue became the first to achieve a milestone event in artificial intelligence. It defeated a world-champion in a classic match format. In what sport did it defeat the then world champion Garry Kasparov?

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Born on May 11, 1924, Antony Hewish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974. He had discovered a type of highly magnetised neutron star that emits electromagnetic radiation at regular intervals. What name did he give this star that Bajaj took on for a popular bike model?

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Born on May 11, 1854, Ottmar Mergenthaler was a German watchmaker who invented the ‘Linotype machine’. It became the mainstay for typesetting, especially for newspapers, before the digital age. The name refers to the advantage it had over traditional typesetting. What did it do differently?

Answer : Printed entire lines instead of letter by letter

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Born on May 11, 1881, Theodore von Kármán was a Hungarian-born American aeronautic engineer. In 1944, he co-founded the JPL, which is now an important part of NASA. It was a laboratory which did R&D on rocketry. What does JPL stand for?

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Born on May 11, 1946, Robert Jarvik was an inventor who designed a life saving technology. It was a pneumatic device that had two chambers that pumped fluid. Made of plastic and titanium, it was implanted in a patient in 1982 for the first time. What device was this?

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On May 11, 1979, VisiCorp released their program ‘VisiCalc’ for the new Apple II computers and it revolutionised the use of personal computers for business applications. It was an electronic document in which data could be arranged in rows and columns. What type of program was this of which Excel is the most popular now?

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In January 2021, OpenAI launched a revolutionary AI system called DALL-E 2. A neural network that can generate an image from any text given by the user. The name is a tribute to the fictional robot ‘WALL-E’ and an iconic artist. Which artist, whose birthday is on May 11, inspired the name?