Prelims answers
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Q TECHNOLOGICO
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Lets start easy…
Identify this person.
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Richard Stallman
X started as a free video sharing app for iOS on January 24th, 2013. A unique feature of the app is that the camera records only while the screen is being touched.
In January 2015, Carolyn Penner announced a new version for kids called “X kids” saying “The idea came about during an office conversation in early January. One of my colleagues was talking about how much his two-year-old daughter loves X- he said he wished there was a separate app she could use to more easily watch posts that are appropriate for kids,”
What is this service X?
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Vine, Vine kids. Owned by Twitter.
Name this wearable.
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Microsoft Band
1. Red jelly bean2. Orange lozenge3. Yellow lemon drop4. Green chiclet5. Blue lollipop6. Purple cluster
What am I talking about?
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Candy Crush Candies
The image here displays the internal structure of which iconic component?
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iPod click wheel
If you go to the “about-us” of this website you will see this:
“X is a way for people all over the world to join forces to make ideas happen. Since 2008, millions of contributors have empowered hundreds of thousands of inventors, musicians, do-gooders, filmmakers—and other game-changers—to bring big dreams to life.”
The website changed its logo to feature a different X campaign each time someone visits the site.
What is X?
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Indiegogo
In 2014, C-DAC started a digital collection management system, exclusively designed for museums. Using this software, the antiquities kept in the museums can be seen online in a 360 degree panoramic view, 3D models, audio and video clips.
It will be very useful in schools. Teachers will be able to teach history lessons to the students in a more systematic way by showing images of the antiquities and their detailed descriptions related to the chapter. Name the software.
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Project Jatan
This luxury smart bracelet called “MICA” was launched in September 2014 by which tech giant?
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Intel
Felix Arvid Url Kjellberg is a YouTuber more popularly known as PewDiePie. He has the most subscribed channel on YouTube where he makes videos of himself playing games.
Recently he was annoyed by Y’s launch of “Creator’s Program” to share YouTube revenues. This scheme requires YouTube creators to register with Y, agree to it collecting the ad revenues from their entire channels or from specific videos, and include a disclosure message within each video
He went on to describe the Y’s Creators Program as “a slap in the face”. Id Y.
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Nintendo
“X is a website and mobile app that uses social media analytics to rank its users according to online social influence via the “X Score", which is a numerical value between 1 and 100. In determining the user score, X measures the size of a user's social media network and correlates the content created to measure how other users interact with that content. X launched in 2008.”
Above is the Wikipedia description of what?
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Klout and hence the “Klout score”
X is an Indian manufacturing company that produces various IT products, founded in Mumbai by Milind Shah. They make a range of low cost tablet devices by the name IRA
The company was also the second lowest bidder for the Aakash project where they lost to DataWind. Id X.
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Wishtel
Mobil was one of the first to adopt this technology. Nowadays major financial entities are offering contactless payment that uses this technology. What is this technology called?
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RFID or Radio Frequency Identification
What are they making fun of? What’s the blanked out hashtag?(no part points)
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iphone 6 and #Bendgate
The left side of the X India logo resembles the famed Ashoka Chakra, that also appears on the Indian national flag, while its right half is a depiction of a compact disc. The combination of both symbols is intended to draw attention to its similarity with political freedom. What is X?
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FSF (Free Software Foundation) India
Which hit game?
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Minecraft