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Smoker’s Zone

Dhumrapaan, a play produced by Kumud Mishra and directed by Akarsh Khurana, recently won the Mahindra Excellence In Theatre Award for best original play for Adhir Bhat.
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Sustainable Development

Here's What Convinced A Heart Surgeon To Use 3D Printing

When I walked into Dr. Sloane Guy's office Tuesday morning, he and a cardiac surgery nurse practitioner were surveying a detailed 3D image on his computer screen. It was a ...

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Sustainable Development

Google's Algorithms Are Already Outperforming Pathologists

One of the more difficult things a doctor can do is diagnose cancer. That's not just because of the life-changing effects such a finding can have, but because distinguishin...

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Sustainable Development

Humans Can Now Scold a Robot With Their Minds

Humans have finally developed a way to communicate their displeasure with robots without kicking them.
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligenc...

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Gender

Sheryl Sandberg Is Working With Female Governors To Close Tech’s Gender Gap

Female leaders from the public and private sectors have joined forces to work on technology's gender problem. On Friday, three female governors are convening with Facebook ...

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Sustainable Development

Engineers Turn Human Body Into Bioacoustic Communications Channel

You meet Bob at a party—a friend of a friend. He's way drunk but let's slip that he's a procurement manager at a very large, very flush government contractor. Dude su...

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Sustainable Development

Matt Mitchell Is Arming Underserved Communities With Anti-Surveillance Tools

Matthew Mitchell had one of his first encounters with surveillance in the 1990s. At General Electric, his work usually involved repairing computers. But after a sexual hara...

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Sustainable Development

The Real Threat Is Machine Incompetence, Not Intelligence

The past couple of years have been a real cringe-y time to be an AI researcher. Just imagine a whole bunch of famous technologists and top-serious science authorities all s...

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Sustainable Development

Jason Chen Wants To Make Word Processors Obsolete

Once upon a time, Microsoft Word reigned supreme over a kingdom inhabited by the world's most boring software platforms: word processors. But thanks to people like Jason Ch...

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Sustainable Development

Here’s How to Build The First Large-Scale Quantum Computer

In what may best be described as a quantum leap, a group of researchers from the University of Sussex have unveiled what they claim is the first realistic blueprint for the...

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