Digitising the Deccan

In a small-town in Maharashtra, a quiet digital revolution is taking place, creating a model district that helps communities and authorities to locate problems in real-time...

The World According To Gabriel

Every year around June or July, Daniel Silva’s latest Gabriel Allon novel is published and shoots right up to the bestseller charts.

For those who haven&...

Exponential Impacts: Women Tech Enthusiasts Chip In For Artificial Intelligence

“Success in creating full Artificial Intelligence would be the greatest event in human history.”

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Memory Man Returns

David Baldacci created a very intriguing and tragic protagonist in Amos Decker. In his first Decker novel, The Memory Man (2015), he introduced a man with who cannot forget...

The Allure Of Ads

Commercials that mirror society and its idiosyncrasies are part of the prime time watch Stephen Leacock once famously defined advertising as the science of arresting the hu...

Heroism Is Not About Gender: Taapsee Pannu

After Pink, the film industry is seeing Taapsee Pannu in a new light. She is no longer interested in shining in the reflection of a star. She is happy with her choices and ...

New AI Algorithm Beats Even The World's Worst Traffic

The height of individual vs. collective irrationality has to be automobile traffic. We build roadways around the assumption that we as individual human actors will behave i...

Bodies Are The Key To Human Intelligence—What About Machines?

Most AI researchers are currently missing a central piece of the puzzle: embodiment. It's tempting to think of the mind as a layer that sits on top of more primitive cognit...

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...