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Thought Factory

The Perils of the Use and Abuse of Social Media

Humans, by nature, have loved to communicate and share stories and views since the beginning of time. Who would...

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Kaleidoscope

Out of Africa

In 1998, Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith, began the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels set in Botswana, featuring the “traditionally...

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Trending

Nothing like a personalized gift - Saregama launches customized music cards

After Carvaan, Saregama India launches another innovation – ‘Customized Music Cards’. Based on the insight that music is one of the most personalized gift...

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Gender

Guidance from Gates

Mother of three children, co-chair of the largest philanthropist foundation in the world, and former executive at Microsoft, Melinda Gates is one half of the most powerful ...

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20 People Who Are Creating The Future

MICROSOFT WILL BUILD computers even more sleek and beautiful than Apple’s. Robots will 3-D-print cool shoes that are personalized just for you. (And you’ll get ...

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Human Rights

New Computers Can Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge, Experts Warn

“Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind,” wrote the playwright John Milton in 1634. But, nearly 400 years later, technological advances in machines that ca...

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Kaleidoscope

Bollywood Then And Now


Vijay Tendulkar had some sharp observations about life in Mumbai, which included the underbelly of the film industry, that is the murky world of strugglers and unpaid...

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Sustainable Development

Massive 3-D Cell Library Teaches Computers How To Find Mitochondria

GRAHAM JOHNSON IS an artist with a curious muse: the human cell. He’s the Matisse of mitochondria, the Goya of the Golgi apparatus. Twenty years ago he graduated from...

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Sustainable Development

Scientists Hack A Human Cell And Reprogram It Like A Computer

CELLS ARE BASICALLY tiny computers: They send and receive inputs and output accordingly. If you chug a Frappuccino, your blood sugar spikes, and your pancreatic cells get t...

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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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