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‘Regulations in artificial intelligence have not caught up with speed of development … make sure we don’t lose core humanity’
December 20, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Sethu Vijayakumar is professor of robotics at Edinburgh University and director at Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. On a visit to India, he spoke to Sanjiv Shankaran about the transformational potential of robots: What is the…
December 20, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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5 principles of designing experiences
December 19, 2017, 2:10 PM IST
Brands in the digital world are owned by employees and customers. They now look for experiences, not processes. When you go to the bank to open an account, the ease and simplicity with which it…
December 19, 2017, 2:10 PM IST
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TRAI should junk net neutrality
December 6, 2017, 11:25 PM IST
TRAI was once the gold standard for “light touch” regulation, in stark contrast to electricity regulators, who continue today, to be stuck in byzantine rate of return regulation and administering cross subsidy between classes of…
December 6, 2017, 11:25 PM IST
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‘Cybersecurity going to be a big problem in 2018 … lot of the commercial breaches are done through human weakness’
December 6, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Control Risks is a specialist risk consultancy with operations across the globe. The firm’s CEO Richard Fenning spoke to Sanjiv Shankaran during a recent visit to India about looming challenges: Is cybersecurity, which you identified…
December 6, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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TRAI and fail: By decreeing net neutrality, India’s regulator has trumped America’s FCC for an open internet
December 5, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
By Eben Moglen & Mishi Choudhary Thanks to the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India, a crucial natural experiment in internet policy is about to be conducted between the world’s largest and the world’s richest democracy….
December 5, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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No to VIP data: Net neutrality enables competition and innovation, India must not change its posture
November 27, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
There is no reason for India to be influenced by US Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to repeal net neutrality, the principle of a free and open internet that treats all data packets,…
November 27, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Electric vehicle technology has come of age. To curb air pollution, combine charging stations with renewable energy
November 21, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
China recently became the fifth country to say it will eventually phase out cars powered by fossil fuels. Like the four other countries – Britain, France, Norway and India – China sees this as a…
November 21, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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And now, the tyranny of tech
November 8, 2017, 4:21 PM IST
Great nations are not known by their rate of GDP growth or the rise in their stock market indices. Yes, ease of business is a great idea and all nations must offer that in the…
November 8, 2017, 4:21 PM IST
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Testing 280 characters: Because the trademark brevity of tweets has also proved a liability
October 2, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
In a significant change for social media buffs, Twitter is doubling the character count of its tweets to 280. Although for now the change will be seeded with only some accounts, it’s being viewed as…
October 2, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Managing strategy
September 26, 2017, 11:14 PM IST
By VENKAT ATLURI ET AL We’ve all experienced businesses that once seemed disconnected fitting together seamlessly and unleashing surprising synergies: look no farther than your smartphone, your music and video in the cloud, the smartwatch on…
September 26, 2017, 11:14 PM IST
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Awkwardly yours, aap ki dost
August 17, 2017, 11:14 PM IST
By Divya Rajagopal The ‘honest’ app is here. Sarahah (‘honesty’ in Arabic) is a new social media rage that lets its users receive and send “constructive feedback” to and about each other anonymously. This makes…
August 17, 2017, 11:14 PM IST
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Infosys’s driverless golf cart versus Google’s autonomous vehicles: How can India become a global technology innovation hotspot?
August 15, 2017, 11:04 PM IST
On July 14, 2017, Infosys unveiled its driverless golf cart designed and built by its engineering service team at its Mysuru campus. In contrast, by June 2016, eight years since its inception, Google’s fleet of…
August 15, 2017, 11:04 PM IST
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You, robot: Artificial intelligence poses an existential threat. Is there hope for humans?
August 7, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Once upon a time, we were taught that realist movies are the good ones that everybody ought to see, while those that indulge in fantasy are ‘escapist’. These days, given 21st century technology, it is increasingly…
August 7, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Jio is not the giant to be afraid of, new and disruptive technology will be
July 25, 2017, 12:25 AM IST
By Anjana Menon India’s 100-tonne gorilla is showing its might, apparently. Reliance Industries, which last year launched its telecom service, Jio, with frugal data pricing and free voice calls, has announced something of an ultracheap…
July 25, 2017, 12:25 AM IST
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Betting big on artificial intelligence
July 9, 2017, 11:13 PM IST
By Jacques Bughin ET AL The buzz over artificial intelligence (AI) has grown loud enough to encourage venture capital and private equity firms to step up their investment in AI. Other external investors, such as…
July 9, 2017, 11:13 PM IST
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Strategic Thinking
July 7, 2017, 11:54 PM IST
By Richard Dobbs ET AL Technology is no longer simply a budget line or operational issue — it is an enabler of virtually every strategy. Executives need to think about how specific technologies are likely…
July 7, 2017, 11:54 PM IST
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WannaCry again? The digital revolution has many rewards, but rolling cyberattacks show up its flip side
June 30, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Just last month the WannaCry infection hobbled hundreds of thousands of computers across 150 plus countries and this week another global cyberattack has wreaked havoc. Some security experts warn that this time the ransomware virus…
June 30, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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AI replicating same conceptions of gender roles that are being removed in real world
June 17, 2017, 12:19 AM IST
By Vidisha Mishra & Samir Saran A recent article in The Guardian (goo.gl/UajcTp) estimated that the sex tech industry, which is less than adecade old, is already worth $30 billion. This estimate is expected to…
June 17, 2017, 12:19 AM IST
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‘No silver bullet for tackling fake news … no way Facebook can monitor every story or video shared’
June 9, 2017, 2:09 AM IST
Fake news on digital media has become a potent means of manipulating political discourse around the world. Campbell Brown, Facebook’s New York-based head of news partnerships, spoke to Nalin Mehta on how the world’s largest social network is…
June 9, 2017, 2:09 AM IST
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Head off digital colonialism: How Indian IT can compete with Google and Facebook and show the world a better way
May 29, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
By Mishi Choudhary and Eben Moglen The world’s major societies are now wrestling with the enormous social power wielded by the internet’s “platform companies”.In Europe they speak of “GAFA”: Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. Twitter,…
May 29, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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