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For three decades, the trajectory was predictable. An IIT graduate accepts an offer in Silicon Valley. A medical graduate from AIIMS pursues residency in the United States. An MBA from ISB starts career at a US investmen...
In 2021, when a shortage of semiconductor chips shuttered automobile factories across the world, India watched with a peculiar mix of anxiety and opportunity. Cars sat unfinished in plants across Pune and Chennai. Factor...
When India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft successfully landed on the moon's south pole in August 2023, India became the first country ever to achieve an intact landing in that region. Globally, the achievement was noted: Ind...
On a Tuesday morning in Bengaluru's Koramangala neighborhood, the traffic moves with its familiar chaos — but listen more carefully and something has changed. The high-pitched whine of two-stroke engines has been replace...
India's Unified Payments Interface processes nearly 100 billion transactions monthly. That's approximately one transaction per person on Earth every single month. The sheer scale makes India's digital payment infrastruct...
Indian startups are increasingly expanding internationally—not simply serving Indian markets but competing aggressively in global markets. Zepto moved into UAE grocery delivery. Meesho explored Southeast Asia for social...
Five years ago, the question was whether Netflix could compete with Bollywood. Today, the question is whether Bollywood can compete with Netflix—and the answer increasingly is no. The displacement is happening not throug...
Taiwan is 180 kilometers wide. On it, a single company—TSMC—manufactures a meaningful portion of the world's advanced semiconductors. When geopolitical analysts worry about global supply chains, they're really worried ab...
The H1B visa program, long a primary pathway for skilled Indian professionals to work in the United States, faces unprecedented pressure and restriction. Policy changes, labor union opposition, and increasingly nativist...
Bangalore's traffic is unholy. The Bengaluru-to-Mysore highway, once a 90-minute drive through coffee plantations, now takes four hours and passes through the same strip of glass buildings, tech parks, and software SEZs...
A man who is going deaf can now 'hear' Wi-Fi wherever he walks. London-based science writer Frank Swain, 32, was first diagnosed with early onset hearing loss when he was in his 20s. In 2012, he was fitted with hearing a...
Yesterday Patrick McConlogue’s post on ( made waves in the virtual world. He blogged about how he wanted to help the homeless guy that he saw on his way. He didn’t want to just give him money and then forget about it. He...
SVP at Motorola is developing a password pill. It ‘s a wonder pill that will hold all personal information. It does not boost energy or improve memory-it’s a pill that has a chip that stores all personal details. This sw...
There are a number of reasons why partnering with WebPundits will bring out the best in your project but let's just focus on the most crucial points. Expertise in latest web technologies Experienced design, development a...
PHD student has invented the next breakthrough in mobile technology. All cell phone makers are trying to understand what the next invention will be ? “ Gesture Recognition” which Andrea has invented is certainly a step u...
New technology that will allow information, such as text messages from a mobile phone, to be projected onto a contact lens worn in the human eye has been developed by Belgian researchers. Ghent University's centre of mic...
The CID on Monday arrested a software engineer, Sai Kumar, 28, employed with Mahindra Satyam in the US, when he arrived at Shamshabad airport, for defaming his former colleague by hacking into her email IDs and creating...
Tim Cook's open letter apologizing for Apple Maps — published in September 2012 following the disastrous launch of iOS 6, which replaced Google Maps with Apple's own mapping application — became a minor classic of the co...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Self-Driving Cars Approved by California Legislature In California, it's illegal to talk on a cell phone handset while driving your car. The reasoning is pretty simple: with one hand glued to your smartphone, not only ar...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
The internet has given children unprecedented access to information, creativity, and connection — and unprecedented exposure to risk. For parents navigating the digital landscape alongside their children, the challenge i...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
German court bans Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 7.7 across the European Union, but allows Samsung to continue selling its Tab 10.1N. The patent war between Apple and Samsung rages on. The latest victim is Samsung's...
On July 4, 2012, scientists at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, announced the discovery of a new particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson — a discovery described by physicists as on...
WILMINGTON -- Hours before she turned up dead in a Dewey Beach motel room, Danielle Mehlman was at a nightspot in town with Pawan Kumar -- the man authorities believe later killed her -- doing gummi bear shots with a Wil...
The arrest of an Indian-origin student in the United Kingdom on charges of computer hacking was one of several cases in the early 2010s that illustrated both the growing sophistication of young hackers operating outside...
A pointed critique of Google's digital advertising business model made waves in the tech and marketing world, arguing that the search giant systematically profits from "accidental clicks" — interactions that generate rev...
The attackers behind the complex Flame cyberespionage toolkit, believed to be a state-sponsored operation, used an extensive list of fake identities to register at least 86 domains, which they used as part of their comma...
On the surface, Thomas Langenbach had it all. A $2 million home with a killer view high up in the hills of San Carlos, California; a wife; two children; a nanny; and a prestigious job at technology giant SAP. But when po...
When IBM banned employees from using Siri, Apple's voice assistant, on company devices, the technology press reported it with a mix of amusement and raised eyebrows. The concern IBM articulated was data privacy: conversa...
Scott Thompson's tenure as Yahoo CEO lasted approximately four months. He departed in May 2012 after it emerged that his official biography — circulated to investors, employees, and the public — contained a fabrication:...
For a nation with over a billion people and a railway network that carries more than 20 million passengers every day, the announcement that Indian Railways was exploring free internet service for passengers represented s...
Bill Gates has been cast as many things over the decades — college dropout turned tech visionary, ruthless monopolist, philanthropist attempting to rewrite his legacy, global health crusader. But a comic book hero? That...
Apple's new iPhone 5 could be housed in a little-known hi-tech alloy known as 'liquid metal' - which feels like glass to the touch. The alloy, a mix of titanium, nickel, copper and zirconium among other metals, is tough,...
The arrival of 3D printing technology in the consumer food space began, appropriately, with chocolate — a substance that is solid at room temperature, melts predictably when heated, and resolidifies cleanly, making it am...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Long before Steve Jobs gave his celebrated 2005 Stanford commencement address — the one where he spoke about death as "life's change agent" — he had already articulated a striking version of the same idea in a 1985 inter...
When Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S in October 2011, the announcement disappointed many observers who had expected a radical design overhaul — the device looked identical to its predecessor. But a closer examination of the...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Reed Hastings made his fortune with one exceedingly smart insight: People would pay a lot to escape video-store late fees. Ever since, the Netflix founder and CEO has devotedly sought out and implemented clever ideas for...
By now, it is well established that more and more employees are increasingly using their mobile handsets for work related tasks. There is no dearth of statistics on the web that will reinforce this if you are not yet con...
Google has added voice search capability to its Chrome browser, allowing users to initiate searches by clicking a microphone icon and speaking their query rather than typing it. The feature, which brings to desktop compu...
Asian suppliers to Apple Inc have begun manufacturing a lower-priced version of its hot-selling iPhone 4 with a smaller 8 gigabyte flash drive, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The flash drive for th...
In an era when keyboards have replaced pens in classrooms across the developed world, a new body of research is making the case that the shift may be coming at a cognitive cost — specifically, that the act of writing by...
Better check your Facebook settings before posting a party invitation online. A teenage girl in Germany who forgot to mark her birthday invitation as private on Facebook fled her own party when more than 1,500 guests sho...
The mobile phone industry is in the middle of a transformation that its own executives are struggling to manage gracefully. The shift is not subtle: voice calls, the service that wireless carriers built their entire busi...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Call-center company 24/7 Customer Pvt. Ltd. is desperate to find new recruits who can answer questions by phone and email. It wants to hire 3,000 people this year. Yet in this country of 1.2 billion people, that is begin...
Amazon.com's (AMZN) squat Seattle headquarters looks nothing like the country club affairs found in Silicon Valley. There are no free soft drinks or volleyball courts. The light fixtures hanging from the ceiling in the r...
Facebook's move into movie streaming — allowing users to rent films through the platform using Facebook Credits, beginning with a Warner Bros. test of The Dark Knight in early 2011 — marked one of the first serious attem...
Later this year you'll be able to pay for clothes, taxi fare, and dinner with your mobile phone and leave your credit cards and cash at home. Visa is planning a commercial rollout in the U.S. in the second half of this y...
JCPenney's search engine ranking collapsed in February 2011 after a New York Times investigation revealed that the retailer had been benefiting from a massive link-buying scheme—a violation of Google's webmaster guidelin...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Mark Zuckerberg claims he's being stalked by a man who's been sending him creepy messages through Facebook and threatening his safety Zuckerberg has obtained a restraining order against 31-year-old Pradeep Manukonda -- a...
Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques. ( found that st...
Apple's approach to the digital piracy problem — one of the defining challenges of the early internet era — was, in retrospect, one of the company's most strategically elegant moves. Rather than pursuing aggressive legal...
Japanese toilets are famed for functions such as posterior shower jets and perfume bursts, but entertainment company Sega has gone a step further by installing urine-controlled games in Tokyo urinals. Four types of "Toyl...
By the end of 2010, Facebook's dominance of the social networking landscape had moved from impressive to structurally overwhelming. The platform had crossed 500 million users in July, was adding new members at a rate tha...
When Verizon takes the stage at Lincoln Center in New York tomorrow to share the "latest news" with us, it's almost a given that it's going to be the long-awaited iPhone on Verizon's network. The press conference is goin...
Google's latest version of Google Goggles is apparently powerful enough to beat a Sudoku champ at her own game. Today Google announced Goggles 1.3 client for Android, featuring instant barcode scanning and print ad recog...
As students returned to class this week, some were carrying brand-new Apple iPads in their backpacks, given not by their parents but by their schools. Related As part of a pilot program, Roslyn High School on Long Island...
Apple's original iPad had been on the market for less than a year when the rumor cycle for its successor began in earnest — a testament both to the tech media's appetite for speculation and to Apple's extraordinary posit...
Gentlemen don't prefer bonds. When it comes to most IITians, agreements that tie them down to an organization are a definite no. With the good times rolling back, engineering grads from tech schools want an active lifeli...
Big Tech and Society: Power, Responsibility, and the Path Forward The technology companies that shape modern life—Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon—wield unprecedented influence. Understanding this influence and its implic...
The announcement in December 2010 by NASA researchers that they had discovered bacteria capable of substituting arsenic for phosphorus in their biochemical processes — including, potentially, in the backbone of their DNA...
Will the holiday season heading towards full swing, and all the recent data about the astonishing rate of adoption of the iPad (faster than any other new technology before it) we can guess that sales up to Christmas time...
So what will you really miss out on if you buy a handset without 3G? Well, no prizes for guessing, faster internet speeds. Although 2.5G (or EDGE) internet may be enough for text-based data transfers like emailing, chatt...
The Social Network, David Fincher's film about the founding of Facebook, arrived in October 2010 to widespread critical praise and commercial success, and almost immediately generated a debate that the film itself seemed...
Google's boutiques.com experiment, launched in late 2010, was an unusually candid attempt by the company to enter the fashion discovery market by doing something Google almost never does: acknowledging that it doesn't un...
LinkedIn's user growth in 2010 produced a metric that concealed more than it revealed: the platform had tens of millions of registered accounts, a number that its press releases and investor presentations cited regularly...
Google's pattern of launching social networking products that fail to dislodge Facebook had, by late 2010, become a reliable feature of the technology industry's competitive landscape. Each launch was accompanied by genu...
The gender gap in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — has been studied so extensively that the volume of research now exceeds the clarity of its conclusions. What the evidence does establish...
the product of 15 months of intensive work within Facebook dubbed "Project Titan," has received intensive attention in the tech media in recent days based on the speculation that it would in one fell swoop eclipse the wo...
Facial recognition technology was advancing faster than the legal and regulatory frameworks designed to govern it—and in 2012, a wave of startups and established tech companies were competing to build the most accurate c...
Google is offering free in-flight Wi-Fi access to an estimated 15 million passengers this holiday season, the company announced Monday.(...
The question has followed Infosys through every leadership transition, every strategic pivot, every earnings disappointment: can a company so thoroughly identified with its founder ever truly become something independent...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Italian scientists celebrated the completion of a remarkable experiment in July 2010 when two specially equipped electric vans arrived in Shanghai after driving more than 13,000 kilometers from Parma, crossing twelve cou...
