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October 26, 2024
From the humble magnifying glass to the state-of-the-art electron microscope, the approach to magnification has been one of exploration and innovation. As physicists and chemists strove to deepen their understanding of the physical world, their efforts benefited early users of […]
December 9, 2021
In Brief: India’s developmental goals and its global warming related developmental constraints can both be met through a citizen-centric tech ecosystem approach, along the lines of the hugely successful Grab super app. Despite being at the forefront of the technological […]
November 19, 2021
On December 12, 2015, the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on climate change, was brought into effect, with 196 parties resolving to ensure that the increase in global temperature would be no greater than 1.5º C. As of August […]
October 18, 2021
The energy used to build a single smartphone is equal to the energy required to operate it for about a decade. Rising temperatures have led to a variety of adverse environmental effects such as the melting of the polar regions, […]
September 28, 2021
The right to unrestricted access to the Internet ought to coexist with the responsibility to self-regulate consumption of smartphone Internet activity. The fate of the planet lies in the hands of the consumer. There is nothing “smart” about a phone whose […]
July 28, 2021
Conventional AI/Machine Learning systems consume staggering amounts of power owing to their inefficient digital architectures. Sustainability of AI development and a sovereign presence on the AI engagement field will require a shift to intelligent analog solutions. The AI enterprise of […]
July 23, 2021
Current machine learning and other AI systems rely on unsustainably large quantities of data owing to inefficient digital architectures. A shift towards upcoming intelligent analog solutions can help reduce external storage dependencies, ensuring a sustainable and sovereign AI industry. The […]
May 27, 2021
WhatsApp’s move to challenge the constitutional validity of the government’s requirement that online messaging platforms trace chats in order to locate the ‘originator’ of messages heralds the impending struggle between states and AI corporations who stand to wield an unprecedented […]
May 20, 2021
Consumers are essentially experimental subjects and must be compensated for their data according to the formal protocols of ethical experimental research. Present day consumers of products and services have their behaviour recorded with ever increasing frequency and with increasing minuteness. […]