Safety net: Social security for Indian workers
India's new social security law is a landmark one, which enhances the distinction between gig and platform workers. It can also catapult Indian social security system into the 21st century.
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What if AI meets India’s ‘aspirational districts’?
If India’s rising power in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence could be married to its ‘aspirational districts’, it could be a mini revolution.
Ethical artificial intelligence
AI will very likely make machines into independent agents, with their own learning and decision-making capabilities. We should be concerned about this development.
The X(R) factor
As big technologies like AI and Blockchain change computing, XR will become their user interface.
As globetrotters evolve, so do travel innovations
Technology is playing a huge role in making a traveller’s journey highly customised and convenient.
Is neurofeedback the new workout for the brain?
The therapy claims to cure attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, substance abuse, depression and challenges conventional psychiatric treatment
Interim Budget 2019: What Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw expects
Here’s what the Biocon MD and chairperson expects from the interim Budget 2019.
The future of machine ethics
AI systems have to be “taught” to be unbiased.
Hyperloop: Virgin territory
There is a lot of buzz around Virgin Hyperloop One’s proposed project in India, but the lack of details makes it hard to gauge what it will be like — or when.
Google’s AI as a doctor
Have you ever wondered why doctors examine your eyes even when the ailment is seemingly somewhere else? One’s eyes, or rather the retina, doctors say, can reveal a lot about your general well being.
