Number of words: 876 The artificial-intelligence industry is often compared to the oil industry: once mined and refined, data, like oil, can be a highly lucrative commodity. Now it seems the metaphor may extend even further. Like its fossil-fuel counterpart, the process of deep learning has an outsize environmental impact. In a new paper, researchers … Read more

Number of words: 571 Gandhi lived too long. Returning to India from South Africa in 1915, at the age of 45, holding himself aloof from the established politicians of the time, involving himself with communities and groups hitherto untouched by politics, taking on purely local forces here and there. He then went on very quickly, … Read more

Number of words: 1,647 Two years ago, Alice Agogino, a UC-Berkeley mechanical engineering professor, was working on a contract to build exploratory robots for NASA Ames. She had been recruited to help design what would eventually become a fleet of mobile, ultra-impact-resistant, remote-sensing robots that could protect sensitive scientific equipment during a drop from orbit … Read more

Number of words: 428 Scientists have created the world’s smallest pixels, by trapping particles of light under tiny rocks of gold, that could be used for new types of large-scale flexible displays, big enough to cover entire buildings. The colour pixels, developed by scientists from the University of Cambridge in the UK, are compatible with … Read more

Number of words: 147 The most buzzed-about disruptive technologies that are changing business landscapes today are Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Almost all of us have heard or read about them but do we actually know what the fuss is all about? The enterprises are trying to harness the explosion of digital data … Read more

Number of words: 253 Faulty materials provided by an aluminium manufacturer led to the failure of two NASA satellite launch missions, causing a loss of more than $700 million, an investigation by the US space agency has found. The faulty materials provided by Sapa Profiles, Inc. (SPI) were used for the making of Taurus XL, … Read more

Number of words: 683 For as long as companies have hosted quarterly conference calls, analysts and journalists have tried to parse not just what a company’s executives say, but how they say it. Software from Amenity Analytics promises to automate this process by spotting when chief executive officers try to duck tough questions. The software, … Read more

Number of words: 1,486 83% of India’s vehicles are two-wheelers and three-wheelers (including small goods vehicles) and 13% are economy cars, costing less than Rs. 1 million, thus constituting over 95% of India’s vehicles. These vehicles tend to be small and affordable. As these vehicles are electrified, the affordability requirements will keep the batteries small, … Read more

Number of words: 407 When you’re browsing online, who sets the prices? An algorithm, most likely. A study from 2015 showed that a third of all items on Amazon had prices set by an algorithm, and chances are that percentage has only risen. A new study shows how easy it would be for price-setting algorithms … Read more

Number of words: 474 Scientists have created a fabric that can automatically regulate the amount of heat that passes through it, helping a person stay cool or warm depending on the weather conditions. When conditions are warm and moist, such as those near a sweating body, the fabric allows heat to pass through. When conditions … Read more