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Sunday, August 10, 2025
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Topic: technology

Screen size is the new generational divide

Younger people today are comfortable with a small screen, older people are not. But as technology enables great gains, a sense of magnificence is being lost.

The great stagnation in clothing innovation needs to end

Imagine everyone having custom-made and custom-fitted clothing, perhaps with the aid of robot tailors, and readily available 3-D body scanning devices.

This new software can tell if your smile is real or fake

University of Bradford researchers who developed the software support popular theories that a spontaneous genuine smile lies in a person’s eyes.

Apollo 11 made us believe we could do anything – that will be our downfall

Spectacular successes breed complacency. The moon landings reinforced belief that technology will always be able to solve our problems.

Beware of geeks bearing AI gifts

Marketers, investors, journalists and technologists are all in on an AI scam. The definition of AI is so jumbled that any application of the term becomes defensible.

Indian policies must enable new technology, not impede it

When regulating unfamiliar territory like technology, tendency to entirely ban an activity or create restrictive licensing models is high.

Bankers’ cryptic language will no longer be Greek to you, thanks to robots

For central bankers who have long thrived on wielding the power of words, growing use of technology means they’ll need to pay closer attention to what they say and how they say it.

Data dominance of big techs like Facebook, Alibaba has central bankers worried

Amid Facebook planning its own cryptocurrency, experts fear that big techs, though still a small part of the financial-services industry, have the potential to spark rapid change.

To keep up with TikTok & Bitcoin, India needs innovation in lawmaking too

Currently, laws dealing with modern technology are either ad-hoc or not truly responsive to the challenges posed by such technology.

Don’t penalise farmers for pro-GM crop protest, address their concerns instead

Indian farmers may be poor and may not have formal education, but they are wise enough to understand which technology works for them.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.