Insta transportation zapped at birth!A scientific breakthrough in teleportation from Madurai has been reportedly suppressed. Powerful business interests are said to have shut d...
10 Dec, 2025, 11.13 PM IST
Grandmasters, some AI-augmented chess?Elon Musk has stirred up debate by predicting that artificial intelligence (AI) will 'solve' chess within a decade. Currently, no machine c...
15 May, 2024, 10.59 PM IST
Christopher Nolan calls himself a ‘Luddite’, reveals he shuns away from smartphones, writes scripts on a computer with no Internet connectionNolan also revealed that nuclear experimentation/climax scenes of ‘Oppenheimer’ was filmed without any CGI.
26 Jul, 2023, 03.48 PM IST
Continuing relevance of king canuteThe viable option for the distributors is to combine their strength not to protest and bargain but to build sophisticated logistics that ca...
06 Dec, 2021, 11.16 PM IST
Can Elon Tesla be Mamata Banerjee’s new Tata in Bengal polls?Banerjee dialling Tesla is a big task to ask from Musk.
19 Jan, 2021, 08.20 AM IST
SC ruling makes Aadhaar stronger. It’s a win for IndiaIn the history of independent India, rarely has any single initiative of a government generated as much heated debate as Aadhaar.
27 Sep, 2018, 10.14 AM IST
A poor workman blames his toolsMayawati has to come up with better reasons for her party’s rout in UP.
12 Mar, 2017, 12.02 AM IST
Congress a party of 'Luddites', blocking every change: MJ AkbarAkbar launched a scathing attack on the Congress for "opposing this great massive sweeping transformation" brought in by demonetisation.
18 Jan, 2017, 09.18 PM IST
Despite Tesla Motors and SpaceX's success, Elon Musk included in 2015’s ‘Luddite Award’Don Quixotes are prowling the tech lands. Despite the success of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, Elon Musk was included in 2015’s ‘Luddite Award’ ...
25 Dec, 2015, 05.02 AM IST
Sorry, but the jobless future isn't a luddite fallacyWe will surely create a few intellectually-challenging jobs, but we won't be able to retrain workers who lose today's jobs.
08 Jul, 2015, 11.06 AM IST
IMF counters Raghuram Rajan's comment about world facing Great Depression-like problemsIn an address, the RBI Governor recently warned that the global economy was "slowly slipping" into the Great Depression-like problems of th...
28 Jun, 2015, 01.40 PM IST
When a slim brick has virtually replaced the plain old telephone…It is a miracle that telephones still cling on in obscure corners at a time when sleeker personal communication devices are strutting their...
27 Jun, 2015, 04.52 AM IST
A question that haunts the US middle class: What happens when the robots come for their jobs?The Middle Class Easing this maladjustment for the middle class is likely to become one of the central public-policy challenges of our time.
14 May, 2015, 02.37 AM IST
Are you a retail-app junkie?California's Betty Ford Center, the world's most famous residential addiction-recovery facility, could jolly well open a branch in India.
30 Apr, 2015, 08.01 AM IST
How supposed job losses can actually mean rising prosperityRising productivity surely causes some job losses, but creates jobs elsewhere.
10 Feb, 2014, 01.26 PM IST
How Raghuram Rajan had predicted world will fall into a holeRaghuram Rajan’s 2005 prediction of a fi nancial crisis, made at the Jackson Hole symposium, is famous. But that prediction had more twists...
05 Sep, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
Funda ya Anda?Funda stands for something cool and awesome. Ditto for gyan: This word has one the most impressive of pedigrees in the Indian philosophical...
23 May, 2012, 06.57 AM IST