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Melania Trump has a warning for humanity: 'Robots are here'Melania Trump addressed the potential and perils of AI at the White House, emphasizing the need for responsible management and guidance, li...
Without Wu, will top-end luxury be luxurious?Chinese manufacturers are subtly suggesting they produce luxury goods for brands like Hermes and Louis Vuitton, offering the same quality w...
How senior care startups are harnessing AI for preventive healthcareAI is transforming preventive healthcare, especially for seniors, by predicting health issues before they arise. Startups like Khyaal, Prim...
Man vs machine: Can AI ever think consciously like us?On January 27, Chinese researchers released DeepSeek-R1, which led to Nvidia losing nearly $600 billion in a day. This breakthrough highlig...
Festive shopping via ecommerce may be changing both consumer and societal behaviourEcommerce is experiencing significant growth, with a 23% increase during the festive season, driven by the rise of quick commerce and incre...
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K DickPaul expressed an unexpected emotional fondness for a small, seemingly worthless item. He conveyed to Childan that despite its lack of hist...
Blade Runner 2099: When and where to watch the sequel | Release dateBlade Runner 2099 is a limited series that extends the legacy of Philip K. Dick’s dystopian vision and is set for another journey. Here’s w...
Humanity's preoccupation with the supernatural extends back to ancient MesopotamiaA fascination with the afterlife and other worlds is not new: ghost stories from all over the world prove it's been part of the human exper...
Scouting out the next wave of robot workersAutomation might not be ready to over the Amazon warehouse yet but the robot revolution has certainly begun and accelerated by the pandemic.
The robots we were afraid of are already hereA humanoid warehouse worker, Digit walked upright on goatlike legs and grabbed bins off a shelf with muscular arms made from aerospace-grad...
Unlike Rushdie, who writes regardless of consequences, some write to hide what they really thinkWould Rushdie, for instance, have skipped the Novel That Shan't Be Named (NTSBN) and gone on straight to write the glorious The Moor's Last...
View: The nifty (& safe) art of precogging the precogsThis isn’t the column that would have caused problems. So, there’s no problem.
Sedition law: Is your disaffection just healthy disapprobation, or something more sinister?So, what does disaffection mean? Is it, as the dictionary has it, the loss or absence of affection for something or someone? Or is it somet...
Less is more: Why affluent Indians are going minimalistTired of frenzied consumption, many Indians are embracing minimalism to declutter their spaces & minds.
Forget stocks and bonds: Sachin Duggal is making millions trading Amazon’s CloudSachin Duggal says cloud must not only be viewed as a technology as it has capacity, different pricing based on commitments, and it’s becom...
From Kendrick Lamar to Taylor Swift, complete list of Grammy nominationsKendrick Lamar earned 11 nominations for the 2016 Grammys, both Taylor Swift and The Weeknd tie for second with 7 nominations.
How snooping has become a relic of a bygone era in the age of social media“There will come a time,” said the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, “when it isn't (going to be) ‘they're spying on me through my pho...
ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission: Magical Mars a cultural odysseyAelita (1922) by AN Tolstoy. One of the 1st Soviet science fiction novels. It describes a Soviet expedition to Mars headed by an engineer, ...
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Stories of such parallel universes are the staple of fiction: in Philip K Dick’s novel The Man in the High Castle.