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San Francisco woman hires $30-an-hour humanoid robot to make her bed, clean bathroom and vacuum while she controls it from sofaA San Francisco woman hired a humanoid robot for $30 an hour to clean her apartment, with the machine making her bed, cleaning her bathroom...- Mind the gap: Financial products that women in India need but don’t haveIf India is serious about women-led growth, it must move beyond credit access and design finance for the agency of women.
- The Indian workers training AI robots to take their jobsWith a smartphone strapped to her head, Nagireddy Sriramyachandra films herself slicing mangoes in her kitchen in India to train AI-powered...
- Psychology says people in their 40s and 50s who make lists for tiny tasks aren't becoming forgetful - they're building external memory supports that free the mind to focus elsewhere, because intentions stick better when cues are concreteForget memory loss; making lists, especially for those over 40, is a smart psychological adaptation. These 'external memory aids' like stic...
- Japan plans to give three weekly offs to everybody from next year to grow youngerThe Tokyo Metropolitan Government is set to implement a four-day workweek for its employees starting in April 2025, aiming to address Japan...
- 'Ghar is all about kismet’: Bhool Bhulaiyaa actor Vidya Balan shares why she still lives in a rented homeBollywood actor Vidya Balan shared her thoughts on finding the perfect home, calling it a 'kismet connection'. Speaking at the Credai Natco...
- Why ‘superwoman’ title is a trap laid to enslave womenIn this extract from her new book, the award-winning journalist looks at how women, in a bid to strive to be the ultimate superwomen, take ...
- "We all long to be free": Trudeau's wife opens up to Meghan Markle before announcing separationCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau have announced their separation, marking the end of their 18-ye...
- Let 2022 be the year of sharing burden: Stressed mothers can use help in household choresMental load has been defined as the combination of cognitive labour and emotional labour.
- School lockdowns have robbed a generation of upward mobility in IndiaThe School Children’s Online and Offline Learning, or SCHOOL, survey, overseen by a group of economists including Jean Dreze and Reetika Kh...
- Has the pandemic made leaning in much tougher? Namita Thapar says situation more difficult for women; Carmesi founder feels boundary between work and home blurredTarini Jindal, MD, JSW Living, says the pandemic has also encouraged men to lean in.
- Feminist perspective needed in environmental studies to combat climate crisis, say scientists"As climate change continues to make water sources volatile and scarce, women and marginalised groups stand to lose the most due to their p...
- Notional income for homemakers in claims case signals law believes in their sacrifices: SCA bench of Justices N V Ramana, S Abdul Nazeer and Surya Kant said in Tuesday's verdict that grant of compensation, on a pecuniary basis, t...
- 22 million children from South Asia missed out on early childhood education due to COVID-19: UNICEFIn the South Asia region, the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) covered Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Mal...
- View: The pandemic is likely to leave lasting changes in work, politics and global relationsSupply chains will shift. The guiding principle will change from ‘just in time’ to ‘just in case’.
- Kamal Haasan calls for an epidemic preparedness budget in India for a post-Covid worldActor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan said India's defence allocation for 2020-21 was $ 65.86 billion, which is 2% of our total GDP while th...
- Coronavirus lockdown: What's the future of your company? Use this time to up career skillsThe ongoing all-India lockdown could be lifted after 21 days or get extended. If the latter happens, the economy will get worse and firms m...
- From Anand Mahindra to Vijay Shekhar Sharma, big bosses compliment Sakshi & SindhuFollowing Sakshi's bronze, Mahindra Group's Anand Mahindra declared she deserved the Mahindra Thar SUV as a token of appreciation.
- Sitting down shortens life while gizmos that leave you sitting guzzle energyThe result, of course, is a run on these high-end variants before the axe falls, though there is obviously no real need to have carpet clea...
- Power structures in families have shifted tooThe point is, leadership, like water, always flows from an elevation (in this case the patriarch) to a lower level. Whether we like it or n...
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