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Quantum Computing has tremendous potential to change the world of computing forever but there are significant challenges that need to be addressed. One of the challenges is that in order to function as a superconductor the system has to be kept between 0.01 to 0.015 Kelvin or -273.14°C. As you can imagine this is hard […]
A camera is a camera and a screen is a screen, till recently they couldn’t be both simultaneously. But last month researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, have created a new type of pixel that can do both at the same time. This hypercharged pixel, called a Fourier pixel, can generate and sense arbitrary light […]
People who know me know that I am not really active on Social Media, and by Social Media I am referring to the sites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Instead I use Mastodon which is an open source equivalent of Twitter and Pixel which is an Opensource version of Instagram. I don’t use Facebook or […]
In a historic first, on 18th July India’s first private orbital launch named Vikram-I, successfully lifted off from Sriharikota and has successfully placed multiple technology demonstration payloads into orbit. These payloads include two satellites named SCOPE & Grahaa which were injected to a Low Earth Orbit along with others that carry out various in-orbit experiments. […]
AI (or rather LLM’s) use is becoming more & more common and one of the issues with it (amongst many) is that when you ask it to summarize/process/or whatever something you have to upload that content to servers that are outside your control, then to make things worse a lot of these services use the […]
Recently an Amazon executive revealed that she had rejected a candidate who showed up to an interview in a T-Shirt that said “I’m too Hot for a Job”. This caused a lot of noise on social media with folks either supporting her or calling the interviewer out for rejecting the candidate for no good reason. […]
There is a reason John Scalzi is one of my favorite authors in the world. He is outspoken about issues that are close to his heart and like most authors he is not a fan of AI. In fact he has a clause in his contracts that all artwork, translation etc on his books will […]
India has a lot of knowledge and information hidden in scrolls, manuscripts that are unfortunately poorly documented which makes it hard to locate and preserve this knowledge in an organized way. Earlier this year the Ministry of Culture launched the Gyan Bharatam National Manuscript Survey that aims to identify and document these manuscripts located across […]
A few days ago a new political party emerged in India called ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ following remarks attributed to the Chief Justice of India during a court hearing and apparently rapidly gained traction online through memes. I am going to talk about the political aspect of it in a bit but first want to talk […]
After Photoshop was released in 1990 and more and more people started using it to create fake/morphed photos in the subsequent years there was a big panic about not being able to trust photo’s as evidence or logging of truth because they could be modified and it was hard for the average user to quickly […]