An AI-powered coronavirus app will soon enable individuals to get free at-home risk assessment in just about a minute, based on how they feel and where they’ve been. It will…
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Other than being a writer, editor, moderator, and events' curator, I help companies devise an integrated communications strategy. I'm passionate about digital transformation and deep-tech topics such as artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, fintech, electric vehicles, solar power and autonomous vehicles. I am an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow (2010-11), Boston; EARLIER ASSIGNMENTS include: Editor-South and National Technology Editor, Mint (HT Media) -- India; and Associate Editor, Business Standard.
Human drivers are typically multitaskers. Even as they drive, they could be thinking about and responding to multiple phenomena — their own speed, safety considerations, and their own comfort and…
How do you prevent autonomous cars from crashing into each other, or causing unnecessary traffic jams? Northwestern University researchers believe intelligent decentralized swarm robots can provide a collision-free, deadlock-free guarantee.…
Canadian researchers have successfully used a robot to treat a 64-year-old female patient with an unruptured aneurysm at the base of her skull. A brain aneurysm is a bulge or…
The ubiquitous application programming interfaces, or APIs, continue to be the security bugbear of companies even as they are almost indispensable. Up to 75% of all credential abuse attacks against…
Tools such as AI are transforming healthcare. These tools, for instance, are already helping coronavirus, or Covid-19 as it is now known AI aids coronavirus (Covid-19) researchers AI, as is…
In a first step for learning-based approaches to soft robotic control, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have enabled a soft robotic arm to understand its configuration in 3D space.…
It’s almost impossible to have a meaningful discussion, which centres around topics like the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digital disruption, without alluding to the impact on jobs caused by automation…
Who is liable if there is an accident involving a driverless car and a human driver? If both parties are liable, how should the accident loss be apportioned between them?…
CALIFORNIA, USA – January 9 NEONs will integrate with our world and serve as new links to a better future, a world where ‘humans are humans’ and ‘machines are humane’…