1+ week, 5+ day ago   (379+ words) Three months before the flash flood ravaged the country, Nepali officials have said that China had rejected their requests for glacier risk and water level data. Following the devastation from the flood in Nepal and Tibet, China's opacity in the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (524+ words) A Census is more than a headcount. It also reflects what the State considers important enough to measure. Over time, India's Census has adapted to changing priorities. Information on housing, sanitation, drinking water, cooking fuel, electricity and, more recently, digital…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago   (902+ words) Artificial intelligence has largely evolved around machines that can understand language, recognise images and generate code. But what if the next big leap in AI is not about making machines better at talking, but making them better at understanding the…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (612+ words) The growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a debate in the United States not only over the technology’s possible impact on humanity, but also over rising energy costs linked to the rapid expansion of data centres needed to power…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1041+ words) Bill Gates says the AI industry is moving into territory that once seemed like a distant warning, from mass job disruption and cyberattacks to biological risks and loss of control. He wants governments to establish new rules, protect certain human…...

3+ week, 19+ hour ago   (436+ words) The rise of AI-generated content is forcing journalists to rethink more than how stories are written. At one American publication, it is now changing how reporters are expected to pitch them. The Food Section, a publication covering food industries and…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago   (675+ words) We have built an entire civilisation on a comforting assumption: that each of us, as individuals, freely determines our own thoughts, values, and choices. That we are the authors of our own minds. That our decisions are wholly and unmistakably…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (163+ words) Your Wi-Fi does a lot more than connect your phone to the internet. Your router can reveal your devices, connection patterns, traffic metadata and online activity. Watch this video where Hem Kaur Saroya explains how new Wi-Fi sensing technology can…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (458+ words) In the coming decade, the defining question for India’s space programme will not be whether we have enough funding. It will be whether we have enough talent The global space race has entered a new era. What was once the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (267+ words) The next frontier of surveillance may not be a camera on the street, but the ordinary connected devices inside your home These are future possibilities, not evidence that every institution is already doing them. Yet the technological direction is clear…...