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The discussion on peace itself is a political activity, which remains incomplete without exploring the philosophical questions on individual yearnings.

Mind matters: Exploring Philosophical fundamentals of peace

Even after the victory in war, the Pandavas did not find peace with themselves and did not become people who...

10 Sept 2017 2:15 AM IST

Runversation: The Mont Blanc at your feet

You run in the shadow of the Mont Blanc, you reach 10 summits, and you run in three countries.

3 Sept 2017 2:33 AM IST

Prof. Venkatesh Babu along with his team from the Department of Computation and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bengaluru.

Tech that: Size up a crowd the neural way

Just how do you count crowds, stand by with an emergency evacuation plan to prevent a catastrophe triggered by a...

3 Sept 2017 2:28 AM IST

It seems that all those clicks that you, as advertiser, paid for, well, many of them were not clicked by humans but by clever robotic programmes.

Ad Nauseam: Bot attack!

Fraudulent clicks by robot programmes inflate Google advertisers' billings. The episode unveils the larger risks of...

3 Sept 2017 2:23 AM IST

The new CRISPR technology enables the recording of digital data, like frames of the movie of a galloping horse, in a population of living bacteria. (Credit: Wyss Institute)

Cell wise: Storing movies in bacteria

CRISPR technology converts bacteria into a hard disk in which information can be stored.

31 Aug 2017 3:41 AM IST

China launched the worlds first quantum-communication satellite called Micius.

Get physical: Quantum teleportation into the orbit is a reality

Humans could teleport themselves to exotic locations, scientists are talking only about sending the state of a single...

31 Aug 2017 3:36 AM IST

Experts have warned that AI poses an existential threat to humanity.

Artificial intelligence: Future perfect, future tense

Experts and tech entrepreneurs hold diametrically opposite views on potential and threat of artificial intelligence.

31 Aug 2017 3:32 AM IST

Before concluding that humans could teleport themselves to exotic locations, consider the fact that scientists are talking only about sending the state of a single particle, not the billions of particles that form a person.

Get physical: Quantum teleportation into the orbit is a reality

The teleported quantum state from photon 1 to photon 3 is further transmitted to the satellite using a transmitting...

27 Aug 2017 2:29 AM IST

The new CRISPR technology enables the recording of digital data, like frames of the movie of a galloping horse, in a population of living bacteria. (Credit: Wyss Institute)

Cell wise: Storing movies in bacteria

CRISPR technology converts bacteria into a hard disk in which information can be stored.

27 Aug 2017 2:24 AM IST

Experts have warned that AI poses an existential threat to humanity.

Bot chat: AI future perfect, future tense

Experts and tech entrepreneurs hold diametrically opposite views on potential and threat of artificial intelligence.

27 Aug 2017 2:19 AM IST

Sridhar Venkatesh during the epic Marathon of Sands

Runversation: Running the Sahara

Sridhar Venkatesh recounts this soul-destroying run.

24 Aug 2017 7:32 AM IST

A social media-savvy youth could an influencer. He could hold up his phone with a post or a Tweet that questions what a politician said or did not say.

Net effect: Twitterati, a dangerous minority

Even in India, Twitter has been credited with playing an influential role in the BJP's win in the 2014 General Election.

24 Aug 2017 7:19 AM IST