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Technology plays a role

There’s always something new theatre artistes bring to the table or stage, as you like it. This year h.g. ( Hansel and Gretel ) by Trickster-p, and the Corinne Maier-directed Past is Present , both brought to Bengaluru by Sandbox Collective, raised the bar by blending theatre and technology. h.g. was a performance installation, where the spectator walked through nine ... Read More »

Small SUVs, hybrid vehicles, internet-powered auto technology, and more: Here’s what to expect from Geneva Motor Show 2016

While waiting for the much-discussed future of driverless cars to arrive, European automakers are focusing on tried-and-tested sales winners at this year’s Geneva International Auto Show — rolling out the small SUVs that are increasingly replacing hatchbacks and sedans in people’s driveways. Long after it has ceased to be an innovation, the small SUV category is drawing carmakers like catnip ... Read More »

The challenges of using blockchain technology

Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize financial transactions but companies will have to overcome several challenges in order to experience any benefits, according to industry experts. Blockchain was developed alongside the digital cryptocurrency bitcoin. It works like a huge, decentralized ledger which records every transaction and stores this information on a global network to prevent tampering. Bitcoin, itself, is ... Read More »

Don’t be smug, technology is eating middle-class jobs too

One million jobs to vanish in 10 years,” shout the Monday morning headlinesjust to get the week off to a good start. But it’s not another scary intervention in the referendum debate by a pro-European or a Brexiter. It’s more serious than that. The culprit on this occasion is the British Retail Consortium (BRC), the people who speak for shops ... Read More »

Dolby plays to eyes as well as ears with new technologies

The display mirrors Dolby’s recent efforts to move beyond sound enhancement to improve what people see when they watch films. Several of the movies up for Oscars on Sunday in Los Angeles were made with Dolby Vision, which has become an industry standard for image quality in movies. Best picture nominees “The Martian” and “The Revenant,” as well as Pixar’s ... Read More »

Syria civil war: State-of-the-art technology gives President Assad’s army the edge

If u can see the Syrian army’s spanking new Russian T-90 tanks lined up in their new desert livery scarcely 100 miles from ISIS’s Syrian “capital” of Raqqa. There are new Russian-made trucks alongside them, and a lot of artillery and – surely ISIS’s spies are supposed to see this – plenty of Syrian soldiers walking beside the perimeter wire ... Read More »

Drone technology a threat to Trident submarines, MPs to be told

The controversial idea that Britain’s nuclear submarines could be rendered irrelevant before the new fleet is even launched, will be bolstered this week by a report to be presented to MPs examining the Trident programme. Emerging drone technology, which could make the oceans “effectively transparent”, will make the submarines that carry the UK’s nuclear deterrent vulnerable to attack, warns the ... Read More »

Eco Survey 2016: Need to create more jobs, climb technology ladder for faster growth

Eco Survey 2016: Need to create more jobs, climb technology ladder for faster growth “This might be related to the increasing use of contract labour,” it said, cautioning that “any overall assessment of contractualisation must also account for its impact on worker protection and workers’ plight”. As per the Survey, one of the key roles of the Centre is to ... Read More »

Technology plays a role

There’s always something new theatre artistes bring to the table or stage, as you like it. This year h.g.(Hansel and Gretel) by Trickster-p, and the Corinne Maier-directed Past is Present, both brought to Bengaluru by Sandbox Collective, raised the bar by blending theatre and technology. h.g. was a performance installation, where the spectator walked through nine sensory rooms to experience ... Read More »

Under the Digital India initiative: Software Technology Park of India

Apart from upgrading Common Service Centres (CSCs) in all districts with 69 additional e-services, Union Minister for Communication and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday announced that a Software Technology Park of India (STPI) would be set up in Panchkula under the Digital India initiative. With a total of 31 e-services already being ... Read More »