Thursday, Feb 25, 2021 | Last Update : 02:15 PM IST
As it brings more people online, a phrase that is heard most often since the onset of 2018 is ‘Fake news’.
Survey trashes India, US on women
India has been branded the most dangerous country for women and the USA third.
09 Jul 2018 1:53 AM
What Harvard says
As they know, this work was explicitly understood to be preliminary and incomplete, and it was done with limited admissions data.
04 Jul 2018 2:30 AM
Race neutrality helps students grow
It is in a nation’s best interests to properly develop the minds of its brightest and best so they may be able to tackle the problems of the future.
04 Jul 2018 2:27 AM
Attempt to limit Asian Americans in universities
Today, the average percentage of Jewish students is 25 per cent on Ivy League campuses, with a 6-million population.
04 Jul 2018 2:14 AM
Speech that wreaks havoc
History is replete with instances of the havoc played by dehumanising language.
27 Jun 2018 2:38 AM
AI learns to ditch swear words
The new sentence was then translated back to see how closely it resembled the original.
27 Jun 2018 2:33 AM
Onus on EC to ensure EVM credibility: EVMs too need a physical record
Many people are quite surprised when it turns out that computer scientists and security experts are among those most critical of EVMs.
18 Jun 2018 1:57 AM
Onus on EC to ensure EVM credibility: Glitches apart, EVMs are necessary
The issue of ‘tamperability’ of EVMs has been doing the rounds ever since they were introduced.
18 Jun 2018 1:53 AM
Europe can demolish at will
Dams, natural or manmade, across drainage systems, vary depending upon the order of stream in a hydrologic sense.
11 Jun 2018 6:01 AM
No swadeshi takers for the clamour
This write-up presents a view from a tropical developing country point of view.
11 Jun 2018 5:54 AM
STEM the gender gap
Despite recent progress, the gender gap appears likely to persist for generations, particularly in computer science, physics, and maths.
06 Jun 2018 1:21 AM
Eco logos yet to take root
Recently we did a report on the fast-food industry and looked at their policy on antibiotics in developed countries and India.
27 May 2018 2:58 AM
A corporate Greenwash: Don’t let bad guys hijack green labels
Do not splurge on supposedly green products and discourage sustainability.
27 May 2018 2:54 AM
How artificial intelligence is poised to transform the world
Is AIs safe? Can they be trusted with real-world responsibilities?.
23 May 2018 2:20 AM
AI has the power to learn, grow
You feel the world is following you because Facebook gives you content which it thinks you like.
23 May 2018 2:17 AM
In biz models, no free lunch even in space
The US is in the forefront in this kind of multiple constellations that are looking at different parts of the world.
17 May 2018 2:14 AM
Deciding who can access satellite data
In fact, data from more than half of all unclassified government Earth observing satellites launched between 1957 and 2016 is restricted in some way.
17 May 2018 2:10 AM
CSA is about power and domination
While one method of CSA is coercive, violent abuse of children, the other processes by which abuses happen are far more insidious.
07 May 2018 4:00 AM
Columns
Indian government has so far ignored subtle hints from the US that freedom of expression includes the freedom to protest peacefully
Whether the Taliban’s recapture of Kabul comes to pass or not, staying engaged with Afghanistan is India’s foremost challenge in the region
This is the first time in the Club’s history that an administrator has been appointed to run its affairs
The social media has two broad roles — the organisational and the dialogic, and it is the former that is spooking nervous governments