Wipro believes the new strategy will eventually help put it back on the growth pedestal India’s third-largest software services exporter is making its most aggressive push to get its over 120,000 engineers to learn newer technologies. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint Bengaluru: Wipro Ltd’s chief executive AbidaliNeemuchwala has a simple message for its engineers looking to earn […]
Read more >SINGAPORE: The world’s first self-driving taxis began picking up passengers in Singapore starting Thursday. Select members of the public can hail a free ride through their smartphones in taxis operated by nuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup. While multiple companies, including Google and Volvo, have been testing self-driving cars on public roads for several years, […]
Read more >In Greenville, S.C., G.E. makes giant gas turbines. The turbines can be brought to market in half the usual five years through changes in design and production made possible by digital technology. Credit Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times It may not qualify as a lightning-bolt eureka moment, but Jeffrey R. Immelt, chief […]
Read more >Artificial intelligence (AI) could make every company and employee smarter, faster, and more productive Over the last 30 years, consumers have reaped the benefits of dramatic technological advances. In many countries, most people now have in their pockets a personal computer more powerful than the mainframes of the 1980s. The Atari 800XL computer that I […]
Read more >The guidelines promise strong oversight and bets on automated technology to improve safety The regulators will have to balance the commercial interests of companies including Google, Tesla and Uber with concerns over public safety. Photo: AP Washington: Federal auto safety regulators in the US on Monday made it official: They are betting the nation’s highways […]
Read more >MIT researchers have made a machine that can read your feelings through radio waves. Machines can now tell how you feel, even if you put on your best poker face. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have found a way to detect human emotions purely through radio signals. Using a device […]
Read more >WASHINGTON: Automation threatens 69% of the jobs in India and 77% in China, according to a World Bank research, which says technology could “fundamentally disrupt” the pattern of traditional economic path in developing countries. “As we continue to encourage more investment in infrastructure to promote growth, we also have to think about the kinds of […]
Read more >Seventeen years ago an Indian man from New Delhi mesmerized the technology departments of global corporations with a doomsday story many times more puffed up than the luxuriant crop of hair he sported. The latter was a wig, and the former was just bad science fiction packaged by consultants as a $600 billion hair-raiser. But […]
Read more >MUMBAI: A cashless economy + is possible only when a country has high internet speeds and high cyber security. Though India is going through demonetisation + , a major aim of which is to promote digital transactions, the country figures poorly in the global cyber stakes. The country is 96th in terms of download speed […]
Read more >Japan and Korea were at the top of the world in the ’80s and ’90s, rising from war-ravaged economies to the ranks of the “developed” nations. Their companies became global powerhouses, and corporate executives became confident and assertive. And then they were humbled by economic stagnation. I have found the CEOs of Japanese and Korean […]
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