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May 13, 2026, 03:15 PM - 2 min read

Japan's caregiver robots: Not quite ready for ‘real world’
May 12, 2026, 01:55 PM - 6 min read
Care is, at its core, a deeply human activity, not just a series of programmable tasks. It relies on relationships, trust and mutual understanding. Robots may support these processes, but they cannot replace them.
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A wake-up call: Lessons from South Africa’s AI policy blunder
May 11, 2026, 12:45 PM - 6 min read
The incident is being treated as an embarrassment. It’s something more serious: a failure of the very standards the revised policy must uphold.
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Co-working with AI: How to build successful human-machine synergy
May 10, 2026, 01:17 PM - 8 min read
As companies rapidly adopt the latest AI systems, agents are taking on increasingly diverse roles in the workplace that leverage their ability to do autonomous work.
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Rewriting physics: Measurement of ‘negative time’ in lab
May 8, 2026, 04:31 PM - 6 min read
Negative dwell time is not an artefact. However paradoxical it may seem, it has a directly measurable effect on the atomic cloud that the photon traverses. And it reminds us that there are still lands to discover on the odyssey that is quantum research.
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Reliance to set up data centre project in Visakhapatnam
May 8, 2026, 04:13 PM - 3 min read
RIL at that time did not announce the location of the proposed AI Data Centre. However, officials have confirmed the scale of the investment in the data centre and also the location as Visakhapatnam.
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Andhra to fuel India’s fighter aircraft programme
May 8, 2026, 03:09 PM - 3 min read
The complex will serve as the primary assembly and testing site for the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), a fifth-generation, multi-role, all-weather stealth fighter being developed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
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Vetting AI models essential but science says it’s difficult
May 7, 2026, 12:38 PM - 7 min read
Security experts have expressed concern that AI researchers in nations such as China, Russia, Iran and North Korea might soon create powerful AI models and use them to threaten or attack other countries, or to create chaos in those countries’ economies.
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Three strategic models for AI in education
May 6, 2026, 05:02 PM - 7 min read
The recent proliferation of generative AI tools across society has a significant impact on teaching and learning. It has caused schools to make decisions about restricting or allowing the use of these tools. The US-based ISTE proposes standards that engage students as empowered learners, computational thinkers, innovative designers and digital citizens.
see moreMay 6, 2026, 05:02 PM . 7 min read

AI ‘deadbots’ can trap you in endless grief
May 5, 2026, 03:13 PM - 6 min read
Posthumous digital avatars are created from the digital traces left behind by dead people during their lifetime. Built through a combination of AI, machine learning and advanced data analysis, these avatars can recreate the physical and psychological likeness, personality and even memories of the deceased. But the advent of posthumous avatars raises significant ethical issues.
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AI boom causing chip shortage for electronics
May 4, 2026, 04:20 PM - 8 min read
The reason for the consumer electronics supply crunch has to do with the nature of the chip market: its concentration and high costs and how it responds to boom-and-bust cycles.
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Can scientists fulfil Venter’s dream of programmable biology?
May 3, 2026, 02:05 PM - 10 min read
Synthetic biology has not yet delivered a world of fully programmable organisms solving global challenges. But it has changed expectations, both within science and beyond, about what might be possible in biological design.
see moreMay 3, 2026, 02:05 PM . 10 min read

What is SACHET? India’s new emergency alert system explained
May 2, 2026, 02:41 PM - 3 min read
Built on the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), this technology is designed to act as a lifeline during crises, ranging from natural disasters to wartime emergencies.
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How blockchain is changing who we trust
May 13, 2026, 03:15 PM - 6 min read
Blockchain was never just about technology – it was about rethinking mechanisms of trust, so it could be engineered rather than delegated. What is emerging is not the end of trust but its reconfiguration.
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May 12, 2026, 01:55 PM - 6 min read
Care is, at its core, a deeply human activity, not just a series of programmable tasks. It relies on relationships, trust and mutual understanding. Robots may support these processes, but they cannot replace them.
Read more
May 11, 2026, 12:45 PM - 6 min read
The incident is being treated as an embarrassment. It’s something more serious: a failure of the very standards the revised policy must uphold.
Read more
May 10, 2026, 01:17 PM - 8 min read
As companies rapidly adopt the latest AI systems, agents are taking on increasingly diverse roles in the workplace that leverage their ability to do autonomous work.
Read more
May 8, 2026, 04:31 PM - 6 min read
Negative dwell time is not an artefact. However paradoxical it may seem, it has a directly measurable effect on the atomic cloud that the photon traverses. And it reminds us that there are still lands to discover on the odyssey that is quantum research.
Read more
May 8, 2026, 04:13 PM - 3 min read
RIL at that time did not announce the location of the proposed AI Data Centre. However, officials have confirmed the scale of the investment in the data centre and also the location as Visakhapatnam.
Read more
May 8, 2026, 03:09 PM - 3 min read
The complex will serve as the primary assembly and testing site for the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), a fifth-generation, multi-role, all-weather stealth fighter being developed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
Read more
May 7, 2026, 12:38 PM - 7 min read
Security experts have expressed concern that AI researchers in nations such as China, Russia, Iran and North Korea might soon create powerful AI models and use them to threaten or attack other countries, or to create chaos in those countries’ economies.
Read more
May 6, 2026, 05:02 PM - 7 min read
The recent proliferation of generative AI tools across society has a significant impact on teaching and learning. It has caused schools to make decisions about restricting or allowing the use of these tools. The US-based ISTE proposes standards that engage students as empowered learners, computational thinkers, innovative designers and digital citizens.
Read more
May 5, 2026, 03:13 PM - 6 min read
Posthumous digital avatars are created from the digital traces left behind by dead people during their lifetime. Built through a combination of AI, machine learning and advanced data analysis, these avatars can recreate the physical and psychological likeness, personality and even memories of the deceased. But the advent of posthumous avatars raises significant ethical issues.
Read more
May 4, 2026, 04:20 PM - 8 min read
The reason for the consumer electronics supply crunch has to do with the nature of the chip market: its concentration and high costs and how it responds to boom-and-bust cycles.
Read more
May 3, 2026, 02:05 PM - 10 min read
Synthetic biology has not yet delivered a world of fully programmable organisms solving global challenges. But it has changed expectations, both within science and beyond, about what might be possible in biological design.
Read more
May 2, 2026, 02:41 PM - 3 min read
Built on the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), this technology is designed to act as a lifeline during crises, ranging from natural disasters to wartime emergencies.
Read more