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Atanu Biswas
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To Grok is human
March 25, 2025, 7:59 AM IST
Grok, a chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, means “to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with.” However, its usage of Hindi slang, unfiltered language and controversial remarks to Indian users have…
March 25, 2025, 7:59 AM IST
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Achtung! Many Germans aren’t far from far-right
February 22, 2025, 7:18 AM IST
Elections tomorrow in Germany will show how close AfD, yet another Western party that’s ultra-nationalist, Russia-loving and immigrant-bashing, gets to taking power in the future Tomorrow, an important German snap election will be held amid…
February 22, 2025, 7:18 AM IST
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DeepShocking the don
January 31, 2025, 7:24 AM IST
The who’s who of American tech bosses were flaunted at Trump’s Jan 20 inauguration. It may be coincidental, or political, that a breakthrough Chinese-built AI model, DeepSeek-R1, that openly competes with “reasoning” models like OpenAI’s…
January 31, 2025, 7:24 AM IST
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Bitcoin’s riding Trump wagon, wait for dust to settle
December 7, 2024, 7:26 AM IST
Holland’s tulip mania lasted three years. Bitcoin’s roller-coaster is in its 15th and just breached $100,000 on Trump’s intent to name pro-crypto lobbyist Paul Atkins head of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which regulates cryptocurrency…
December 7, 2024, 7:26 AM IST
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Podcast President. Podcast CM?
November 13, 2024, 7:39 AM IST
Trump’s victory is credited partly to his chats in popular podcasts. Election propaganda tech continuously evolves, in India too. In Maharashtra, BJP & Uddhav Sena are using podcasts The world has just experienced its first…
November 13, 2024, 7:39 AM IST
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AI’S Oppenheimer
October 14, 2024, 8:12 AM IST
A physics Nobel Prize rarely garners widespread public attention. This makes the 2024 prize awarded to John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of University of Toronto “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable…
October 14, 2024, 8:12 AM IST
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A Chapati On Democracy’s Tawa
June 15, 2024, 6:15 AM IST
● Around half of India’s electorate are floating voters ● They change their choices every election ● Measuring the swing vote is tough ● All of this is true for both LS & assembly polls…
June 15, 2024, 6:15 AM IST
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Exit Polls: Science or parlour game?
June 1, 2024, 8:46 AM IST
Predicting election results is risky business. Most pollsters today don’t even adhere to fundamental statistical principles. Watch news TV with caution The media will be inundated with exit polls today. But one wonders, given that…
June 1, 2024, 8:46 AM IST
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WhatsApp & the privacy bubble
May 15, 2024, 8:33 AM IST
Two points on the messaging app vs GOI case on sharing encrypted data. India’s not the only country asking for this. And internet privacy, really speaking, is an illusion In the plea that WhatsApp and…
May 15, 2024, 8:33 AM IST
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Vote counting: How to get it PAT
April 18, 2024, 8:46 AM IST
It may be hard to have a Lok Sabha election these days without contentious debates about EVMs. The voting process is basically the soul of democracy. Assuring its sanctity and, by extension, its unbiasedness is…
April 18, 2024, 8:46 AM IST
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Where do netas go when they die?
April 11, 2024, 8:33 AM IST
To the next election campaign. As AI raises political leaders from the dead, it also raises ethical quandaries. Some famous people’s wills prohibit using their likenesses AI is being used extensively in the run-up to…
April 11, 2024, 8:33 AM IST
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Rich in drama, poor in numbers
March 27, 2024, 8:06 AM IST
In a recently released working paper co-authored by economist Thomas Piketty, Paris-based World Inequality Lab (WIL) estimated India’s income and wealth inequality during 1922-2023. It said that following Independence, inequality declined until the early 1980s,…
March 27, 2024, 8:06 AM IST
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What man & gemini wrought: How will AI overcome systemic gender and racial biases common among humans?
March 5, 2024, 8:43 AM IST
A 2016 episode, Hated in the Nation, of British sci-fi TV series Black Mirror, shows how AI systems may reinforce bias and discrimination against particular people or groups based on the data they are trained…
March 5, 2024, 8:43 AM IST
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Tech’s new number game
January 4, 2024, 9:32 AM IST
Billy Beane, manager of American baseball team Oakland Athletics, used ‘sabermetrics’ – the art and science of marrying historical data and in-game analytics – to create a competitive lineup, on a tight budget. His innovative…
January 4, 2024, 9:32 AM IST
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World’s first genetically edited babies: It won’t be easy to put the genie unleashed by a Chinese scientist back into the bottle
December 4, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
In the 2009 movie ‘Splice’ a geneticist couple splice human DNA with animal DNA to create a new species, which begins to develop at an alarming rate and becomes a threat to the creators. This…
December 4, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Sport and the arrival of big data analytics: In World Cup soccer too, statistics is now the third eye
July 14, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
After her defeat in the 2016 US presidential election, Hillary Clinton remarked that her data operation simply wasn’t as good as that of the Republicans. When England crashed out of the cricket World Cup in…
July 14, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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In the coming era of ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT), cryptography will be the key to ensuring security
June 7, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
By Atanu Biswas and Bimal Roy In the 2017 Hollywood movie ‘The Fate of the Furious’ Cipher, the cyberterrorist, and her henchman hacked more than a thousand cars. They sent some of the hacked cars…
June 7, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Security of my bank locker: Here are simple geometric solutions to protect valuables or confidential information
November 28, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
By Atanu Biswas and Bimal Roy In response to a recent RTI, the RBI and 19 PSU banks explained that “the relationship they have with customers with regard to lockers is that of lessee (tenant)…
November 28, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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