Not many non-gamers know that Roger Ebert reviewed a video game once – ‘Cosmology of Kyoto’ for Wired. “The richness is almost overwhelming;” he wrote in 1994.”I have been exploring the ancient city in spare moments for two weeks now,
Conventional wisdom cites poverty and corruption as the main problems slowing India’s progress. But lax cyber security looks equally burdensome. “It is inexplicable that India – a country so rich in technical expertise – has had its IT systems so
Imagine rolling your cellphone into a film and clipping it to your pocket like a pen; or folding away your laptop like a newspaper. Flakes of carbon atoms knitted in a honeycomb lattice, one atomic layer thick and in theory,
In late July last year, India presented to the world its worst blackout in history as over 600 million people lost power over several days. The embarrassment, as the Wall Street Journal commented, “put on vivid display, for Indians and
“I want to be cremated so people won’t come to worship at my bones,” Einstein once remarked, a tad facetiously. But that hasn’t deterred posterity from pillaging his brain to unravel the secrets of his remarkable intellect. In 1955, the
So, tell me, how did it all start? When did you finally decide that numbers was what you wanted to do for your living? Actually quite late. People usually assume that mathematicians are born and that somehow you have a
While the tech world searches for the next Steve Jobs, Microsoft’s own Jobs has quit. After 23 years with Microsoft, Steven Sinofsky announced a premature retirement in early November, and while speculations are rife about internal power struggles with CEO
On 9th October, French Physicist Serge Haroche, 68, was taking a walk with his wife when his cell phone rang, and the Swedish country code flashed on the screen –which, at this time of the year,can mean only one thing
In 1989, Pons and Fleischman, then two of the world’s leading electro-chemists, demonstrated a working electrolytic reaction that speciously violated the second law of thermodynamics: producing more heat energy than was put into the system. The experiment attracted worldwide attention
How much does it cost to carry out a campaign that puts your company on the headlines of every major media house, inform consumers about your brand’s low pricing and highlights its product quality? The answer is $1.05 billion, and