What looks like convenience today might well be shaping a future where essential human skills quietly fade away.
After failing to draw sufficient investments for its functioning, the much-touted Media Lab Asia project may be wound up with the department of information technology planning to make it a purely government-aided research and development outfit.
The government has approved a full-scope programme of the restructured socio-economic project Media Lab Asia for a period of nine years.
Media Lab Asia, the socio-economic project between the Indian government and Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be completely recast with the project becoming a fully government-aided
In a bid to transform the Media Lab Asia project into a research hub, the government on Thursday announced an annual budgetary support of Rs 65 crore (Rs 650 million) per year to the research and development entity.
Brushing aside allegations by Massachusetts Institute of Technology that it withdrew from a research project in India due to differences with him, Information and Technology Minister Arun Shourie.
Hiriko is a folding two-seat urban electric car.
The university will analyse every public tweet since the microblogging site came into existence.
Parents should enroll their children in coding classes only as a leisure time activity, that too with strict curbs on screen time.
Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi got more than 33 per cent coverage on national TV channels during prime time in March and April, beating the likes of Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal and Congress' Rahul Gandhi.
Indian professor devices method to use cellphone for eye tests.
The new application uses the HealthMap technology, an online resource that collects, filters, maps and disseminates information about emerging infectious diseases, and provides a new, contextualised view of a user's specific location.
Dr Raskar says that it is basically story telling and the intention is to create a platform that can be diffused into society.
In a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country, the Mumbai Police has started tracking public views and sentiments on social media platforms to step-up its preparedness in handling sensitive issues and protests.
It's a digital prototype called "sixth sense" that is currently being evaluated by major companies like Microsoft, Google, Hewlett-Packard and Samsung. The brain behind this device is the 28-year-old Indian-born Pranav Mistry, a researcher at the Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
If Pranav Mistry has his way, people around the world can build their own wearable 'SixthSense' -- which uses a camera that understands human gestures -- at a cost of less than Rs 15,000 ($300) by obtaining the software he developed for free in the next few months.
In fact, both the Classmate PC projects (from Intel) and OLPC pilots (with Reliance Communications) besides low-cost initiatives from players like Novatium, Encore, Xenitis and Allied Computers are gathering momentum independent of each other in the country.
'There was a time between 1985 to the mid-1990s when computing power was with the chip. Then till 2005, the power was with network. We have now just entered a phase where the power will be with the people. People are the new computers,' says Dr Ramesh Raskar, associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute Technology's Media Lab.
CMS Media Lab is offering summer internship for its television news monitoring initiative.
The sources said HiMedia Lab had been valued at a much higher enterprise value, equivalent to more than three-four times of its current revenue of Rs150 crore by Merck.
It will come with at least two means of charging: with your arms and your feet
IG (administration) Prakash D said a letter was sent by the social media lab of UP police asking for removal of specific photographs and text uploaded by a Twitter handle.
Is it likely that one of these days, a demand may rise that only truthful endorsement should be made in media and that if it is discovered that she or he in real life does not use that brand, punishment may follow, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
An Indian scientist has developed an innovative 'hide-and-seek' alarm clock which would force even the laziest person to wake up from sleep.
Software developers who tried on an Apple Watch for the first time on Friday predicted a rush of new apps over the next few months.
Reliance ADAG, Tech Mahindra among top recruiters at IIM-A
Indian mathematician and founder of Super 30, Anand Kumar, has been invited by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to speak on his globally acclaimed effort to mentor students from the underprivileged sections for admission to the prestigious IITs.
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur have developed technologies that will enable people with disabilities enjoy the digital world, says Indrani Roy.
The media wittingly or otherwise has been a key player in stymying the AAP. It is not so much the rivals, but the media, mostly the television and from its cues, large sections of the print segment, who got the trophy. The political parties, especially BJP and Congress, can now laugh in their sleeves, says Mahesh Vijapurkar.
The blockchain, the public ledger that tracks every bitcoin transaction, is changing commerce as we know it, says Devangshu Datta.
'In May 2014, India got its Donald Trump equivalent as prime minister in the form of Narendra Modi. Come 2016, we will know if America too gets its own version of Modi by electing Trump,' says Shehzad Poonawalla.
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