Digital assistants are a gateway to powerful artificial intelligence tools
For the first time, a Chinese news channel has employed an artificial intelligence robot as a weather reporter on its live breakfast show, raising concerns among the country's journalists as it could threaten their jobs.
Apple is also expected to announce plans for a startup accelerator in India to work more closely with the Indian developer community that works on the company's iOS and OS X software platforms
Ayan Pramanik and Shivani Shinde Nadhe report on the uncertainties that have dragged down shares of TCS, Tech Mahindra and HCL Technologies.
Mangalyaan has been named among the best inventions of 2014 by Time magazine which described it as a technological feat that will allow India to flex its "interplanetary muscles."
From scanning hospital entrants to disinfecting hospital areas and floors, robots are being roped in for tasks considered high-risk, says Peerzada Abrar.
'The pressure on relative performance and the feeling of being left out among many investors may also account for the belief among many that this has to be a technology stock bubble.' 'The feeling of a bubble is also reinforced by the extreme performance gap between growth and value investing.' 'While at first glance, one can only stand back awestruck by the wealth creation delivered by technology stocks globally. It does not seem at all like the internet bubble of 1999-2000, says Akash Prakash.
'The easy availability of funds has enabled us to not only hire the best faculty, but has also made it possible for us to retain them with the best possible infrastructure -- labs, grants etc,' Ashoka University VC Malabika Sarkar tells Geetanjali Krishna.
'The industry growth in 2016< came from the new digital technology segment which grew at over 20%.' 'The challenge for the industry is that the legacy business makes up almost 80% of revenue.' 'Hence the urgency to transform into digital business.'
Object recognition is one of the most widely studied problems in computer vision, researchers said.
There are few firms that are applauded for managing a healthy top line growth along with an impressive brand image that inspires most companies.
Software market in India grew 10 per cent to $4.76 billion in 2013, driven by strong adoption of cloud or subscription-based services, research firm Gartner said.
Experts believe cyclical glitches account for the downturn in mobile-phone sales
Are we seeing a replay of March 2000? What are the similarities and differences and how worried should we be, asks Akash Prakash.
US-based technology major IBM is contesting a claim of the revenue department which has increased the company's taxable income substantially to around Rs 11,000 crore (Rs 110 billion).
Experts say the new guideline is likely to hurt foreign players more, especially card companies such as Visa, MasterCard and American Express who process and store credit card transaction data outside of India.
The idea that technology and startups with newer business models will not disrupt traditional businesses has been thrown out the window.
Heads of state and big-name billionaires opened the Paris climate summit with a bang on Monday.
Wipro has been quite aggressive among Indian IT services companies in acquisitions as a strategy to buy the capabilities in emerging technologies.
One should appreciate the sagacity and audacity of JRD and Nani Palkhivala in founding TCS on April 1, 1968. At that time there was no Microsoft or Intel, SAP or Accenture, much less Google.
They needed a person who could build and execute their vision: A frontiersman; a problem solver and an institution builder. It was their and India's good fortune that Faqir Chand Kohli more than measured up to their requirements and indeed laid the foundation to take TCS to unimaginable heights and to the giant success that it is today. Shivanand Kanavi salutes the incomparable F C Kohli, who passed into the ages last week.
'What I would love him to do most is to become a life coach and share his incredible story of struggle, success, and survival,' says marketing guru Sandeep Goyal.
Nokia is hiring software experts, testing new products and seeking sales partners.
After Sheryl Sandberg, it's now the turn of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to visit India, the second biggest market for the social networking giant, later this month.
Mumbai is the most hard working city in the world. Mumbaikars work for an average of 3,315 hours annually. In comparison, a full-time employee in Beijing works for an average of 2,096 hours a year, says Shyamal Majumdar.
PIO finds similarities between WannaCry code and other tools created by Lazarus Group in the past.
The long-neglected fruit may finally get the recognition it deserves.
He is meeting stalwarts such as Google's Eric E Schmidt, Carlyle's David M Rubenstein, Cargill's David W MacLennan, MasterCard's Ajay Banga, and Pepsico's Indra Nooyi.
With 1.35 billion users of its Internet social network, Facebook Inc would rank as the world's second-most populous nation if it were a country.
After 5 yrs, firm's offer to set up private satellites for digital push has seen some interest from Isro
'Artificial intelligence works best on unstructured data. And no other country has the amount of unstructured data like India has.'
Android M would be built directly into cars allowing drivers to enjoy all the benefits of the internet without even plugging in their smartphones.
Google Inc on Monday launched the first smartphones powered by its Android One operating system in India, pricing them at around Rs 6,399 ($105) to capture the low-cost segment of the world's fastest growing smartphone market.
Nokia is one of the leading telecom equipment manufacturing companies in India
Mozilla showcased a smartphone prototype costing as little as $25 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, targeting developing countries including India and China.
Mudra glove can be worn like any other riding glove.
According to CyberMedia Research, over 7.46 lakh tablets were sold in the January-March 2014 quarter by as many as 30 domestic and international vendors.
Dr Sethuraman 'Panch' Panchanathan, senior vice president, Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development, ArizonaStateUniversity, was last week appointed to the United States National Science Board by President Barack Obama.
If you have an IT firm, you should avoid encroaching on their turf.
Ashish Pratap Singh wonders if Samsung will meet the same fate as Nokia?
Indian tech professionals are one of the major beneficiaries of H-1B visas.
