Is the Pandemic Economic Boom Over?
As the pandemic economy resets, tech layoffs rise and even start-ups are talking profit The exuberance of a pandemic-induced growth of tech companies and start-ups is facing a harsh reality check. Netflix is losing subscribers in hundreds and thousands; Zoom’s stock price is down over 80% from the pandemic highs; the nearly invincible Amazon announced […]
Data Science vs Computer Science
Data Science and Computer Science are two independent disciplines that have become symbiotic in their respective ways. These two subjects have garnered interest in the modern age where data has become the equivalent of digital gold. Indeed, data feed computers, the generation of resultant data from the interaction between users and computers, and the consequent […]
Starlink Creates A Business Model
The Ukraine war is a business case for Starlink’s low-earth-orbiting communication network The situation was becoming desperate for Ukrainian soldiers surrounded by Russian forces in the Azovstal factory in early May 2022. They called for help, not from their own military command, but from the US billionaire Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla. […]
It Chats, It Draws – AI Gets Creative – Part II
Part II: Dall-E from OpenAI In their quest for increasingly complex AI applications, scientists are now mixing image with text recognition. In this second part, we explore Dall-E Google Deepmind’s Flamingo and OpenAI’s Dall-E are two recent developments in creative AI in which image identification and text interpretation algorithms have been merged to create multimodal […]
Europe’s New AI Act & GDPR
The European Union is doing everything possible to create an ‘iron dome’ around its data to protect it from cyberattacks Geopolitics is driving technology, especially Artificial Intelligence (AI), as the Russian President Vladimir Putin once said that the nation which leads in AI will rule the world. The European Union (EU), which is technology-dependent on […]
Embracing Uncertainty
Creating a flexible supply chain strategy for a fluid future The world has been in a constant state of uncertainty for decades, with only brief interludes of relative stability. The only thing organisations can do in such a perpetual state of flux is to be flexible in their strategy, and execution. The large goals would […]
Autonomous Cargo Ship
A fully autonomous AI-powered Japanese cargo ship is the “world’s first” to complete a 500-mile ocean trip It seems the most obvious place for autonomous navigation to happen – the wide-open oceans. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered autonomous vessels are making waves. In mid-May, the 750-ton Japanese cargo ship, Suzaka, became the “world’s first” autonomous commercial cargo […]
The Rupee on a Freefall
A weakening economy is the disease; falling rupee is a symptom The chart above is a graphic story of the Indian Rupee vs. the United States Dollar over the last five years. It, therefore, shouldn’t surprise anyone that the INR fell to an all-time low of Rs 77.4 to a U.S. Dollar a few days […]
The Great Back-To-Office Confusion
As employees forcefully push back Return-to-Office, the issue has opened a pandora’s box –raising more questions than answers about flexible and hybrid work models Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, recently announced employees can work from home forever. He calls the office an “anachronistic form” that is“from a pre-digital age.” Apple’s director of machine learning, Ian Goodfellow, […]
Business Development Manager: Roles and Responsibilities Explained
Business development managers are a crucial pillar of any successful organization as they ultimately generate new revenue and help a company grow. A business development manager is tasked with developing and diversifying the business so that there is an overall growth in profit and an overall increase in the prosperity of the company. These professionals […]