This Week in Disruptive Tech | July 15, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world

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• Baidu
• COVID-19
• Chinese investments in India
• FAANG
• Alibaba
• Jio
• and Tencent
• Google
• Artificial Intelligence
• China Playbook
• Facebook

This Week in Disruptive Tech | July 08, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world

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• facial recognition
• Singapore
• Uber
• lockdown
• Richard Feynman
• Postmates

This Week in Disruptive Tech | July 01, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world

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• ethics in technology
• Chinese app ban
• Artificial Intelligence

This Week in Disruptive Tech | June 24, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world

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• genetic engineering
• Replika
• Crispr
• Balaji Srinivasan
• gene editing
• Martian city
• esports
• Dubai
• virtual reality
• CCR5 gene

This Week in Disruptive Tech | June 17, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world

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• facial recognition
• Generative adversarial networks
• GoSocial
• deepfakes
• decentralisation in media

This Week in Disruptive Tech | June 10, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world

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• JioConnect
• facial recognition
• Jio Platforms
• robotics
• Jio POS-lite

The amazing ability of living systems to respond to the abstract might help scientists find vaccines for coronavirus faster than before. Plus a roundup of the global effort to minimise the spread of the disease

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• Coronavirus
• COVID-19
• vaccines

February 17, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology. In this issue: Swiggy’s partnerships, Tesla’s pricing and Silicon Valley’s fascination with Yuval Harari

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• Tesla
• Swiggy
• Yuval Noah Harari
• Food delivery services

In this extract from the book 'Midnight's Machines', Arun Mohan Sukumar asks the question, was it ambition or naïveté, or both, that nudged scientists towards unviable projects like the solar cooker?

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• Arun Mohan Sukumar
• technology policy
• Midnight's Machines
• Books

Indian technology has evolved in the context of the country’s politics. A review of ‘Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India’

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• technology policy
• Midnight's Machines
• Books