Dual-Use Drones: In less than a decade, India has gone from a blanket ban on civilian drones in 2014 to positioning itself as a “global drone hub.” On the ground, that ambition is visible in: The same airframes and avionics that deliver blood and biopsy samples today can be re-configured for border surveillance, mapping and…
Diagnostics at the Edge: Pocket-sized nanopore sequencers like Oxford Nanopore’s MinION can now run on a laptop or even a rugged tablet in the field, weighing under 130g and delivering up to tens of gigabases of sequence data in real time. During the West African Ebola crisis and later outbreaks, teams successfully sequenced viral genomes…
Tata Motors has officially brought back one of India’s most legendary SUVs — the Tata Sierra 2025, ahead of its price reveal on November 25, 2025. Once a cult favourite of the 1990s, the Sierra returns in a thoroughly modern avatar with advanced powertrains, premium interiors, a tech-rich cockpit and a complete design reboot. The…
Tele-ICU has moved from pandemic stop-gap to mainstream critical-care strategy. Studies in 2023–25 show that tele-ICU “hub-and-spoke” models—where a central team of intensivists monitors multiple ICUs remotely—can be feasible and beneficial even in resource-limited settings, improving access to specialist care and standardising protocols. At the same time, AI for triage and early warning in critical…
Post-Cookie Ads: Retail Media Networks Become the New Walled Gardens for a decade, the open web ran on third-party cookies tiny trackers that followed users across sites and powered the programmatic ad boom. Now, that era is fading. Safari and Firefox already restrict third-party cookies by default, and Chrome is tightening tracking with its Privacy…
Cell-free Networks massive MIMO is one of the boldest ideas in 6G: instead of a few tall towers with hard cell edges, you scatter many small access points (APs) and make them cooperate as one giant, distributed antenna array. There are no cells; every user is served by a loose cluster of nearby antennas. On…
CoWoS Crunch Easing: For much of 2023–24, CoWoS—TSMC’s advanced “chip-on-wafer-on-substrate” packaging—was the villain behind AI GPU shortages. Cloud providers and model labs could buy all the 5 nm wafers they wanted, but without CoWoS capacity to marry those dies to stacks of HBM, delivery dates slipped quarter after quarter. By mid-2025, the picture is more…
SIR Phase II: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has reported a key milestone in Phase II of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls: more than 95.44% elector-specific Enumeration Forms (EFs) have been distributed to voters across 12 States and Union Territories. According to the latest bulletin, the exercise covers around 50.09 crore…
Optimus Will Eliminate Poverty: At Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting on 6 November 2025 in Austin, Texas, CEO Elon Musk unveiled his boldest vision yet for the company’s humanoid robot, Optimus. Musk told investors that Optimus will ultimately be more precise than the world’s best human surgeons and that mass deployment of such robots is, in…
ONDC at Scale: India’s Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) was launched to do for e-commerce what UPI did for payments—break platform monopolies and let any buyer connect to any seller via any app. Today the network spans 600+ cities, 7.6+ lakh sellers and over 16 million monthly orders across 26 domains, from mobility and…