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…
डिजिटल दीवारें तोड़ती भारतीय महिलाएँ: 2026 का भारत अब टेक्नोलॉजी के नए युग में प्रवेश कर चुका है — और इस डिजिटल परिवर्तन के केंद्र में भारतीय महिलाएँ मजबूती से खड़ी हैं। नवीनतम आंकड़ों के अनुसार, भारत की कुल 5.4–5.8 मिलियन टेक वर्कफोर्स में महिलाओं की हिस्सेदारी बढ़कर 34–36% हो चुकी है, जो दुनिया के…
IBM’s new Nighthawk processor: IBM’s quantum story just added both new silicon and new sites. The company unveiled Nighthawk, a 120-qubit chip with 218 tunable couplers engineered for deeper, cleaner circuits, and said a second experimental chip, Loon, demonstrates hardware features needed for fault-tolerant machines. In parallel, IBM Quantum System Two—the cryo-ready, modular system built…
AI Compute Wave: The Blackwell era isn’t theoretical anymore. GB200 NVL72—NVIDIA’s rack-scale system that stitches 72 Blackwell GPUs + 36 Grace CPUs into a single NVLink domain—has crossed from pilot to shipping with HPE, Dell and QCT confirming deliveries. Early friction around overheating and liquid-cooling leaks has been addressed, with suppliers reporting fixes and a…
2-nm race: The most closely watched node in foundryland—TSMC’s 2-nm (N2)—is crossing from slides to silicon. Public briefings this year reiterated H2-2025 for N2 mass production and H2-2026 for the N2P shrink, with Fab 22 flagged as the 2-nm anchor and a third Arizona site planned for N2/A16 “by the end of the decade.” In…