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A new Licence Raj is not the best way to promote domestic manufacturing
The government should fix what’s preventing India from becoming a production hub instead of using measures such as restricting imports of IT equipment
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The superconductivity gold rush: the buzz about LK 99
The search for a material that can be a superconductor at normal temperature and pressure has long been the Holy Grail for physicists and chemists
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Digital Data Protection Bill: Too little, too opaque and too late
The good part is that India will finally have a data protection law – even if it is limited in its scope and has numerous flaws
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The government hurdle to government statistics
A statistical overhaul cannot take place unless the government is willing to accept that all surveys will not throw up flattering results
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A safety net for the gig worker is here
Rajasthan’s Gig Workers Act is a good first step in a long journey to provide them with some basic social security benefits available to permanent employees
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What they don’t tell you about Artificial Intelligence
In its current form, AI is a precocious child with lots of brainpower but no judgement. Depending on it for crucial tasks and issues is dangerous
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Should TRAI start regulating OTTs such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal?
The telecom regulator has released a consultation paper on this issue. The main question is whether regulating OTTs is the right solution for problems faced by the government and telecom companies
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Gallium, Germanium: How much is at stake for India’s chip strategy?
China’s decision to impose export controls on these two elements will have a short term impact but here’s why India’s chip-making plans won’t get affected
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Indian drug regulations need complete overhaul
It is not just the laws that need to be revised -- the institutional capacity to enforce laws, ensure good manufacturing practices are followed and test quality needs to improve too
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Will Byju’s survive at the end of the day?
The rise and fall of the Edtech firm is actually a dark tale of the venture funded-start up bubble that bursts when money becomes dearer and difficult to access
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PM Modi’s US Visit: These two deals matter most to India
The two most significant deals struck are the GE-HAL MoU that involves technology transfer for engines and the Micron deal to make semiconductors in India
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The AI genie is out of the bottle. How best to control it
Perhaps the biggest and most complex area in the regulation will deal with data and its handling
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Breaking up Google
The current anti-trust actions in the US and Europe seeking to break up the search giant’s ad tech business may be too little, too late and finally change little for publishers and advertisers
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Data Security: The citizen is the loser
In all cases of data breaches, it is the citizen who suffers because of the lack of a proper data security and privacy law
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What India needs to build an OpenAI rival
A clear vision, research that seeks long-term rewards and a collaborative mindset among corporations are just a few prerequisites needed
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Startup Street: A harsh funding winter will push many startups into shape
Startups in India and their high profile founders are facing rough weather currently. But it is not necessarily a bad thing
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The EU learns some hard energy lessons
While the EU will make disapproving noises about Indian refiners buying Russian oil and exporting the refined products to EU, it is unlikely to do anything more, simply because it benefits from the arrangement
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The promise on the currency note
Why did the government bring in the Rs2000 note in the first place?
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Closing the stable door after AI has bolted...
Sam Altman of OpenAI wants the government to regulate AI. He, better than anyone, knows that it is too late already
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India’s Electronic Manufacturing: The big picture
India has made a good start in electronics manufacturing (and exports) but unless the union government works closely together with state governments – some of which are administered by political parties sharply in opposition with the BJP-led union government – India could well remain an also-ran in the electronics manufacturing race
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Will ONDC eat Swiggy and Zomato’s lunch?
The answer will boil down to service delivery and the cost of operations and how much of it is being passed on to the consumer
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Geoffrey Hinton and the dark side of AI
The AI genie has escaped from the bottle and there is no putting it back
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India must catch up in the quantum computing race
From time to time, tech companies like IBM and Google in the US and research labs and universities in China have claimed quantum supremacy. But fully functional quantum computers are at least half a decade or more away
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India is growing old before it can grow rich
Headline GDP numbers often overshadow the lack of jobs or the threat of being stuck in middle-income trap
