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Semiconductor shortage | Moore’s law leaves carmakers trailing
Moore’s Law says the number of transistors on microchips doubles every two years. Yet carmakers have been using tried-and-tested (and cheaper) technology that chip makers are no longer investing in.
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Unending agony of the Indian football fan
India is a lowly 106 on FIFA’s ranking of countries. At a time when sports in India has been going through a purple patch, football has been the one sore spot.
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Kolkata's Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Delhi's Janpath: why India renames its streets
The renaming bug has indeed spoilt many wonderful streets in the popular consciousness.
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In Zee saga, shareholders are reduced to bit players
This strange battle for control is increasingly taking on the curious narrative of pitting the company’s management against its own shareholders
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When economists’ numbers don’t add up
Forecasts are the bread and butter of economists, the kind of thing they do in their sleep. Indeed in hindsight, many recent forecasts appear to have been made while they were grabbing a few precious winks.
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Should Tom Peters write his memoir?
The truly moving memoirs, the ones that inspire, frustrate, amuse or depress us, are few simply because they call for a very high degree of honesty and detachment.
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Online isn’t the answer to lost schooling
Exacerbation of the digital divide is one of the downsides of online learning in a country like India.
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How Coronasomnia disrupted our sleep
A 2021 survey showed that Indian adults experienced new sleep challenges like difficulty falling asleep (37 percent), difficulty staying asleep (27 percent), and waking up during the night (39 percent).
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Speech to text isn’t the answer to writing the next 'War and Peace'
The speech recognition software has to reckon with the accent, the pitch, the speed with which we speak, the lilt and the pauses or their absence. The garbled end result is understandable.
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Our political leaders don’t believe in work-life balance
Forget vacations, India’s politicians don’t even take an evening off.
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India has no time for its elderly
With hardly any social security net to take care of India's 60+ population, it is building up to a crisis of monumental proportions.
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Meditation goes official as RBI stamps its approval
Meditation is like a spritzy cooler when you step off the rollercoaster and literally catch your breath with a quick cleanse of the million things that prick your mind at all times.
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Test cricket has become an anachronism, old chap
Let’s face it, test cricket has become an anachronism, a relic of the past preserved precisely because it is a slice of history and needs to be preserved.
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Less travel for corporate jetsetters
Once the bedrock of business, will corporate travel take a back seat in the post-pandemic world?
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What if Pegasus had spied on Tintin?
If it came to that, could Tintin have overpowered the snooper of people's private lives?
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Funny tales from Indian business
“I say, that’s a hell of a way of starting a car,” said Shiv Nadar.
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Football’s main problem is hooligans off the field
Violence and arson by fans followed England's loss at Euro 2020. Yet, the violence on the streets was just one part of it.
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Manish Sisodia shows us how to take criticism in our stride
Modern psychology tells us that debate stimulates instead of inhibiting; enhances instead of constricting.
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When billionaires lose a zero or two
In the rarified world of big business, a billion gained or two lost hardly makes news. But when those numbers spike dramatically, we are reminded of the adage: what goes up doesn’t always stay up!
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PETA's advice to Amul is misguided and unfair
Not for the first time, the animal rights organization seems to have got its priorities mixed up.
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Euro 2020: A mini-miracle in the making
Planned as a romantic one-off event, Euro 2020 has already shown us heroism on the field, activism at a press conference, and a Cinderella story.
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Bengaluru as TecHalli, nah!
The city of a thousand potholes. The city with a traffic cop on a flyover. The city where the groundwater ran out. There were so many options which would perfectly sum up the experience of the intrepid visitor to Bengaluru.
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What Neem Karoli Baba and Larry Brilliant taught us in their battle against smallpox
The disease was so contagious that every single patient infected seven others. Eliminating it meant tracking down each and every one of the victims.
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Bill and Melinda Gates divorce: Instead of berating tycoons for their philanthropy, ask them for stock
In 2006, Warren Buffett gifted 10 million of his Berkshire Hathaway shares to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2019, the Azim Premji donated $21 billion to the Azim Premji Foundation; part of it in Wipro shares. Both endowments have grown substantially, thanks to rising stock prices.
