Emmanuel Macron blamed video games for the violent riots in France. He isn’t the first one
Studies have repeatedly shown that the link between role-playing games, their storylines and the real-life behaviour exhibited by players is tenuous at best. Yet, video games continue to be blamed for real-life violence.
6,500 Super-Rich Indians Will Leave India in 2023 and Why
Around 6,500 Indian millionaires and their families are expected to move overseas. China tops the list with an estimated loss of 13,500 HNIs.
The forgotten female soldiers who fought long ago – and why their stories matter today
Women have long fought in wars, but their contribution is often erased.
Star Union Dai Ichi Life Insurance Presents Life Insurance Matters
A special episode with Mr. Abhay Tewari, MD & CEO of Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance discussing the company's commitment and roadmap to making "Insurance For All" a reality by 2047 because Life Insurance Matters. [Partnered].
Dear AI, is there a God? If yes, what does He say in...
From GitaGPT to robot priest and Sindr at the Vatican, there are many religious and spiritual applications of AI beyond online darshan.
Amitabh Kant: Bringing down the cost of our logistics to globally competitive levels will be a big milestone
India's G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant on his latest book Made in India, defining start-ups in a way that would protect them from India's regulatory cholesterol in 2015, the next milestones for India and talking with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the potential of artificial intelligence.
The AI revolution will change work. Nobody agrees how
In March, Goldman Sachs estimated that the technology behind popular AI tools such as DALL-E and ChatGPT could automate the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs. But what exactly does it mean to say that, for instance, the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs could be affected by AI?
My Family and Other Globalizers: A tribute to my mother, Gitanjali Aiyar
In the era of terrestrial TV, Gitanjali Aiyar had ruled the screens of millions of Indians - first in black and white and later in colour. Her passing, in early June, created a tsunami of posts on social media.
5 costliest mistakes stock market investors make (because of misleading graphs)
Circles for values, truncated bar graphs and 3 more googlies to watch out for if you regularly use data visuals to understand financial information.
Chase your immigration dreams with our upcoming global mobility event in Mumbai
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Date - 24th June 2022, Time – 3.00 PM
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Canada Express Entry introduces category-based immigration for priority occupations
Raising a toast to the man who wrote No Country for Old Men
More famous as the storyteller whose novel the Coen brothers adapted on screen, American writer Cormac McCarthy, who died this week aged 89, is not easy to read, his stories are about consequences, invoke horror and his world brutal, probabilistic.
Current Investment Landscape - Opportunities and Challenges
Significance of Commercial Real Estate Investments in Diversified Portfolios
Unlock the Golden Opportunities: Navigating the Everlasting Allure of Gold as a Resilient and Lucrative Investment.
Gold has and always will stand as a testament to resilience and a symbol of stability in tumultuous times.
Adam Smith’s University of Glasgow years were his life’s ‘most useful, happiest & honourable period’
In his tercentenary, the man remains a prominent presence on the University of Glasgow campus — his name on the University’s Memorial Gate, the Adam Smith Chair in Political Economy, the triple-accredited Adam Smith Business School, and stories of him as a student and teacher.
Was Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ a precursor to Artificial Intelligence?
IMF’s Gita Gopinath, in a speech, cites that if AI leading to productivity growth, which determines the wealth of nations, would have pleased Adam Smith, AI’s potential impact of job losses and fake news deepening social divide would have deeply troubled him.
How artist Benode Behari Mukherjee saw Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan
A 45-feet scroll, painted by artist Benode Behari Mukherjee as a young man, while he still had vision in one eye, portrays Rabindranath Tagore’s campus as a lonely, somewhat wild land, amid the miniature canyon-like Khoai terrain of Bengal.
Book excerpts: What Adam Smith said about India and East India Company in The Wealth of Nations
Missed the lesson on Adam Smith at school? Here are the best bits of what he wrote about India in his seminal work, The Wealth of Nations.
Adam Smith is still relevant. But not for the reasons they taught us in school and college
Adam Smith was no free market apologist. He recognized the discontents of liberal capitalism: That the employers wield more power than the workers. That ‘division of labour’ is limited by the ‘extent of the market’. That is, technological progress by itself cannot drive economic growth. That ‘division of labour’ is often repetitive work that has negative consequences on their cognitive capacity.
Sagging middle: Too-long novels are losing the plot
It’s a pity that most works of fiction are far too long when there are so many examples of short, compelling novels.
Quant investing can revolutionize India’s investment space, says AlphaGrep’s promoters
Can Workplace Ketamine Retreats Improve Vibes in the Office?
In guided sessions, midcareer professionals are using the drug to seek improved job performance and better work-life balance.
Raj Reddy, the AI pioneer from India
More money for oxygen, greater safety: Why the business of climbing Mt Everest is a slippery slope
There's been an alarming number of casualties on the mountain this season. As of May 27, the Himalayan Times reported 12 dead climbers and five others missing.
