Indian biopic movie “Shakuntala Devi’s director Anu Menon narrates through the eyes of Shakuntala’s daughter Anupama Banerjee, how a phenomenon was born at the cost of the mother and wife. Shakuntala Devi is a drama about a mother-daughter relationship and beyond portraying Shakuntala Devi as a flawless genius and a flawed person, highlighting the importance…
IBM is suing Airbnb over what it claims it the illegal use of four patents in a move that casts doubt over the short-term rental company’s attempts to a proposed listing. IBM patents are homegrown and resulting from our more than $5bn investment a year in R&D. After six years of unsuccessful discussions with Airbnb,…
A couple of months ago, the heads from 18 small British telecoms companies met at a London bank to discuss investment, strategy, and mergers. In the meeting, they were asked if they thought the Chinese could eavesdrop through back doors in Huawei equipment all 18 hands went up. One of the bankers then asked, if…
Alarms already sounded by Bill Gates, late Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, about artificial intelligence and how one day super-intelligent robots will one day wipe out or enslave humanity. Superhuman artificial intelligence is an approaching tidal wave that threatens not just human relationships and jobs but civilisation itself. Conflict between humans and machines is seen as…
Gretchen McCulloch, a Canadian linguist, making sense of the ways we communicate online “ how internet is making us more nuanced and inventive writers”, in her latest book she writes “ because of internet, through a revolutionary period in linguistic history, where writing quickly, within character limits and deploying ever-changing internet slang, is enriching…
In Bristol 170 engineers are designing the world’s most complex next generation AI computer chips the size of the postage stamp, Colossus, which boasts 1216 processors designed for artificial intelligence applications from voice recognition to self-driving cars. Colossus named after computer used by cryptographers at Bletchley Park during the second world war, was top…
IBM revealed in March 2018, “world’s smallest Computer”, but a team at University of Michigan has brought out even smaller computer that’s “dwarfed by a grain of rice”, measuring just 0.33mm on each side. The University originally held the “world’s smallest” trophy with its 2mm x 2mm x 4mm Michigan Micro until IBM’s smaller-than-salt 1mm…
How three Indian mathematicians gave the world Algebra One thousand five hundred years ago three Indian mathematicians developed Algebra to give meaning to the meaningless. Bhaskara, originated the radical signs, Brahmagupta created the symbols and Aryabhata, worked out the first equations. As original thinkers, they expanded man’s horizon in his unending search for knowledge.…
IBM opened doors to its 5-qubit quantum processors for anyone to use by connecting it to the cloud. IBM’s dream to build a universal quantum computer more powerful than any supercomputer in the world, is sharing its latest progress with smaller quantum processors on the cloud for the world to join in. TJ Watson Research…