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The cracks that define us: Charles Assisi looks back on 2025

India, Dec. 27 -- If there is one truth I've had to face this year, it is this: I am broken. This is not a conclusion arrived at dramatically. It came slowly, over too many hours spent in a coffee sh... Read More


Why your phone will get costlier, 'dumber'

India, Dec. 27 -- If you have a mental sticky note to upgrade your smartphone or laptop in 2026 because your battery is dying, or perhaps that version of Windows 10 is nagging you about its end-of-lif... Read More


Why your smartphone will get costlier and 'dumber'

India, Dec. 26 -- If you have a mental sticky note to upgrade your smartphone or laptop in 2026 because your battery is dying, or perhaps that version of Windows 10 is nagging you about its end-of-lif... Read More


Sanchar Saathi: Bad comms and intent trumped utility

India, Dec. 20 -- Now that the sound and fury around the Sanchar Saathi app has died, it's time to look at the debris. What happened? What was it about? There's a history to this. Every technology con... Read More


Sanchar Saathi: Utility trumped by bad comms

India, Dec. 20 -- Now that the sound and fury around the Sanchar Saathi app has died, it's time to look at the debris. What happened? What was it about? There's a history to this. Every technology con... Read More


The numbers game: Charles Assisi writes on our tussles with time

India, Dec. 20 -- I think of myself as young. Not by the arithmetic of years, but by the internal certainty that youth is a room I never stepped out of. I enjoy the company of people in their twentie... Read More


The unfounded unease over Digi Yatra's "data cloning"

India, Dec. 13 -- There's no other way to put it. One day, someone, somewhere looked into an airport camera, blinked, and was allowed to pass. The next day, social media warriors had declared: "Your b... Read More


Unfounded unease over Digi Yatra's 'data cloning'

India, Dec. 13 -- There's no other way to put it. One day, someone, somewhere looked into an airport camera, blinked, and was allowed to pass. The next day, social media warriors had declared: "Your b... Read More


Cold logic about future of data

India, Nov. 29 -- Inside a cavern cut into a Norwegian fjord, the air is so cold and so still that it feels suspended. The place once stored mining gear. Now it stores something far more volatile. Row... Read More


Cold logic about the future of data

India, Nov. 28 -- Inside a cavern cut into a Norwegian fjord, the air is so cold and so still that it feels suspended. The place once stored mining gear. Now it stores something far more volatile. Row... Read More