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Frankenstein, Skynet, Ultron: Tall-tale signs of machines with minds

India, Oct. 26 -- Joseph-Marie Jacquard was in his fifties when he invented the Jacquard machine. The son of a master weaver, he apprenticed as a weaver, served as a bookbinder, hatmaker, type-founder... Read More


Frankenstein, Skynet, Ultron: Sentient machines in pop culture

India, Oct. 24 -- Joseph-Marie Jacquard was in his fifties when he invented the Jacquard machine. The son of a master weaver, he apprenticed as a weaver, served as a bookbinder, hatmaker, type-founde... Read More


Welcome to the party: This Diwali, a look at the ancient history of celebration

India, Oct. 17 -- The oldest recorded festival was celebrated in Ancient Mesopotamia, on the fourth day of the month of Nisan, the first month of the Babylonian year, around 3000 BCE. Called Akitu, i... Read More


That's going to leave a mark: How the world of punctuation is changing

India, Sept. 26 -- "Semicolon usage in British English books has fallen by nearly 50% in the past two decades," a report by the language-learning website Babbel proclaimed in May. Their findings had ... Read More


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India, Sept. 21 -- 376.4 billion. That's how many emails we're sending every day, in 2025, according to a recent study by technology market research company Radicati. If that seems high, just scroll t... Read More


Surge pricing: Decoding the rising cost of our digital lives

India, Sept. 19 -- 376.4 billion. That's how many emails we're sending every day, in 2025, according to a recent study by technology market research company Radicati. If that seems high, just scroll ... Read More


Across the Jordan: K Narayanan writes on his love affair with the Wheel of Time books

India, Sept. 13 -- It's hard to remember precisely when a love affair began; hard enough with people, even harder with books. This is a personal story. A story of a love affair with a series of fanta... Read More


Wolf pack: 80 years since the death of Hitler, why does his legacy endure?

India, Aug. 30 -- Alan Bullock, the British historian who wrote the first comprehensive biography of Adolf Hitler, in 1952, considered the Nazi leader "the most evil man in history". It is a view tha... Read More


Wild card entries: Fighting fit

India, Aug. 17 -- There are tens of thousands of species on the CITES list - from snails and flowers to snakes, sharks, mammals, insects and trees. The list helps governments and NGOs organise their e... Read More


Protector of the realm

India, Aug. 17 -- Call it the butterfly effect. If there are rare fish protected in certain oceans, and unique lepidoptera still flitting about in certain patches of rainforest, they can in many ways ... Read More