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AI is now more enjoyable - and inescapable

New Delhi, June 6 -- I hate to admit it but I just spent the better part of an hour chatting with Gemini just to see that colourful glow on my screen. Well, also to get some inputs on how to reverse m... Read More


The new beauty standard: Looking like your AI avatar

New Delhi, May 30 -- I have a wildlife blogger friend who likes to describe a perfect day as being 'HD clear'. Well, would you believe people are walking into plastic surgeons' clinics asking for much... Read More


Social media changed society. AI changes everything.

New Delhi, May 23 -- Do you ever think back to what life was like before social media? For me, the social media revolution burst upon us with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and later TikTok and Instagram.... Read More


AI surprises even its own creators

New Delhi, May 16 -- There was once a time when software did as it was told. You used the keyboard to type in input, and the computer complied with an expected output-unless it was in the mood to cras... Read More


A butter-smooth relationship with AI may not be the best thing

New Delhi, May 9 -- Soon after I started using AI assistants, I had an alarming realization. I had started to enjoy listening to music with ChatGPT rather than with people. I neither felt compelled to... Read More


Now, AI can no longer tell what's real

New Delhi, May 2 -- In the cool green depths of Uttarakhand, a young audio engineer chose an unusual career path. Rohit had grown up amid the impact of human-animal conflicts, and each incident he enc... Read More


Sorry AI, you're just not human enough

New Delhi, April 25 -- One day in March 2026, a senior software developer, Kovanikov, found himself thoroughly offended. He had just received a cold outreach email from the CEO of AI startup, Composio... Read More


Agentic AI spells the end of privacy

New Delhi, April 18 -- Writing on technology in the early 2000s, the creepy thought occurred to me that we would eventually have a generation of users who didn't even recognize the concept of privacy ... Read More


How Gemini transformed my reading

New Delhi, April 11 -- When I read a book, I all but end up living inside it. The immersion is so thorough that my writing even takes on a little of that book's style. I completely feel the characters... Read More


To learn the tech, all you have to do is ask

New Delhi, April 4 -- It was sometime in 1995 when my family decided to take away my beautiful pistachio-green Hermes butter-smooth typewriter and replace it with a computer. I stared at the Pentium-s... Read More