Rise Of Technology
Google standalone 'Switch Access' app now available on Play Store
Google has released the standalone "Switch Access" app on the Play Store, which was originally part of the Android Accessibility Suite
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AdaniConneX launches 'Chennai 1', a 17 Mw data centre in Sipcot IT Park
The 'Chennai 1' campus hosts Tamil Nadu's first pre-certified IGBC Platinum Rated data centre, and will be powered with up to 100% renewable energy
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Design operations platform Cubyts gets seed funding of $1.8 million
Cubyts' key offerings include deploying team-wide design processes and enable teams to confidently run design projects
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What's in-car payment?
Technology, sure, is making our lives easier. After FASTag cut short our waiting time at toll plazas, more plans are afoot for similar experiments. Let us see what they are, in this report
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From self-drive cars to IoT, these next-wave techs will rule 2020s decade
New Delhi [India], Nov 12 (ANI): For the first time human life changed significantly in the 20th century after several centuries of incremental progress. After hundreds of years of social, economic and political change, technology was the harbinger of a complete transformation. Commercial electricity, automobiles, aircraft, refrigeration, radar, sound recording, radio, film, television, x-rays, rayon, aspirin, antibiotics, organ transplants, transistors, microchips, nuclear power, spaceflights, genetic engineering, ATMs, credit cards, mobile phone, computers, robotics Internet and the whole gamut of digital services, around which our lives revolve all in the course of a few decades altered our human society. The speed of change has only increased. Since the turn of the millennium, we have already discarded some of the things which came into existence in our childhood. E-commerce shared services and AI are creating a new ecosystem of 24 & 7 engagement and consumption. What will ...
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How Google is supporting young Indian firms with Launchpad programme
Wysa, an AI-based chat therapy platform for mental health, has an "emotionally intelligent" bot that acts as a virtual coach and responds to the users' emotions
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Tech is changing way people move and intervention in mobility will increase
The reason for digital and IT interventions increasingly being adopted is not just the change in ways commuters move but also the mode on which this transport moves
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Are we Indians technology-averse?
Some examples that show we may be call for introspection
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How evil is tech?
Online is a place for human contact but not intimacy; online is a place for information but not reflection
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