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Fake News: the new election rigger?

BBC refers to the advocation of particular political causes as one of the main sources of fake news. These are circulated by those with scant regard for the truth and

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A Supercomputing Tale

With the National supercomputing mission, the future of supercomputing in India looks bright.

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Talking Tech with Amod Malviya, Co-founder of Udaan

Talking Tech and Entrepreneurship with Amod Malviya, the ex-CTO of Flipkart and co-founder of Udaan, the fastest Unicorn venture of India.

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Flipkart’s latest acquisition: liv.ai

IIT KGP born Indian Tech startup Liv.ai, an Indian vernacular language speech recognition and speech translation app, was recently acquired by Flipkart.

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Evolution of Indian Space Research: The past, present and the future

We observe the evolution of Indian Space Research from Independence till today, through the words of Dr V Narayanan, the Director of Liquid Propulsion System Centre (LPSC) and alumnus of IIT Kharagpur.

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Bioelectronics: Emerging research and an Untapped Industry

Through the scope of a newly set-up bioelectronics lab in IIT KGP’s E&ECE department we observe the development of battery-free implantable devices that can revolutionize the medical device industry.

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Blackbuck- The Rich Trucker

A sector expected to be worth a whopping $300 billion by 2020 struggled with lack of technology. Enter Blackbuck. Led by Co-Founder Rajesh Yabaji, Blackbuck aims to create a marketplace for truckers and buyers to exponentially scale down these problems.

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Did you just say ‘Smart City’?

Concept of ‘smart cities’ are an exemplary application of cutting edge IoT and machine learning that can create a significant sociological impact.

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Defence Research in India

Thanks to modern modelling techniques material development which took about 10-15 years earlier, now takes about 8 years, better matching the 4-5 year weapons development time.

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Computer Vision Technology that won an Oscar!

Prof. Parag Havaldar, a computer science alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, brings this to light with his recent achievement. He won the Oscar Technical Achievement Award for technical development of expression-based facial performance capture technology at Sony Pictures Imageworks.

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Spirituality of Science

Why would anyone choose a path of an ascetic and a monk after having a successful career in technical fields and getting widespread recognition for the same? This is a sort of question Swami Smaranananda and other individuals like him have been asked very frequently.

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The Perspective of 3D Imaging

Professor Chaitali’s current work on portable medical imaging is aimed at generating high-quality 3D imaging by a small form factor device with limited power budget.

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