Tech

The Indian problems for Electric Vehicles

The introduction of Electric Vehicles to a seemingly precarious Indian market is fraught with a multitude of problems. Will India be inimical to this new technology, and even if the Indian market is not hostile, will the introduction of EVs actually solve the environmental problems that they posit?

Tech

Printing a 3D India

Space wouldn’t be impenetrable for common folks if they could just ‘print’ rocket engines and launch them in the outer space. Agnikul Cosmos has a design for a semi-cryogenic rocket with a 20-kilonewton (KN) engine that can potentially hurl satellites weighing up to 100 kg into Earth’s lower orbit!

Tech

Cryptocurrencies aren’t really a solution to our problems

Pranit is the head of Kharagpur Open Source Society and has worked in the Google Summer of Code ‘16. Based on his research and reading he expounds his opinions on the emerging field of cryptocurrency.

Philosophy

The Marriage of Technology & Capitalism

Today science needs more than research to make progress. Political and economic giants invest in science for the miraculous new powers that enable them to obtain new resources, a part of which is reinvested in scientific pursuits.

Tech

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.

IIT Kharagpur

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.

IIT Kharagpur

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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