Author: Kanupriya Sheopuri
Has your CPU frustrated you? Do you find its performance not matching your expectations? Overclocking can help. Unsurprisingly named, overclocking is a method of increasing your CPU’s clock speed and gaining a faster chip performance for free. Before we jump on to how you can overclock your CPU though, we’ll explore how overclocking works, and how it can squeeze out more performance from your existing CPU. What is Overclocking? CPUs are made on varying microscopic scales and architectures. Hence, despite the manufacturing at certain frequencies within a certain voltage range, even similar CPUs can have vastly different capabilities. This is…
USA’s House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s doctored video, or Barack Obama’s stand up where he speaks comedian Jordan Peele’s words, and a talking Mona Lisa. Deepfakes are making their way into popular culture. An AI tool that uses the generative adversarial networks to build very convincing videos from scratch, deepfakes is a fancy toy, and yet fairly accessible to everyone. You too could use it to combine or superimpose any number of images and videos onto a source image or video. Here’s how deep faking works – first, a machine learning model is trained with a particular data set. Then, it…
The telecom industry is no longer restricted to the provision of basic phone and internet services. Led by mobile and broadband services in the Internet of Things (IoT) era, it is now at the epicentre of the digital revolution. The Need For AI and ML in Telecom Faced by the fast-changing consumer needs for quality services and better customer experiences (CX), communication service providers (CSPs) are harnessing vast amounts of data. This data has been collected over the years through devices, networks, mobile applications, geolocations, detailed customer profiles, services usage and billing data. Telecom giants are using this data through…
It’s speedier. It’s dynamic. It’s powerful and it’s coming. 5G, the successor of 4G and the fifth generation of mobile technology, is ready to spread its coverage soon this year in the global market. How can 5G achieve its speeds? There are multiple ways through which 5G can deliver impressive bandwidth. The first one is the use of Massive MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) by putting up more antennas. MIMO provides fast connectivity by allowing multiple data streams to and from your device. This is similar to the contemporary technology used in Wi-Fi routers. The second method is through backward compatibility…
Technology is scratching even the smallest itches of our ordinary lives, creating new opportunities for economic empowerment, entrepreneurship, education, health care, civic and social engagement. However, as it turns into a fixture in our lives, we are becoming more vulnerable to cyber criminals. Tech giants are racing into the future with artificial intelligence and our data is increasing their pace. In a bid to stay more relevant, we are gradually giving up to technology and jeopardizing our fundamental right to privacy. As you stare at your screen and scroll through it, your finger and cursor movements may be tracked. This…
As blockchain technology enters into newer sectors such as supply chain, energy, entertainment, etc ., there’s a lot more to the concept and the technology. Concurrent to all of that is the emergence of Hyperledger Fabric, a platform for distributed ledger solutions built on a modular architecture that delivers confidentiality, resiliency, flexibility, and scalability. It is a production-ready, open source, business blockchain framework. IBM has built it in collaboration with the leading companies to fulfil contemporary business needs. In this post, we walk you through the 5 reasons to adopt Hyperledger Fabric. #1 The Hyperledger Fabric’s modern architecture supports distributed…
The dark web, which was first used by US in 1990s to secretly exchange information and restrict people from eavesdropping the system has now long been exploited by criminals to anonymously establish markets for everything from kidnapping, extortion, to releasing banned and pirated movies and series, etc. Gaps in control and monitoring mechanisms is leading fraudsters to new types of crimes and what’s concealing them is the dark web, a network built in parallel to the internet. The dark web is encrypted and not listed by search engines, allowing users to access the internet in a way that is difficult…
In the early 1990s, 3 letters – www – revolutionised how we receive information. A decade later, we had Web 2.0 with social media and e-commerce platforms and now, we’re looking at the advent of what people are calling the decentralised web. The Web 3.0, or DWeb, is an online network where users are given full control of their data and the power is wrested from technology companies. Simply put, the ‘walled gardens’ of gatekeepers such as Amazon, Google and Facebook, or even the government do not store or control your data. This allows users to control the information they generate instead…
India’s power sector – which comprises of private and public power generating companies, is in distress. The national grid is not operating at its full potential, with a Plant Load Factor (PLF) of 60.55% (as of August 2018). As per the 37th report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy, the value of bad assets stands at ₹1.74 trillion. Lenders are giving up on the sector due to mounting uncertainty and risk of liquidation. Banks may even drag the distressed companies to the National Company Law Tribunal for failing to settle outstanding liabilities with one-time settlements. The promoters’ ability to…
We’re beyond the stage of seeing smartphones revolutionising the payments industry. The change began quite a while ago – but we’re continuing to see interesting innovations and use cases spring up quite often. Among the many payment apps available, the one we’re looking at today is KhaaliJeb, powered by Kotak Mahindra Bank. Like other payment apps, KhaaliJeb allows hassle-free BHIM-UPI based transactions for Peer-to-Peer & Peer-to-Business payments. But it’s also got some unique offerings of its own – a focus on students. Getting Started KhaaliJeb is a mobile payments app available on the Google Play Store for a while now,…
For centuries, engineers and architects have toiled to pitch their design ideas using 2D drawings. However, among the many novel innovations of the 20th century, we now have a viable and efficient way of bringing ideas to life through 3D printing which was first used in 1981 for prototyping. It is the process of manufacturing 3 dimensional solid objects from digital files by laying down successive layers of material. Today, digital design is deployed to create accurate drawings quickly and manufacture objects with greater precision in photorealistic styles. It has enabled the use of realistic scale models and thereby, the…
As the world strives to meet power demands with increasingly strained global resources, the Chinese government is seeking relief in an artificial moon. Its plan to launch a satellite to illuminate the sky that began in 2013 is one of the most ambitious projects that has been declared in the National Mass Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week, held in the country in 2018. This annual fair is a display of the most innovative emerging technologies in the country. As per the details disclosed by Wu Chunfeng, Chairman of Chengdu Aerospace Science and Technology Microelectronics System Research Institute Co. Ltd. (the organization…