Author: Mahak Gupta

We went past the point of calling the internet a rising phenomenon very long ago. It isn’t inaccessible to a large part of the world, and many children in the developing word take to it very early in their lives. Is the exposure of young children to the internet helping them and making them smarter? There’s plenty of debate on how social media addiction, for example, is similar to substance addiction. Is the socially acceptable internet then, really a force of good? This needs to be observed. The academic impact Due to accessibility to the internet, children now have the…

Internet of Things is increasingly a surging usage in multiple industries. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Internet Of Things involves connecting/interrelating any device/component of a device/people/machines with a switch to the internet or another device. This whole network is able to transfer data. IoT brings endless opportunities with it. One of the areas where it is gaining rapid acceptance is the healthcare sector. Known as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), we’re seeing great potential here to brighten up the future of the medical and healthcare industries. IoMT involves a network of interconnected medical devices that can…

Managing your tasks effectively can be the primary determinant of your productivity. Fortunately, thanks to the app ecosystems mobile OSes have built, there’s a ton of task management and todo list apps out there. At the same time, we can be pretty much spoilt for choice. Todoist and Wunderlist are two popular apps you might want to start with. Let’s do a comparative analysis. Todoist A product from the startup Doist, Todoist focus on both personal productivity and efficiency. It’s quite an old service, having released in 2007. That may explain its availability on 12 platforms, amongst the highest in…

Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology and related threats Do you believe in the right to mental privacy? We’re guessing you do. What if I told you that this right stood a chance of violation? Emerging technology is likely to render our private thoughts extinct. This threat arises in the form of the nwely emerging Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI). What is a BCI and how does it work? Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) serve as direct links between the highly complexed human brain and some external device. Their primary use is in research, mapping, assisting or repairing human sensory and cognitive disabilities. There’s a threat here because brain-computer interfaces are now available on…

You’ve likely felt attracted to some people particularly more than the others. You’ve also likely not understood the rationale for such feelings. Why do some people tend to intimidate you in a way when no one else does? A number of predetermined forces come to work together when you make the choice of whom you desire to be with. The science behind sexual attraction is highly complex, and you can almost never fully justify why it is happening. Hormonal Logic Our hormones play a significant role in sexual attraction. These chemical messengers impact our attitudes and behavior substantially. Desire and attraction result because of the hormonal…

The first man to land on Mars and also beyond, may not fly the way Neil Armstrong went in his chemically powered Apollo 11 spacecraft. Well, he likely will, since we’re not going to be getting rid of restrictions on nuclear propelled rockets before Musk takes us to Mars. But eventually, we’ll shed these chemical thrusters. These old-school chemically powered rockets just don’t provide the required thrust to go to massive distances. Not without exposing their crew to excessively harmful space radiation for months. This is why nuclear propulsion rockets are required. Related: Why can’t we have electric rockets? A brief history…

A fun outing with friends where they drink and you don’t. Should you be paying for their booze with money you might have other plans with? Or perhaps bill sharing while living in a shared flat is becoming quite a task for you and your pals. A significant number of people around the world are having to deal with this everyday situation of splitting bills while being just and fair. And not surprisingly, others have jumped on to tap this opportunity with specialised apps. The 3 most popular ones on the market right now are Splittable, Splitwise and Settleup. We take you through all of…

Music streaming has comfortably replaced direct sales. For a reasonable fixed amount of money every month, consumers now enjoy uninterrupted music services. All major music platforms now (Tesla may surprisingly join this list) offer some sort of streaming model. Let’s talk about the top 3 global names – Google Play Music, Spotify and Apple Music. Related: Shazam vs SoundHound: Which is the better song ID app? Introduction           Google Play Music is Google’s music and podcast streaming service, and an online music locker. Google launched it back in 2011. Play Music allows users to store and stream up to 50,000 songs…

Advertising and marketing are grassroots processes for any business initiative. If people don’t know your brand, how are you ever going to sell? Since the advent of technology, marketing has gone beyond the scope of a door to door advertising and selling. It eventually went on to print media, then radio, followed by televisions, with the latest buzz being the internet and social media. Social media is today one of the most powerful platforms for increasing the popularity of your product because most of the people across the globe log into social media websites a multiple number of times in a day, thus…

We are fast heading towards an era of automation,, which is understandably causing global anxiety. While a lot of repetitive, mechanical jobs have already been taken over by machines, smarter jobs are in danger too as our AI industry continues to make rapid advancements. So at what point do we begin recognising these robots as people? At what point do we give them rights and benefits? Robotics is of course, the branch of science which includes the use of engineering and computing models to create robots. If you’ve been living under a rock – robots are essentially machines we can exploit to…