Author: Prajna Jayesh
Prajna Jayesh
Prajna is from NIT, Tiruchirappalli. She's an avid reader and has never succeeded in resisting a well written book. Writing and poetry have been long-time passions and she hopes her articles would come across as an honest review for those considering the product.
Manipulating human emotions is an art form perfected by con artists. The Will Smith starrer – Focus, released earlier this year, takes us through the perspective of con artists when the tables are turned. Now out on DVD & Blu-Ray by Sony DADC, it’s available for everyone to grab. We managed to get a copy for ourselves. Here’s our verdict. Focus essentially presents the high emotional tension existing between two of the best cons in town and what adds more to the emotional drama is the past history where Nicky had perfected Jess’ skills. Things heat up when they meet again with the…
It isn’t hard to imagine a situation where your best friend, or anyone around you for that matter, is not human. Not in the sense that your best friend is your pet or something. But that people around you, are cyborgs, or even fully intelligent robots. Seems farfetched? It shouldn’t. We’ve seen enough movies on this now, haven’t we? Transcendence talked about the The Singularity in pretty direct terms. Thing is – reality and fiction are converging. We are moving towards a point that is referred to as The Singularity. What does The Singularity mean? Singularity assumes many synonyms in accordance with…
2015 marks 100 years since The General Theory of Relativity was dropped onto the world by Albert Einstein. The General Theory of Relativity came in a decade after the Special Theory of Relativity in 1905. Aside from it’s groundbreaking implications, the theory also happened to be a very emotional one for Einstein. So far, the General Theory of Relativity continues to dominate our understanding of the universe by far, and has found itself applications in all sorts of crazily important industries. Related: Gravitational Waves – A Mere Theoretical Concept or Reality? Why Relativity? Newton did change the world with his theory of Gravity…
There are fifty billion neutrinos passing through your body every second. Which means about 300 billion will have gone through you by the time you finish reading this sentence. What are neutrinos? And why must they go through you in the first place? Let’s delve deeper. Neutrinos are subatomic particles. They have near-zero (but not zero) mass – allowing them to travel at nearly the speed of light. With no inherent charge on them, they’re basically neutral particles just zipping through space, racing with photons. Neutrinos actually ‘little neutral particles’. But why must they pass through you? Or anyone else? Photons hit solid…
Haven’t all of us, at one point of time in our lives, as kids been tantalized by the thought of that one thing we always wanted. Once we got it of course we went on to crave for the next thing. After all, life has to move on right? That’s what it’s like for all the tech geeks out there. What tantalizes them? It’s the all new Windows 10. While the release date is still a speculation, Windows 10 is expected to be Microsoft’s biggest comeback yet, similar to what the company did with Windows 7. For a large majority…
Quantum computing isn’t reality yet. But it merits some intense discussions nevertheless. Why? Because it has the potential to change the dynamics of how our systems work today. What’s holding back quantum computing from going mainstream, though? According to Moore’s law, the number of transistors in an integrated chip doubles every two years. But at one point it becomes impossible to reduce the size of a transistor because when a transistor becomes too small, the heat produced in operating it should be enough to collapse the silicon chip. That’d result in a signal processing error. Related: Quantum Computing and Neural Chips: The Future of…
The cost of consumer technology always declines as time passes. Ever wondered why? Sure, there’s more demand which aids better R&D, which leads to cheaper prices. But this is incomplete without something else – Moore’s law. Before we start off, a bit of a refresher if you’re hearing this for the first time. Like most laws, this one is named after the man who postulated it – Gordon E. Moore. Moore’s law doesn’t deal with high end particle physics. It involves something incredulously regular, something that we depend upon to a significant extent for the life we live today. Moore’s law is basically an observation made on…