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When people think of Artificial Intelligence, they tend to recall the most spectacular examples. How IBM's Deep Blue defeated Gary Kasparov in chess, for example. Or, how Google's Alpha Go defeated world Go champion Ke Jie. Go is supposed to be the m

I have always believed what the iconic American President John F. Kennedy once said: "Those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." Magazines must be harbingers of change. For the past two and a half decades, Business To

No End To Woes Nandan Nilekani, the recently appointed Infosys Chairman, giving a clean chit to the company's acquisition of Israeli firm Panaya Ltd in 2015, and absolving the previous board and former CEO Vishal Sikka, has left N.R. Narayana Murthy

Brands and businesses are increasingly using chatbots to connect with their customers either for customer care or marketing. Gartner predicts that AI technology will become pervasive across software products and services by 2020. It will be among

Manipal Hospital's 'Tumour Board' has a panel of qualified oncologists from radiation, medical and surgical streams. Since January, 2017, 'Watson' IBM's artificial intelligence and deep learning framework has had the honour to occupy one of the seats

Rs 2 lakh crore booty is making its way to the coffers of public sector banks (PSBs). The fresh capital infusion from the government will not only boost their ability to write cheques but also help deal with the ever rising provisioning requirement

Take time out: Be with yourself, alone, for at least 15 minutes either plan and allocate time for yourself or just grab it when you find the opportunity. Could be a short walk, 15 minute meditation, a little jog, if the place provides a scope for

Satyen Suryavanshi, owner of consumer durables store Sri Swami Samarth Electronics in Ghoti village, near Nashik, is a happy man. Despite demonetisation and the roll out of the goods and services tax (GST) which impacted consumption across the countr

Amazon Prime Video India's maiden show Inside Edge, that captures the murky behind the scenes happenings of a T20 cricket tournament, debuted to a packed house. Within the first 30 hours, the cricket thriller, produced by Excel Entertainment which is

The contrast is stark. Tech savvy consumers of financial services are spoilt for choice. Paperless onboarding of customers with Aadhaar linked KYC to digital money transfer are par for the course. This was unthinkable till a few years ago. So were in

There is quite a bit of euphoria in the stock market around the initial public offerings (IPOs) of insurance companies these days. Four IPOs of leading companies ICICI Prudential Life, ICICI Lombard, SBI Life and General Insurance Corporation of In

The Indian financial services industry is on the cusp of great change. The new buzzwords are software robotics, artificial intelligence, API banking and digital wallets. The traditional bank model is changing with banks allowing technology partners a

For the longest time, we simply have not had a method for frequent collection of jobs data. The main source of data is the National Sample Survey (NSS), which is collected every five years. The NSS used to have an annual round, which represented the

Tall, wiry with a runner's physique, a clean shaven pate and a ready smile, Satya Nadella leans forward and listens intently to the question before thinking for a bit and framing the answer. We have just asked him a leadership question. "When I evalu

If you ask TED curator Chris Anderson about his favourite TED talk, he instantly says that some of his favourite talks are yet to come into the public domain. Anderson is referring to the Hindi version of TED Talks, scheduled to be aired on Star Plus

The biggest challenge you faced in your career Throughout my career, I have had to fight an unceasing battle against this climate of risk aversion in our country. Investors in India prefer predictable, imitative business models and me too products, w

Mutual fund investors have always found it tedious to get redemption money instantly credited to their bank accounts. It usually took a couple of days. That, however, is a thing of the past for investors of LIC Mutual Fund and DSP Blackrock Mutual Fu

On September 29, Sajjan Jindal celebrated Dussehra with his family and colleagues at JSW Centre, the headquarters of JSW Group in Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex. Like in the past, he donned traditional headgear and moved his feet to the tunes of garba

Nokia has given us some great camera phones in the past, but the Nokia 8 takes it to the next level. It is the company's first dual camera phone with Carl Zeiss optics packing in two 13 MP cameras with a combination of RGB and monochrome sensors fo

Levi's was the quintessential dominant American jeans wear brand in the late 1990s. The brand, credited with inventing denim, commanded a premium and the market lapped up whatever it had to offer. Then came what its global President and CEO Charle

Imagine emojis that you can control with your face the adorable panda or dog emoji that looks and talks like you. One of the highlights of the much awaited iPhone X is the Animoji feature. Using the TrueDepth camera that analyses more than 50 facia

James Clear, writer, photographer and weightlifter has made it his business to study the forces that shape our successes and our failures. He intends to help us become architects of our own habits rather than letting them just happen to us. And proc

The Synergies Dooray Automotive case, the first in which a resolution plan has been approved under the new insolvency law, had all the elements of surprise, drama and confusion. This Visakhapatnam based maker of automotive parts, garage and service s

The iPhone X isn't the first time the face is going to be used for biometrics, but as Apple has jumped into the fray, you can bank on widespread adoption of the technology. Apple's implementation of Face ID isn't easy to mimic. It involves an entire

Fashion A Cut Above The 137 year old legendary French tailoring house Cifonelli, that invented the signature cigarette shoulder and has dressed big names like Cary Grant, Charlton Heston and former French President Francois Mitterrand, is making inro

Pillion Ban The Karnataka government has banned pillion riders on two wheelers with less than 100cc engine capacity to curb accidents. The state will also not register vehicles below 100cc engine with a pillion seat. The move will hit several two