A supercomputer pinpointed and eased congestion in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Eagle (the supercomputer) operated by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) used machine learning to trawl through tons of traffic data from satellites, traffic cameras, weather stations, patterns, etc. For example, Eagle found that traffic…

Paradoxes were one of the ways we got people thinking about concepts on our show. One paradox we did not use is Buridan’s Bridge. And it goes as follows. Socrates wants to cross a river and comes to a bridge guarded by Plato, who says: “Socrates if you say something…

By definition, blockchain is just that — a chain of blocks! While this is undoubtedly an oversimplification, sometimes it is best to stick to the basics. For some historical context, we should remember that cryptocurrency and its underlying blockchain foundation were born as a political project. That is easy to…

Nothing gets our attention like Tik-Tok Human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions drive climate change. Approx. 60% of GHG emissions come from just ten countries, while the 100 least-emitting ones contributed less than 3%. Energy makes up nearly 75% of global emissions, followed by agriculture. The largest emitting industry within the…

Technology rules all facets of human lives, from communication to shopping, health, and fitness. So, it’s no big surprise that technology has also found its unique way into pet care! In this era of smartphones, smartwatches, and smart homes, smart dog feeders, trackers, and toys aren’t big surprises. Right? Americans…

Anything becomes interesting if we can understand it quickly and even more fun if we can laugh about it. Technology is an odd discipline in that sense — it has the potential to impact our lives as individuals and as a society significantly. Yet we know so little about…

The widespread adoption of mobile phones throughout the world has had a far-reaching social and economic impact. Payments is one area that has seen the most significant mobile-tech-led innovation due to a “perfect storm” of tech breakthroughs and business environment changes. The world has come a long way since Dan…

Technology is changing in leaps and bounds, as new gadgets get obsolete shortly after reaching their target market. Although updating to the latest iPhone seems to be an almost compulsive urge, it is a race that we can never win! So, let us take a nostalgic walk down memory lane…

Small businesses (MSMEs in India) are supposed to be the growth engines of the Indian economy, but repeated assaults by Covid-19 are bringing most of them down to their knees. Apart from dwindling finances and mounting debts, one of the critical issues they have been grappling with is their inability…