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The human factor redux

Book review of The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

Scientific evaluation

The Code Breaker captures the competitiveness and politics of modern science, and the progress of science in the field of evolution and genetics.

Blocking and chaining resume fraud

A mini-industry has come up to manage employee background checks. Studies indicate that one in five resumes have information discrepancy that is serious enough to be considered a fraud

Signs of the times: Digital document verifications accelerate amid Covid-19

The use of digital signatures and online verification of documents has touched a new high after the onset of the pandemic

Tech roles need women, but companies still prefer men

Technology is too important to be left in the hands of men alone. Unhappily, despite its importance in our daily lives, enough women are not participating in the creation of future technologies

Tech spend in 2021 to be better than last 2 years: Nasscom survey

Over 70 per cent chief executives expect global spend to grow over 4 per cent; recovery to be led by digital segment

Future shock: New rules needed for the new world, but who will write them?

How should personal data be used and not used? What about the disintermediated media that has teamed up with Big Tech to re-invent politics by spreading post-truth and hate mail, wonders T N Ninan

Explained: How open-source software is powering India's startup ecosystem

Using open-source software gives startups the access to a powerful community and better tools

The future of technology services: Talent war to intensify for Digital 2.0

A report released by NASSCOM and McKinsey & Company highlights the tectonic shifts in the technology services landscape which will play out in the next three to five years

Centre liberalises mapping policy, allows free access to geospatial data

Sector deregulated, approvals done away with; PM says 'massive step'

Sony ships 3.4 millionn PlayStation5 units, plans 18 mn for this year

The PlayStation maker shipped a record-breaking 3.4 million units of the PS5 within the first four weeks of its launch, reports DigiTimes

India networking market declines 16.4% in third quarter: IDC report

India's networking market which includes ethernet switch, routers, and WLAN segments witnessed a 16.4 per cent year-over-year (YoY) decline in the third quarter of this year

India plays an important role in hunt for talent in digital age: Amazon CTO

Vogels says India has tremendous engineers, innovators and a great entrepreneurial spirit.

China regulator says should consider digital data tax for tech firms

"Some third-party platform-like enterprises hold a large amount of users data, just like holding precious mineral mines," science and technology supervision bureau chief said

India can create $1 trn of economic value using digital tech by 2025: Kant

Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said digital infrastructure has become indispensable to the functioning of society and India can create $1 trillion of economic value using digital technology by 2025.

Best of BS Opinion: Optimism on renewables, digital governance, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Local kiranas hop on to digital bandwagon to manage their daily business

Start-ups such as Max Wholesale, Jumbotail and ShopKirana are helping them place orders, maintain inventory, optimise delivery routes and make payments, all digitally

E-commerce majors leveraging technology to power biggest festival sales

Cutting-edge technology is helping Amazon and Flipkart mount their biggest festival sale events

Saw a 30% bump in internet traffic during pandemic: VP, Tata Communications

Hard to predict if this growth will sustain but don't expect a lot of this increased traffic to decline, says Song Toh, VP, Tata Communications

The art of staying innovative

Book review of Always Day One