Rise Of Technology

Priyank Kharge: Govt-industry ties vital for India's deeptech growth

Karnataka IT Minister Priyank Kharge said the State aims to lead globally in deeptech innovation, emphasising collaboration between government and industry to boost entrepreneurship and talent

India's digital infrastructure development 'game-changer': Databricks CEO

India's digital infrastructure development has been a game-changer, putting the country ahead of most other nations, Databricks CEO and Co-founder Ali Ghodsi has said. At a press conference here on Wednesday at the Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025, Ghodsi said that India is on the upswing at a time when recession is a concern in several other regions and nations. What has happened in the last decade, where they've built a lot of digital infrastructure in India, is a game-changer. We don't have that even here, in other countries. India is now ahead on digital infrastructure compared to most other countries in the world," Ghodsi said in response to a question by PTI on India. This of course, makes it much easier to innovate in data and AI, he said. Ghodsi added that Databricks is very excited to partner with new companies in the field of AI as well as with companies that have been around a long time such as the Tatas of the world that we're partnering with as well. It's a gigantic .

Firstsource and Sanas partner to redefine customer conversations with AI

/ -- Firstsource Solutions Limited (NSE:FSL) (BSE:532809), a leading global provider of transformational solutions and services and an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company, has partnered with Sanas, provider of the world's first real-time speech understanding platform, to enable next-level customer conversations powered by AI. Aligned with Firstsource's UnBPO philosophy, the integration of Sanas' Real-Time Accent Translation technology marks a strategic leap in AI-first customer experience. This seamless, speech-to-speech solution eliminates accent and language barriersenhancing clarity, reducing cognitive strain, and empowering agents to connect with global customers more confidently and effectively. As AI moves from pilot to performance, early adopters are already seeing the impact128% more likely to report high ROI from their AI tools in CX. By embedding intelligent, unobtrusive tech into day-to-day operations, Firstsource is unlocking scalable, measurable valueboosting agent ...

EAM Jaishankar to deliver keynote address at ninth Global Technology Summit

The theme for this year's Summit is "Sambhavna" - meaning possibilities

Quad nations to continue 'Quad Cyber Challenge' for good cyber ecosystem

India, the US, Australia and Japan have announced the continuation of 'Quad Cyber Challenge' with an aim to strengthen responsible cyber ecosystems, promote public resources, and raise cybersecurity awareness. The theme of this year's challenge is promoting cybersecurity education and building a strong workforce, the Quad countries said in a joint statement. In February 2023, the United States, together with its Quad partners Australia, India, and Japan, launched the 'Quad Cyber Challenge' to promote responsible cyber habits across their nations, regions, and beyond. In October with the objective of securing India's cyberspace, the National Cyber Security Coordinator of India will deliver a message on Cyber Swachhta Abhiyaan India's Cyber Hygiene Campaign to the student community highlighting the importance of cyber security as part of outreach during Cyber Security Awareness Month, the joint statement said. Eminent cyber security experts will undertake awareness workshops for ...

Google standalone 'Switch Access' app now available on Play Store

Google has released the standalone "Switch Access" app on the Play Store, which was originally part of the Android Accessibility Suite

AdaniConneX launches 'Chennai 1', a 17 Mw data centre in Sipcot IT Park

The 'Chennai 1' campus hosts Tamil Nadu's first pre-certified IGBC Platinum Rated data centre, and will be powered with up to 100% renewable energy

Design operations platform Cubyts gets seed funding of $1.8 million

Cubyts' key offerings include deploying team-wide design processes and enable teams to confidently run design projects

What's in-car payment?

Technology, sure, is making our lives easier. After FASTag cut short our waiting time at toll plazas, more plans are afoot for similar experiments. Let us see what they are, in this report

From self-drive cars to IoT, these next-wave techs will rule 2020s decade

New Delhi [India], Nov 12 (ANI): For the first time human life changed significantly in the 20th century after several centuries of incremental progress. After hundreds of years of social, economic and political change, technology was the harbinger of a complete transformation. Commercial electricity, automobiles, aircraft, refrigeration, radar, sound recording, radio, film, television, x-rays, rayon, aspirin, antibiotics, organ transplants, transistors, microchips, nuclear power, spaceflights, genetic engineering, ATMs, credit cards, mobile phone, computers, robotics Internet and the whole gamut of digital services, around which our lives revolve all in the course of a few decades altered our human society. The speed of change has only increased. Since the turn of the millennium, we have already discarded some of the things which came into existence in our childhood. E-commerce shared services and AI are creating a new ecosystem of 24 & 7 engagement and consumption. What will ...

How Google is supporting young Indian firms with Launchpad programme

Wysa, an AI-based chat therapy platform for mental health, has an "emotionally intelligent" bot that acts as a virtual coach and responds to the users' emotions

Tech is changing way people move and intervention in mobility will increase

The reason for digital and IT interventions increasingly being adopted is not just the change in ways commuters move but also the mode on which this transport moves

Are we Indians technology-averse?

Some examples that show we may be call for introspection

How evil is tech?

Online is a place for human contact but not intimacy; online is a place for information but not reflection