Buy Now Pay Later

Buy Now Pay Later,  or commonly known as the BNPL is the latest buzzword in the Indian Fintech and Credit ecosystem. BNPL is set to disrupt the credit market, with technology making it easy for lenders to provide sachet-ticket loans, without the risks or costs associated with lending to this category. In this article let us…

Introduction to Recommendation Systems

Ever wondered how sites like Netflix are consistently able to recommend movies or shows you want to watch? Ever been on youtube and wondered how their recommended section works? According to Amazon, an astonishing 70% of their sales come through their recommendations alone. Not only that, over 80% of Netflix’s watch time is due to…

Ultrasound capture of defects in Ceramic Capacitors

Multi-layer ceramic chip capacitors (MLCCs) work by storing power and releasing it when it’s wanted. They encompass stacks having alternating layers of a skinny metallic electrode and a thicker ceramic dielectric, or insulator.  A gap-type flaw is a destructive career inside the body of a high-voltage multi-layer ceramic capacitor. A void in the ceramic dielectric,…

The Serious CO2nsequesnces

Scientists have warned about ‘Code Red’ for humanity. But how long do we have before it’s too late? Governments and many organizations have set guidelines to commit to climate neutrality. The Global Carbon Project, one such organization, aims to stop the increase in greenhouse emissions by 2050. This project has focused the attention of the…

The Dystopian Security

“Since the COVID pandemic, there has been a 47% jump in the severity of ransomware attacks, a 35% increase in funds transfer fraud, and a 67% increase in business email attack”, to cite just a few statistics. This blog post is written to give you insight into the various ways of protecting yourself from cyber attacks. …

Fossil Free Steel

Steel is everywhere in our modern society, from the tools and machines we use in our homes to major infrastructure and construction work like hospitals, offices, and factories—all of which we take for granted. Moreover, steel is also expected to play a crucial role in the renewable energy transition, with solar panels, wind turbines, hydroelectric…

Spintronics

The age of electrically-based devices has been with us for more than six decades. With more and more electrical devices being packed into smaller and smaller spaces, the limits of physical space will prevent further expansion in the direction the microelectronics industry is currently going. Also, volatile memory, which does not retain information upon being…

Steganography

If someone were to ask you to find the differences between these two images, you’d probably say there were none. And if the same person declares that one of these pictures has been modified, you might think that the person is mistaken. In fact, to the simple, plain eye these images do indeed look unmodified,…

Challenges to Electronics in Space

Life on Earth as we currently know it, is unimaginable without electronic devices, and electricity in general. Nearly every single sphere of activity is dependent on electronics and so, it is only natural that space exploration and the field of aerospace in general, rely on electronics and electronic devices. As humans aim to ramp up…