Around January, sometimes December starts the fall of something beautiful, penetrating and powerful. The fall of snow at first as it slowly drifts from the heaven above and embraces the warm ground. Soon it starts to blanket the earth as if putting it to sleep; people hustle home hoping to flee the peak of the…
India, once referred to as the ‘Golden Bird’, was one of the richest economies of the world. It all began with the Indus Valley Civilization and the economy depending heavily on agriculture. Supporting this, was trade, domestication of animals and metallurgy. As new urban centres surfaced in the Northern part of the country, trade and…
“I’ll be back” Said The Terminator, a cyborg assassin from 2029, before massacring the whole crew…a moviebluff or our harsh future, with the advancements in the field of mechatronics and AI this could soon become a reality. “Humans must become cyborgs if they are to stay relevant in a future dominated by artificial intelligence”. That…
With the present scenario of pollution and global warming all around the globe, it’s clear that the approach towards saving the environment needs to be changed and this has to be done soon!!! One major change that is surely about to take place, and that too for good is the rise of electric vehicle (EV)…
What is Hardware Description Language? Many of us are familiar with basic digital logic and logic-gate based circuits, through our school and first-year courses. Digital logic is the basic backbone of almost every small and big electronic system around us, starting from microwave ovens to huge supercomputers. At the elementary level, we see that any…
A Field-Programmable Gate Array(FPGA) likely has a quicker time-to-market because they are not pre-designed to perform certain tasks. You can buy a ready-made FPGA and then configure it to the design you need. An FPGA is a device that contains a matrix of reconfigurable gate array logic circuitry. When an FPGA is configured, the internal circuitry is…
Machine learning is one of the hot topics everyone wants on their resume. Machine learning focuses on the development of computer programs that can use data to learn for themselves. Here is a quick introduction to various machine learning techniques: Machine learning is classified as follows: Supervised Learning: Machines are trained using well labelled data…
It was December 10, 2008, and Wall Street was running as it normally does every day; telephones ringing, brokers doing their best to work their magic, the overlapping sounds of keyboards, staplers and binders making the ruckus it always does. Everything was perfectly normal, until the telegram popped up with the message that cost over…
I wonder why they don’t make the entrance bigger. It will involve ruining the houses nearby, but… maybe that’s why. Hundreds of people come to the bagh regularly and the crowd is especially large during festivals. An entrance this small is criminal. A good entrance must allow a crowd through it, without people having to…
Little Green Men? Nope, extraterrestrial life may look more like pasta. Fettuccini or Capellini, Anyone? Scientists have now discovered microbial mats in Yellowstone that look a lot similar to a bowl of delicious, chessy pasta. Hot-spring-loving microbes create rock formations that look like fettuccini or capellini, according to a new NASA-funded study published online April 30…