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Shweta Taneja

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Collisions, colonisation, and a fight to control space junk

In just five years, from 2020, there have been 11,951 launches to space, most of them to LEO – the space in the 500-1000 kilometre altitude above Earth. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Sep 16, 2025 04:43 AM IST

Seeing Silicon: Are we humans swapping roles with robots?

Multiple humans have become attached to Replika’s generative AI, who have unique personalities, quickly learn and adapt to human needs. (Reuters)

Updated on Sep 01, 2025 12:57 PM IST

Seeing Silicon: A bot to tackle blood clots

The hollow tube, barely visible unless you bend closer and have a look, rotates rapidly using a series of finds and slits. (Andrew Brodhead | Stanford University)

Updated on Aug 19, 2025 10:22 AM IST

The new programming language: English

The new programming language: English

Updated on Jul 31, 2025 06:16 AM IST

Seeing Silicon: A moonshot for solo unicorns

The term ‘vibe coding’ was coined earlier this year in February by OpenAI’s co-founder Andrej Karpathy in a tweet.. (Pixabay/ Representative photo)

Updated on Jul 20, 2025 10:29 AM IST

1 engineer, many jobs and a hiring reckoning for tech

Representational Image

Published on Jul 04, 2025 06:44 AM IST

Seeing Silicon | Is this year the beginning of the end of smartphones?

The first smartphone came into being in the early 1993, when IBM’s Simon added email and fax to a phone’s capability. (Representative photo)

Updated on Jun 22, 2025 12:09 PM IST

Seeing Silicon: Can a self-driving car become a weapon?

For representational purposes only. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Updated on Jun 09, 2025 04:35 PM IST

Seeing Silicon: ‘Robots are fragile, we’ve to take care of them’

The Stanford Robotics Center opened earlier this year as a space for interdisciplinary projects of all departments of the university. (engineering.stanford.edu)

Updated on May 25, 2025 01:02 PM IST

Seeing Silicon | Fraud it, till you make it: Silicon Valley’s attraction to cons

This hunger or desperation to invest in the next big thing, with the ability to take a risk on an emerging technology, leaves these investors vulnerable to being exploited. (REUTERS)

Updated on May 11, 2025 02:10 PM IST

Seeing Silicon: Bots over beer

Alex Dantas, who used to be a professional ballet dancer, started the first robotics co-working space in Oakland eight years ago, to bring the mechatronic engineering community together. Since then, they’ve had over 80 startups as part of the co-working space who have collectively raised over $250 million. (circuitlaunch.com)

Published on Apr 29, 2025 09:50 AM IST

Seeing Silicon: Dating in the time of AI agents

After analysing 1 million ChatGPT interaction logs, a group of researchers at MIT Media Lab found in March that “sexual role-playing” was the second most prevalent use in AI queries following the category of ‘creative composition’ (REUTERS/ Representative photo)

Published on Apr 13, 2025 12:21 PM IST

Seeing Silicon: Archaeologists have a cool, magic wand

Cave paintings at the archeological site known as ‘Cueva de las manos’ (Cave of Hands) in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, Argentina. (AFP File Photo)

Updated on Mar 26, 2025 01:19 PM IST

Seeing Silicon: All new macho, MMA-trained Zuckerberg is nerd kryptonite

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (AFP Photo)

Updated on Mar 13, 2025 12:00 PM IST

Silicon Valley’s nondescript garages and iconic companies they birthed

Steve Jobs’ childhood house and garage where he and Steve Wozniak created the Apple computer in Los Altos, United States. (Getty Images)

Published on Feb 22, 2025 09:00 AM IST

Seeing Silicon | DeepSeek has democratised the AI field. What now?

DeepSeek(REUTERS)

Published on Feb 09, 2025 08:00 AM IST

Seeing Silicon | A mugshot of surveillance technology

There is a huge privacy and data protection concern about these technologies.(Pixabay)

Published on Jan 26, 2025 10:54 AM IST

Seeing Silicon | Content moderation just died. Is that a bad thing?

Published on Jan 12, 2025 07:31 AM IST

The most spectacular technologies you’ll see in 2025

We’re standing at cusps of technology breakthroughs that’ll change our lives and societies forever and we will need to make sense of it.

Updated on Dec 29, 2024 07:05 PM IST

Seeing Silicon: Cosplaying with fibre optics and servos

Though costuming and masquerade has been a thing in most civilisations, cosplaying in its modern sense started in 1970s

Published on Dec 14, 2024 05:22 PM IST

Seeing Silicon: Robo cops are here. Do you trust them?

Representational image.

Published on Dec 02, 2024 10:49 AM IST

Seeing Silicon | In the Valley, you’ve to ruck to network

Rucking, the latest biohacking crazy on the streets, is something that came from the military, where it was doled out as a punishment(Pixabay)

Published on Nov 17, 2024 08:00 AM IST

Musk’s bold move in backing Trump paid off — and how

In July, Elon Musk publicly supported Donald Trump, bringing with him at least $130 million in a pro-Trump campaign effort. (REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 13, 2024 12:21 AM IST

Seeing Silicon: The prophesies of AGI

For representational purposes only. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Published on Nov 01, 2024 01:22 PM IST

Seeing Silicon | How to fly a balloon into a hurricane

A weather balloon of WindBorne Systems(LinkedIn/Windborne Systems)

Published on Oct 20, 2024 08:00 AM IST

Stealth layoffs: In the Valley, you’re out of a job, but silently

If 2023 was the year of splashy layoffs, 2024 seems to be the year of stealth layoffs in tech companies.(Pexel)

Published on Oct 06, 2024 08:00 AM IST

A quest of the rich for eternal life (and anti-ageing creams)

Why are billionaires so interested in elongating life (versus many other health sciences startups that they could be investing in)?(Unsplash)

Published on Sep 22, 2024 08:00 AM IST

MR Rangaswami: Meet the man who lobbies for the Indian diaspora

MR Rangaswami, Founder, Indiaspora(File)

Published on Sep 19, 2024 08:00 AM IST

Seeing Silicon | The ones who found quarks

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory(SLAC/Stanford/Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Aug 25, 2024 08:15 AM IST

Seeing Silicon | Do cyborgs think of themselves as slaves?

Honda's humanoid robot, ASIMO. (Picture shown is for illustrative purposes)

Published on Aug 11, 2024 08:00 AM IST

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