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Chrysler's Doug Betts joins Apple: reports
21 Jul 2015
Chrysler's Doug Betts joins Apple: reports
21 Jul 2015
Obama adviser Maurice Obstfeld takes over as IMF’s new chief economist
21 Jul 2015
Maurice Obstfeld is known around the globe for his work on international economics and is considered one of the most influential macroeconomists
Obama adviser Maurice Obstfeld takes over as IMF’s new chief economist
21 Jul 2015
Maurice Obstfeld is known around the globe for his work on international economics and is considered one of the most influential macroeconomists
Elon Musk funds Oxford, Cambridge research on safe and beneficial AI
13 Jul 2015
Tesla Motors and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who fears AI as "summoning the demon", hopes his research would help develop safer Artificial Intelligence
Omar Sharif, star of `Lawrence of Arabia’, dies at 83
10 Jul 2015
Omar Sharif, the Egyptian-born movie actor who shot to Hollywood fame through films like `Lawrence of Arabia’ and `Doctor Zhivago’ died early today at a Cairo hospital
Ratan Tata invests in electric vehicle maker Ampere
08 Jul 2015
This is the ninth technology investment by Tata and his first investment in an automobile start-up since he retired as executive chairman of Tata Sons in 2012
Ratan Tata invests in electric vehicle maker Ampere
08 Jul 2015
This is the ninth technology investment by Tata and his first investment in an automobile start-up since he retired as executive chairman of Tata Sons in 2012
Linux founder Linus Torvalds dismisses fears over AI
08 Jul 2015
Linus Torvalds dismissed fears over the overarching ability of AI, expressed in recent weeks by some of the most famous minds, including Stephen Hawking
Modi government sought control over Nalanda University, says Amartya Sen
07 Jul 2015
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen blames the government for making the free functioning of autonomous educational institutions difficult
Ratan Tata joins Jungle Ventures as special advisor
02 Jul 2015
Jungle Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund, with a firm focus on helping innovative technology-led companies based out of Asia-Pacific
Ratan Tata joins Jungle Ventures as special advisor
02 Jul 2015
Jungle Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund, with a firm focus on helping innovative technology-led companies based out of Asia-Pacific
Ratan Tata joins Jungle Ventures as special advisor
02 Jul 2015
Jungle Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund, with a firm focus on helping innovative technology-led companies based out of Asia-Pacific
Father of SMS, Matti Makkonen dies, aged 63
01 Jul 2015
Though Matti Makkonen is widely credited with having fathered SMS technology, he himself said that the development was a joint effort and not his sole work
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says humans will become robot pets
27 Jun 2015
Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking have all spoken about the dangers of allowing our world to be taken over by artificial intelligence
Fate accomplished
27 Jun 2015
Vivek Agnihotri, retired IAS officer is a former secretary-general, Rajya Sabha, Parliament of India, reminisces about a cross-service friendship struck over his years in service
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