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Rahul Matthan: Digipin will displace workarounds to getting around

New Delhi, June 10 -- Whenever I order something online, I've learnt to provide as much location information as I can at checkout. As with most parts of India, the houses on my street are numbered som... Read More


Rahul Matthan: Brace for a wave of AI-enabled criminal enterprise

New Delhi, May 27 -- When Wolfgang Beltracchi was finally apprehended in 2010, he had been fooling the art world for nearly four decades. The secret of his success was not in creating perfect replicas... Read More


Disfrutar versus Noma: A tale of two Michelin meals

New Delhi, May 24 -- What does it mean to be creative? Is it finding beauty in the simplest of things, coaxing it out of everyday objects, or is it an expression of joy and whimsy? If it is true that ... Read More


Rahul Matthan: Don't let data privacy safeguards work against us

New Delhi, May 20 -- The first country to seriously address the issue of protecting digital personal data was the United States of America. In a report titled Records, Computers and the Rights of Citi... Read More


Use verifiable credentials to grant us agency over our digital data

New Delhi, May 13 -- Back in the day, all we had to rely on were paper records. When we visited a doctor, we carried along with us a file containing all our medical records-prescriptions, diagnostic r... Read More


Genetically engineered animals are here: Regulation mustn't get left behind

New Delhi, May 6 -- Last month, biotech firm Colossal Biosciences announced that it had resurrected the dire wolf, an Ice Age predator that was made famous by the fictional TV series Game of Thrones. ... Read More


Biases aren't useless: Let's cut AI some slack on these

New Delhi, April 29 -- We often think of bias as a flaw that needs to be purged. It's not. It's a cognitive shortcut that we need to fine-tune. We are constantly bombarded by shapes, colours, sounds a... Read More


Rely on modern geothermal energy to power our AI ambitions

New Delhi, April 22 -- If data is the fuel that powers the digital revolution, data centres are the tanks in which they are stored, primed and kept ready for use when needed. This is why any country l... Read More


Letter from 2035: Did we give Agentic AI too much agency?

New Delhi, April 8 -- The future arrived quietly, wrapped in convenience. When they first appeared on the scene in 2025, AI agents were simple. We used them to schedule meetings, write emails and occa... Read More


Time for the Global South to leverage DPI for climate action

New Delhi, April 1 -- It is unreasonable to expect developing countries to commit to costly climate mitigation strategies when the only reason developed nations are where they are is that they used ch... Read More