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India's Top Crypto App CoinSwitch Calls for Regulatory 'Peace, Certainty'

India must establish rules on cryptocurrencies to resolve regulatory uncertainty, protect investors and boost its crypto sector, CoinSwitch CEO Ashish Singhal said on Sunday. Although India’s central bank has backed a ban on cryptocurrencies over risks to financial stability, a federal government move to tax income from them has been interpreted by the industry as […]

Apple's AR/VR Headset Inches Ever Closer to Reality

It has been a while since Apple released a new gadget. Not a new model of a line of gadgets, but a new piece of hardware altogether. Soon we may see the release of the first new iGadget since the Apple Watch in 2015; Apple’s AR/VR headset. Most of Apple’s revenues, over 80 percent, come […]

Cancer Coalition Aims to Boost Access to Medicines in Poorer Countries

Pharmaceutical companies including Novartis and Roche have teamed up with global cancer organisations in an alliance aimed at getting more oncology medications to poorer countries. Currently, fewer than 50% of the cancer drugs on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) essential medicines list are available in low and middle income countries, and the disease burden is […]

The Road to Sustainable Development Goal 10: How Technology Can Help in Reducing Inequalities?

The world has been plagued with severe problems of inequality. Although awareness has been rising up worldwide, several events including conflicts, wars and the recent COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the dark reality that inequality is still a major issue. Poor countries, vulnerable populations have clearly been at the center of the sanitary cyclone that ravaged […]

Analysis-Why Twitter has Ignored Elon Musk's 'Trolling'

A unilateral pronouncement that the acquisition of Twitter Inc is “on hold”. Fierce criticism of the social media company’s handling of spam accounts. A “poop emoji” directed at Twitter’s chief executive, Parag Agrawal. These are just some of Elon Musk’s tweets in the last four days, culminating in a suggestion by the Tesla Inc chief […]

The Unintentionally Positive Effect of the Russian Ukrainian War on India

War has always had a rippling effect on geopolitics and global economies, more so than ever in today’s interconnected and globalized world. India, which has maintained a friendly political relationship with Russia since 1970, finds itself at a crossroads in the wake of recent global events. As the Russian Ukrainian war rages on, previously well-aligned […]

Will Augmented Reality be our Reality?

In the near future, what we know about technology could be drastically shifted to take a new, more fresh turn. And some of the leading advocates of this change are the companies working on rising techs. Technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are expected to be the pillars shaping the needed […]