For years, India’s fuel conversation has centred on availability, pricing, and emissions compliance. But as mobility volumes grow and vehicles remain on the road longer, expectations from petrol itself are beginning to change. Today’s motorists are no longer asking only how far a fuel can take them. Increasingly, they want to know what it does
In 2003, the Stanford social scientist BJ Fogg published an extraordinarily prescient book. Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do predicted a future in which a student “sits in a college library and removes an electronic device from her purse”. It serves as her “mobile phone, information portal, entertainment platform, and
When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989, his vision was clear: it would used by everyone, filled with everything and, crucially, it would be free. Today, the British computer scientist’s creation is regularly used by 5.5 billion people – and bears little resemblance to the democratic force for humanity he intended.
Gathering Summer after summer, I used to descend into a creek that had carved a deep bed shaded by trees and lined with blackberry bushes whose long thorny canes arced down from the banks, dripping with sprays of fruit. Down in that creek, I’d spend hours picking until I had a few gallons of berries, until my
If you were starting from scratch in 2023, how would you design a university technology transfer office (TTO)? The question assumes two conditions that increasingly characterise higher education: an unknown pipeline of opportunity, and the need to operate at very low cost. This is not a situation in which an established model can simply be scaled. Instead,
Many producers are looking for ways to improve their operation. Whether it be saving feed or labour, there are several technologies emerging on the market promising benefits for the ranchers that use them. Livestock and feed extension specialists have used funding available through the Agricultural Demonstration of Practices and Technology (ADOPT), funded at a rate
Many producers are looking for ways to improve their operation. Whether it be saving feed or labour, there are several technologies emerging on the market promising benefits for the ranchers that use them. Livestock and feed extension specialists have used funding available through the Agricultural Demonstration of Practices and Technology (ADOPT), funded at a rate
Users demand that online services function continuously throughout the day. Users lose trust in applications when they experience crashes or prolonged loading times. To prevent this, companies rely on performance monitoring tools that track uptime, identify issues early, and help maintain stable service. Platforms that provide timely updates about outages, bugs, or maintenance help users
BSS 27 January, 2026, 06:55 pm Last modified: 27 January, 2026, 07:04 pm Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus. File Photo: Collected “> Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus. File Photo: Collected Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus today (27 January) said that the main purpose of technology is not merely to boost productivity but to make people’s lives easier, create
July 1969: American astronaut Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin on the surface of the moon next to the American flag during the NASA Apollo 11 mission. Prints from Aldrin’s spaceboots mark the lunar terrain. Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon, after Neil Armstrong (Image via Getty) Lunar mission technology supports next generation housing