Glitch busters: Indians are acing it as bug bounty hunters

Giant tech companies are paying indie hackers big bucks to point out flaws in their apps and India is among the countries receiving the most payouts.

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This new technology is likely to improve restaurant services

A recent study shows that adding a tabletop device can improve restaurant services and increase revenues.

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Google, Facebook secretly tracking your porn-viewing habits

In 2017, Pornhub, one of the largest porn websites, received 28.5 billion visits, with users performing 50,000 searches per second on the site.

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Meet the Indians using artificial intelligence to create art

They feed data sets into special algorithms to create canvases; they’re showing at art events around the world. Elsewhere, AI art is even ending up at auction.

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Google celebrates musician Johann Christian Bach with its first-ever AI-powered...

With the press of a button that is located at the bottom right corner, the doodle uses machine learning to “harmonize the custom melody into Bach’s signature music style.”

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The path to love is worth it: Tinder CEO Elie Seidman on dating, India, privacy

The freemium model is the way forward, Seidman believes. India will be among the biggest future markets.

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Can't agree on a family vacation spot? This new tool will help

Wanderlist, a new tool from Virtuoso, lets travellers create a virtual bucket list through a highly visual, lightly game-like survey.

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Just how sexist is that film? There's an app to find out

A new mobile application called Mango Meter, launched last week in Jakarta, Indonesia, allows users to do just that. Its founders describe it as the world’s “first feminist film review” app.

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How tweets influence millennials, decoded

Tweets, either for or against, can influence the thinking process of young people and the speed of the messenger matters here too, say researchers.

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New AI tool increases accuracy of schizophrenia diagnosis

The tool called EMPaSchiz, developed by researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada, examined brain scans from patients who were diagnosed with schizophrenia and predicted the diagnosis with 87 per cent accuracy.

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At The CES 2019 gadget show, makers of women's 'massager' charge sexism

The makers of a robotic “personal massager” for women won a prestigious CES award. Its maker, the startup Lora DiCarlo, was then banned from exhibiting on the show floor.

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Keeping up with The Jetsons: Cool tech that's here but still out of reach

#2018 Year-End Special: Flying cars, robot housekeepers, hoverboards and jetpacks... are we there yet?

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The dark side of future tech: Where are we headed on privacy, security, truth?

#2018 Year-End Special: We now live in a time when devices listen, chips track your choices, and governments can watch from behind a barcode. How do we navigate this world?

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New arrivals: Glass that bends, spray-on clothes, building materials for Mars

#2018 Year-End Special: Check out some of the cutting-edge, future-ready inventions that are already here.

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Everything that Star Trek got right: A look at future tech that's already here

We‘re 3D printing food, video-chatting. We have real-time translator apps that can even translate Klingon. And today’s visionaries are planning their retirement on Mars!

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Are You There, User? It's Me, Facebook!

The emails, however, would not stop. Like many millions of others, I get emails from Facebook all the time. Some days I get three, some days none. In November, I got 42.

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Why Apple failed in India — and how it can recover

Apple could use India’s market to its advantage: to make it a testbed for its experimental technologies.

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