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NVIDIA and Cisco Introduce New Pluggable Optics Form Factor to Scale AI Factories
12 Oct 2026
NVIDIA and Cisco today announced plans for Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP)More RSS Feeds: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/rss-feeds.html
Cisco Advances Scalability and Openness at OCP 2026
12 Oct 2026
Today at the OCP Global Summit 2026, Cisco introduced new silicon, systems and optical innovations that advance open AI infrastructure. More RSS Feeds: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/rss-feeds.html
Cisco Appoints Girish Rishi to its Board of Directors
10 Oct 2026
Cisco appoints Girish Rishi to its board of directors effective October 9, 2026.More RSS Feeds: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/rss-feeds.html
Cisco Unveils New Agentic Collaboration Experiences
07 Oct 2026
New updates bring people, digital teammates, and enterprise context together across work, workplaces and customer experience More RSS Feeds: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/rss-feeds.html
Sustainability 101: materials at the center of sustainability, human rights, and business resilience - Cisco Blogs
07 Oct 2026
Elias Habbar-Baylac Powering the AI era: How wave energy can complement a 24/7 energy mix CorPower Ocean, a Cisco Investments portfolio company, has explored how wave energy technology could co
Combatting water scarcity in Bangalore through lake restoration - Cisco Blogs
01 Oct 2026
Catherine Paquette Combatting water scarcity in Bangalore through lake restoration Cisco has partnered with SayTrees, CLEAN International, and Bonneville Environmental Foundation to restore a l
Cisco AI Research: AgenticOps Scaling Quickly in the Enterprise
28 Sep 2026
New Cisco and Omdia research shows 95% of enterprises say their existing AIOps tools can't keep up, and more than half have already moved to AgenticOpsMore RSS Feeds: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/rss-feeds.html
Notre Dame Athletics Selects Cisco to Enhance Campus-Wide Network Connectivity
28 Sep 2026
Cisco and Notre Dame Athletics have announced a multi-year partnership to modernize the University of Notre Dame’s on-campus network.More RSS Feeds: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/rss-feeds.html
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
