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Transforming Brain Health Research Through Data Science
30 Oct 2025
Discover how the Child Mind Institute uses AI and synthetic data to tackle the brain health data crisis and boost research impact.
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain: Powering Cyber Resilience with an Expansive Ecosystem
30 Oct 2025
Build cyber resilience with Dell PowerProtect Data Domain and DD Boost. Enjoy faster backups, lower costs, broad compatibility, and secure cloud recovery.
Fueling Innovation for Research Institutions
29 Oct 2025
How Dell ObjectScale’s modern data storage unleashes the next wave of discovery.
Supercharge Your AI Journey with Dell and Nutanix
29 Oct 2025
Dell, Nutanix, and NVIDIA streamline gen AI with secure operations, model choice, and expert services for rapid value.
From Desktops to Data Centers, From 6G to AI-RAN
29 Oct 2025
See how Dell scales 6G from developer desktops to AI-RAN at the edge with PowerEdge XR8000 and NVIDIA acceleration to build intelligent, automated networks.
Fast Path to AI: Accelerated, Secure and Government-Ready
29 Oct 2025
PowerEdge XE with NVIDIA Rubin CPX and BlueField‑4 plus the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA deliver accelerated, secure, government‑ready AI from pilot to production.
Delivering Scalable Foundations to Streamline Complexity and AI Agents
29 Oct 2025
Dell and NVIDIA showcase innovations to accelerate agentic AI and enable secure government AI deployments at NVIDIA GTC this week.
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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.

