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India's startup story is increasingly becoming a women's story too, but the money has not caught up with the participation. More women are starting companies, joining founding teams, formalising businesses, using digital platforms to reach customers, and entering industries that
Artificial intelligence has traditionally been the outcome of human research. Engineers designed the systems, researchers planned experiments, programmers wrote the code, and teams spent months analysing failures before deciding what the next generation should improve. AI could a
When a project falls behind schedule, one of the first reactions from management is often to add more people. At first, that response seems perfectly logical. If one developer is struggling to finish the work, two developers should be faster. If a team of five is already overload
Artificial intelligence has changed software development faster than many companies expected. A developer can now generate boilerplate code in minutes, create a first version of a UI much faster, debug unfamiliar code with help, draft APIs, explore architecture choices and even b
Only a few days ago, one of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence was arguing that the industry might need to slow down. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been warning that frontier AI capabilities are developing so quickly that safety systems, monitoring, and gove
For generations, women were rarely encouraged to ask what marriage would add to their lives. Marriage itself was presented as the achievement: finish education, find a suitable partner, build a family, and adjust to whatever followed. Whether the marriage increased a woman’s peac
A project is announced on Monday. By Tuesday, someone in management wants a delivery date, and before the week is over, the developer is already being asked why the work is taking so long. It sounds exaggerated until you spend enough time inside a software team and realise how of
A woman may spend years studying, building qualifications, gaining experience, and creating a professional identity, only to find that marriage or motherhood changes the conditions under which she is expected to work. Her ambition may remain intact, her skills may remain valuable
For experienced technology professionals, layoffs can feel especially unsettling because they challenge an assumption that many people build their careers around: the idea that experience itself creates security. Someone may spend ten or twelve years learning enterprise systems,
For most of the generative AI boom, the message from technology companies was simple: move faster. Every few months brought a new model, a larger context window, better coding performance, more capable agents, or a new benchmark record. Companies competed to prove that their syst
The launch of a new iPhone usually creates one predictable opportunity: older iPhones become easier to recommend because retailers start cutting prices. In 2026, however, the situation is unusually confusing. Apple has launched the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max at significa
For more than a decade, Google’s position in the laptop market has been easy to understand. Chromebooks were usually simple, affordable computers built around the browser, cloud apps and long battery life. They became especially popular in education and basic productivity, but ve
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