Author: Shivendra Saxena

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened Semicon India 2025 in Delhi on Tuesday with a blunt message: India’s chip story is no longer theory, it’s execution. With more than 20,000 attendees, hundreds of industry leaders, and representation from nearly 50 countries, India’s biggest semiconductor show yet is not just optics. It’s a pitch to investors, a pep talk to Indian talent, and a warning shot to rivals: India wants its share of the trillion-dollar chip pie. Semicon India 2025: India Stakes Its Claim in the Chip Race At Yashobhoomi, PM Modi compared chips to “digital diamonds.” Oil dictated the…

New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi has landed in China after seven years, sitting at the same table as Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. The SCO summit is less about handshakes and more about who sets the rules in a world no longer run from Washington. China’s Big Bonanza Chinese President Xi Jinping is hosting leaders from Russia, India, Iran, Pakistan and nearly 20 others at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. It’s the SCO’s biggest gathering yet, and Beijing is milking the optics. Xi wants the world to see that there is life outside Washington’s orbit. “China is bringing them…

Mumbai: Apple’s “Awe-dropping” event lands on September 9! The iPhone 17 launch won’t be a routine chip tick. Credible reporting and detailed leaks point to a slimmer “iPhone Air,” Pro models with serious camera hardware, a watch that can text off-grid, and AirPods that track your heart rate. Facts below; hype filtered, maybe. Pro and Pro Max: hardware-first, camera-forward Renders and dummy units shared by well-known leakers show a pronounced, Pixel-style rear bar on the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max. An analyst expects three 48MP sensors on the back.  The front camera is rumored to jump to 24MP. Under…

New Delhi: Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs on Indian goods have triggered an unusually sharp response from Raghuram Rajan, the former Reserve Bank of India governor. Rajan minced no words: this is a “wake-up call” for New Delhi and proof that the India-US relationship has “clearly broken down.” For India, the message is blunt. Don’t put all your eggs in the American basket. Diversify, reform, and stop believing political optics will save trade deals. Rajan: Stop Being Overdependent Rajan reminded policymakers that the US is just one partner in a multipolar world. “Let us not become dependent on any single country…

New Delhi: Space research is throwing curveballs faster than ISRO can announce a new PSLV launch. In the past week alone, we’ve seen Ireland’s first satellite nail a precision control experiment, China’s scientists map the next era of orbital edge computing, and engineers in the U.S. steer jellyfish like submarines. No, that last part is not a joke. Ireland’s CubeSat Spins Smarter EIRSAT-1, Ireland’s first CubeSat, just pulled off something that would make even hardened engineers nod. It validated a Wave-Based Control system, a software-led payload that lets satellites fine-tune their orientation mid-orbit. Developed at University College Dublin, the system…

New Delhi: The Trump 50% tariff on India is no symbolic gesture. It’s a gut punch to an export sector worth tens of billions. Starting Wednesday, almost two-thirds of Indian exports to the US, about $60 billion worth, now face a crippling 50% levy. The duty is split into two parts: a standard 25% import tariff plus another 25% “penalty” for India’s refusal to dump Russian oil and defence deals. Washington calls India a “strategic ally,” but this is punishment, plain and simple. The Blow To Indian Exports The hit list covers labour-heavy industries: textiles, gems and jewellery, shrimp, carpets,…

Mumbai: Humanoid robots just got a new brain. And yes, it comes from Nvidia, the chipmaker that’s been eating the AI world alive. The company unveiled Jetson Thor, a high-powered AI module built to run humanoid robots and self-driving cars in real time. Nvidia claims it’s faster, leaner, and much smarter than its predecessor. What’s Inside This “Robot Brain” Jetson Thor runs on Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GPUs, with seven times the AI compute power of Jetson Orin. Memory has doubled. Efficiency has tripled. Translation: Robots can now process more sensor data, see better, and, if Nvidia’s hype holds, make decisions…

New Delhi: Eighteen months ago, Noland Arbaugh became the first human being to live with Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip. Today, he laughs about being “technically a cyborg,” but the transformation is anything but a joke. A swimming accident in 2016 left Arbaugh paralyzed below the shoulders. He could think and speak, but every other bit of autonomy was stripped away. “I just had no purpose… staring at walls,” he says. Fast forward to 2025: he studies neuroscience, schedules his own interviews, and even plays Mario Kart with his dad, controlling it all through thought alone. The Surgery That Changed…

New Delhi: In the sticky late-summer heat of Indiana, a few dozen people gathered around a barren field to watch what looked, at first glance, like a simple military demonstration. A pickup truck rolled out with a refrigerator-sized box on its back. Within minutes, a half-dozen drones buzzed to life, rising in coordinated arcs before zeroing in on an armored vehicle in the distance. For the officials present, including Emil Michael, the newly minted Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering of the United States, this wasn’t just a show. It was a glimpse into how the United States…

New Delhi: Not long ago, a unicorn startup’s swagger was measured in headcount. “We just hired 50 engineers this quarter” was the humblebrag of choice at investor dinners from Koramangala to Palo Alto. Bigger teams meant bigger bets, and the logic was simple: throw people at the problem until it cracked. But something strange is happening. The new darlings of tech aren’t bragging about headcount, they’re bragging about not needing one. Cursor became the fastest-growing SaaS company in history with just 30 people. Midjourney pulled in $200 million with 40. Tiny Teams, a site tracking these lean operators, reads like…