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One Thing Today in Tech

One Thing Today in Tech

Every week day, Forbes India"s Hari Arakali, Editor - Tech & Innovation, brings you his take on one piece of tech news that caught his attention, covering everything from big tech to India"s growing tech startup ecosystem.

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00:06:32

Virgin Flight100 marks another step in the long haul...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/11/29

The first trans-Atlantic flight using 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel was made between London and New York yesterday by Britain’s Virgin Atlantic, bringing the industry another small step closer to sustainable aviation. Test flight VIR100, which did not carry paying passengers, took off from London’s Heathrow Airport at 11:49 am UK time (6:49 am ET and 5:19 pm in India) and landed at New York’s JFK airport at 2:05 pm ET, CNBC reported, citing Flightradar24. The flight, which the airline named

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00:06:27

India’s changing EV landscape: from low-speed e-bikes...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/11/28

India’s EV landscape is changing, with startups emerging across the value chain – from all-electric cabs to e-bikes and innovative purchase options. But first, some headlines: Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta Platforms knowingly employed methods that lured children on to these platforms, The New York Times reported on Nov. 25, citing un-redacted court documents from a federal lawsuit in the US, filed last month by California, Colorado and 31 other states in U.S. District Court for the

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00:04:28

India’s space tech ecosystem in focus with NASA...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/11/27

US space agency NASA’s Administrator Bill Nelson is in India today to meet top government and ISRO officials, as both countries look to deepen their space exploration and scientific research partnership. The visit by Nelson, a former US senator, “fulfills a commitment through the US and India initiative on critical and emerging technology spearheaded by President Joe Biden,” Nasa said in a press release on Nov. 24. Nelson was appointed as the 14th Nasa administrator in May 2021. During this visit

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00:05:14

NVIDIA surges 3X on AI, but no word on Altman’s ghar...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/11/22

NVIDIA, which has a near monopoly on computer chips for AI applications, reported its fiscal third-quarter numbers yesterday that beat street expectations. The semiconductor company’s Q3 revenues of $18.12 billion is a 206 percent year-on-year jump, reflecting the extent to which big tech companies are ramping up AI investments. Sales to the data centre segment, which accounted for 80 percent of the company’s Q3 revenues, was even more impressive, rising 279 percent. Sales rose 34 percent

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00:05:45

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella snaps up ousted OpenAI CEO...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/11/21

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella moved swiftly to recruit OpenAI’s co-founder Sam Altman after his shocking ouster as CEO last week from the company responsible for the ChatGPT bot which has made AI a household term. Microsoft also hired Greg Brockman, who resigned as president of OpenAI after Altman’s ouster. Wall Street cheered, and Microsoft shares rose on the Nasdaq stock exchange, ending more than 2 percent higher yesterday. “We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in

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00:04:36

Gurugram to Connaught Place in 7 minutes by air,...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/11/10

Diwali crackers are about to add to the already dangerously polluted air in the national capital region. So how would it be if you could fly over the smog for an important meeting, in a tenth of the time it would take to go from Gurugram to Connaught Place, say, and pay about the same as what an Uber ride would cost. InterGlobe Enterprises, the company that operates India’s top airline Indigo, and Archer Aviation Inc., a Silicon Valley company that’s close to commercialising its electric vertical

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00:04:42

Razorpay signals intent to step up SEA expansion,...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/11/08

Razorpay, a leading fintech name in India, providing a payments platform and banking-as-a-service software to some 10 million businesses, in the country, yesterday elevated Rahul Kothari to the position of chief operating officer for India and Malaysia. Kothari was previously chief business officer at the company. He will report to founder and CEO Harshil Mathur, the Bengaluru company said in a press release yesterday. This appointment sharpens Razorpay’s focus on the Southeast Asia region, where

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00:04:06

Slack CEO Lidiane Jones quits to go run Bumble as...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/11/07

Bumble yesterday announced that Lidiane Jones, who currently serves as chief executive at Slack, will succeed founder and current CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd, on Jan. 2. Wolfe Herd will become Executive Chair at that time, the company said in a press release yesterday. Nasdaq listed Bumble, which will report its fiscal third-quarter earnings later today, is expected to cross a billion dollars in revenue this year. “Early in my career, I was the target of online abuse and harassment. I lived in a

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00:03:56

Apple continues to grow iPhone sales in India amid...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/11/06

Apple, last week, reported another quarter of revenue decline, on a year-on-year basis, but also one where the decrease was significantly narrower than nine months ago, amid heightened global uncertainties. The three months to Sep. 30, which is Apple’s fiscal fourth quarter, was also the iPhone maker’s best quarter in India, ever. “We achieved an all-time revenue record in India,” CEO Tim Cook told analysts and investors in a conference on Thursday last week. Apple shipped a record 2.5 million

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00:05:26

US President Biden moves to establish AI guardrails...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/11/01

In today’s episode we take a quick look at news of US President Joe Biden’s executive order to regulate AI, but first one other headline that’s caught everyone’s attention at home. Headlines Several politicians from various opposition parties in India have been sent notifications by Apple that they were being targeted by “state-sponsored attackers,” according to multiple media reports. Among those who may have been targeted are members of parliament including TMC's Mahua Moitra, Shiv Sena

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00:05:33

Qualcomm’s State of Sound 2023 report says we want...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/10/31

In today’s episode I bring you the gist of Qualcomm’s latest State of Sound report, but first a few headlines. Headlines India’s department of telecommunications has used facial recognition to disconnect more than 6.4 million illegal phone connections over the last six months, Moneycontrol reports. It detects when a photograph has been used multiple times to procure SIM cards and flags instances where an individual has acquired more than the nine SIM cards allowed per Aaadhaar number under Indian

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00:06:04

H1-B rule changes coming soon, to discourage fraud,...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/10/23

In today’s episode H1B visa rules will soon change significantly, but first a few other headlines caught my attention. Isro, announced last week the successful test of “In-flight Abort Demonstration of Crew Escape System (CES)” at Mach number 1.2 with the space agency’s newly developed Test Vehicle, followed by Crew Module separation & safe recovery. This is in an important milestone in India’s Gaganyaan human space flight effort. VC firms are doubling down on AI and deep tech. TechCrunch

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00:05:08

Engineering admissions – is India headed for a talent...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/10/19

In today’s episode, I ask if we are headed for a talent crisis in core engineering streams, but first a couple of headlines. Headlines Agnikul Cosmos, has raised $26.7 million in Series-B funding from investors including Celesta Capital, Rocketship.vc, Artha Venture Fund and Artha Select Fund, the Chennai startup said in a press release on Oct. 17. IBM yesterday announced the signing of three memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with three entities engaged with the Ministry of Electronics and

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00:05:51

Google proposes children, teen safety framework,...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/10/17

There’s been a surge in children’s sexual abuse and exploitation online since the Covid pandemic, experts agree, and lawmakers around the world are trying to grapple with this threat with new policies and rules. Online businesses should be pushed to design their products and services to be age appropriate, Google proposes, but opposes stringent use of ID based verification on the grounds that such a practice can also deny useful access to all users in a digital world, and lead to more data

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00:06:54

TCS concludes jobs-for-bribes investigation, sacks 16...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/10/16

In today’s episode find out why TCS sacked 16 employees, but first a few headlines. Headlines After losing the IPL streaming rights, which has contributed its loss of some 20 million subscribers, Disney Hotstar set a new world record for concurrent viewers on Saturday when 35 million people logged on to the digital platform to watch the India-Pakistan cricket match in the ICC World Cup. Apple may announce new iPads tomorrow, 9to5Mac reported over the weekend. The iPad Air, iPad mini and the base

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00:08:09

IT services – how generative AI is changing...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/10/11

In today’s episode I take a quick look at how applications development and maintenance, which is about two-thirds of India’s IT sector revenues, is changing, but first a few headlines. Beyond Next Ventures, a Japanese fund focused on early-stage deep tech startups in Asia, is targeting up to ¥25 billion (about $168 million) for BNV Fund 3, its third fund, TechCrunch reports. And yesterday, BNV said it completed a first close of ¥10 billion ($68 million), which it will invest in ventures in areas

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00:05:25

What customers want from India’s SaaS companies

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/10/10

What do customers want from their SaaS vendors? Sridhar Vembu, founder and CEO of Zoho Corp., weighs in on this question, speaking with Forbes India at the company’s annual Zoholics conference on Oct. 9 in Bengaluru. Zoho remains steadfastly bootstrapped, but for the VC funded ventures, Vembu speaks about how a new funding cycle will eventually return and hopes that this time there will be more focus on important tech R&D and not just the “crowded train” that SaaS has become.

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00:05:02

Acumen names first Energy for Livelihoods India...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/10/05

In today’s episode, Acumen, last week, announced the first Indian cohort of sustainability and renewable energy focused startups it will train, with support from Apple, but first a few headlines. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said he believes an artificial general intelligence (AGI) that surpasses human intelligence in most areas, will arrive within 10 years, Reuters reports. Google yesterday released its Pixel 8 phones with a camera feature that uses an on-device algorithm to create a blended image

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00:06:36

One thing today in tech – Infosys to build 50,000...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/09/21

In today’s episode we take a quick look at an expanded partnership between NVIDIA and Infosys that seeks to equip an army of AI specialists trained in the AI chip giant’s technologies, but first one other headline that caught my attention yesterday. WhatsApp continues to roll out new features in India that will allow users in its largest market by userbase to do much more without leaving the instant messaging app. Coinciding with its Conversations event yesterday in Mumbai, WhatsApp announced new

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00:06:08

One thing today in tech – Apple highlights net zero...

One Thing Today in Tech ·

2023/09/13

In today’s episode it’s all about Apple. And of course, the company didn’t disappoint with the many incrementally faster, better features with innovations that combine both hardware tech and software ingenuity, as it launched the iPhone 15 series of smartphones and the Apple Watch 9 series, yesterday. For example, a double tap of your thumb and your index finger, of the hand on which you’re wearing an Apple Watch, will now let you do a bunch of new things, from answering and ending phone calls to

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