The integration of technology with day-to-day lives of people has been going on for the better part of last two decades globally. This has resulted into legislators introducing laws and regulations with an aim to address and regulate any challenges posed by the introduction of technology which otherwise would have remain unaddressed. While significant reforms have been made by the legislators to effectively regulate sectors such as the e-commerce sector, the online gaming and fantasy sports space in India largely remain unregulated.

Publication: Financial Express 

Kurian’s success is seen to have been the result of aggressive investments in people and partnerships. That playbook is now being replicated in India. He has hired over half a dozen senior executives this year. Karan Bajwa, who was MD of IBM India, took over as MD of Google Cloud India in March. Anil Bhansali, who was corporate vice-president of Microsoft’s Azure cloud division and the site leader for the R&D team in India, joined as VP of engineering and head of the development centre for Google Cloud India.

Publication: The Times of India 

There’s a need for edge computing at the speed of light. Hyderabad’s LightspeedAI has thrown its hat in the ring. With the designs in place, the next stage for the startup is fabrication for a minimum viable product, expected in six months. The age of AI and 5G is around the corner. If there was an explosion of data as we moved from 2G and 3G to 4G (fourth generation of broadband cellular network technology), that’s set to multiply 1,000 times with 5G.

Publication: Livemint

South Korean telecom operators are targeting wider market penetration of cloud gaming services by expanding availability, industry officials said amid strong demand from mobile gamers. The country’s three major carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. have in recent months opened up their subscription services that stream console games on smartphones to other carrier users and networks, reports Yonhap news agency.

Publication: Telangana Today 

When Apple recently launched the new Macs with the M1 chip, many were surprised to see the absence of the 16-inch MacBook Pro. However, a report from LeaksApplePro claims a new 16-inch MacBook Pro is in the works with Apple’s unannounced M1X processor. The new chipset is going to be substantially faster than the first-generation M1 chip. In fact, M1X is rumoured to come with 12 cores, out of which eight cores will be optimised for high performance, while the other four will be used for power efficiency.

Publication: Indian Express 

It began with Texas Instruments setting up a global R&D centre in Bengaluru in 1985 to design semiconductor chips and integrated circuits using Indian engineering talent. Other MNCs followed, including the world’s two leading chipset makers, Samsung Electronics and Intel. But even though so much semiconductor design work is being done in India, it’s all happening in MNCs and not Indian companies.

Publication: Livemint

CISC was adopted and developed by Intel and that formed the basis of their X86 architecture, also used by AMD. In 1984, based on IBM’s work, Stanford introduced a new more efficient architecture Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC). In 1985, ARM (Acorn RISC Machine, later changed to Advanced Risc Machine), a very significant RISC-based architecture of the future was introduced by UK-based Acorn Computers Ltd.

Publication: Indian Express