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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

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You gotta have fate: Charles Assisi on the invisible hand that shapes our lives

Manoj Bajpayee as the angel Dev works on his wings, in the film Jugnuma (2024).

Art and Culture

Updated on Jan 10, 2026 09:19 pm IST

Why Q-comm deliveries are costing more

Why Q-comm deliveries are costing more

Published on Jan 10, 2026 05:50 am IST

How your privacy will be weighed in 2026

How your privacy will be weighed in 2026

Published on Jan 03, 2026 06:32 am IST

How your privacy will be weighed in 2026

Representative image.(via social media/ twitter )

Updated on Jan 02, 2026 05:04 pm IST

The cracks that define us: Charles Assisi looks back on 2025

Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks (1942). There is no changing the solitary nature of our journey. (Wikimedia)

Art and Culture

Updated on Dec 27, 2025 05:21 pm IST

Why your smartphone will get costlier and ‘dumber’

Why your smartphone will get costlier and ‘dumber’

Published on Dec 27, 2025 07:06 am IST

Why your smartphone will get costlier and ‘dumber’

A Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone on display during a media preview in Seoul, South Korea. (Bloomberg)

Published on Dec 26, 2025 04:43 pm IST

The numbers game: Charles Assisi writes on our tussles with time

An illusion is eventually just that. There is a truth we must all acknowledge in the end: The body keeps its own ledger. It updates itself without consulting the mind. (Shutterstock)

Art and Culture

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 07:21 pm IST

Sanchar Saathi: Bad comms and intent trumped utility

Sanchar Saathi: Bad comms and intent trumped utility

Published on Dec 20, 2025 07:06 am IST

The unfounded unease over Digi Yatra’s “data cloning”

Pune, India - Janaury 11, 2023: Flexs displaying information regarding the placement of DigiYatra system, a virtual method of facial verification placed at D1 Terminal of the Pune International Airport, in Pune, India, on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. (HT PHOTO) (Hindustan Times)

Published on Dec 13, 2025 06:40 am IST

Cold logic about the future of data

For a while now, the world’s biggest technology companies have been shifting their most demanding AI workloads toward the Arctic Circle. They are not doing it for romance or spectacle. They are doing it because heat is the enemy and cold is the cure. (IMAGE FOR REPRESENTATION)

Published on Nov 29, 2025 05:48 am IST

Cold logic about the future of data

Representational image.

Updated on Nov 28, 2025 05:06 pm IST

For better or worse, we’re a multiverse: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi

René Magritte’s La Decalcomanie (1966): The various selves we could have been continue to shape us, through traces they leave behind and by their very absence too. (WikiArt)

Art and Culture

Updated on Nov 22, 2025 08:33 pm IST

How to future-proof professional identities in the age of AI

How to future-proof professional identities in the age of AI

Published on Nov 22, 2025 05:50 am IST

How to future-proof professional identities in the age of AI

Global newsrooms now run AI systems that churn out business briefs, sports updates, earnings summaries, and weather stories at near-zero cost. (Representative photo)

Published on Nov 21, 2025 04:30 pm IST

When do I get my clean chit?: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi

Johnny Bravo in the house?: Come on, we’re not all this guy.

Art and Culture

Updated on Nov 08, 2025 07:36 pm IST

What the UK newspapers missed about Aadhar

Ajmer: Voters display their Aadhar cards and finger marked with indelible ink after casting their vote at a polling station during Ajmer by-election, in Ajmer on Monday. PTI Photo (PTI1_29_2018_000153B) (PTI)

Published on Nov 08, 2025 06:30 am IST

What the UK newspapers missed about Aadhaar

This is why, in India, collecting data is seen as a necessary step to build a functional state. (Representative file photo)

Published on Nov 07, 2025 03:50 pm IST

‘Patient’ capital needed for India to stay in the battle for AI

‘Patient’ capital needed for India to stay in the battle for AI

Published on Nov 01, 2025 04:04 am IST

‘Patient’ capital needed for India to stay in the battle for AI

To build technologies that endure, the country must learn to build investors who can wait. Because what’s at stake is not just sovereignty over data but sovereignty over imagination. (Representative photo)

Published on Oct 31, 2025 05:28 pm IST

Would he be proud of me today? Charles Assisi reflects on his younger self

Look again: A still from the videogame Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (2025). Set across two timelines, it follows a group of young women as they revisit their adolescence.

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 25, 2025 02:02 pm IST

Why the proposal to label AI content may not fly

Why the proposal to label AI content may not fly

Published on Oct 25, 2025 06:08 am IST

How China weaponized the periodic table

How China weaponized the periodic table

Published on Oct 18, 2025 06:46 am IST

Read ’em and leap: Charles Assisi on the shift from non-fiction to fiction

Free your mind: At the Jedi Archives, in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), a set inspired by the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin.

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 11, 2025 12:59 pm IST

From doors to phones, Don Norman’s lesson on why modern design needs exit points

Donald Arthur Norman at BITS Design School in Thane on Thursday. (SATISH BATE/HT)

Published on Oct 11, 2025 01:56 am IST

Doom story on IT layoffs has a hopeful subtext

Doom story on IT layoffs has a hopeful subtext

Published on Oct 04, 2025 05:52 am IST

Scars and stripes: Charles Assisi writes on pain as a blunt teacher

In Long Story Short, Shira’s pain is rooted in her inability to recreate her late mother’s signature dish. Pain, unlike fleeting success, lays bare what can and cannot be controlled.

Art and Culture

Updated on Sept 27, 2025 02:17 pm IST

Mind games with ChatGPT

The machine will hand you a convincing impression of intimacy; it will not keep your secrets safe. (REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE)

Published on Sept 27, 2025 05:42 am IST

Mind games with ChatGPT

Shrinath V had a suggestion to make: ask ChatGPT what it knows about you. (Representative photo)

Published on Sept 26, 2025 05:11 pm IST

Coal conundrum requires imagination, not platitudes

Coal conundrum requires imagination, not platitudes

Published on Sept 20, 2025 06:26 am IST

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