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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Articles by Charles Assisi

Gig workers and the digital grind

Artificial intelligence isometric icon, server room, datacenter and database concept, code repository access, programm app development vector neon dark

Updated on Mar 13, 2026 23:02 IST

Grit expectations: Why do we worship the myth of the self-made person?

The Sheltered Path (1873) by Claude Monet. ‘I chose my steps. But I did not build the road. Failing to acknowledge this distorts how we view others ,’ Assisi says. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Mar 7, 2026 14:00 IST

How the Gulf crisis could halt the AI boom

Tankers are seen off the coast of Fujairah, as Iran vows to fire on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. (REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 7, 2026 02:22 IST

Qatar LNG disruption threatens AI chips, global tech supply chain

As Qatar LNG plants halt, shortages of helium and neon threaten semiconductor fabs, AI chips and data centres, highlighting the tech world’s dependence on Gulf energy. (Reuters)

Updated on Mar 6, 2026 13:16 IST

Upcoming AI revolution and the great Indian middle class

Upcoming AI revolution and the great Indian middle class

Updated on Feb 28, 2026 01:56 IST

Upcoming AI revolution and the great Indian middle class

AI-driven productivity surge sparks debate over entry-level IT jobs, revenue growth and India’s middle-class future.

Updated on Feb 27, 2026 12:33 IST

The next battle with China may be over a different LoC: Line of Code

The next battle with China may be over a different LoC: Line of Code.

Updated on Feb 21, 2026 24:20 IST

Sweat equity: Charles Assisi on finding joy in the physical world

Tom Hanks shares his passion for collecting typewriters in the 2016 documentary, California Typewriter.

Updated on Feb 21, 2026 10:51 IST

The next battle with China may be over a different ‘Line of Code’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping. (ANI File)

Updated on Feb 20, 2026 11:41 IST

How to include children in the AI revolution

How to include children in the AI revolution

Updated on Feb 14, 2026 01:14 IST

How to include children in the AI revolution?

Technology has always unsettled before it settled. Neither children nor adults can fully predict its trajectory. (istockphoto/ Representative image)

Updated on Feb 13, 2026 12:53 IST

The devil is in the compromise: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi

It isn’t that the first shift damns you; it’s that the second takes far less effort. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Feb 7, 2026 10:38 IST

Tax breaks for foreign data centres only if guardrails are put in place

Tax breaks for foreign data centres only if guardrails are put in place

Updated on Feb 7, 2026 24:32 IST

Cheap labour and the 10-minute trap

FILE PHOTO: Swiggy gig workers talk to each other during a promotional event in Mumbai, India, October 14, 2024. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo (REUTERS)

Updated on Jan 31, 2026 02:16 IST

India’s quick commerce: Cheap labour and the 10-minute trap

India’s quick commerce boom promises 10-minute deliveries. (Representative photo)

Updated on Jan 30, 2026 12:34 IST

Taking the scenic route inwards: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi

(Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 24, 2026 12:25 IST

The standoff over access to source code

Abstract network background with low poly design with connecting lines

Updated on Jan 24, 2026 01:50 IST

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).

Updated on Jan 10, 2026 15:49 IST

Why Q-comm deliveries are costing more

Why Q-comm deliveries are costing more

Updated on Jan 10, 2026 24:20 IST

How your privacy will be weighed in 2026

How your privacy will be weighed in 2026

Updated on Jan 3, 2026 01:02 IST

How your privacy will be weighed in 2026

Representative image.

Updated on Jan 2, 2026 11:34 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)

Updated on Dec 27, 2025 11:51 IST

Why your smartphone will get costlier and ‘dumber’

Why your smartphone will get costlier and ‘dumber’

Updated on Dec 27, 2025 01:36 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)

Updated on Dec 26, 2025 11:13 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)

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 13:51 IST

Sanchar Saathi: Bad comms and intent trumped utility

Sanchar Saathi: Bad comms and intent trumped utility

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 01:36 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)

Updated on Dec 13, 2025 01:10 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)

Updated on Nov 29, 2025 24:18 IST

Cold logic about the future of data

Representational image.

Updated on Nov 28, 2025 11:36 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)

Updated on Nov 22, 2025 15:03 IST

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