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Shweta Taneja

Shweta Taneja

Articles by Shweta Taneja

Is instant delivery of satellites possible?

Bengaluru-based startup Gimbal Space wants to create plug-and-play satellite components (Photo courtesy: Gimbal Space)

Updated on Jul 21, 2026 09:51 IST

A second shot at the IIT dream

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, in Chennai.

Updated on Jul 17, 2026 01:11 IST

New role for man’s best friend: Detecting cancer

Currently the canine olfaction technology needs a dog to express what it’s smelling and a trained human to analyse what the dog’s communicating. (Dognosis)

Updated on Jun 30, 2026 01:04 IST

The tech-enabled rich face is here

Thanks to new-age surgeries, biologics and chemicals, people, especially the rich, have started to look different after they age and they’re flaunting this rich face. (Reuters/ Representative photo)

Updated on Jun 13, 2026 04:56 IST

Good bot, bad bot: What happens when cops get AI

RPF personnel monitor CCTV feeds at a control room in Lucknow. (PTI File)

Updated on May 26, 2026 03:16 IST

Eyeing the invisible: Yale astrophysicist on black holes, dark matter & universe

Priyamvada Natarajan is a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University. (HT picture)

Updated on Apr 25, 2026 24:54 IST

All eyes to the sky: Pvt startup pushes limits in space tech race

The final payload on GalaxEye’s Mission Drishti is one of the lightest multi-sensor satellites in the world. GALAXEYE

Updated on Apr 13, 2026 02:17 IST

‘Firms need to move to adaptive, energy-efficient AI models’

Sara Hooker. (World Economic Forum)

Updated on Mar 17, 2026 01:28 IST

Iran-US conflict: How $20,000 drones are changing war

File photo of an Iranian Shahed drone. (Photo for representation)

Updated on Mar 13, 2026 06:43 IST

DMs, a quick buck: How Gen Z is falling prey to cyber scams

Updated on Feb 22, 2026 01:20 IST

Do tourists going to space need insurance?

According to the Satellite Industry Association, a US-based non-profit trade organization, there were 259 launches to space in 2024, including 224 commercial ones. (HT File Photo/ Representative Photo)

Updated on Feb 12, 2026 10:47 IST

Can data centres produce drinking water?

If we extract water from air, it is replenished within 8-9 days. It’s a massive potential for a planet which is fast coming under water stress thanks to the climate crisis. (Bloomberg)

Updated on Jan 9, 2026 23:32 IST

Hallucination in machines: Why AI makes things up

It was to fix ChatGPT’s reliability amongst other things, that a slightly panicked Sam Altman declared a Code Red in a memo to his employees, in December. (AP)

Updated on Dec 18, 2025 23:24 IST

Wardrobe takeover: The rise of leatherjackets among mavericks of deep tech

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp. (Bloomberg)

Updated on Dec 6, 2025 02:28 IST

Quantum computing: Qubits are the new space race

The IBM Quantum System Two quantum computer. (AFP)

Updated on Dec 4, 2025 24:07 IST

The internet and its fallible middlemen

Cloudflare is an infrastructure-as-a-service company, one of the handful that has a large, distributed secure network (the backbone of the internet) to connect users like us to each other’s devices, and computers. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 2, 2025 22:26 IST

Changing stripes: How genomics can reshape wildlife conservation

Wildlife across the world have become fragmented, leading to inbreeding and reduced genetic diversity among local populations – which remains an ongoing concern. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Nov 13, 2025 24:31 IST

As deep-tech demand burgeons, can scientists make lab-to-market pivot?

The Union cabinet approved <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>1 lakh crore to catalyse research and innovation across deep tech, from robotics to space. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Nov 9, 2025 22:26 IST

Mirror, mirror in our cells

Mirror life is a kind of a synthetic cell in which scientists flip an organism’s DNA using advanced experiments. (SHUTTERSTOCK)

Updated on Oct 7, 2025 23:56 IST

Seeing Silicon: We’ve to learn to swipe slop and work with clankers

Millions of office workers are being cajoled, instructed, taught, and ordered to adapt to AI systems in their companies. (Representative photo)

Updated on Sep 25, 2025 11:09 IST

Collisions, colonisation, and a fight to control space junk

In just five years, from 2020, there have been 11,951 launches to space, most of them to LEO – the space in the 500-1000 kilometre altitude above Earth. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Sep 15, 2025 23:13 IST

Seeing Silicon: Are we humans swapping roles with robots?

Multiple humans have become attached to Replika’s generative AI, who have unique personalities, quickly learn and adapt to human needs. (Reuters)

Updated on Sep 1, 2025 07:27 IST

Seeing Silicon: A bot to tackle blood clots

The hollow tube, barely visible unless you bend closer and have a look, rotates rapidly using a series of finds and slits. (Andrew Brodhead | Stanford University)

Updated on Aug 19, 2025 04:52 IST

The new programming language: English

The new programming language: English

Updated on Jul 31, 2025 24:46 IST

Seeing Silicon: A moonshot for solo unicorns

The term ‘vibe coding’ was coined earlier this year in February by OpenAI’s co-founder Andrej Karpathy in a tweet.. (Pixabay/ Representative photo)

Updated on Jul 20, 2025 04:59 IST

1 engineer, many jobs and a hiring reckoning for tech

Representational Image

Updated on Jul 4, 2025 01:14 IST

Seeing Silicon | Is this year the beginning of the end of smartphones?

The first smartphone came into being in the early 1993, when IBM’s Simon added email and fax to a phone’s capability. (Representative photo)

Updated on Jun 22, 2025 06:39 IST

Seeing Silicon: Can a self-driving car become a weapon?

For representational purposes only. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Updated on Jun 9, 2025 11:05 IST

Seeing Silicon: ‘Robots are fragile, we’ve to take care of them’

The Stanford Robotics Center opened earlier this year as a space for interdisciplinary projects of all departments of the university. (engineering.stanford.edu)

Updated on May 25, 2025 07:32 IST

Seeing Silicon | Fraud it, till you make it: Silicon Valley’s attraction to cons

This hunger or desperation to invest in the next big thing, with the ability to take a risk on an emerging technology, leaves these investors vulnerable to being exploited. (REUTERS)

Updated on May 11, 2025 08:40 IST

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