Episodes
In this week's TechTalk, Amit and Rinat delve into the profound impact of AI on jobs. We discuss how AI is reshaping industries, leading to automation, and job displacement, but also creating new opportunities and roles. They provide insights into how individuals can adapt to this rapidly evolving landscape, emphasizing the importance of upskilling, reskilling, and embracing AI as a tool for innovation and growth. Tune in to learn more about navigating the intersection of AI and employment in...
Published 03/13/24
Published 03/13/24
Using social media can offer various benefits such as connectivity with friends and families, sharing information, networking, marketing, community building, creativity and self-expression, educational resources, activism, and entertainment. But it also comes with several drawbacks such as addiction and time consumption, negative impact on mental health, cyberbullying and harassment, privacy concerns, misinformation and fake news, comparison and envy, sleep disturbance, physical health...
Published 03/05/24
Imagine you're running a restaurant. You have a team of chefs, waiters, and dishwashers, each with their own tasks to complete. To ensure that your restaurant runs smoothly, you need a way to coordinate everyone's work. This is where a workflow orchestration system comes in. It is like a maestro conducting an orchestra. It takes a series of steps, or tasks, and makes sure they are completed in the right order and at the right time. This can help to improve efficiency, reduce errors, and free...
Published 11/26/23
Building websites has always been considered a difficult thing, especially for people with no software development or coding experience. So one tends to hire either freelancers or an agency to build these. But technology has progressed to a point that you can now build web applications using no-code tools like Bubble. No-code tools help non-developers (i.e. business users who have vast domain knowledge but don’t know how to write code manually) create apps without using any code. In this...
Published 11/14/23
Trading of different types of goods has evolved from manual trading on the stock exchange floor to the high-speed, technology-driven ecosystem we see today. There are many things that we can trade with the click of a button. And it has revolutionised the world around us. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about digital trading, what is it, what platforms one can use and a lot more!!!
Published 11/09/23
In the ever-evolving world of AI, there is a fascinating realm of AI companions. It is reshaping our daily lives through virtual assistants, chatbots, and more. But what impact these AI companions have on our daily interactions and emotional well-being is something really interesting to think about. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about AI Companion, what they are, their diverse roles, ethical implications and a lot more!!!
Published 09/27/23
Digital immortality, the idea of preserving a person's consciousness or memories in a computer, is becoming a more realistic possibility thanks to advances in artificial intelligence. However, there are many ethical and technical challenges that need to be addressed before digital immortality can become a reality. These challenges include the cost of storing and maintaining digital copies of people's minds, the potential for abuse, and the question of whether or not a digital copy of a person...
Published 08/24/23
Which content management system powers over 43% of all websites on the internet? With its user-friendly interface and extensive ecosystem of plugins and themes, WordPress makes website creation, management, and customization accessible to users of all skill levels. From bloggers and small businesses to large enterprises, WordPress offers a platform to build unique online experiences, whether it's a simple blog, an e-commerce store, a portfolio site, or even a community forum. In this week's...
Published 08/23/23
A lot of people want to start their own company and become entrepreneurs. Some do some don't. Those that do face a lot of challenges and have to overcome them before becoming successful. One such story is that of Sportskeeda, a global sports content platform that covers the world's biggest sports and e-sports while serving over 80 million fans every month. Taking a simple sports blogging website and scaling it up to become such a giant media platform is a journey worth knowing. In this week's...
Published 07/26/23
We normally transfer money to someone using their bank account details. But with the advent of newer payment technologies, we can now transfer money to someone using their email account or mobile number. How cool is that!!! This is what Peer-to-peer payments are all about. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about P2P Payments, what is it, the pros and cons of it and a lot more!
Published 07/07/23
It seems AI has exploded into the world. With so many tools available now to generate anything from text, images, videos, voice, music, etc., it's quickly becoming the fastest-adopted technology in the world. What these tools do is generate something new based on a prompt provided by the user. And they do this generation after getting trained on vast amounts of training data using thousands of GPUs. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about Generative AI, is it really game-changing, the...
Published 06/21/23
Robots come in all shapes and sizes. They all perform different functions. But the robots that look like us are called humanoids and they are the most exciting robots currently. There are both advantages and disadvantages to having a bi-pedal robot. But still, there are applications where a robot looking like a human has far more acceptance from the general population than other types of robots. Such as assisting the elderly and disabled, working in dangerous environments, and providing...
Published 06/18/23
What happens when we switch on our computers, especially PCs? Have you ever thought of installing multiple operating systems on your computer? What happens if we want to install extra RAM on our laptop? How can we boot from a Pen Drive? For all this, we need something called a BIOS which is part of the motherboard. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about BIOS, what is it, why we need it, what is UEFI and a lot more!
Published 06/15/23
Online shopping has been popular ever since we have the internet. It's so easy to buy products without ever leaving the comforts of your home. But there is a new way people are now buying online. And that's through the various social media platforms instead of buying from traditional websites. Social commerce is the intersection of social media and e-commerce, where businesses leverage social platforms to engage with customers, drive sales, and enhance the shopping experience. In this week's...
Published 06/12/23
We all read about Japan being technologically advanced but how advanced it really is? We don't see many software companies from Japan but a lot of hardware focussed companies. We know about also the big automobile manufacturers. Japan has an amazing mix of smart toilets, a remarkable railway system, widespread digital kiosks for ordering food and many more. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about Tech in Japan, how you can see it, why is it the way it is, some examples and a lot more!
Published 05/18/23
We are generating so much data these days that it is very difficult to make sense of it all. That's why visualising the data is very important. It helps us understand what the data is telling us and make predictions. Data visualization is a powerful technique to do just that. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about Data Visualization, what it is, what are the different types, its applications and a lot more!
Published 04/22/23
Motorsports has long been a playground for experimenting with new technologies to push into the consumer cars segment. And Formula 1 has been the pinnacle of motorsport engineering. But with the future going towards the electrification of cars, there was a need for an electric car motorsport. Enter Formula E which has slowly become one of the most exciting sports event to watch on the planet. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about Formula E, what it is, why it is relevant, how it is...
Published 04/21/23
Testing mobile apps can be slow and complicated. There are multiple vendors each with their own flavour of mobile OS. And testing with human gestures and the way humans use mobile apps can sometimes be very difficult. There are also some tests that can't be replicated using traditional test tools, like ordering an Uber, etc. This is where Mobot comes in. It's a robot that tests mobile apps. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk with Eden Full Goh, founder & CEO at Mobot.
Published 03/19/23
With the emergence of generative AI, we can now ask AI to do anything for us. But the way we ask and the way we instruct it is fast becoming an essential skill. With so many different tools available in the market, using the correct prompt efficiently becomes very important since asking AI costs money. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about Prompt Engineering, what it is, why it is relevant, how people are using it and a lot more!
Published 03/12/23
With the recent energy crisis in Europe and many other nations, becoming energy independent has become very important. One of the most easiest ways to do that is to install solar panels in your house. Imagine sunlight meeting your electricity needs. It's crazy to think about this but even satellites use this form of energy to power themselves. But have you wondered how it works and how much it costs? In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about Solar Panels, how it works, where is it used,...
Published 01/29/23
We know that there is an unequal distribution of wealth in our society but did you know there exists a digital divide as well? Not all people in the world have equal access to digital services via the internet. This causes a loss of access to many of the services we take for granted. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about Digital Divide, what it means, why it exists, how can it be fixed and a lot more!
Published 01/22/23
The world of AI has been rapidly transforming and the latest tool to disrupt the world is ChatGPT from OpenAI in 2022. Imagine a tool that has also passed the Turing Test for chatbots. A tool that can give responses back like a human. A tool that can help answer all our questions in any language. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about ChatGPT, what are its use cases, its limitations and a lot more!
Published 01/15/23
When a human being is conceived inside a woman's womb, we first try to check for the baby's heartbeat. The heart is one of the most vital organs in our body and is also one of the first organs created. But hearts are also vulnerable to defects during birth and also later in our lives. In order to ensure a long life, there are various cardiac devices and procedures that have been created. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about Cardiac Devices with Abhijit Mondal, a biomedical engineer...
Published 01/08/23
Imagine a file-sharing protocol that has lasted more than 20 years. It can be used to download all kinds of files, is resistant to network failures and can auto-resume. It doesn't put a lot of load on a single server and is dependent on how many people are downloading the file simultaneously. The speed of the download increases as more people are trying to download the same file. This is BitTorrent a decentralized file-sharing protocol created in 2001. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk...
Published 01/01/23