Google was designed in 1998 with the invention of a page-rank algorithm that was heavily dependent upon storage of links to websites and coming up with a complex optimization algorithm to present those links to user in an order that the user is likely to find most useful. Google decided…

The current Covid-19 quarantine situation has led me back to the world of gaming, which has fortunately saved me from eternal boredom. I recently got back to playing Gears of War on Xbox, and decided to write a review about it to share my admiration for the game. …

Automobile manufacturers across the world have begun to realize the threat of the biggest disruption in automobile sector — commoditization of cars, which means indifference to design, efficiency and other characteristic attributes of cars. Several recent trends have led to this. First is a drop in pleasure derived from driving…

Inefficiencies and lack of technological advancement in the finance sector has been a widely discussed topic in the technological community for a couple decades. This has led to spurring of FinTech, a tech ecosystem which is being nourished by both Finance and Technology industries, as Technology companies seek to diversify…

I recently read a story about how internet, when it arrived fully in the 1990s, was expected by many to decentralize workplace culture in a way that people would be able to work remotely from anywhere, anytime. What ended up happening was the opposite. Cities became a more entangled ecosystem…

In a communication class in business school, I was asked to prepare a 5-minute persuasive speech and a persuasive memo on a subject of my choice. I chose to speak and write about an issue that I care deeply about — the preservation of spatial entities and fairness in space. …

One of the biggest problems faced by internet-tech industry is how to balance personalization with privacy. I was thinking of a way which could potentially make this happen. For context, currently a very small portion of data (cache) resides on the client-side server on our desktops, tablets and phones. When…

Today, Waymo bagged license from California government to test autonomous vehicles in public. Waymo started in 2009, demonstrated early results through its first autonomous ride in 2015 and demonstrates sophisticated autonomous driving technology having completed 10 million miles of driving. Yet, it doesn’t get the attention it deserves from the…

I have been thinking about what’s the next big thing in technology since the time I was studying computer science engineering in college and trying to figure out which sub-sector should I specialize in — machine learning, web development, computer networks, mobile development or data analytics, and which language should…