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Sony Hack 2014: An Email to Remember

Spiderman, The Karate Kid, Stuart Little, Charlie’s Angels, Ghostbusters, and Hotel Transylvania are some of the iconic franchises brought to life by Sony Pictures entertainment. Sony has produced many other movies still shining in its hall of fame but one day their world went upside down when everything and anything present in the database of […]

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The Dark Side of Google

Everything has a positive and a negative pole. Google, the technology giant, and the most popular internet search engine is no exception to this theory. Using the priority rank system, Google search returns information from millions of web pages in response to a user query. Google also provides an image-based search service, as well as […]

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Are Self-Driving Cars Safe?

Have you ever fantasized about chilling in a car while the car drives itself? Or maybe you don’t know how to drive, so you daydream about self-driving cars?  First of all, let’s look at what exactly a self-driving car is. A self-driving car is a vehicle that can sense its environment and operate on its […]

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The Google Journey: From a noun to a verb

One often comes across questions beginning with ‘What? Why? How? When? Where?’ – In today’s time, these queries have an unwavering answer- Google it. The whole world is familiar with Google and its powers- the powers of generating not only an answer but a story behind a question and the powers of presenting a broad […]

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Extraterrestrial Life

The universe is a vast expanse of which Earth is a speck. A mere speck. And to assume that this speck alone contains all of the universe’s life is absurd. Certainly, life must exist somewhere outside of Earth. This life can be in any form, from humanoid figures with bulbous heads to microbes floating in […]

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The Chronicles of Cybercrime

Cybercrime is a criminal activity that either targets or uses a computer, a computer-based network, or a device. This crime is committed by cybercriminals or hackers who want to make money. Cybercrime is carried out by individuals or organizations. Some cybercriminals are organized, they use advanced techniques and highly technically skilled whereas the others are […]

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The Turing Machine

It was on 3rd September 1939, that the United Kingdom and France declared war on Hitler-led Germany after it invaded Poland. It was also in 1939 that a group of mathematicians, cryptologists, and codebreakers had assembled in Bletchley Park, United Kingdom with the sole intent of breaking the much notorious Enigma. Enigma was an encryption […]

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Artificial Intelligence Today

-Aman Marwah “Computers will overtake humans with AI within the next 100 years. When that happens, we need to make sure the computers have goals aligned with ours.” -Stephen Hawking Artificial Intelligence is as of now at the beta stage of development, it has controlled most of the humankind as of now through things such […]

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Artificial Intelligence: A Boon or a Bane.

  –Abhishek Dhawan When I sit to hear stories from my parents and grandparents it makes me realize how generation after generation, we, as a race, have advanced in terms of so many things especially in the field of computer science & technology. It was not so long ago that having a telephone landline at […]