The energy was palpable at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi as winners of the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2025 program gathered with senior technology journalist and consulting editor, Leslie D’Monte, in an exclusive podcast to share how a spark of curiosity evolved into tangible technologies that solve real-world problems. Senior technology journalist Leslie…
Cognitive Warmup. Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai was at Stanford University to deliver the 2026 commencement speech. If I look beyond the excitement of the speech and the official blog post accompanying the entire speech, Pichai faced a massive student walkout and was heavily criticized during Stanford University’s 135th convocation ceremony at Stanford Stadium…
Opening thoughts. A 6G milestone has been achieved in Japan, with researchers at Tokushima University finding a way to transmit data at speeds of 112 gigabits per second, or Gbps. This breakthrough is built on a newly developed terahertz wireless communications system powered by micro-combs – special photonic devices mounted on microchips that generate optical…
Cognitive Warmup. A Pizza Hut franchisee, which operates more than 110 Pizza Hut outlets in North America, is suing the restaurant giant for using AI that has slowed down the once high-performing outlet, resulting in delays that have impacted sales, seen customer satisfaction decline and generally created chaos for restaurant operations. Chalk’s Pizza Northeast, which…
