• COMPUTERS
    How Good a Deal Did You Get on Your Smartphone? ZTE Still Has You Beat

    It doesn’t matter how great a deal you got on your last business smartphone, there’s one company that almost certainly has it beat. How much would you pay for a phone with the following specs? 6-inch display with a 1,920×1,080-pixel resolution Octa-core Snapdragon 617 processor 13-megapixel rear camera 5-megapixel front camera 2GB of RAM 32GB […]

  • NEWS
    Intuition Helps Humans Beat Computers in Thorny Physics Game

    Computers may have us beat at chess and checkers, but new research suggests our brains still have an edge when it comes to solving certain tricky problems thanks to a very human trait: intuition. Scientists in Denmark have found that people who played a game that simulated a complex calculation in physics sometimes did better […]

  • COMPUTERS
    Intuition Helps Humans Beat Computers in Thorny Physics Game

    Computers may have us beat at chess and checkers, but new research suggests our brains still have an edge when it comes to solving certain tricky problems thanks to a very human trait: intuition. Scientists in Denmark have found that people who played a game that simulated a complex calculation in physics sometimes did better […]

  • NEWS
    Uber will beat Ola within the next 30 days: Eric Alexander

    Uber has grown at almost 40% month-over-month in India, says Alexander. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint Eric Alexander, president of business in Asia for Uber Inc. talks about surpassing rival Ola in terms of market share in India, learnings from different global markets and about Uber’s strategy to partner with local companies to perform better locally. Edited […]

  • ALL DEALS
    Uber turns to Bengaluru’s tech talent to beat Ola

    San Francisco-based ride hailing company Uber was forced to develop a mechanism for accepting cash payments from customers in India, given the extremely low penetration of credit cards in the country. Seen as an inconvenience at first, the company has exported the solution to other emerging markets such as Vietnam and Indonesia. To mine the […]