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The number of mergers and acquisitions in ad tech has been steadily increasing as 2026 draws to a close, proving an apt context for this year’s Digital Marketing Summit, hosted by investment bank LUMA Partners earlier this week, where attendees debated what’s most likely to spur the interest of corporate development teams  

For decades, neuroscience in India largely remained within hospitals, universities and research laboratories. The brain was difficult to measure, harder to treat and even harder to translate into a scalable technology product. That equation is beginning to change. A new generation of Indian neurotechnology startups has started moving brain science out of the laboratory and…

According to Research Scientist Andrew McAfee and Professor Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT, the amount of data that crosses the Internet every second is greater than all the data stored in the Internet just 20 years ago. This amounts to exabytes of data being created on a daily basis.

A group of scientists have shown that brain organoids can pass on signals that correspond to Braille letters, an essential step towards developing the energy-efficient biohybrid computers of the future. The brain organoids, remotely connected to a sensor that recorded tactile signals from different Braille letters, produced signals that were different for each letter, allowing…

Whether we’d admit it or not, most of us by now have offloaded some cognitive effort onto AI. Chatbots and agents have become so commonplace that it’s often tricky to avoid them. The stakes of this use are usually pretty low; we may compromise some of our own critical thinking skills and creativity in the process,…