Chetan Gowda, 27, was speaking to a room full of students in IIIT Hyderabad for a workshop on OpenStreetMap for beginners organised by Swecha, a non-profit organisation to support free software ...

As Vaishali Thakker, a 23-year old open source programmer looked over the hall filled with around 200 people, she didn’t know how to react to what she had just heard. Thakker was one of the five women ...

Dhiraj Rajaram’s Battle for Mu Sigma – A gripping story of personal struggles, mental resilience, and a daring buyback of nearly a billion dollars. As I sat across from Dhiraj, I couldn’t help but ...

Books on the Doorstep. During the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools all over India were closed, the importance of libraries grew even more. Nita Luthria Row, executive director of the Adhyayan ...

There are different ways to make gadgets deliberately obsolete; through its quality, its functionality, and/or its appearance. One of the common methods used by the electronics industry ‘designing for ...

Priti Mahesh is currently the Chief Programme Coordinator at Toxics Link. She has been campaigning on the issues of waste and chemicals for more than a decade, with special focus on e-waste, plastic ...

Rohini Lakshané is a technologist, interdisciplinary researcher and Wikimedian. She is a Fellow at Factor Daily (2023-24). An engineer by training, Rohini has worked on several research and advocacy ...

Ever since I learnt that Aamir Khan achieved his ripped-to-shreds physique in Dangal with the help of nutrigenomics — the scientific study of the interaction between nutrition and genes — I’ve been ...

I first heard of “Morpheus Gang” in February 2014 when I wrote this story for TechCrunch about how and why it was shutting down. Sameer Guglani, one of Morpheus founders, wrote this emotional and ...

We live in a world where every byte of personal, behavioural data is tracked and mined in the name of understanding users better. There are hundreds of cookies that pounce on users the moment they ...

The SC hearings on right to privacy will continue today (August 2) and it is quite likely to be the final day of arguments in court. At one point, while following the tweets on Day 5 (August 1) of the ...

In an address that shocked the nation, Prime Minister Modi unveiled his boldest move yet in the government’s fight against unaccounted money (popularly and politically incorrectly known as ‘black ...