The latest technology stories from the Impact desk.
As artificial intelligence reshapes workplaces globally, conversations are increasingly moving beyond automation fears and toward a larger challenge involving workforce preparedness and rapid upskilling.
When India hosted the world's first global AI summit in the Global South, skeptics wondered if it would amount to anything. What followed — $200 billion in investment commitments, the presence of global AI's most powerful figures, and a reframing of India's role in the world's technological future — answered that question definitively.
Titan Company started as a modest Tata venture into wristwatches. In 2026 it is the Tata Group's second most valuable company after TCS, worth nearly ₹3.6 lakh crore — and one of corporate India's most instructive long-term reinvention stories.
IIM Bangalore and Square Yards have partnered to build a data-driven residential property price index for India using 150 million+ data points.
Pankaj Pawar took over as Jio Platforms CEO in March 2026, steering the digital services giant through its landmark IPO preparations.
India's $315 billion IT sector is heading into earnings season under extraordinary pressure. The April-to-June quarter is traditionally the strongest of the year — more billing days, new project starts, strong deal momentum.
Four engineers at Asian Paints kept setting up warehouses for their employer and noticing the same gap: no Indian company was building the automation technology that global warehouses needed. In 2016, they quit and built one.
Most people who trip on a broken footpath in Bengaluru post about it on X and move on. Surya Uthkarsha built a platform to fix it. He is 14. He used 30 minutes and a no-code tool. The web version is live. The city noticed.
Conventional satellites see colour. Pixxel's Fireflies see chemistry. A regular satellite tells you a field is green. A Pixxel satellite tells you which parts of that field are stressed, which crops have a fungal infection, and which area is about to fail the harvest. That difference — between seeing a surface and reading what is underneath it — is what hyperspectral imaging does. And it is why Rio Tinto, the NRO, and AstraZeneca are all customers of a company founded by two undergraduates five years ago.