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‘For people in Bengaluru, technology begins and ends with a smartphone app’ | Technology News

‘For people in Bengaluru, technology begins and ends with a smartphone app’ | Technology News

Nagaraja Prakasam is a bearded man with a book in his hand. He wears a colourful handloom shirt and an overcoat with his name embossed on it — Naga. It is a walking advertisement for one of the social enterprises he has invested in, GoCoop — a marketplace for handlooms and crafts from India. A serial entrepreneur, he calls himself Naga the Farmer.

Nagaraja is a hands-on investor, identifying startups which others ignore or which seem to be a long bet. For example, Uniphore, which later became a unicorn, was rejected by quite a few investors before Nagaraja picked it up. Today, it is one of the largest global AI-native companies.

Nagaraja is now an author as his book Back to Bharat: In Search of a Sustainable Future has hit the shelves. He speaks to indianexpress.com about his debut book, his journey, and his goal of empowering social enterprises.

Venkatesh

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Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era, IBM Says The New York Times

Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era, IBM Says The New York Times

New Computer Technology

The original design included two memory boards and could generate and store 512 characters as 16 lines of 32 characters. The TV Typewriter was used by many small television stations well in the 1990s. Xerox PARC physicist Gary Starkweather realizes in 1967 that exposing a copy machine’s light-sensitive drum to a paper original isn’t the only way to create an image. So in 1971, Starkweather transferred to Xerox Palo Alto Research Center , away from corporate oversight. Within a year, he had built the world’s first laser printer, launching a new era in computer printing, generating billions of dollars in revenue for Xerox.

  • Designed by British engineer Tommy Flowers, the Colossus is designed to break the complex Lorenz ciphers used by the Nazis during World War II. A total of ten Colossi were delivered, each using as many as 2,500 vacuum tubes.
  • The first practical stored-program computer to provide a
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