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Mala Bhargava

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Mala Bhargava has been writing on technology well before the advent of internet in Indians and before CDs made their way into computers. Mala writes on technology, social media, startups and fitness. A trained psychologist, she claims that her understanding of psychology helps her understand the human side of technology.

Latest Articles By Mala Bhargava

Future Now | One In Five Years

Key to the disappearance of mobile phones as we know them is the role of virtual assistants like Siri, Google and Cortana. Becoming able to understand and respond to emotions and natural language, the assistants will practically run our lives for us

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Go Make Your Own App

Startup Instappy has come up with a DIY solution for businesses to make their own apps easily and quickly

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Kult Wants To Be A Cult

Kult has launched “10 by Kult” a 5-inch Android smartphone with two immediately stop-in-your-tracks selling points. One, it has 3GB RAM on board, and two, it only costs Rs 7,999.

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More iPad Than Ever

While the original iPad was actually more of a consumption device, the iPad Pro has moved into work territory because it’s no longer as portable as, say the Mini, nor as lean-back as either of the other two sizes. Instead, it looks like you should set it down and do something on it

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Future Now | Better Not Lie

Serves her right. That's what most people would think right after they get over their amusement at how a hit-and-run driver was arrested because her car automatically called the police

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A Magic Solution

While the citizens of Delhi worry over how they will navigate the upcoming vehicles-on-road restrictions or ‘OddEvenFormula,’ a startup is offering a magic solution – clean, safe, hassle-free cabs

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Apps: Take Care

Smartphones have a whole lot of computing power — and if you care about solving the problems of cancer, you can use yours to help. That too, while you sleep. Vodafone’s Dream Lab app on Android connects to Australia to lend a helping hand to research on cancer.

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The Moto 360 Is Back

The Moto 360 2nd Gen is more like real watches because its screen is able to stay always on but dimmed. That way, you don’t have a wristwatch with an all-black blank face.

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The Appification Of Education

Technology and education were always supposed to be ideal bedfellows. Microsoft, and later Apple, showed the world how learning could become the stuff of magic when software or apps could be created to transform the way content is presented. Multimillion dollar productions were ported to disks bringing to life rich visual feasts of science, nature, geography, history and for those who remember, the Encyclopedia Encarta. Even books became interactive, popping out videos, going 360 degrees on images and panning across graphs and figures to zoom into details. But neither did these address the real-life education-related problems of many places, like India, and nor were they affordable to everyone.

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Technology Is A Double-Edged Sword

With Facebook and other networks now liberally mixing advertising with content, the ability to discern each and process accordingly could gradually erode

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