What Is a Front-End Developer?

Front-end web development, also known as client-side development is the practice of producing HTML, CSS and JavaScript for a website or Web Application so that a user can see and interact with them directly. The challenge associated with front end development is that the tools and techniques used to create the front end of a … Read more

The eccentric engineer: that light-bulb moment for an eminent man of electrical science

This edition tells the story of the illuminating life of Lewis Latimer, whose work in science was an achievement and his personal life ‘a work of art’. Many an engineer’s story is one of rags to riches – or vice versa. For Lewis Howard Latimer, the climb was even harder, but stoically undertaken. Latimer did … Read more

Microsoft takes legal action, disrupts massive botnet

Microsoft has executed a plan to take down a vast ransomware distributor after successfully arguing in court that its copyright has been violated.  The action is focused on a botnet called Trickbot, one of the world’s most prolific ransomware distributors. Trickbot began life in 2016 as a banking trojan. Since then, its operators (mainly Russian-speaking … Read more

How to engineer self-driving cars with risk and responsibility in mind

However careful manufacturers and drivers are, autonomous vehicles will inevitably be involved in accidents. A rigorous approach to the design of their system architectures can help establish clarity around questions of legal liability.  We all know that connected and autonomous cars are coming. The level of autonomy is increasing, even if we don’t know when … Read more

Shared mobility could be catalyst for electric vehicle future

Smart and clean mobility requires strategy planning, policy making and a calibrated approach, whereby manufacturing needs to be attuned to consumer demands.  When the transport industry completely shifts from ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) to electric and hybrid mobility, the impact it will make on India will go beyond traffic-related matters. Electric and hybrid mobility will … Read more

Electrification of EVs is a journey, not a switch

India has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint as per the Paris Agreement. A transition from fossil-fuel vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs) is a move in the right direction.  The electrification of EVs needs to be ramped up and power hybridised to become more efficient. Karnataka is preparing the ground as … Read more

Largest CO2 emissions drop in history due to Covid-19 pandemic

The first half of 2020 has seen the largest-ever drop in carbon emissions in a single year, with bigger falls than the financial crisis of 2008, the 1979 oil crisis and even World War II.  An international team of researchers estimated that the world saw 8.8 per cent less carbon dioxide emitted in 2020 than … Read more

Humans, not technology, are getting us through this pandemic

Technology’s failure to come up with a quick solution to Covid-19 reveals how organisations all over the world are nowhere near as digitally advanced as they thought they were.  Not a single person alive was prepared for what 2020 has brought. Yet, while we may not have been able to predict coronavirus, we live in … Read more