Author: Adarsh

Adarsh tells you all about Cristiano Ronaldo’s fitness tracking ring that helps him stay at the top of his game even at 38 years of age You would’ve heard of Cristiano Ronaldo even if you live under a rock. The Portuguese footballer has 819 career goals so far, more than anyone else in history. He has won 32 major trophies in his senior career along with 5 Ballon d’Or titles, awarded to the best player of the year. He’s also the only man to score in 5 FIFA World Cups. Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo joked after picking up another…

Adarsh looks at various developments in the technology industries that are in for some major innovations in the year 2023 As the name suggests, disruption in technology is any kind of technological innovation that is likely to affect the status quo. It is not always something new or path breaking but more of an exponential upgrade on existing tech that has the potential to disrupt a market or industry. Personal computers, online shopping and ride sharing apps are all excellent examples of disruptive tech. Here is a look at 7 tech industries that are likely to see major disruption in…

Adarsh takes you through eight of the most important technological advancements that marveled us in the year 2022 With humanity making ever greater strides in the developments of technology and engineering, it is no surprise that the year 2022 saw huge strides in that regard. We take a brief review of the most fascinating and game changing aspects of technological developments from this past year. 1. NASA’s James Webb Telescope This image is the edge of a star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. This image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth (Image…

Adarsh explores the computer program that has helped Lionel Messi become the best footballer in the world Rubén Saavedra used to study gene therapy and spinal cord regeneration using rats and mice. Bruno Dagnino meanwhile was researching neural activity in the visual cortex of monkeys and humans. But when the two Ph.D. candidates met at the Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience, it wasn’t their research on animals that was their biggest topic of discussion; it was football! Rubén Saavedra, Bruno Dagnino and Enzo Angilletta founded Metrica in 2014 (Image Credit: Sky Sports) Saavedra was from Barcelona, the city where Lionel Messi…

Tesla might be the biggest player in the Electric Vehicle industry but things may be about to change with the introduction of Lucid, states Adarsh There was a time when electric vehicles were considered cumbersome. The technology was still in its infancy, the battery was too big and bulky, the price was too high…. overall there were just too many drawbacks to an electric vehicle. That’s when Elon Musk came into the picture. He introduced us to Tesla, the ridiculously fast, modern and highly functional electric vehicle that could give any sedan a run for its money. And ever since,…

Cristiano Ronaldo thought he had equaled a national record for most goals at World Cups until technology ruled otherwise. Adarsh explains what transpired In the 54th minute of Portugal’s second group match at the ongoing FIFA World Cup against Uruguay, Bruno Fernandes whipped in a cross from the left flank. In the centre of the box, 37-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo jumped in and headed the ball into the net to score his second goal of the tournament. Or so he thought. https://twitter.com/JioCinema/status/1597350459609468928 He went running to celebrate the goal with his teammates and all the Portuguese players, Fernandes included, celebrated what…

Artificial Intelligence has already picked the winner of the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Adarsh takes you through how the winner was decided! Remember Paul the Octopus? The celebrity cephalopod became famous during the 2010 FIFA World Cup for its ability to correctly predict the winners for all the knockout matches, including the final. Well, Paul may have passed away, but we have a better, more accurate predictor on our hands! Paul the Octopus correctly picks Spain as the 2010 World Cup winner (Image Credit: Science Focus) With technology at the forefront of everything we do these days, artificial…

Adarsh explains how Semi-Automated Offside Technology will replace VAR at the upcoming FIFA World Cup for a more error free experience One of the biggest injustices in sport, especially football, is how an error on the referee or linesman’s part can cost a team a win, or even worse, a championship. Despite their best efforts, the referees are only human, and humans are prone to make the occasional mistake. Technology is supposed to negate human error. When the Video Assistant Referee or VAR technology was introduced, it was expected to at least minimize these errors. But if anything, it seemed…

Adarsh takes you on a walk down memory lane to a time when millennials used to burn CDs as a substitute for love letters The year was 2001. You had finally managed some alone time on the family desktop. Using your slow dial-up internet, you illegally downloaded your favourite songs from LimeWire or Pirate Bay. Once this was done, you picked the ones with the right lyrics and set them in the order you wanted them to play. And then, you inserted a blank compact disc (CD) into the CD Drive. On a CD-writing software like Nero, you added your…

Adarsh explores how Artificial Intelligence is playing a part in conserving and restoring historically famous works of art Major artworks have been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. Last month, Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpiece ‘Sunflowers’ was vandalized at London’s National Gallery when climate change activists threw tomato soup at the painting. A few days later, Claude Monet’s ‘Grainstacks’ – valued at $110 million – had mashed potatoes thrown on it by the protestors. While such deliberate attacks as a sign of protest is nothing new, there are other ways in which famous works of art are under…