Ananya Bhattacharya

On Jan. 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed Charlie Hebdo’s office in the center of Paris, massacring 12 and wounding five. The French satirical magazine had been printing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, an act that is deemed blasphemous in Islamic culture. After the attack, the world rallied together to show solidarity for the magazine’s actions: “Je suis Charlie,” we said in unison.

Making our stuff smarter is still a work in progress: Smart toys can spy on kids’ conversations, the Internet of Things is susceptible to botnet attacks, and hacking a pacemaker is scarily possible. Smart devices can also make for pretty dumb inventions. Do you really need to check email on your ring finger, or get berated by your forgotten umbrella? Instead of a bottle-opener that texts your friends whenever you open a beer, how about just getting a beer… together?

After securing enough buyers and sellers, Amazon’s next target market in India is resellers.

More and more graduates of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are bidding the American dream goodbye.

Hyderabad resident Syed Shahed Hussain had a rough start to the new year. After receiving a tip-off, the police arrested Hussain while he was selling marijuana on Jan. 01. While in policy custody, the 33-year-old revealed the source of his weed supply: potted plants lined up on the floor of his bedrooms.

This New Year’s Eve, India’s Silicon Valley reared its ugly head. As thousands of revelers gathered in Bengaluru’s city center—MG Road and Brigade Road— to ring in 2017, hooligans infiltrated the celebratory crowd, and for many women, the joyful parade turned into a nightmare.

Tennis superstar Serena Williams, one of the greatest athletes of our time, is getting married.

The fighting machines from James Cameron’s Avatar are stepping out from the reel and into real life.

The year 2016 started off on a promising note for Apple in India.

Amazon’s aerial dreams aren’t limited to drone deliveries.

With Amazon’s drones taking to the skies to deliver packages, the company will have to be ready to tackle all sorts of hijack scenarios: hackers, jammers, and human attackers.

The internet has become indispensable in rural England.

Many of the actors of South Asian origin now on US television have made a point of avoiding the ethnic stereotypes that prevailed for years—the convenience store owners like Apu from The Simpsons, the kooky cab drivers, the mystics full of ancient wisdom.

Mobile-savvy shoppers are the backbone of India’s online shopping industry.

Actress Carrie Fisher did far more than star in the original Star Wars trilogy. She played a number of memorable roles in movies such as When Harry Met Sally and Hannah and Her Sisters. More recently, Fisher appeared on television shows like Sex and the City, 30 Rock, and the animated series Family Guy.

The company known as the world’s most attractive employer is being accused of violating employees’ free speech rights by restricting their ability to speak about anything that happens at work, and encouraging them to spy on each other.

The Indian government reportedly built nearly 11 million toilets across the country between 2015 and 2016. But what good are they if no one knows where to find them?

Snapdeal, one of the biggest e-commerce companies in India, is now delivering a new product: cash.

Gone are the olden days when we were forced to trudge through the snow to rent holiday movies from our neighborhood Blockbuster stores, like serfs in a Christmas carol.

Tevin Eugene Crosby, Juan Guerrero, and Javier Jorge-Reyes were among the 50 people killed during the Orlando nightclub massacre on June 12, 2016. Now, their families are suing some of the world’s biggest tech firms for their supposed hand in the crime.

Twitter just can’t keep its executives from flying the coop.

Aspiring engineers at India’s top university are tired of fee hikes.

Uber is partnering with India’s biggest homegrown smartphone maker in a bid to woo millions of Indians into using its ride-hailing service.

Most of us give up on a stolen phone when police can’t find the thief—but not one Dutch filmmaker.