A recent study by US researchers has found that computer code written by women tends to be rated more highly than that written by men. However, women’s work is more highly-approved if their gender is not mentioned, the study suggested.
Startups Like Ola and Uber are moving beyond just arranging taxis. How can we call an Ola, an Uber, A Zipgo or A Bike Taxi “Cab hailing apps”. Open most media articles and till date Ola And Uber are referred to as “Taxi Hailing apps” or cab aggregators” or similar, but misfitting nomenclature. Let’s call them Commutech.
The future is well and truly here. EpiBone, a US-based startup, is grow human bones. Recovery in bone fractures is a slow and painful process, and bone grafts from another body run the risk of rejection or disease. EpiBone attempts growing personalised bones in the lab using the patient’s own cells.
It was an ordinary Facebook page, created hopefully like the many thousand others that are created each day on the world’s biggest social network. It didn’t exactly aim to change the world. Its aims were relatively modest – it aimed to provide news updates in 60 words or less.
Three years later, that Facebook page has metamorphosed into a Rs. 600 crore company.
We always knew that technology was bringing the world together, and now the good folks at Facebook have math to back that up. In a study that the company described as a “monumental task”, Facebook has concluded that the degrees of separation between humans is around 3.57, as opposed to the 6 that has been codified in the popular pharse.
Babajob has come up with an About Us ad that is, quite simply, unlike any startup video we’ve seen before .
Inspiring story of a failed up startup in India and the invaluable learnings from it, as shared by the co-founder, who left a job at Google to start up.
Someone has created a page for Sundar Pichai, the new CEO of Google, on Facebook, impostering to be him. While the real Sundar Pichai is busy changing the world, providing free wifi, or generally minding his 550billion valued company, the fake Sundar Pichai is dispensing world wisdom on this page with 66,000 fans. The page surprisingly includes hundreds of Googlers themselves..
21 year old Indian girl Payal Lal had an opportunity to intern at an Israeli startup Erated based in Tel Aviv. She recounts her experience at the startup and life in Tel Aviv and draws insights for Indian startups to learn from.