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Reliance Industries' retail arm RRVL to acquire Future Group businesses for Rs 24,713 cr
Fp Staff • 5 years agoThe Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd (RRVL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd will acquire the retail, wholesale, logistics and warehousing businesses of the Future Group on a slump sale basis
WHO chief says there is no return to normalcy in the future, too many countries are heading in the wrong direction with Coronavirus
• 5 years agoThe WHO said that government and individual responses should depend on local virus conditions - namely, whether there is community spread or no.
Global warming has undone 6,500 years of worldwide cooling in the last 150 years
Trendingdesk • 5 years agoAccelerating greenhouse gases have contributed to global average temperatures that are now moving past one degree Celsius above the mid-19th century.
As world weighs lives against economy in face of coronavirus crisis, possible scenarios for the future that awaits us
Samrat • 5 years agoThis present condition of “pause” in the rush of the world will probably not last. Our world has been organised around the realities of a globalised economy. The cost of allowing it all to fall to ruin will sooner or later outweigh the risk of further spread of the coronavirus disease.
Watch: Drake releases two surprise tracks 'When to Say When' and 'Chicago Freestyle'
Fp Staff • 5 years agoDrake's last studio album was Scorpion, which was nominated at the Grammys for Album of the year.
The future is sci-fi: On Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, AI and artificial empathy
Prahlad Srihari • 5 years agoIf androids become virtually indistinguishable from their organic counterparts, how do we tell them apart? In Do Androids Dream of Electric, Philip K Dick proposed an alternate criterion: empathy.
The future is sci-fi: How Ghost in the Shell, Deus Ex — Human Revolution foreshadowed humanity 2.0
Prahlad Srihari • 5 years agoWe're not far from the transhumanist futures of Ghost in the Shell, Deus Ex: Human Revolution or Robocop | From our #SciFiSeers series, where we look at the 2020s, as predicted by the pop culture of the past
The future is sci-fi: Children of Men's depiction of marginalised refugees is cautionary tale for our times
Prahlad Srihari • 5 years agoRooted in contemporary political and social horrors, Children of Men, Alfonso Cuaron's 2006 adaptation of the PD James novel has proved to be frighteningly prescient | From our #SciFiSeers series, where we look at the 2020s, as predicted by the pop culture of the past
The future is sci-fi: Metropolis' critique of capitalism endures, even if its solution to class conflict does not
Prahlad Srihari • 5 years agoMetropolis, 1927, has been regarded as a pioneering work of science fiction not only for its use of special effects or depiction of artificial intelligence (AI) but also for the political allegory at its core | From our #SciFiSeers series, where we look at the 2020s, as predicted by the pop culture of the past
The future is sci-fi: Her and human-AI relationships — is dating Siri or Alexa necessarily a bad thing?
Prahlad Srihari • 5 years agoWhat if humans and AI could coexist harmoniously? Perhaps, our relationship with AI will be nothing but a natural extension of the platonic friendship we now share with Siri or Alexa. Only, it may not necessarily be platonic in the future.