Tech Talk with Amit & Rinat

We are currently living in an era where our identity, our data and our money are all organized by centralized organizations. But what if these could be managed by decentralized organizations over the internet. Imagine no one entity owns your identity, your data or your money. Welcome to Web 3.0. A web powered by blockchain, AI and DApps. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about Web 3.0, what...

The living organisms on planet Earth have been there for more than a billion years. And the most intelligent and complex of all those living organisms are humans. We have evolved to a stage where we are rapidly modifying our surrounding world with technology. And now we have the power to modify the biology of living organisms through technology. This is what Biotech is all about. In this week's ta...

Finance is a word we have all heard of. Be it banking, loans, investments, insurance or payments, finance encompasses many areas of our lives. And for decades it was governed by highly old systems that never kept pace with increasing technology. All that changed with Fintech (Financial Technology). It has literally transformed the way we interact with different financial systems/products. Its made...

Data is the new king of the internet and every company is competing for your data. But what they do with your data is the most interesting thing. They create track your activities, create a profile of you and then target you with personalized ads. All this happens in the background without any knowledge to you. And to interpret that data in various ways, there is something called Analytics. In thi...

Software development used to follow the waterfall model for a long time before a group of people came together to create something better. This meeting happened in 2001 and it changed the world of software development forever. Agile has been the most popular method of software development for over two decades and it is showing no signs of slowing down but simply evolving to cater to even bigger ch...

When we buy a piece of art in the real world, its easy to verify its authenticity and prove ownership. But how do you verify digital ownership of a digital art, as one can easily create multiple copies of the same art? NFTs were created to solve this very problem of proving ownership. And its been possible now thanks to the blockchain. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about NFTs, what it i...

We know about the universe. We also think we know about the multiverse. But what is this metaverse? Why did the company Facebook change its name? Well we are living most of our lives these days on our smartphones or in the digital realm. What if we could live there just like we see in the movies Tron and Ready Player One? Metaverse is coming here to stay and we better understand what it is now bef...

Cleaning our houses take up a lot of our time normally. But its a necessary chore. With the advent of a washing machine and dishwasher, it was only time till we got our first robot vacuum and these days you can buy a smart one, with full capabilities from auto schedule, auto empty, etc. Imagine so many hours freed from your day. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about smart vacuums, its var...

We are so used to the concept of cash and the anonymity it offers during every transaction that its impossible to think of something that can replace it one day. As more and more of our transactions are shifting online, its imperative that sooner or later we will come with a digital form of cash. Crypto currencies and other products offer some form of digital cash but there is something else on wh...

What if you can get your internet wirelessly just like Cable TV? What if all you need for high speed internet is an access to a clear sky? What if you can post on social media from the remotest locations of Earth? This is what Elon Musk's company SpaceX is trying to do with Starlink. It's launching 1000s of satellites to provide high speed internet, with no data caps, anywhere in the world. In thi...

The future of software is in the cloud. So what if we had the operating system (OS) on our laptops also hosted in the cloud? The most popular Google Chrome web browser led to the creation of Chrome OS. A cloud OS used to access all Google apps plus any other apps using their Play Store. Its a laptop but with a cloud OS installed. And chromebooks run Chrome OS. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat t...

Collaboration and communication. That's what we think when people work together. But what happens when people have to work remotely without being together in the same office space. How do you collaborate and communicate with your peers? Do you use email, chat, voice call, video call, etc.? What can we achieve using these tools? Are there any more features that the companies in this space are think...

We regularly consume information by reading text, by watching a video or by listening to an audio. But the consumption of content through podcasts (or audio) has increased a lot during the pandemic. People regularly listen to them while driving a car, while running or walking and while doing chores at home. But have you ever wondered what is a podcast? Why are people so crazy about podcasts? And h...

There will come a day soon when robots will do most of the mundane tasks on behalf of humans and we will be free of all drudgery. But have you ever wondered how these fascinating machines work? What can they actually do today? Are the robots we see in movies even possible in real life? In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about Robotics, the branch of technology that deals with the design, con...

In current times we are so accustomed to using the internet that we take it for granted. No matter what information you want to find, the internet has your answers. But does the internet work for everyone in the world? Does it work for people with disabilities, mental or physical or cognitive? How do we make the internet user friendly for all types of users? In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat tal...

When Netflix released the Queen's Gambit, it shone a bright light on the chess community and there was a sudden surge of chess players online and also a demand for chess boards on various online shops. In the world of the internet, chess.com has always been on top when it comes to playing chess online. But there is an open source chess server that has a clean interface, doesn't require you to regi...

Software is everywhere. And good quality software has become very important and sometimes even critical as well. But with rapid progress in development cycle, testers don't often get enough time to test software. What if there is a better way to test software without compromising quality, which is more focused and which can be completed rapidly. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk with M...

Do you know which device is the most popular after the PC and the Macintosh? Do you know which device has sold more than 40 million pieces worldwide and costs $35? Do you know which platform runs a 64-bit ARM processor and still consumes less than 15W of power? Do you know which device can control almost anything from a drone to a robot to a doorbell? In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk with...

We regularly share a lot of information these days with various websites over the internet. Be it our email address or phone number. And we trust that the private information we share willingly stays with these websites. But sometimes, for various reasons, this data gets leaked to the public domain. It means anyone now has access to our data which we shared online with a trusted source. Now, how d...

Search has become a very crucial part of the Internet when you have more than a billion sites. And Google has dominated this area really well. But search has been important ever since we started creating and storing information. There has always been a need to quickly search for something. But do you know how these search engines work? How do these websites quickly return information that you...

We all work with computers these days. Be it for working or for gaming. Be it for editing videos or for storing pictures. There is a use case for desktop computers, even today, even when using a smartphone/tablet/laptop has become the defacto way. But how do you build one? Or do you buy a PC? Or do you buy a macPro?  In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about how to build a PC, the differ...

As long as we have known the skies, humans have had the urge to fly. We looked at birds and wanted to fly like them. Thus, was born the aircrafts. But these were all operated by pilots sitting inside the aircraft. What if we could fly an aircraft without the pilot anywhere in the world. Enter UAVs. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about what are UAVs, the different components of a UAV, its...

Electricity has transformed almost all aspects of our lives. It powers everything from smartphones to cars and from trains to factories. But there is one emerging category that will radically re-define the way we move and transport people and goods. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about what are electric vehicles, what are the various benefits of using one, the different types of electric...

There used to be a time when we used to either watch TV or listen to radio or read newspapers & magazines to find out about new products and services. But with the advent of the internet, marketing has taken a whole new meaning. In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat talk about what is digital marketing, why is it so important, the different D's of digital marketing, and a lot more!

Gone are the days when we needed to go to a brick and mortar shop to buy a product/service. With the advent of the internet everything can now be done online. We can buy/sell any product/service over the internet. But how is it possible? What are the channels for sales and discovery? What payment methods are allowed? Why is it important to have an online store? In this week's talk, Amit and Rinat...