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Research and analysis on the technology industry, written for people who want the numbers rather than the noise. Software, data, infrastructure, and the careers built on top of them.

AI frontiers
SYS // AI-CORE .......... ONLINE FICTION DB 1927-2013 .... LOADED IMPOSSIBLE FLAGS ....... CLEARED [ 10/10 REALIZED ] TARGET: SCI-FI STATUS: OPERATIONAL

Ten “impossible” sci-fi technologies AI just made real

Universal translators, mind-reading, the holodeck, robot scientists: every one now shipped or peer-reviewed. With charts, data and 21 sources.

14 min read · 11 Aug 2026
Compliance careers
500 8 NOV 2016 86% CASH VOID 50 DAYS 4.7L STRs FILED

Demonetisation, through the eyes of an AML-KYC analyst

Structuring, money mules, shell firms and backdated gold: the 50 days that put every laundering trick in the textbook on display, and the compliance career they created.

12 min read · 11 Aug 2026
Tech careers
THE RESET 12,000 CUT THE PIVOT 80,000 HIRED

TCS cut 12,000 jobs. Indian IT still plans 80,000 fresh hires.

Inside the great Indian IT reset: who is being cut, who is being hired, what the premium skills pay, and how to be on the right side of the pyramid.

9 min read · 31 Jul 2026
Tech trends
10 TRENDS GARTNER 2026 TRANSLATED ROLES IN INDIA

Gartner's 2026 tech trends, translated into Indian IT careers

The ten technologies enterprise budgets will chase in 2026, decoded into the roles, skills and training paths that turn each trend into a paycheck in India.

10 min read · 31 Jul 2026
IT operations
78 MIN TO ROLL BACK DETECT WAR ROOM RESTORE

The day 8.5 million screens went blue, and the people who fixed it

Inside the CrowdStrike blue screen day and three more historic outages, and the incident management career that commands the war room when systems fall over.

13 min read · 28 Jul 2026
AI careers
+78M BY 2030 (WEF) ROBOTICS DATA CENTERS IN ORBIT NET NEW JOBS

AI vs jobs: why the future has more work, not less

Net 78 million new jobs by 2030, a 56 percent pay premium for AI skills, and robots, orbital data centers and whole new fields hiring right now. The optimist's case, with receipts.

12 min read · 28 Jul 2026
Data & analytics
381% THREE-YEAR ROI DOCUMENTED SAVINGS FORRESTER, 2022

The companies that saved millions with Power BI

A 381 percent three-year ROI, reports cut from fourteen days to one, and twenty billion rows queried in under two seconds. Where the money came from, and what BI skills pay in India.

11 min read · 26 Jul 2026
AI careers
FDE AI MODEL FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER CUSTOMER SYSTEMS

Why the Forward Deployed Engineer role is exploding

Postings up 800 percent, 90 percent of AI projects stalling at deployment, and India's GCCs hiring fast. Inside the fastest-growing engineering job of 2026, and what it pays here.

10 min read · 25 Jul 2026

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