UPI Moment for Transportation is Here

The backbone of the platform lies in the Beckn Protocol, backed by Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, Infosys.
Why is Everyone Making Cars?

Apple, Xiaomi, Samsung, Huawei, Google, Sony, and LG have started innovations in the EV automotive industry.
Uber Files Should Scare Us Into Battling For Strong Data Protection Law

Recently, India decided to withdraw its controversial Data Protection Bill. Uber Files, which came out in the public domain last month, makes the perfect case in favour of a strong data protection law.
Behind Uber’s RADAR fraud detection system

The humans in the loop feature of RADAR allow the system to be humanised, traceable and accurate.
Council Post: Uberisation of Analytics

Collaboration is a golden rule for organisations to truly leverage the scope of their data and enhance their business. Organisations need to be flexible to be interactive with data. This entails the freedom to access insights, conduct exploratory analysis and collaborate. Collaborative analytics makes it easy to share analytical initiatives and insights that can lead […]
Facial Recognition Is Steadily Entering The Stage Of Large-Scale Deployments

Facial recognition technology is being leveraged way beyond unlocking our phones; it is aiming to identify every person on the planet, for good or bad.
The Tech Behind Uber’s Jellyfish Data Storage Infrastructure

The Jellyfish can control its overall savings and has a preferred impact on CPU utilisation.
Hands-On Guide To Orbit: Uber’s Python Framework For Bayesian Forecasting & Inference

Orbit is an open-source Python framework created by Uber for Bayesian time series forecasting and inference.
Booked: Should You Allow Cab Services To Use Your Data

“Ridesharing apps usually store information about where users are going, like frequent destinations, how long they stay there, and origins of trips.” All your favourite apps work the way they do because they rely heavily on personalisation. Algorithms devour the data that users provide and leverage the behavioural patterns of users to offer ‘5-star’ experience. […]
Uber Open-Sourced Piranha: A Tool To Automatically Delete Unused Codes

World’s most extensive transportation network company, Uber has been engaged in powerful developing techniques to provide a great user experience. Uber has been using feature flags to customise the mobile app execution, which serves various features to different sets of users. These feature flags help in localising the user’s experience in different operating regions as […]
Behind The Code: Why This Data Scientist Does Not Believe In Having A Favourite Algorithm

For our weekly developer column ‘Behind The Code’, we get in touch with some of the brilliant minds from the developer community in India and try to take a look at their journey — from the way they work to the tools they use. This week, we got a chance to interact with Saurabh Choudhary, […]
How Loss Change Allocation For Machine Learning Training Can Aid Transparency

Whether it is the market crash or a wrong diagnosis, the after-effects will be certainly irreversible. Hence, tracking the development of machine learning algorithm throughout its life cycle becomes crucial. Neural network activations have an underlying compositional, combinatorial structure. Visualising the behaviour of neural networks has been of great interest lately for two reasons — […]