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A new advance in AI technology, leading to the development of OpenAI-created ChatGPT, is threatening to become the nemesis of data entry jobs, entry-level copywriting, customer care and support centres, and even entry-level software developers. ChatGPT promises to be a great tool for marketeers as it can produce highly effective pitches on its own, just as HR professionals can entrust it with a lot of their tasks. The new technology was made open to public only this year.

When M M Keeravani won the Golden Globe award for the best original song for S Rajamouli’s film RRR on January 11, he was fulfilling his destiny. As a 4-year—old in Kovvur, Andhra Pradesh, he had walked up to his father; Koduri Siva Shakti Dutta, and narrated a dream: “A divine being asked to open my mouth and stretch my tongue out. I did, and it placed a burning coal on my tongue.” Then, abruptly, the young Keeravani declared “I want to learn music.”

Julia Reichert, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker behind American Factory whose films explored themes of race, class, and gender, often in the Midwest, has died. She was 76.She died on December. 1 in Ohio from cancer, her family said through a representative. She was diagnosed with stage four urothelial cancer in April 2018.

Up until October, Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, 47, was quite content living in the quiet life. Cocooned in his room at his Colombo home, surrounded by books and his stories, he’d at most of his day talking to no one apart from himself and his characters. He’s an involved husband and parent to kids and a freelance advertising professional, fitting writing into his life. It kept him only as busy as he likes. “it’s a good life, the usual life of a writer”, he says.

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee has done it again. His third book' The Song of the Cell' published this year has once again mesmerized the doctors, scientists and the common readers much more than the impact he had with his first two books 'The Emperors of all Maladies' and 'The Gene'. Mukherjee has come out in this trilogy once more as a great story teller who can combine the history of the medical investigations with personal anecdotes and thereby imparting a bigger dimension to his exploration of the root causes of the diseases. The New Yorker has rightly said in its review that 'it is hard to think of many authors who have rendered any areas of modern science and technology with such intelligence, accessibility and compassion'.

Mike Davis, the acclaimed Marxist activist, journalist, and historian, died at his home in San Diego on Oct. 25, after a years-long fight against esophageal cancer, with his wife Alessandra Moctezuma, the Chicana artist, curator and scholar, by his side.

October 31 was the day of ‘March on Rome’, when Mussolini proceeded towards the capital of Italy hundred years back, with his black shirt clad young boys with arms. Even before that on October 28, 1922, the king in Italy was forced to accept Mussolini as his prime minister. But that was not all. Mussolini, with the sole aim of destruction of democracy, organised a brutal massacre in 1925.

India's first Nobel Prize winner in Economics Prof: Amartya Sen has stepped into 89 on November 3 this year. It has been a long innings for him as a proactive global intellectual who has made deep impact on the thoughts of the thinking world wide apart from India covering the areas of economics, polity, philosophy and also history.

Beneto Mussolini took over effective power in Italy in October 1922Just over a month after the Italian fascists’ March on Rome in October 1922, the parliamentary votes of the National Fascist Party, the Liberal Party, and the People’s Party (or the popolari, a Catholic party and predecessor of Christian Democracy) introduced the so-called “period of full powers.” In so doing, they granted unprecedented authority to Mussolini’s minister of finance, economist Alberto de Stefani, and his colleagues and technical advisers, in particular Maffeo Pantaleoni and Umberto Ricci (unlike the former two, a man of liberal ideology).

Future of work has been increasingly dependent on algorithm management for quite some time, the process of which has been accelerated after the COVID-19 crisis changing the world of work. It is posing new challenges to the labour market in general, and workforce in particular. It is potentially disruptive, and to confront its negative effects, rebalancing the equilibrium between employers and workers is required.