In 2015, Amazon was interested in taking over a company, Elemental Technologies, an American company at the cutting edge of creating video compression software, which is used to convert content designed for TV to be streamed to small screens over mobile networks. While Amazon did take over the company, an audit stumbled upon some anomalies, which led to an in-depth investigation.

Publication: Business Standard

Industry body CII has announced formation of the Indian Digital Gaming Society, a not for profit organisation, comprising various stakeholders from the country’s gaming ecosystem. “IDGS will provide platform for the young start-ups and youths to unleash their creativity and contribute towards digital economy of the country. Digital Gaming sector will open up new avenues of skilling and help create more job opportunities in India,” the chamber said.

Publication: Express Computer

Artificial Intelligence will deliver revolutionary impact on how enterprises make decisions today. In the last few years alone, we have rapidly moved beyond heuristics-based decision-making to analytics-driven decision-support.

Publication: Forbes

In 1983, Stanislav Petrov was on duty at a Soviet nuclear early warning centre, when computers warned of five incoming missiles. Rather than escalating it up the chain of command as protocol required, Petrov surmised that the Americans were unlikely to attack with only five missiles. Courageously, he reported a system malfunction instead. It turned out that computers had incorrectly interpreted sunlight reflecting off clouds as missiles. Petrov’s instincts and healthy scepticism of the infallibility of technology may have averted a nuclear disaster.

Publication: Livemint

While jobs in every sector are changing drastically, the academia is yet to catch pace with the changing pattern. A recent study by the World Economic Forum estimates that about 50% of subject knowledge acquired in the initial years of any technical degree becomes outdated by the time the student graduates. Hence, preparing students for future jobs has become an achilles heel for academicians.

Publication: The Times of India

Paul Allen, who 43 years ago along with Bill Gates founded Microsoft, the company that revolutionised the software world and personal computers forever, has died, his family announced. He was 65. In a statement, Allen’s relatives said that the businessman died on Monday afternoon in Seattle, where Microsoft has its headquarters, from non-Hodgkins lymphoma, reports Efe news.

Publication: Financial Express

Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd has officially launched its Z390 AORUS Gaming motherboards, optimized for users to skyrocket the new 8-core Intel® Core™ i9-9900K processors to 5GHz+ across all cores via overclocking. With a 12 phase digital VRM design and robust heat dissipation, the latest iteration of AORUS Gaming motherboards offers exceptional power and temperature management for maximizing the performance and overclocking potential of these new processors.

Publication: Digital Terminal