The final day of this event opened with an interactive session by Sushmita Gupta, faculty in the School of Computer Sciences at the National Institute of Science Education and Research. She spoke on the process of managing a job hunt and elaborated that it is all about always being in the game. After this, Richa Singh (faculty at IIT Jodhpur) and Anasua Bhowmik (Fellow Design Engineer at AMD Bangalore) provided valuable advice and suggestions on post-Ph.D. career options in academia and industry respectively.

Publication: PagalGuy.com

The government may fund specific research projects in responsible Artificial Intelligence and introduce ethics of AI into the university curriculum as the new-age technology is expected to boost India’s annual growth rate by 1.3 per cent by 2035, according to a discussion paper by Niti Aayog. The draft paper titled ‘Towards Responsible#AIForAll’ saidthere is a potential of large scale adoption of AI in a variety of social sectors.

Publication: Business Standard 

Acer Extensa 15 is one of the latest laptops in the market. Running Intel 10th-gen Core processors, the laptop boasts of 15.6-inch Full HD display, Intel UHD graphics and up to 12GB of DDR4 RAM. It includes 1TB PCIe NVMe SSD and up to 2TB of hard drive space as well. As for the battery, it is claimed to run for up to 8 hours on a single charge.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet, says that the future success of tech behemoth Google is not guaranteed in a fast-changing world as it faces competition in all areas where it now operates. “Google operates in highly competitive and dynamic global markets, in which prices are free or falling, and products are constantly improving,” according to his testimony to a Congressional hearing scheduled for Wednesday.

Publication: Telangana Today 

Out of adversity comes opportunity.” Enterprises across the world today face an unprecedented crisis. What if they can see this adversity as an opportunity to amplify collaboration horizontally across their business units and functions; eliminate data silos that obstruct data movement and sharing; and make the numerous data repositories and systems talk to each other? This is possible with a modern hybrid multi-cloud architecture. (IBM)

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine 

It was against this backdrop that a committee set up by India’s government on governing nonpersonal data, led by Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, recently put out its draft report for public consultation. At the report’s core is an effort to ensure that non-personal data is actually shared and made available widely to enable the development of a strong domestic AI industry.

Publication: Mint

IT majors and original equipment manufacturers including Acer India, Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic, Lenovo India, LG Electronics, Microsoft, Panasonic, Samsung India and Vodafone are in the race for a government contract to supply 4,510 tablets for data collection of India’s all socio-economic household and establishment surveys. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Wednesday said the tablets procured will be “used for data collection in the field under the Generalized Survey Solution (GSS) project”.

Publication: The Economic Times

Facebook and Apple’s CEOs used the specter of competition from China to push back against lawmakers seeking to rein them in. Cicilline’s subcommittee has been looking into allegations by critics that the companies have hurt competitors and consumers with their business practices and a seemingly insatiable appetite for data. The CEOs defended themselves by saying they themselves face competition and by pushing back against claims they are dominant.”

Publication: The Times of India

AMD posted its Q2 earnings report this morning, shattering records and sending shares sky-high. The overall revenue for Q2 2020 was up by 26% to $1.93 billion (from $1.53B) YoY and 8% compared to last quarter. The operating income increased from $59 million to $173 million YoY while the net income also saw a massive boost, going from $35 million to $157 million YoY. The earnings per share grew by more than 4x to $0.13 from just $0.03 in Q2 2019.

Publication: Hardware Times 

It’s been more than a year since the 7nm Zen 2 based Ryzen 3000 and Epyc Rome CPUs were launched by AMD to global acclaim, but it appears that TSMC is still barely keeping up with 7nm orders. During AMD’s latest financial briefing, company CEO, Dr. Lisa Su said the following, “I’ve said before, and I’ll say again, 7nm is tight and we continue to partner closely with TSMC to ensure that we can satisfy our customer demand. Demand has gone up from our initial expectations and some of that is due to the market and some of that is due to the strength of our product traction.

Publication: Hardware Times 

We can confirm that sampling for NVIDIA’s next-gen Ampere lineup will happen in late August, with a potential launch by the end of September. Keep in mind that the actual sampling dates will vary from region to region, depending upon the local logistics but from what we’ve been told, it’ll start by the end of August or early September at the latest, indicating that the hard launch of the RTX 30 series lineup will take place by the end of the third quarter.

Publication: Hardware Times 

The Dell G3 3500 isn’t the best if you’re considering an entry-level gaming machine. The 60Hz display is brilliant, bar none that I’ve seen this year so far, and Nahimic Audio is crisp and bassy. If you’re into content creation with some light gaming on the side, this will fit your bill. It will last at least 7 hours on a single charge, and a full day’s workload. It looks minimal, nothing fancy, and the blue backlit keyboard can get jarring after a point, but you can always switch it off. Game-Shift wasn’t much of any help except occasionally over-clocking the CPU. Honestly, there are better machines out there.

Publication: IGN India 

As per industry estimates, there are about one billion PC gamers across the world, out of which, more than 50% are less than 30 years of age. Considering the potential reach and insatiable appetite of PC gamers, the numbers amounts to a substantially huge install base. Covid has helped in accelerating the growth in the infrastructure of the online gaming industry, Anand Subramanya, director product marketing, Dell, said. “Work from home, learn from home, and entertainment from home has become a reality in the current situation. The only silver lining is that PC from a gaming point of view is now defining the gaming segment.”

Publication: Financial Express 

As the global automotive industry moves towards electric vehicles and the fact that a lot of manufacturers are actively working towards pulling the human out of the driving seat, development cycles need to be shortened. To develop technologies quickly and efficiently, Continental now has its own supercomputer powered by NVIDIA InfiniBand-connected DGX systems for woking upon artificial intelligence (AI). It was set up at a data centre in Frankfurt earlier this year, offering computing and storage to developers around the world.

Publication: Financial Express 

The digitalisation of small and medium businesses (SMBs) could add USD 158 to 216 billion to India’s GDP by 2024 and contribute to the country’s economic recovery post COVID-19, the Cisco India SMB Digital Maturity Study 2020 said. The study, based on a survey of SMBs from across the Asia Pacific region conducted by IDC and commissioned by Cisco, shows that SMBs that are more digitally mature enjoy twice as many benefits in terms of revenue and productivity compared to those that have an indifferent approach to digitalisation.

Publciation: ETCIO

The Acer Aspire 3 features a 15.6-inch Full HD LED backlit antiglare display that allows you to work for long hours without straining your eyes. It is powered by a 10th generation Intel Core i5 processor coupled with 8GB DDR4 RAM and a 1TB HDD. As it is a basic laptop, the graphics are handled by Intel UHD graphics. It is a powerful yet affordable device that will allow you to easily complete your work.

Publication: Business Insider India

The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 has launched in India as a thin and light laptop that comes with the latest hardware inside. The company announced the IdeaPad Slim 3 last month in June and now the Slim 5 takes it a notch higher as it is powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 processor. It has Radeon graphics and runs on Windows 10 Home. This is paired with upto 16GB RAM and upto 1TB HDD/SSD M.2 storage options to choose from. Having said that, currently the only variant listed on the website comes with 8GB RAM / 256GB SSD.

Publication: Digit

New York stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially on Wednesday: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., up $8.48 to $76.09. The chipmaker reported an even bigger jump in profit from April through June than Wall Street expected.

Publication: News18