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Demand For Qualified Engineers Is Exceeding Supply: Studyedit
“Engineers’ responsibilities are growing and they are taking on a greater number of projects, while team size is decreasing,” said Don Lesem, vice president and chief design officer, IEEE GlobalSpec.
IEEEAnd you thought your smartphone was secured with fingerprint?edit
Nevertheless, as long as partial fingerprints are used for unlocking devices and multiple partial impressions per finger are stored, the probability of finding MasterPrints increases significantly, he said. The study appears in the journal IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
IEEE5-day workshop on LabVIEWedit
Mysuru – The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering of ATME College of Engineering, Mysuru, has organised five-day workshop on LabVIEW recently, in association with NI LabVIEW Academy, SJBIT, Bengaluru, sponsored by Institute of Electronics & Telecommunications Engineers (IETE), Mysuru.
IETEIndustry News: Information and Communications
India supports better international cooperation in cyber security: Ravi Shankar Prasadedit
India today has one of the most vibrant startup ecosystems with over 4,000 startups every year working in emerging technology areas including IoT, data analytics, Block Chains and machine learning. Many of these startups are also in the forefront of developing solutions to many of our grand challenges in areas such as health and education.”
Cyber SecurityIoTAlgorithmic IT Operations Drives Digital Business: Gartneredit
India cannot remain immune to the technological developments if it has to stay competitive. There is an increase in adoption of new and emerging technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), containers and microservices, and it is only a matter of time before these technologies see increased adoption in production environments.
IoTIT
The more data you generate, you need to store it somewhere; that’s a big growth driver for us: BS Teh, Sr VP Global Sales, Seagateedit
By Sudhir Chowdhary
The Internet of Things (IoT) is relatively new but companies of all sizes are excited about the potential business outcomes. Being able to connect more devices to the internet will allow businesses access to greater intelligence and bolster the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations.
IoT3 Cyber-Threats Occurred Per Second in Q4 2016: McAfeeedit
176 new cyber-threats are detected every minute, almost three every second in Q4 2016 and that Mirai was responsible for the fourth quarter’s highly publicized DDoS attack on Dyn, a DNS service provider, states a AcAfee study. Mirai is notable because it detects and infects poorly secured IoT devices, transforming them into bots to attack its targets.
Cyber SecurityIoTCisco to train 250,000 students in India in cyber security, IoTedit
Aiming to help create startups and build successful technology careers, Cisco will train 2,50,000 students in the country over a period of time, a top executive from the global networking giant said.
Cyber SecurityIoTIndustry News: Education
Four-fifth of engineering graduates in India unemployable: HDFC chiefedit
Teachers need to develop skills and undertake necessary training so that students become employable after graduating from college, Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) Chairman, Deepak Parekh said here today.
EngineeringHow AICTE wants engineering, B-Schools to improve students’ job readinessedit
By Prashant K Nanda
From industry-prepared courses to mandatory shop floor training to imparting managerial and entrepreneurial knowledge, India’s apex technical education regulator, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), is now ready with a set of must haves for technical colleges to improve their graduates’ employability.
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Powering The Futureedit
Renewable energy or clean energy is a global trend across the world. It was initially deemed as a fashionable product and service and nations across the world were still dependent upon conventional sources of power generation while apprehensively waiting for major breakthrough in the renewable energy sector.
Renewable EnergyIndia solar power tariff finds new floor at Rs 3.15/unitedit
By Sanjay Dutta
Solar power tariffs appear to be on a free fall in India, finding a new floor at a levelised tariff of Rs 3.15 per unit quoted by Solairdirect in the auction for state-run generation utility NTPC’s 250-MW project at Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh. This beats the previous low of Rs 3.30 per unit levelised tariff, on a basic bid of Rs 2.97 a unit for the first year, quoted in February for the first unit of the 750 MW Rewa solar park in Madhya Pradesh.
Solar EnergyGST, a big blow to clean energy financingedit
In the three years between 2014-15 and 2016-17, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy received Rs 10,239 crore from the NCEF, Minister Piyush Goyal told the upper house on March 20. He further said that MNRE would get Rs 5,341 crore for 2017-18 “which will be sourced from NCEF”. The question is, if the cess collections are to go into the GST Compensation Fund, where will the NCEF get its resources from?
Renewable Energy