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Industry News: Information and Communications
Push towards cleaner energyedit
By Mukta Patil
The building of a green energy corridor, along with renewable energy management centres, will prove vital for evacuation of power between states, since solar and wind power potential is concentrated in a few states–nine states are expected to account for more than 77 per cent of renewable energy capacity addition by 2022.
Renewable EnergyThe Internet of Thieves? Why IoT urgently needs to be securededit
Cyber criminals have set their sights on networked devices such as televisions, refrigerators, and baby cameras. We hear every day about the increasing number of hacker attacks, but this is an entirely new problem. It’s been created by the incredibly high number of inadequately protected IoT systems flooding the market.
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Making learning fun with AI and robotsedit
By Tanvi Dubey
With curricula developed in robotics, IoT, image processing, 3D printing, drones, and many more emerging technologies, they started teaching from a centre in Chennai. Their students were mostly college students and corporates who wanted their engineers to be up to date with technology.
EducationIoTIndia needs a security and privacy law: Nandan Nilekani, former chairman, UIDAIedit
Privacy — as is understood in the West — is about people being aware in an informed way about how their data is being used more by corporates, and not so much by governments. The second dimension of privacy is: what are the accountability mechanisms on companies to make sure the data in their systems is used responsibly.
Cyber SecurityIoT‘Hajime’ malware infects IoT devices, to perform large-scale DDoS attack: Kasperskyedit
A new mysterious malware that builds a vast peer-to-peer botnet to infect the Internet of Things (IoT) worldwide has been identified with almost 300,000 devices under its control, ready to perform a large-scale DDoS attack. ‘Hajime’, meaning ‘beginning’ in Japanese, was identified by Russia-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab and has recently been propagating extensively, infecting multiple devices worldwide.
Cyber SecurityIoTCyber security is a business risk, not tech risk: Kelly Bissell, MD of Global Accenture Securityedit
By Aritra Sarkhel
With cyber risks burgeoning, companies need to catch up and Accenture Security provides end-to-end security across industries with cyber fusion centres in Tel Aviv, Bangalore, Washington DC and Prague.
Cyber SecurityIoTArtificial Intelligence, IoT, Big Data driving a new transition wave: Accenture’s Bhaskar Ghoshedit
By Sudhir Chowdhary
Technology changes are all around us, and coming faster than ever. Today, every business is a digital business, and people are engaging with and relying on technology more than before.
Artificial IntelligenceIoTHow Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things Could Lead to a Robot Uprisingedit
Internet of Things (IoT) is well on its way to this level of intelligence. While you probably (hopefully) aren’t having conversations with the TV remote yet, AI research and IoT development are on a collision course with one and other.
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Skill India mission is failing to achieve its objectiveedit
By Gyan Pathak Skill is an indispensable instrument for improving productivity and addressing labour market imbalances. It has been recognised even before independence of India. However, the efforts rendered towards skill development have been highly fragmented and record an appalling figure of 4.69 per cent of the workforce with formal vocational skills in contrast to 60 per cent to 90 per cent in the developed countries.
Skill DevelopmentWhy even JEE Advanced can’t get you the best engineering jobedit
The JEE Main 2017 results were announced yesterday (April 27), with 2.21 lakh student qualifying for the JEE (Advanced) out of the 10.2 lakh who appeared for the exam.
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Will renewables win the grid parity race?edit
The Indian Government under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi, has set a target to achieve 175 gigawatts (GW) renewable energy capacity by 2022. This ambitious target was presented initially in the UN in 2015, to display India’s proactive approach, contribution and willingness to reduce carbon emissions.
Renewable Energy
If India meets renewable energy target, no additional coal power will be needed till 2027edit
Challenges ahead To capture the benefits of renewable energy (RE), the NITI Aayog report said, “India would need to make available the necessary capital, and get comfortable with managing the variability and uncertainty of RE generation in conjunction with the existing and planned fossil fuel-based and large power plants”.
Renewable EnergyThere was never a market for power reliability in Indiaedit
The price of electricity from renewables is becoming competitive vis-a-vis that from gas and coal. However, wind and solar power provide electricity when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining. That is why storage becomes important.
Renewable EnergyIndia’s power struggle and the emergence of renewable energyedit
Japan’s SoftBank has committed to invest $20 billion in conjunction with Taiwanese company Fox connand Indian business group Bharti Enterprises. French state-owned energy company EDF is to invest $2 billion in Indian Renewable energy projects, citing the country’s enormous projected demand and “fantastic” potential of its wind and solar radiation.
Renewable Energy