July 19, 2018

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Why Are The US And China Rushing To Standardise AI? edit

According to a report in China Daily, the easiest first targets for standards development are autonomous vehicles and medical AI applications, because they are directly related to people’s daily lives, she said. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced new standards for ethics in AI safety last year. China responded by setting up China AI Industry Alliance (AIIA), which was established last year and is striving hard to catch up with the IEEE in addressing social problems.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Technology is taking away tech jobs sooner than you had thoughtedit

The Economic Times 

IT services major Tata Consultancy Services has said it would go for agile recruiting, or on-demand hiring, owing to increased automation in the software delivery process. “Analytics, IoT (Internet of Things) and automation are changing the entire delivery process. We are going for hiring in an agile way which is on-demand,” Global HR head and EVP of TCS Ajayendra Mukherjee said

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IoT is the future: Moving Towards Smart India #Ad edit

Media Nama 

Internet of things or IoT is the idea that is proving to be the pivot of revolution in this tech advanced era. IoT is the ability to transform an ordinary device to a mobile unit that can connect and access the wide world of the internet. It has made the world a real life sci-fi movie! From being able to control home appliances through a mobile phone to monitoring war zones from a continent away- it is all the result of marrying basic appliances and intelligence algorithms – The Internet of Things.

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How Tata Communication’s LoRaWAN network fostering IoT needs in Indiaedit

ET CIO 

The Asia Pacific region is projected to witness the maximum growth in the global IoT industry owing to its large scale industrialization in Asian markets like China, India and Japan which have a higher user base and a rapid adoption of advanced technologies like cloud and robotics. On the M2M communication front, the IoT landscape is deemed to look very different from the voice and data networks.

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Geospatial Intelligence: The totally made-up term that’s changing the world edit

Geospatial World 

It’s time for GEOINT to be taught in business programs at the undergraduate and graduate level. From precision agriculture, to oil and gas exploration, high-velocity logistics, marketing and retail, smart cities, the Internet of Things, and autonomous vehicles, GEOINT is a key competitive differentiator. Those who apply it will have a decided advantage. Those who fail to apply it will ignore the power of GEOINT at their own peril.

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Edge computing and the startups that innovate near the edge edit

Silicon India 

However, with the booming interest in the Internet of Things (IoT) and the growing number of internet users, there is a huge amount of data to be processed. With the large volume of data, the question is, “Is Cloud computing the ideal way to handle it?” Answering it, Kumar T, an edge computing expert, says that ‘with a massive amount of data being collected from various processes and devices globally, companies are finding themselves spending huge amounts of money for data storage and processing.

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Digital security staff shortage top inhibitor to innovation: Survey edit

The Economic Times 

According to a survey by Gartner, about 95 per cent of the participating chief information officers (CIOs) said they expect cyber threats to increase over the next three years, but only 65 per cent of their organisations currently have a cybersecurity expert.

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5G to play a central role in accelerating India’s digital transformation: Coriant edit

The Economic Times  

By Muntazir Abbas

We have been actively working with BSNL since our announcement in collaborative areas that include advanced technology workshops focused not only on the underlying architectural requirements for new services such as IoT and 5G, but also on the specific IoT and 5G use cases that are part of our MSP program. Both IoT and 5G have significant implications for enterprises.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Why It Makes Sense For India To Bet Big On Electric Vehiclesedit

CIOL 

You might think that the Indian government is doing nothing to tackle rising air pollution, but contrary to popular belief, the government is taking the long-term measures required to ensure that the coming generations breath fresher air. One of these measures is the National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP 2020), which was launched in 2013 to incentivize the use and production of electric vehicles in India.

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Industry News: Education

NITI Aayog CEO: Farms, health, education problems need disruptive innovations edit

The Hindu Business Line

Several associated start-ups have filed more than 50 patents in technological space. The companies span the areas of technology, image processing, agricultural technology, Internet of Things (IoT), logistics, E-commerce, healthcare and service sectors. A dedicated team of “Sandbox Samvidha” is supporting not-for profit ventures and high social impact start-ups.

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Hiring in Indian IT industry to be affected due to volatility in marketedit

The Week  

By Abhinav Singh

The future hiring process in the Indian IT industry could see major transformations where employees would be selected digitally based on their capabilities to showcase their skills. Digital transformation has taken place in most of the IT firms because of which the demand of job roles have changed over the years. Job roles that are focussed on advanced technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual and augmented reality (VR & AR) will be in demand in the IT industry.” remarked Shah.

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Facebook joins Skill India Mission to empower youthedit

The Week

“With Facebook’s expertise and support, we are taking a step towards utilising the immense potential of digital skills for the economic betterment of the country,” he said. Under the Skill India Mission, nearly one crore youth in the country are being annually skilled, reskilled and upskilled through various central government programmes.

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India’s renewable energy investments topple fossil-fuel for the first time in 2017: IEAedit

ET Energy World  

By Bilal Abdi

India’s power sector investment is changing rapidly, and for the first time in 2017, investment in renewable power topped that for fossil fuel generation. Investment in renewables, at over one-third of total power sector investment, reached nearly $20 billion, driven by a more than doubling of solar PV investment and record spending in onshore wind projects,” the report said

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Electric car sales up, but no one’s investing in renewablesedit

The Times of India 

Global sales of electric cars totalled $43 billion in 2017 and the number of electric vehicles is expected to triple by 2020, but investment in renewable power generation declined 7% last year compared to 2016. In contrast, spending on fossil fuels for supply of electricity rose.

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