August 6, 2018

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3D printer inaugurated on ARC premisesedit

The Hindu 

Lok Sabha member K. Haribabu inaugurated a 3D printer on the premises of Ability Rehabilitation Centre (ARC) as a part of Gift of Hand project to provide low cost 3D printable prosthetic solutions to the needy world-wide free of cost. The project, supported by the IEEE Foundation Grant, aims at making 3D printing technology accessible, available and use it as an avenue for solving real life global health challenges through community participation and micro volunteering, according to ARC Director Dilip Patro.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

The fourth Industrial Revolution is changing how we grow, buy and choose what we eatedit

QRIUS 

They could change the shape of demand for food, through alternative proteins and personalized nutrition, for example; promote linkages along the food value chain, through mobile service delivery, big data, the Internet of Things and blockchain-enabled traceability; and create effective production systems, through water sensors, gene-editing and other scientific advances that make agriculture more precise and high-yielding.

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Facial Recognition: Should We Fear It or Embrace It?edit

PC Mag 

By Ben Dickson

Facial-recognition technology is not new, but it has progressed immensely in the past few years, mainly because of advances in artificial intelligence. Naturally, this has drawn the interest of Silicon Valley, advertising agencies, hardware manufacturers, and the government. But not everyone is thrilled.

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De Beers to launch first diamond blockchain; here’s how it will workedit

Business Today 

Internet of Things is everywhere. From bootstrap start-ups to unicorns, everyone is leveraging the concept. One more addition to this could be Tracr, a blockchain-based platform built by UK-based diamond mining and trading company De Beers, where diamonds, small or big, will be tracked from the mining stage till the product reaches a retail store.

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Cyber cityedit

The Pioneer 

For almost a decade now, the spread of technology, as well as the deep penetration of the Internet of Things has caused major upheavals not only for the country’s economy but for society and the way people are being connected and how they access information and knowledge relevant or important to them.

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Creating Smarter Cities With Smart Technologiesedit

CXO Today 

IOT enabled sensors become the crux of a smart city. Aggregation of heterogeneous IOT networks becomes necessary to enable a socially aware integrated command and control centre. Big data analytics is used to get the right information from the cities digital Infrastructure and from the cities social data.

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CISCO Launches thingQbator IoT Lab at IGDTUW, Delhiedit

BW CIO 

The Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW) announced the launch of the ‘Cisco thingQbator’ makerspace to drive innovation in the areas of Internet of Things (IoT) and other emerging digital technologies. The thingQbator program is a part of Cisco’s CSR commitment, with the objective of building digital skills, creating local solutions to local problems and facilitating student entrepreneurship.

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Adopting & adapting to new technologiesedit

The Hans India 

Businesses need to adopt new technologies to reinvent their products and services to stay competitive. The trending technologies as of now are Cloud, IOT (Internet of Things), Big Data, Robotics & Artificial Intelligence (AI). Merely adopting such epochal technologies is not enough. The workforce need to be made adept at using them.

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Smart manufacturing: Digital Technologies to be vital, say expertsedit

Tech Observer

By Sanjay Singh

Smart manufacturing, which is the automation of the manufacturing sector, includes the convergence of operational technology (OT) such as SCADA, industrial control systems and connected devices with information technology (IT). The process employs computer controls, advanced analytics such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of things (IoT) and, fixed and wireless connectivity.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

‘Indian Vehicle Telematics market to touch $300 mn by 2021’edit

ET Auto 

With Industry 4.0, we’ve already started to see the shift to smart factories which use a combination of cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing and Cognitive Computing to connect the entire production chain and to make quicker, smarter decisions independently while minimising costs.

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Global IoT in Intelligent Transportation System Market Outlook 2018-2023: Cisco Systems, Intel Corporation1edit

Share Tech News 

Top manufacturers/players, with IoT in Intelligent Transportation System sales volume, Price (USD/Unit), revenue (Million USD) in the Global IoT in Intelligent Transportation System Market Report including: Cisco Systems, Intel Corporation, Cubic Transportation Systems, Siemens AG, Thales Group, TomTom NV, TransCore Holdings, Inc., Verizon Telematics, Microsoft Corporation, Garmin Ltd, NEC Corporation, Watson Internet of Things (IBM), Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hitachi Transport System Ltd., Iteris Inc..

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Exclusive | India moves closer to electric-powered public transport; Fin Min approves Rs 3.5K cr for 10 citiesedit

Money Control  

By Nikita Vashisht

The union finance ministry has approved approximately Rs 3,500 crore for second phase of Faster Adoption & Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric vehicles (FAME) policy to press on the sale of electric automobiles in India, Moneycontrol has learnt.

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Delhi Metro launches electric vehicles to boost last mile connectivity for metro stationsedit

The Financial Express 

SmartE further plans to have a fleet of over 1 lakh electric vehicles by 2022, it is believed that this will drastically help in cutting down pollution. The electric three-wheelers are made-in-India and are equipped with GPS tracking and sensors. The company has priced its service very economically with fares starting at Rs 10 for first two kms and Rs 5 per km thereafter.

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Industry News: Education

The widening skill divideedit

India Today 

By CP Gurnani

Disruptive technologies like Augmented Virtual Reality, Blockchain, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, 5G and Internet of Things have been unleashed in the digital realm; it is up to us to ride the exponential growth wave they offer. Using these technologies innovatively will need a tremendous amount of expertise. It is in this context that India and the world at large are staring at a widening digital skill gap.

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Pradhan: Industry must partner Govt in skilling, reskilling, upskillingedit

Millennium Post 

The RPL process would include a pre-assessment, skill gap training and final assessment leading to certification of existing skills in an individual Addressing a gathering of around 300 industry leaders, Minister of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan said that industry must partner with the government in skilling, reskilling and upskilling of the workforce in order to meet the challenges of new RPL 4.o (Recognition of Prior Learning

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India can become a knowledge economyedit

DNA 

Second, the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its various offshoots — Machine Learning, Deep Neural Networks, etc — are rapidly changing the landscape in which the skilled jobs operate. As a result, while the IT-BPM industry continues to be the dominant player in the Indian economy, its foundation is beginning to get shaky.

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Getting them job-readyedit

India Today 

The university offers a basket of higher-end technology courses such as Internet of Things, Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Augmented Reality, Big Data Analytics, Virtual Reality. Further we ensure that all students opt for at least two advanced technology courses in the academic year which can enable them to secure jobs.

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AICTE for common engg testedit

The Times of India 

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) hopes to implement a common entrance exam for undergraduate engineering admissions in a year if it gets the approval of all the states. This was stated by AICTE member secretary Alok Prakash Mittal here on Saturday on the sidelines of the inauguration of the second batch of students at Firebird Institute of Research in Management at Chettipalayam.

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Build careers in data scienceedit

Telangana Today 

Connected devices for commercial and personal use. The evolution of smart wearables, IoT and IIoT. • Data driven computation for automated decision support or the evolution of Robotic Process Automation (RPA). The above developments have been fairly recent and are still evolving. We could see at least 20 years for these to stabilise

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India’s solar power boom is riding on poor quality, finds a studyedit

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By Sushma UN

Today, around 90% of solar panels used in India are imported from countries such as China and Malaysia since they’re cheaper than the locally-made ones that India is pushing for now. But even the home-made ones aren’t top-notch, with even the government admitting that they use “obsolete technology.”

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