August 9, 2018

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Wireless medical devices: Making medical implants hacker-safeedit

The Financial Express  

By BV Mahalakshmi

Epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease patients using brain implants could be vulnerable to similar attacks. “Imagine what a terrorist could do with access to a politician’s mind or the repercussions if someone could alter how you act and think. These are scenarios that are unlikely to remain purely in the realm of science fiction for much longer,” says Heena Rathore, US-based data scientist, who works on wireless medical device security.

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What If? Breaking Barriers to Innovationedit

People Matters 

Jaspreet Bakshi, Director & Regional Head, HR People Services India, RBS, says that three critical technologies: AI, Blockchain, and IoT can come together to form a world without boundaries. While the adoption of AI is relatively higher than the other two, there is no denying the fact that we have just scratched the surface when it comes to all three of them. It is imperative to create an ecosystem that not only helps us understand these technologies better but also change the context of what these tools can do and how they can achieve goals.

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Self-verification to ensure data integrityedit

Business Standard 

We are now living in the ocean of data; the volume of data is increasing with the ever-expanding domain of the Internet of Things. Big data is going to be replaced by bigger one. So it is important to ensure integrity of the data, as it is going to be increasingly difficult to keep track of the safety of this huge data-mine.

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Global trade tech helping efficiency and securityedit

Business Standard 

The tedious system of letter of credit and trade financing is being impacted by the use of blockchain based solutions. Using blockchain can reduce issuance time for a letter of credit from 20 days to a few hours. Real time tracking of inventory using IoT based solutions helps companies raise working capital faster and at cheaper rates. IBM and Maersk are developing a solution for track and manage documents for the millions of containers that are shipped globally.

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AI advances take hacking to another leveledit

Bangalore Mirror 

The nightmare scenario for computer security – artificial intelligence programs that can learn how to evade even the best defences – may already have arrived. That warning from security researchers is driven home by a team from IBM, who have used the artificial intelligence technique known as machine learning to build hacking programs that could slip past top-tier defensive measures.

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Accelerate Business Transformation The Digital Wayedit

The Week 

GCR collaborates/partners with worldwide cloud-based IoT and complimenting SaaS-enabled solution providers and enables channel partners providing IoT solutions and cloud services. Solution Partners can showcase their wide range of solutions, services, and applications on GCR’s online ‘Partners Platform’ to fortify and accelerate their business growth and keep pace with the development of the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing era.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

World’s first from India: How Thermal Batteries could change the fate of EVs!edit

The Financial Express 

As we said earlier, one of the biggest Achilles’ heels in the manufacture of electric vehicles is a sustainable battery technology. In that sense, the introduction of this technology into the mainstream of electric vehicle manufacture, could be a vital turning point for the industry. Considering that Thermal Batteries have a very long life cycle, as compared to the limited life cycle of lithium-ion batteries, and are likely to be priced at par with the latter, this technology could well be the breakthrough we have all been waiting for.

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Need to Move Ahead with Electric Mobility to Lower Emissions: Union Minister Anant Geeteedit

News18 

Union Minister Anant Geete has said that the country needs to “move ahead with E-Mobility” and to go from low emissions to no emissions. The Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises spoke at the national conference and technology display on “Electric Mobility Scaling up Auto Component Industry in India” held here. The minister said: “We need to develop a mindset and move ahead with E-Mobility. We have to move from low emission to ‘no emission'”.

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ISRO receives response from 141 firms for lithium-ion techedit

The Times of India 

It finds wide applications in electronic gadgets, telecommunications and industrial applications as well as in aerospace. The recent progress in Li-ion battery technology has made it the favourite power source for electric and hybrid electric vehicles.

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Industry News: Education

Skills training: Education takes ‘tech’ wings in Rajasthan, Andhra Pradeshedit

The Financial Express  

By Sudhir Chowdhary

Technology helps make teaching and learning more meaningful and fun. While in the desert state of Rajasthan, an ambitious project is taking shape to improve the integration of technology in teaching and skilling of students and educators in government colleges, in Andhra Pradesh plans are afoot to set up a Skill University to deliver new-age technical and vocational learning.

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Digital skill development one of biggest challenges: Infosysedit

The Economic Times 

Also, building in-house capabilities was on the list of 76 per cent of Visionaries, who were keen on acquiring digital native firms, to quickly gain the digital skills that 71 per cent of the Visionaries believed were lacking in-house. Thereby, showcasing the increasing trend towards acquisitions and development of a sustainable ecosystem. Comparatively, the proportion of Explorers and Watchers looking at the acquisition and ecosystem options was negligible, the report said.

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National Wind-Solar Hybrid Policyedit

Energy Sector 

The Government has released National Wind-Solar Hybrid Policy on 14 May, 2018. The main objective of the policy is to provide a framework for promotion of large grid connected wind-solar PV hybrid systems for optimal and efficient utilisation of wind and solar resources, transmission infrastructure and land. The wind-solar PV hybrid systems will help in reducing the variability in renewable power generation and achieving better grid stability.

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Green Energy Target Tough To Achieveedit

The New Indian Express 

India, world’s third-largest energy consumer after the US and China, is a full 94% short of its target of installing 40,000 megawatt (MW) of rooftop solar power capacity by 2022. Ratio Of Total Rooftop Solar Installed Capacity To 2022 Target Of The State.

Renewable Energy
Govt proposes to generate 1,75,000 MW renewable energy by 2022: RK Singhedit

UNI India 

The government proposes to generate 1,75,000 megawatt of renewable energy by 2022, Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy R K Singh told the Rajya Sabha here on Tuesday. Replying to supplementaries during the Question Hour, the Minister said in the last four years a capacity of 34,000 MW had been added to the available 71,419 MW already available. He said the government had prepared two schemes for rural India. One was to provide solar pumps to farmers.

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