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Top Current Affairs Quiz: 15 October 2018edit
India’s first-ever India-Israel Innovation Centre (IIIC), an entrepreneurial technology hub, was launched at the 3rd edition of IoT India Congress in Bengaluru, Karnataka on October 10, 2018.
India-Israel Innovation Centeriot india congressIndia-Israel Innovation Center Launched in Bengaluru to Boost Startup Ecosystemedit
India’s first India-Israel Innovation Centre (IIIC), an entrepreneurial tech hub where individuals and teams can grow their technologies and businesses, has been launched in Bengaluru – India’s Silicon Valley.
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‘Methanol, hydrogen-based technology can turn India into energy-exporting country’edit
He was delivering the Dr. Abdul Kalam Memorial Lecture at Central University of Karnataka here on Monday to mark former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s birth anniversary. The event was organised by the School of Engineering and Sciences and IEEE Student Branch on the university’s main campus at Kadaganchi, about 22 km from here.
IEEEWorld Standards Day celebrated at IEIedit
The Institution of Engineers (India), Telangana State Centre, today organized World Standards Day on “International Standards and the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. P V S Maruthi Rao, Managing Director, Messrs Picominer, who was the chief guest, said the IEEE was the world’s largest professional standards Association (IEEE-SA). He also spoke about IoT digital transformation.
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How Artificial Intelligence is creating jobs, not killingedit
Artificial intelligence is now being used in an ever-expanding array of products: cars that drive themselves; robots that identify and eradicate weeds; computers able to distinguish dangerous skin cancers from benign moles; and smart locks, thermostats, speakers and digital assistants that are bringing the technology into homes.
Artificial IntelligenceIs IoT data taking geospatial analytics to the next level?edit
IoT connected devices surround us both at home and work. We encounter IoT connected devices every day but their reach extends even further into businesses. By 2020, 200 billion devices are expected to be connected to the IoT.
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Not so green: Dirty batteries belie electric cars’ environmental promiseedit
Beneath the hoods of millions of the clean electric cars rolling onto the world’s roads in the next few years will be a dirty battery. Every major carmaker has plans for electric vehicles to cut greenhouse gas emissions, yet their manufacturers are, by and large, making lithium-ion batteries in places with some of the most polluting grids in the world.
EVLi-ion batteriesBESCOM launches second electric vehicle charging infra in Bengaluruedit
The BESCOM on Monday introduced City’s second electric vehicle charging infrastructureNSE 0.30 % in the premises of Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) on Millers road. The first such facility had come up in the headquarters of BESCOM in February this year.
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Here Is What Indian States Are Doing To Bring Electric Vehicles To The Massesedit
State governments pan India have been pushing towards greener energy sources and Andhra Pradesh has consistently been one to be at the forefront of this transition. As per recent announcements, the government of AP is now looking to initiate several solar projects as well as introducing electric vehicles into the state in order to reduce the state’s carbon footprint.
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India needs more young women in tech space: President Ram Nath Kovindedit
India needs more and more of its young women to enter the engineering and technology space, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Monday. Addressing separate groups of trainees assistant executive engineers and deputy architects of the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), Kovind also said that public infrastructure like offices, residences or roads built by them should be accessible to differently-abled fellow citizens.
Engineering50,000+ data science, AI Jobs vacant due to shortage of talent: Reportedit
More than 50,000 jobs in data science and machine learning are lying vacant due to shortage of qualified talent, says an industry report. Such is the situation that the market has twice the number of jobs as jobseekers, indicating an urgent need for professionals to upskill.
UpskillingFor the future of artificial intelligence to be bright, the skills needed are humanedit
As AI takes hold in the workplace, more people will be placed in Petrov’s shoes. With increasing technological sophistication, more decisions, or at least recommendations, will be handed off to machines. The effects of this abdication will range from minor to critical, and in industries such as defence and healthcare, they may be a matter of life and death.
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India will achieve 76% of 175 gigawatts of clean energy target by 2022edit
India may achieve about 76 per cent of the target of having 175 gigawatts of renewable power generation capacity by the scheduled date of 2022 as it faces myriad challenges, Wood Mackenzie said Monday.
Clean Energy‘India has to continuously engage with global partners for new energy future’edit
Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan has said that Energy is a global industry and oil is truly a global commodity, and hence our engagement with the global energy community has to be continuous. India cannot work in isolation, as from a global perspective, global market shifts, technological disruptions, financial markets & paper trading, and possible disruption in the form of energy transition are shaping the future of energy security.
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