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Industry News: Information and Communications
The Rise of Virtual Reality – Are Data Centers Ready?edit
Virtual Reality (VR) is transforming gaming, entertainment and numerous other fields, potentially delivering a long-term impact that may exceed today’s most disruptive new technologies, possibly even the Internet of Things (IoT). As per a report by CCS Insight, shipments of VR headsets will rise more than fivefold between 2017 and 2021, from 16 million in 2017 to almost 99 million in 2021.
Data CentersIndia among top 15 in artificial intelligence researchedit
India is among the most advanced countries in terms of development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), according to a survey by Finnish AI-based solutions specialists Zyfra. The survey ranks the US first, followed by China, while India ranks 13th, just after Canada.
Artificial IntelligenceGartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019edit
In the near term, the edge is being driven by IoT and the need to keep the processing close to the end rather than on a centralized cloud server. However, rather than create a new architecture, cloud computing and edge computing will evolve as complementary models with cloud services being managed as a centralized service executing, not only on centralized servers but in distributed servers on-premises and on the edge devices themselves.
Cloud ComputingIoT‘Robotics, computer vision is the future of Artificial Intelligence’edit
The bigger challenge for companies is getting access to the right data to make the predictions and drive the intelligence that one is seeking
Artificial IntelligenceRoboticsIndustry News: Future of Mobility
Four of every five cars will be electric by 2050edit
Production of traditional combustion engines are expected to peak soon, ringing in a new era for the automobile industry. Though electronic vehicles make up a miniscule portion of the market at present, the technology is improving and becoming more affordable with forecasts for sales to pick up before long.
electric carsThe dirty secret under the hoods of electric cars no one talks aboutedit
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.
electric carsIndustry News: Education
Influence of technology on educationedit
Technology will never replace great teachers but technology in the hands of a good teacher is transformational” this remark of George Couros lay its emphasis on the importance of both teacher and technology in the process of education. In 21st century education hasn’t confined for only learning the concepts but aimed on the establishment of knowledge- based society.
EducationTechnologyReforming higher educationedit
Reforming higher education is seen axiomatically as one of the key elements of the incomplete agenda of reform. With a view to achieving this goal, the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MoHRD) have been introducing various acronyms of change over the years.
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Solar installations till June 2018 was at 5GW, says Mercom reportedit
The solar installations in the first half of the calendar year 2018 was almost 5 GW and the country’s total installed capacity has exceeded 25 GW, according to a report by consulting firm Mercom Capital India. The top 10 large-scale solar power infrastructure developers from over 300 project developers in the country accounted for 55 per cent market share in the first half of 2018, with all others making up the remaining 45 per cent of the market share.
Solar InstallationsIndia targets 100 GW installed capacity of solar energy by 2022edit
Sify Com reported that India has a target of 100 gigawatt installed capacity of solar energy by 2022, of which 40 GW is projected to come from rooftop solar systems. Former Senior Scientific Advisor in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Dr Bivek Bandyopadhyay said the World Bank and Global Environment Fund had launched a large financing program in 2016 to support clean energy.
Solar EnergyIndia will add 8.5-GW renewable energy in FY19, says ICRAedit
The country’s renewable sector has so far seen a robust bidding activity providing a reasonably healthy visibility for solar and wind capacity addition in the next two fiscals, ICRA experts said. They expect capacity addition of about 8-8.5 GW in FY19.
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