March 29, 2019

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Why AI Fuzzing could be next cybersecurity threatedit

The Economic Times 

Despite the hype, there are few examples of AI fuzzing being used, says LeighAnne Galloway, cybersecurity resilience lead at Positive Technologies. Nowadays, fuzzing without AI is more effective, she says.

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STPI to create 28 centers of excellence in emerging areas including AIedit

The Times of India 

By Rujuta Parekh  

Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), which runs under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, is set to create 28 Centres of Excellence across the country in emerging fields like Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Clod, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, BLock Chain and others. Director of STPI, Sanjay Gupta said this while delivering the inaugural address at Bharti Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) College of Engineerings annual national tech festival Bhartiyam 2019.

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Security leaders look to AI to find the Needles in Data Lakesedit

Money Control 

BlackBerry Cylance, a business unit of BlackBerry, announced the findings of its global artificial intelligence (AI) security survey, commissioned with the help of the SANS Institute, which highlights that 85 percent of cybersecurity professionals surveyed believe that AI can improve security, now more than ever, given the vast amounts of available data captured and analysed in the Internet of Things.

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Organisations Lack a Solid Digital Transformation Planedit

Analytics Insight  

They found that half of the CEOs said they anticipated that the digital change should render their businesses unrecognizable in the coming five years. Whats more, Gartner concurs, indicating to enterprises that have as of late experienced a digital change from innovation such as selfdriving vehicles, the Internet of Things, blockchain banking and even ecigarettes.

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Opinion | The fading boundary between humans and machinesedit

Live Mint

To understand the future, it often helps to study the past. Sometimes, even the distant past. In fact, scientists draw parallels between the inflection point that humanity finds itself at today and a short window of time 500 million years ago, called the Cambrian explosion, which was a defining moment in the evolution of life on earth.

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NITI Aayog Joins Hands With Private Players To Help MSMEs Adopt Artificial Intelligenceedit

Analytics India Mag 

By Akshaya Asokan

This collaboration with Intel and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) was announced last year where the three establishments will be working towards setting up a Model International Center for Transformative Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) for deploying AIled application based research projects.

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How data science will create a new future in the years to comeedit

Deccan Chronicle 

All of this has led to the creation of a rich storehouse of information, waiting to be churned to extract useful insights, not only about machines and systems but also about humans and their behaviour. Such information can only increase in the future, especially with the widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, and other advanced technology.

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How CIO Can Navigate Cloud In A Hybrid Worldedit

CXO Today 

A CIO sitting in the office is trying to decide the most appropriate mix of cloud solutions and whether to use edge computing to manage the integration of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) or blockchain.

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Fourth Industrial Revolution: Societies in transition vulnerable to negative impactedit

The Hans India 

It is marked by emerging technology breakthroughs in a number of fields, including robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, biotechnology, the Internet of Things, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Blockchain, fifthgeneration wireless technologies (5G), additive manufacturing/3D printing and fully autonomous vehicles as defined by Wikipedia.

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Fintech startups paving way for a financially smart India with global recognitionedit

The Economic Times 

According to NASSCOM, things will continue to look up with Indian fintech market potentially touching 2.4 billion dollars by 2020. To add to the ongoing momentum and scale heights, fintech ecosystem will have to innovate and specialise in key sectors. That seems most plausible and promising with intelligent automation, artificial intelligence and blockchain.

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Digital payments will grow phenomenally despite risks, says Dilip Asbeedit

Live Mint 

By Nasrin Sultana

Cybersecurity and lack of consumer awareness are threats to growth of digital payments in India, said Dilip Asbe, managing director and chief executive officer of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).

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Digital India: Technology to transform a connected nationedit

Deccan Chronicle 

To prepare for these changes, workers will need to be retrained at a massive scale from hightech workers trained in data analytics, artificial intelligence and blockchain, to workers who need functional digital skills necessary to operate in organized digitallyenabled value chains, such as in ecommerce, ridehailing, telemedicine, or IoTenabled plants and warehouses.

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Data is king!edit

The Times of India 

By Ashfaque Ahmed

Today, the biggest use of user data is in artificial intelligence (AI). These companies are building artificial intelligence programs which are being used in applications such as image recognition, speech processing, video processing etc. As we know AI is the hottest industry today and user data is invaluable to train and build AI programs. So data is indeed king!

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Cybersecurity Spend Tops US$10 Billion in Q4 2018 as New Deployment Models Gain Tractionedit

IT News Online 

Total cybersecurity investment in 2018 reached US$37 billion, up 9% from US$34 billion in 2017. Despite the high priority many organizations give to protecting their data assets, endpoints, networks, employees and customers, cybersecurity still only represented 2% of total IT expenditure last year. This will inevitably rise as new, more frequent and sophisticated threats emerge, which will give vendors further growth opportunities.

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Better collaboration, customer experience key to digital banking industryedit

Live Mint 

By M. Sriram and Prasannata Patwa

Technology such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and the internet of things, has made its way into digital banking. However, banks are raising more relevant questions now. While technology is exciting, banks have found the right balance behind the romance of technology, where they are asking what technology has done for the business.

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Automation: Why it can be a game changer for SMEsedit

The Economic Times 

Automation is the need of the hour, and is something that Indias vast SME sector needs to adopt in order to avoid inefficiencies and improve their productivity. By Vikash K Agarwal Since the turn of the new millennium, the business landscape in India has undergone a major change, and one of the key drivers of that change is digitisation.

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Artificial Intelligence Will Trigger Major Shifts in Value Pools Across the Health Care Industryedit

IT News Online 

Artificial intelligence is to some degree already being deployed across all incumbent sectors of health care today and will play an exponentially larger role in the years ahead, says BCG Partner Alexander Aboshiha, coauthor of the article. Companies need to move quickly to harness this rapidly developing technology including by ensuring they have access to the right data and the right talent to succeed.

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App to report poll info in real time using IoTedit

Express Computer 

An app fixed in a device will be installed in 10 polling stations in Assams Hailakandi district to report election related information on real time, an official said. Conceptualised by a scientist of the National Informatics Centre, Hailakandi, Monsoor Akhtar, the app named NICetr was based on Internet of Things to provide information to prevent malpractices during election.

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AI can help predict premature deaths: Studyedit

CNBC TV18

Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based system to predict the risk of early deaths due to chronic disease in middle aged adults. The study, published by PLOS ONE journal, found that the new AI Machine Learning models known as random forest and deep learning were very accurate in its predictions and performed better than the current standard approach to prediction developed by human experts.

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AI can cure you faster, but is not immune against bids to fleece youedit

The Times of India  

Last year, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a device that can capture an image of your retina and automatically detect signs of diabetic blindness. This new breed of artificial intelligence technology is rapidly spreading across the medical field, as scientists develop systems that can identify signs of disease in a wide variety of images, from X-rays to CAT scans.

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AI & ML Are Key To Hypersonalisation In The Banking Sectoredit

Analytics India Mag 

By Akshaya Asokan

While technologies like the Internet of Everything (IoE) and blockchain have made substantial inroads in the sector and have disrupted the way banks and other financial organisation offer their services, the next wave of change will be driven by emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, big data and machine learning.

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93% of Indian businesses see the value of data, yet struggle with data protectionedit

The Asian Age 

For those who are struggling to find adequate data protection solutions for newer technologies, 71% in India said they could not find suitable data protection solutions for artificial intelligence and machine learning data, followed by cloudnative applications (58%) and robotic process automation (46%).

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7 ways cloud computing is shaping healthcare in 2019edit

The Economic Times 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) on cloud to facilitate better diagnostics Imagine a world where second opinions on cases can be taken at the click of a button, patient records can be shared with specialists who can collaborate with caregivers from afar, and algorithms can help identify characteristics of diseases, ultimately resulting in a far more accurate and reliable diagnosis.

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6 effective steps to IoT Security in a Digital Worldedit

Analytics India Mag 

By Kamalika Some

IoT security is concerned with safeguarding connected devices and networks in the world of the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT security refers to the prescriptive steps that are taken to beef up the security of IoT devices and reduce their susceptibility to attacks from unauthorized users.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Micromax CoFounder Plans to Launch Electric TwoWheelers in Indiaedit

The Quint 

And looking to ride the wave or interest for electric vehicles, Sharma is keen to hit the ground running this year. According to a report in The Times of India, Sharma has been quoted saying that his upcoming brand will launch in the next few months, and mostly import its components from China.

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Ola to launch selfdrive service, to invest $500 millionedit

The Economic Times 

The move to enter the selfdrive rental category is in line with Olas broader strategy of expanding its bouquet of transport solutions beyond just cabs to include scooters and electric vehicles with a view towards ensuring sustainability and positive unit economics.

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Indias Electric Car Rollout Is Undergoing A Rethinkedit

Bloomberg Quint 

Carmakers anticipating the second round of bids to supply electric cars to the government may be up for disappointment. The state-run Energy Efficiency Services Ltd. will now focus on public transport, delaying the tender further.

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E-Mobilityedit

The Financial Express 

Standalone metro systems are not effective and need a holistic approach. Globally, the mobility sector is acquiring new paradigms. Shared mobility, electric vehicles, bicycles, connected vehicles are taking the centre sta e and India must also follow the same

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Electric car and hybrid vehicle makers raise concerns, say scheme prepared in hasteedit

The Financial Express 

As per the latest notification by the Department of Heavy Industries, under the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid & Electric Vehicles (FAME) II scheme, twowheelers will need to have a minimum acceleration of 0.65m/s and fourwheelers would require an acceleration of 1.04m/s. Earlier, there were no norms for acceleration, one of the persons said.

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Are Electric Bicycles The Perfect Urban Commuter That Weve Been Searching Foredit

India Times 

Electric bicycles are a small segment of a still budding industry in India, that of electric vehicles. While the buyers are still weighing their options on whether to go for an EV instead of an IC engine vehicle, electric bikes comparatively take a back stage in consideration.

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The future of connected cars lies in the Internet of Moving Thingsedit

Computer World 

The future of connected cars lies in the Internet of Moving Things: Greg Moran, ZoomcarGreg Moran, cofounder and CEO of ZoomCar, brings to the spotlight the future of the selfdrive market in India, and why the Internet of Moving Things (IoMT) is the next big thing in the space. (E mobility)

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Ola will race Zoomcar in selfdrive car rentals with a $500 million betedit

Business Insider 

By Sanchita Dash

Earlier in March, Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation made their biggest combined investment to date of $300 million into Ola. Indian ridehailing startup Ola is rapidly moving beyond its core service of being a cab aggregator. After making inroads into emobility, it is now launching a selfdrive service. (E mobility)

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5 features of future connected cars that will change your driving experienceedit

Deccan Chronicle 

The leading industry incumbents, OEMs, and tech conglomerates are creating synergies to power up ones on road and in car experience. The confluence is reimagining the existing capabilities while leveraging artificial intelligence and digitalisation to give rise to newer, hitherto unimagined concepts in connected cars.

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Industry News: Future of Work

How AI and NLP bots can help redefine HR functionsedit

Computer World 

By Animesh Samuel

Technology can totally reform the way HR teams operate and how employees or prospective hires interact with the company. Humans are socially intelligent beings and it is in our nature to adapt with creativity. We are now at the cusp of another industrial revolution and it is expected that we continue to adapt, given the disruptions that come into play across industries and business functions within. (Reskilling)

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4 lesser-talked about challenges women face in the workplaceedit

People Matters 

Gone are the days when companies could roll out one-size-fits-all training programs and expect to see good results. To be effective, the experience needs to be as individualized as each worker and as dynamic as the evolving roles. And advances need to come faster, with significant buy-in from those who will ultimately be responsible for skills: employees.

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Top jobs in technology, analytics, cybersecurity to be most in demand in 2019, says surveyedit

CNBC TV18 

People with skills in technology, analytics and cybersecurity fields will be in high demand in 2019 as digital transformation emerges to be the top business agenda of organizations this year, according to a global survey by Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants (AESC).

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AI tools help tech firms find the right hand for the jobedit

The Economic Times 

By Priyanka Sangani

Companies that create artificial intelligence based solutions for clients globally are increasingly putting technology to greater use internally, particularly in functions such as hiring owing to the sheer numbers they handle.

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Industry News: Education

Underprivileged girls in India are now learning robotics, codingedit

Money Control 

Aditi Prasad, a 33yearold woman from Chennai is on a mission to teach robotics and coding to girl students from underprivileged backgrounds, who barely ever have access to such innovative and creative learning processes. There are seven programmes on now in Tamil Nadu under her initiative Indian Girls Code. Prasad traverses across the state to groom young girls in a way they can become innovators in the future.

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Top 10 strategic technologies impacting higher education in 2019edit

Computer World 

There are a variety of factors global regulatory compliance, growing Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, expanding software as a service (SaaS) portfolio that are starting to force higher education institutions to address security and risk matters with a multidimensional strategy.

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