April 2019
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News for the IET

VITEE 2019 Results: Vellore Institute launches VITEE admission test result, such checkedit

Hindi News 18 

Please note that VITEEE is a common entrance exam through which students can get admission in VIT Chennai campus, VIT Bhopal and VIT Andhra Pradesh apart from IT IT Vellore campus. Let us know that VITVellur, Tamilnadu is the first institute in the country which has got recognition for its engineering program in 2004 from the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and The Energy Institute, United Kingdom (UK).

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Smart City Is A Complex System Of Systemsedit

BW Business World

India has embarked on a journey to prepare for rapid Urbanization. URBAN Population in India today is standing at approximately 33.6% (44.3 Cr) and it may reach around 40% in the future.  Urbanization creates many problems like insufficient infrastructure, water & power scarcity, it is therefore important to bring flexibility and agility in delivering public services to citizens so that the urbanization problems can be addressed faster, better and steadier manner.

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Cybersecurity norms: Securing modern enterprises in the digital worldedit

The Financial Express 

By Sudhir Chowdhary

Security and safety measures require new approaches, as this is pervasive and not under the management of IT experts. A techno-legal approach will be a suitable way to address this concern, says Arvind Tiwary, Chair, IoT Forum, TiE and chairperson, Cybersecurity WG, IET IoT Panel. He adds, With the current IT laws, conducting a forensic analysis after a breach becomes difficult.

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IET Achievements Awards for exceptional engineers and technicians: Nominations openedit

Business News This Week Engineer News Network

By Prabeen Dansil

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has opened nominations globally for its prestigious Achievement Awards 2019.The IET Achievement Awards exist to recognize individuals from all over the world who have made exceptional contributions to the advancement of engineering, technology and science in any sector. This can be through research and development in their respective technical field or through their leadership of an enterprise.

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IoT Solutions have to be Rightly Priced in Cost sensitive Indian Marketedit

Electronics For U All The Internet Of Things

Aeris Communications India Pvt. Ltd. is a leading platform company, providing end-end portfolio of IoT platform and services for Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, Smart Healthcare, Logistics and BFSI. In an interaction with EFY bureau, Dr Rishi Mohan Bhatnagar, President, Aeris and Chairman IET IoT Panel, India, shares his views about the role of government in promoting IoT deployment in India, future of IoT and much more

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IET Achievements Awards for exceptional engineers and technicians: Nominations openedit

APN News Times Tech  Business Fortnight

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has opened nominations globally for its prestigious Achievement Awards 2019.The IET Achievement Awards exist to recognize individuals from all over the world who have made exceptional contributions to the advancement of engineering, technology and science in any sector.

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Jaguar Land Rover Finds The Teenagers Writing The Code For A SelfDriving Futureedit

Business World 

David Lakin, Head of Education from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), said: Were in the midst of a digital skills shortage the UK alone requires more than 1 million software engineers to fill the growing demand for roles requiring knowledge of coding, software engineering or electronics

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Global photography competition to tackle outdated image of Engineeringedit

APN New

In a bid to challenge public misconceptions and the stereotypical image of engineering and technology and dispel its traditional image of hard hats and dirty overalls, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has launched its annual photography competition for 2019

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5G Internet Of Things: Next wave of growthedit

The Economic Times

By Rishi Mohan Bhatnagar

Internet of Things (IoT) has been receiving good share of attention as the world turns more and more digital. The value that it has unlocked till date, it has the potential to change the way of life we see today. India has witnessed a phenomenal growth in internet of things (IoT) in the past. (The Institution of Engineering and Technology)

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World Internet of Things Day 2019: IoTs are becoming big but so are privacy risksedit

Hindustan Times

By Kul Bhushan

According to IoT India Congress 2018, Indias Internet of Things (IoTs) can be best defined as the technology that adds smart to daytoday appliances. From Amazon Alexa powered smart speakers to WiFi enabled smart fridges, IoTs are becoming increasingly popular in India

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IoT in healthcare at serious cyber attack riskedit

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According to the IoT India Congress 2018, the Indian IoT market is expected to grow from $1.3 billion in 2016 to $9 billion by 2020 across sectors such as telecom, health, vehicles and homes, among others.

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Sky’s The Limit: Here Your Dreams Take Flightedit

The New Indian Express  

Further, at the Kattankulathur campus, Five of engineering programs have been accredited by ABET, USA (www.abet.org) and another four Engineering programs by IET, UK. It has more than 800 international students from 64 countries studying in various programs.

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IoT in healthcare at serious cyber attack riskedit

ET Telecom  Times Now News Business Standard  The Economic Times  The Times of India

According to the “IoT India Congress 2018”, the Indian IoT market is expected to grow from $1.3 billion in 2016 to $9 billion by 2020 across sectors such as telecom, health, vehicles and homes, among others.

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Students’ revolutionary solar telescope selected for launch with NASAedit

India Education Diary 

The SSI also collaborates with universities across the globe and is supported by the University’s Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Science, the University’s Alumni Fund, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), IPE, AMRC, RS Components UK, ANSYS, Inc. and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMecE).

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News for other PEI

STV Promotes Brandon Swartley, P.E., To Vice Presidentedit

PR Newswire 

Swartley is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and chair of the IEEE Philadelphia Chapters Vehicular Technology Society and is a member of the Electrical Association of Philadelphia

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Campus connect: Aggressive on student placements, says Katara of I2ITedit

Hindustan Times 

So Hope Foundation in association with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) India Council and Women In Engineering Affinity Group, IEEE Pune section has instituted the Pralhad P Chhabria Awards in his memory, from the year 2017. These awards are meant to appreciate academic and professional achievements of young women in the areas of Science, Engineering and Technology,” she said.

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A Spin On Digital Bizedit

The New Indian Express 

Renowned gurus who have given guidance and have visited SPIN Chennai for various sessions include Watts Humphrey (USA), Lewis Trigger (Israel), Bill Curtis (USA). SPIN Chennai’s partner organisations include FICCI, Nasscom, CII, IEEE, CSI, CIOKlub, CXO Club, ISACA, PMI, CYSI, CSPF, IOD, eWIT, Veltech TBI ecosystem, TiE Chennai, ACM, ISC2 and IJITCE as Journal Partner.

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Processes foretell possibilities of achieving final product qualityedit

The Hitavada 

R G Paranjpe, Chairman of IIF Nagpur Chapter in his welcome speech said that both organisations i.e. IIF and IEI were working for common objective of promoting and advancing technology as well as engineering innovations. Yet, a kind of tieup which both of these organisation should have is missing, especially when both the institutes are having almost common goal and approach.

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National level Project Contest at GSSSIETW tomorrowedit

Star of Mysore 

GSSS Institute of Engineering and Technology for Women, Mysuru, is conducting the 4th National vel Project Competition IEEE PROJECT EXPO2019 under IEEE Student Branch (STB1786) and IEEE WIE Affinity Group, GSSSIETW in association with IEEE Bangalore Section on Apr. 29 from 9.30 am.

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International e-Summit heldedit

The Hans India 

An International Entrepreneurship Summit was held at Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Hyderabad, organised by Kode campus in support with the IEEE SNIST Students Club. The event mainly featured Entrepreneurship talks by successful international CEOs, Idea pitching, Innovative Project Expo and Technical Workshops in the area of Big Data, IoT on Robotics and Digital Marketing and E-Commerce.

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AI: Focus Turns to Ethical Standards for Intelligent Systemsedit

Information Week

Multiple organizations and nations have proposed guidelines for developing responsible A/IS systems, including the IEEE, the World Economic Forum, the Future of Life Institute, the Alan Turing Institute, and AI Global. The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, a group composed of several hundred international thought leaders, is particularly active in promoting the ethically aligned design concept.

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Institution of Engineers India (IEI), Mysuru Local Centreedit

Star of Mysore

Technical Talk on Challenges in the operation of Air Conditioning Systems in Railway Bogies, IEI Mysuru Chairman Dr. R. Suresh presides, Institution premises, JLB Road, 6 pm.

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IEEE Computer Society Announces Launch of New Websiteedit

PR Newswire

Known for its world-class conferences, publications, educational programs, and technology resources, the IEEE Computer Society announced today the launch of its newly redesigned website at www.computer.org. The robust responsive design and enhanced features provide improved functionality, enabling streamlined access to the IEEE Computer Society’s valued peer-reviewed content, technology information, and resources for industry and academia.

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City engagementsedit

The Hindu

The Institution of Engineers: Lecture on Criminology and family law by A.Bala Subramaniam, advocate, institution building, BHEL campus, 5 p.m.

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Kalasalingam Academy hosts conference on Intelligent Techniques in Signal Processingedit

Trinity Mirror 

The IEEE Student Branch of Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education organized the International conference on “Intelligent Techniques in Control, Optimization and Signal Processing (INCOS’19)” during 11th to 13th April 2019.

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Oral health integral part of general healthedit

Star Of Mysore 

She was delivering a talk on ‘Guide to Dental Health Care’ organised by Institution of Engineers India (IEI) at its premises on JLB Road here recently and explained the various dental health problems faced by people.

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Summer schooledit

Deccan Herald 

The institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Bengaluru centre, will hold a ‘Summer School in Electronics and Computers’ (SUSIEC 19) for schoolchildren from April 28. For details, contact 9901743330

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Design trainingedit

Deccan Herald 

The institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Bengaluru centre, will give hands-on training in ‘Advanced FPAG Design and MATLAB/SIMULINK’ from April 21. Call 9901743330.

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New AI system may help detect prostate canceredit

Free Press Journal 

It does so with nearly the same level of accuracy as experienced radiologists, said researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the US. In tests, FocalNet was 80.5 per cent accurate in reading MRIs, while radiologists with at least 10 years of experience were 83.9 percent accurate, according to the study published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

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IEEE, CSC team up to train 1 lakh young professionalsedit

Telangana Today 

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) signed an agreement with Common Services Centers (CSC) to help upskill one lakh young professionals in core technologies over the next year, according to a statement. CSC is a network that is a part of the government’s rural outreach programme for delivery of digital services.

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Unique hub of innovation and Entrepreneurshipedit

The New Indian Express 

NMIT has several sponsored research projects amounting to Rs.12 Crores sanctioned by different National Funding Agencies such as DST, DIT, ISRO, AICTE, DRDO Labs, VGST,IEEE, VTU, UNESCO-KSCST, etc. where UG/ PG/PhD students have the opportunity to work 24X7 in these projects which will lead to Innovation.

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IEEE, CSC to train one lakh young professionalsedit

The New Indian Express The Hindu Business Line  Business Standard

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  and the Common Services Center (CSC) have signed an agreement under which they will help upskill one lakh young professionals in core technologies over the next year.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Using Artificial Intelligence to detect mental health disorders may be counterproductiveedit

The New Indian Express 

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology have made it possible to detect mental disorders such as anxiety and depression from cues in a person’s voice, but doctors warn that adopting such tools in haste may prove to be counterproductive.

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This Indian blockchain startup is helping UNICEF transport millions of vaccines across the worldedit

The Economic Times

Started in 2016 by Silicon Valley veteran, Sid Chakravarthy, StaTwig is a firm that uses Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain to monitor every minute step of the products journey. OtherspicStaTwig has been selfsufficient since 2017 and was one of the few blockchain startups that year that were generating revenue through the solution centre.

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The Age of AI Powered Innovation is Hereedit

Analytics Insight 

John McCarthy, the man behind the term artificial intelligence, famously quipped As soon as it works, noone calls it AI anymore. From that day to the current day, the history of artificial intelligence (AI) goes back to years where intelligent robots appear in the mythical stories of many ancient societies, including Egyptian, Chinese, Greek and Arabic.

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Opinion | Artificial Intelligence cannot yet pass a high school math testedit

Live Mint 

Despite all the hype, it appears AI cannot mimic the cognitive skills humans use to solve simple mathematics questions We are bombarded almost daily with news about how much smarter Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become, and how it is being applied across a variety of potential use cases.

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Central Agri Institute lauded for contribution to farm automationedit

The Hans India 

They say that the training was very useful and productive. We got lot of exposure on automation and had been trained on handling machines that made agriculture operations hasslefree.

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Banking in India is Drastically Transforming with Digitisationedit

BFSI ELETS Online 

With the rise of digitisation and growing usage of smartphones, banking operations, by and large, can now be performed anytime, anywhere. Customers have access to banking apps on Mobile and computers and they are now spending less time on visiting banks, says Kewal Handa, Chairman, Union Bank of India, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

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AI and IoT are now taking over our lives. Are we overdependent on themedit

The Times of India 

The next step is Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the use of Internet of Things (IoT) internet and connectivity in everyday objects. Like the growth of technology, AI is also growing rapidly, and a growing number of people are relying on it in their daily life. From using it to navigate, to controlling the temperature at houses, AI is making its presence known.

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5 Platforms using AI technologies and redefining their industryedit

The Asian Age 

Routematic, with the help of the Internet of Things, has made corporate commutation a hasslefree and organized process. It is one of the first platforms to automate the process of commutation completely, from booking to billing.

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Share of tech patents on the rise in IP filingsedit

The Hindu

Apart from AI, there has been consistent growth on building IP in other emerging tech domains, with patents filed in cyber security (193), IoT (107) and cloud computing (88) accounting for over 50% of the tech patents filed in 2017/18, said the report titled ‘Emerging Technologies: Leading the next wave of IP Creation for India’.

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Five major trends related to IoT and digital transformationedit

Express Computer 

Telenor Connexion has worked with analysts from Stockholm-based consulting firm Northstream to identify five major trends related to the Internet of Things (IoT) and digital transformation. Everyone knows connectivity and digitalisation are transforming the global economy – but where will biggest impact be felt? That is the big question Telenor Connexion hopes to answer with the release of their new report: Five Predictions for IoT.

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Cyber security an essential requirement for SMEs and 21st century start upsedit

BW Disrupt

While this has taken efficiency and ease of operations to an altogether new level, it has also created opportunities for cyber criminals to breach into an organization and cause potentially irreparable losses. When we talk of start-ups and SMEs, digital presence becomes even more crucial for them because more often than not, they have limited hands to deal with every aspect of business. Digital technology enables them to multi-task as well as automates some of their operations.

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This medical robot can autonomously navigate inside one’s bodyedit

Deccan Chronicle 

The touch sensor uses artificial intelligence (AI) and image processing algorithms to enable the catheter to figure out where it is in the heart and where it needs to go. For the demo, the team performed a highly technically demanding procedure known as paravalvular aortic leak closure, which repairs replacement heart valves that have begun leaking around the edges.

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Preparing India for Industry 4.0edit

Elets Online 

Technically speaking, Industry 4.0 brings together Advanced Analytics, Robotics & Automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT, Big Data, and Process Digitisation across the business value chain. In layman terms, it can increase the speed of innovation, is consumer-oriented and can lead to faster design processes.

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Innovation In Farmingedit

Business World 

The concept of smart farm machinery has the capacity to increase output, lower costs and enhance farm incomes. Convergence of cloud platforms, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence has helped in opening up new opportunities such as getting early weather updates, tracking the nutrient content in soil etc.

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How will IoT drive the connected economy?edit

Devdis Course 

The Internet of Things (IoT), a giant network of connected things and people, is transforming many industries across the globe and creating value for both businesses and their customers. Telenor Connexion, a fully-owned subsidiary of Telenor and a dedicated and specialized IoT unit, has released a new report highlighting five major trends and challenges related to IoT and digital transformation in 2019.

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How Robotics like technologies will bring paradigm shift in healthcareedit

E Health ELETS 

Healthcare professionals have been using robotics for over 30 years, but as technology continues to advance, the use of robotics has increased at a similar pace. In fact, according to the new market intelligence report, the global healthcare robotics market is expected to witness a growth rate of 12.64% by 2023.

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How Digital Transformation is Minimizing the Data Riskedit

Analytics Insight 

These ongoing cyber-attacks highlight the essentials of cybersecurity as an integral element of an organization’s digital transformation strategy. The time has arrived to understand the main drivers and bring advancements in the cyber security solutions to provide protection to the cybersecurity industry and keep our confidential data at a safer place.

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Emerging technologies are changing the built environment and the nature of skillsedit

ET Rise 

Emerging technologies are responsible for the upgradation of urban areas to smart cities and automated processes herald new business opportunities. Artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IOT), robotics and other technologies are transforming environment underpinning the future of real estate industry.

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Digitization Picks Up The Pace In Insuranceedit

Business World 

The introduction of Chatbot which combines Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Machine Learning and Analytics has been a vital part to enhance customer communication. This Chatbot Digitization of Human Communication ensures 24×7 services and helps you understand a wide range of products.

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Cybersecurity insurance market to reach $35.07 billion by 2026: Reportedit

Tech Observer 

The global cybersecurity insurance market is likely to reach $35.07 billion by 2026 growing at a CAGR of 26.6%. In 2017, the market was pegged at $4.19 billion. According to research firm ResearchAndMarkets, the factors influencing the market growth are growing adoption of cloud solutions and increase in cyber data breaches. However, high costs and difficulties in implementing cyber insurance are hindering the growth of the market.

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AIs Should Have the Same Ethical Protections as Animalsedit

News Central 124×7 

Universities across the world are conducting major research on artificial intelligence (AI), as are organisations such as the Allen Institute, and tech companies including Google and Facebook. A likely result is that we will soon have AI approximately as cognitively sophisticated as mice or dogs. Now is the time to start thinking about whether, and under what conditions, these AIs might deserve the ethical protections we typically give to animals.

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This robot performs arathi and puja even after 32 yearsedit

The New Indian Express 

Imagine this: A robot performing all the pujas and rituals to an Ayyappa idol in the same way a priest does in the temple! Now, suspend your imagination. For, this is reality. A reality that dates back to three decades much before Malayalees had come to terms with the word robotics.

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Ideas to solve water woes in Ahmedabadedit

The Times of India

By Parth Shastri

Some of the ideas that emerged from the exercise include aluminium based water condensation system, use of solar panels for water generation from humid air, developing drones and internet of things (IoT) based system to detect breach and leakage in canals, use of Vapour Compression Refrigeration (VCR) system to get water from the atmosphere and detection of water loss in water bodies by infrared (IR) satellite imaging.

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Humangenerated profiles more trusted than AIgenerated ones: Studyedit

The Economic Times 

People trust human generated profiles more than artificial intelligence generated profiles, particularly in online marketplaces, reveals a study in which researchers sought to explore whether users trust algorithmically optimised or generated representations.

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Effects of AI and AGI on humanity and policingedit

Deccan Chronicle 

A doctor reads about a half dozen medical research papers in a month, whereas Watson can read a half million in about 15 seconds. Watson, by reviewing research data, test data, doctors and nurses notes, can discover patterns on how the diseases develop and suggest what treatments work best.

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Demand for cyber risk insurance in India grew by 40% in 2018edit

Live Mint 

By Abhijit Ahaskar

“Cyber risk, data breaches and its consequent financial liabilities, looms large on the rapidly evolving Digitisation momentum of every sector and business. Cyber insurance is proving to be a key tool in the risk management and cost-offsetting arsenal of an enterprise and at the same time scaling up the prevention and protection measures,” said Rama Vedashree, CEO, DSCI in an official press statement.

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Cyberspace danger: Can we really prevent internet fraudedit

The Financial Express 

Cyberspace danger, internet fraud, digitisation, fraudsters, cybercrime, cyberattacks, household appliances, DDoS attacks, WannaCryCybercriminals and fraudsters are constantly looking to exploit vulnerabilities to perpetuate frauds and extort victims.

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AI wont take your job but it will take away the pain of a flat tyreedit

The Times of India 

By Sajeev Kumarapuram  

Nahi suna hai saab, woh AI kya hai, Jaswant admits to not having heard of artificial intelligence (AI), as he loosens the lug nuts of a flat tyre with greasy hands. Its a sweltering day in Noida, and a busy highway is not the ideal place to spend a Monday morning ruing over a puncture. And you probably wont, a few years from now.

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Airtel may monetise its data analytics divisionedit

DNA 

By Mansi Taneja

About hundreds of trillions of records from customer purchases, phone calls, network logs, apps, IoT devices, locations and more are generated every day. The intelligence team combines data science, data intelligence, and data infrastructure and process high volumes of data, create microtargeting marketing campaigns, improve personalisation and optimisation and ensure revenue.

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AI Can Use Digital Footprint to Personalise Ads You Seeedit

Business Standard 

Artificial intelligence tools can use your digital footprints on Facebook, Twitter, and other online sites, to customise ads you see based on your personality type, scientists have found. Images used for advertising on TV and online play a powerful role in triggering emotions and shaping impressions of products or brands, but an ad that appeals to one person may seem irrelevant or distasteful to another.

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Top 8 supply chain technology trends in 2019edit

Computer World

AI supports the shift to broader supply chain automation that many organizations are seeking, said Titze. For example, AI can enhance risk mitigation by analyzing large sets of data, continuously identifying evolving patterns, and predicting disruptive events along with potential resolutions.

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The arc of Technology and its role in modern societyedit

The Financial Express

With newer radical streams like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data making the headlines; the Insurance sector and its allied industries will also be positively impacted and is sure to witness a revolutionary transformation in the times to come. The marrying of Insurance with Technology is a delight for our customers and reinforces our belief to Live Smart.

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Technology trends that redefined IT sectoredit

Telangana Today

The rapid rate that technology is developing at in present day, the trends that follow seem to follow suit. Technological advances such as AI, Robotic Process Automation, block chains and a multitude of other methods have been popularly integrated by IT companies everywhere for their ability to yield to an untold amount of profits, all of which result in reduced time and improved productivity.

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Robot that can move on its own inside the bodyedit

 Live Mint

In an animal model of cardiac valve repair, the team programmed a robotic catheter to find its way along the walls of a beating, blood-filled heart to a leaky valve—without a surgeon’s guidance. They reported their work in Science Robotics.

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Researchers Create Autonomous Surgical Robotic Device To Navigate Inside The Heart Of Pigsedit

Republic World

Borrowing from the way cockroaches skitter along walls, scientists have created a robotic device that safely guides itself through the delicate chambers of a pig’s heart as it’s beating. It is one of the first times researchers have shown that a truly autonomous surgical robot can navigate inside the heart, not controlled by a doctor with a joystick, according to a study in Wednesday’s journal Science Robotics.

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People trust banks most with their personal data: Surveyedit

Money Control

More than half (52%) said they trust their banks specifically to protect their data. According to new research by nCipher Security, which reveals that people trust banks and other financial entities to safeguard their personal data more than other organizations. (cyber security)

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New AI research allows thoughts to be heardedit

The Week

A simple .mp3 file just heralded a huge step forward for the world of neurological speech synthesis AKA turning brain waves into words. In a research article published in Nature, Gopala K. Anumanchipalli, Josh Chartier and Edward F. Chang demonstrate how it is now possible to turn brain wave readings into discernible sentences, under certain conditions.

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Managing Connected Lighting Solutionsedit

EET India

By Giovanni Frezza, Molex

Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are to deliver smarter, more automated and better connected systems in new and existing buildings. However, large scale deployment continues to present a challenge for the industry because systems and practices remain highly siloed, from the design to operation perspectives. New technologies and scalable approaches are successfully overcoming these obstacles.

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Growing Use of Artificial Intelligence in Defence Opens Opportunities for the Indian Tech Sectoredit

Bharat Shakti

There is no one universally agreed definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, a general, albeit oversimplified definition of AI is the capacity of a computer system to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as visual observation, decision making and speech recognition.

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Cybersecurity And IoT Industry Facing Skill Shortage Leading To Development Issuesedit

Analytics Insight

By  Smriti Srivastava

Martin Ewings, director of Specialist Markets, Experis said that – “IoT offers huge opportunities for organizations if they have the right cyber security foundations in place to take advantage of new innovations safely. We can see that there is a strong demand for top talent, but the market is struggling to keep pace. Businesses are having to be creative and take a blended approach to their talent acquisition strategies

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Curtain Raiser: Express Computer to organise Smart Manufacturing Conclaveedit

Express Computer

By Abhishek Raval

A panel discussion is also organised, wherein CIOs from a variety of industries will share their views: Smart Manufacturing: Best practices for taking manufacturing efficiencies to a new level, the panelists include Piyush Chowhan, CIO of Arvind Lifestyle Brands; Ketan Karkhanis, Head IT, Clariant in India; Jagdish Lomte, CIO, Thermax; Nabuath Khan, Practice Head Manufacturing and IOT Analytics, SAS India; Ranjit Metrani, VP Sales & Chief Revenue Offier, ESDS; Moderator: Srikanth RP, Editor, Express Computer.

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5 Common Cyber security Pitfalls That Can Cost Organisations Its Dataedit

Analytics India Mag

By Harshajit Sarmah

Humans are considered to be one of the weakest links in terms of cyber security they are more vulnerable. So, considering the safety of your organisations data/information, make sure the entire staff is trained on cyber security, covering not only the basics but also the advanced topics. This would make you cyber security infrastructure a bit stronger.

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We are moving from ‘facilitation’ to ‘flow’edit

Business Standard

By Sneha Bhattacharjee

There are a few places in the world as exciting and interesting as India when it comes to digital payments. The country registered about 20.3 billion digital payment transactions in FY17-18. However, over 90 per cent of payments in India are still in cash. This is a huge opportunity that Mastercard is trying to address. (IoT)

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Don’t upset the innovation apple-cartedit

The Hindu Business Line

By Subir roy

The good news for India is that what it lost out in manufacturing, it has made up through its prowess in software so that it is now well-placed to play a role in the fourth industrial revolution which is digitally enabled. Indian IT and start-ups have marked a place for themselves in Industry 4.0, made up of areas like automation in manufacturing, internet of things, cloud hosting and cognitive computing.

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Tech Cos will Need to Scale up to Face Data Explosion: Dell EVPedit

The Economic Times

By Ayan Pramanik

“And, today, we do analysis on only about 10% of the data. And, I think no matter how you use the data, whether it’s artificial intelligence, you know, or in terms of more data driven or smarter products, or digital cities or smart cities, whichever we use it…so com-pounding effect of data doubling requires a new type of architecture to support this explosive growth in the data and the computer requirements,” he said.

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The online travel industry is adopting an AI-first approach: Sanjay Mohan, CTO, MakeMyTripedit

Express Computer

By Mohit Rathod

As Mohan states, the company now has one of the cleverest customer facing AI in the Indian online travel space called Gia and Myra – it is already doing over 200,000 weekly unique conversations not just on GI and MMT platform, but various chat apps like Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Amazon Alexa; and soon on Google Assistant

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Report: A vulnerable attack surface exists in healthcare enterprise IT networksedit

IT News Online

Vectra, the leader in network threat detection and response, today announced that the proliferation of healthcare internet of things (IoT) devices, along with un partitioned networks, insufficient access controls and the reliance on legacy systems, has exposed a vulnerable attack surface that can be exploited by cyber criminals determined to steal personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), in addition to disrupting healthcare delivery processes.

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IoT And Blockchain Technology based Autonomous Vehicle Smart City Project To Improve Safetyedit

OWLT Market

An IoT and blockchain technology based autonomous vehicle smart city project will be developed to improve safety. Filament is a blockchain startup who has made a partnership with an Intelligent Mobility initiative of the University of Nevada, Reno in order to develop the project.

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Growing use of Artificial Intelligence in Defence opens opportunities for the Indian tech sectoredit

The Financial Express

By Debajit Sarkar

There is no one universally agreed definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, a general, albeit oversimplified definition of AI is the capacity of a computer system to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as visual observation, decision making and speech recognition. Artificial Intelligence has expanded the space of function, for machines, by delivering artificial cognition to computers.

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Digital India move! Top 5 majors to ensure cyber security and protect your businessedit

Zee Biz

By Asit Manohar

Digital India campaign in India has made Indian entrepreneurs more aware about cyber security that their firms require. Here are the top five majors to ensure cyber security. Cyber security is neither the job of companys SIO only nor its now an integral part of the IT professional hired by the company.

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Cyber security Tips for Legal Professionalsedit

Legal Desire

As a lawyer, everything you do is centered around working in the best interest of your clients, so shouldn’t that extend to protecting their private and personal information Of course, the answer is yes, but for many individual lawyers and law firms, cyber security is an area that can create a lot of confusion.

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AI, IoT among top 8 supply chain technology trends in 2019: Gartneredit

Business Standard

Future ready Gartner, Inc. Gartner, Inc. has identified artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, internet of things (IoT), robotic process automation, autonomous things, digital supply chain twin, block chain in supply chain and immersive experience as the top eight supply chain technology trends in 2019.

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AI to strengthen surveillanceedit

Fortune

By Ashish P. Dhakan

Technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) empowers machines to do jobs previously done by people. When it comes to security and surveillance, AI enables cameras and control room equipment to identify a wide range of threats automatically, and in real time helping security teams take immediate action to protect people and assets.

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AI Innovators with Big Data Expertise Leading the Clan of Most Innovative Companies, Says BCGedit

Analytics Insight

By Smriti Srivastava

The survey explains how artificial intelligence’s employment is rising at a quick pace and organizations are collaborating with it to gauge up their efforts in business growth. Let’s take a look at the main highlights of the detailed insight provided by BCG over most innovative companies of 2019:

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5 Reasons Why One Should Learn Cyber Security In 2019edit

Analytics India Mag

By Harshajit Sarmah

Here are the 5 reasons why you should learn Cyber Security High Demand For Cyber Security Experts Cyber security today is one of the hottest career options. And with every advancement in the technology as well as in the Internet space, the demand cyber security experts across the globe is increasing at a rapid pace.

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Top Artificial Intelligence Investments in March 2019edit

Analytics Insight

By Kamalika Some

Venture investments in artificial intelligence companies continue to grow, credit to a supportive ecosystem which facilitates an easy access to the venture capitalist interest. March 2019 was no different when we talk of investments done in AI companies. Most of the investments made in March 2019 went into the Seed round and the Series A funding.

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The dark side of IoTedit

Deccan Chronicle

Going deeper, you’ll realize IoT is a much broader subject. The concept defines the communication between objects that interact with internal as well as the external environment. It is widely known that more things connected to the internet today than people and the number is likely to grow to over 20 billion by 2020.

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Risk management programmes must address IT threats associated with digital businessedit

The Financial Express

In 2019, organisational risks are turning into significant operational surprises, and the frequency will only increase as digital business requirements grow. There is no longer room for siloed risk management programmes. Instead, security leaders must focus on building integrated risk management programs. (cyber security)

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Promise of AI transforming everything overblown Heres what scientists sayedit

Business Standard

By Mark Buchanan

Researchers have learned much the same for biology and medicine. Big data, as one group puts it, needs big theory too Artificial intelligence is going to boost human productivity in a thousand ways, transforming everything from transportation to health care to agriculture. Some enthusiastic computer scientists even think we will find a master algorithm that will fix our politics and make lives longer, happier and more productive.

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Opinion | A reality distortion field that still reignsedit

Live Mint

There are multiple initiatives around the world that are combining AI with visual, audio and language data to create resolute tools which will help combat misinformation, especially a few specific complex aspects of it, such as “deepfake videos”—altered video clips that also leverage AI. So long as truth is still valued by society at large, the authenticity of what’s on our screens needn’t be a lost cause.

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Indias Microcontroller Trendsedit

EET India

By Partha

Both, consumer IoT and industrial IoT has emerged as the third biggest market in India. In this segment a lot of startups have launched IoT based electronic systems for a range of applications which were previously unthought of, such as agriculture, smart cities and other such areas.

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In The Wake of JustDial Data Breach, These Cyber security Best Practices Can Keep Your Organisations Data Safeedit

Analytics India Mag

By Harshajit Sarmah

The world has witnessed several high profile cyber attacks in the past couple of years, and while many companies across the globe have learnt from the downfalls of the victim companies, there are companies that are lagging in implementing cyber security frameworks in their organisations. (cyber security)

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If Your Password is 12345 or Any Other from This List, You Need to Change Right Nowedit

News 18

Cyber Security Centre study quoted by The Independent. The study has found that using easily guessed passwords across multiple accounts is a major gap in the online security habits of British people.

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If you want to save your job from robots, make a career in these fields, not science and techedit

The Financial Express

By Eram Tafsir

With India moving towards greater automation, too much focus on STEM education and protecting vulnerable sectors may not help much to protect our jobs from robots, said Brookings Institute in a report recently. Too much focus on STEM has the inherent risk of over saturation of few sectors over the others, hampering overall economic development, said the report.

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Data Analytics: A New Era of Enhanced Customer Experiencesedit

Express Computer

They are deploying the processes of data analytics in combination with advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning (ML) and Robotics to produce ground breaking outcomes both, in terms of effectiveness and overall value to consumers.

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AI is taking jobs & humans are missing the big pictureedit

The Print

By Mark Buchanan

Most tech companies are focusing on replacing people with AI with an eye on short term profits instead of using it to create new tasks for humans for long term growth. Quite a few researchers now applying AI think machines will continue to depend on human intelligence for a very long time.

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5 Devices To Up Your Hardware Cyber security Gameedit

Analytics India Mag

By Anirudh VK

Cyber security is generally seen as an area where software is of utmost importance, which has led to a rise in the number of accessible security software out in the wild. However, a few hardware additions can make the digital experience a whole lot safer, adding another dimension to cyber security.

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Power Of Decodingedit

Mail Today

By Smitha Verma

Data is the new oil. Hundreds of companies are now investing in setting up Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data labs to mine this data. And with data science being a field which has the potential to offer a landmine of job opportunities at different levels, it would be a good idea to start looking at it as a career avenue.

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Why India needs to do much more on data privacyedit

CNBC TV18

By Krishna Sarma

In India, there is a need for a robust privacy law that puts the rights of the individual at the centre. Indias objective appears to be asserting national sovereignty over the valuable resource of a billion plus people and aspirations of economic benefit by providing a competitive advantage to local companies. (cyber security)

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The Impatient Consumer, iOT and the Food of Everythingedit

India Retailing

By Harish Bijoor

The big technology trend I am excited of at this point in time is the Internet of Things (iOT). All of us have heard of it by now. The era of the iOT or the Internet Of Things is here. Some marketing and technology evangelists have dubbed it an era of the iOE or the Internet Of Everything.

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Robotic Agriculture Will Provide Sustainable Assistance to Farmers in Feeding the Mouthsedit

Analytics Insight

By Smriti Srivastava

The fast paced world is moving ahead with evolving basic humanitarian needs. Sometimes we don’t even realize that we are surrounded by technologies even in our closed knitted envelops. Various industries and businesses have adapted to the tech world shifting to the plethora of digital transformation.

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Network Intelligence Signs Partnership With BSE to Provide Security Services to its Members Under the SEBI Cybersecurity Guidelinesedit

Business Standard

Commenting on the development, Ashish Chauhan, CEO BSE, said, With an evolving array of potential cyber attacks, it has become essential to have robust cyber security in place and safeguard the interests of our stock brokers. Even a minor cyber security breach could have massive economic and financial consequences.

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How AI is transforming customer management in banking sectoredit

Money Control

By Usha Prasad

The data intensive nature of BFSI sector makes it imperative to utilize AI to sift through large volumes of data and customize customer offerings. There has been considerable rise in the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools in the BFSI sector. (Artificial intelligence)

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Conversational AI goes mainstream nowedit

The Times of India

By Sindhu Hariharan 

Marketing automation platform Netcore Solutions acquired Quinto.ai last week, securing access to startups AI engine and talent. Veer Chand Bothra, chief entrepreneur and evangelist, Netcore says the conversational AI market is in a close to maturity stage in India, and adoption by conventional sectors has truly taken off in the past two years.

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Artificial intelligence shapes a new generation female IT leadersedit

CIO

By Lilia Guan

AI is bringing a fresh approach to the old ways of thinking in the tech sector which will help shape female leaders, says Karolyn Gainfort, an advisory committee member for Women in AI.AI is bringing a fresh approach to the old ways of thinking in the tech sector which will help shape female leaders, says Karolyn Gainfort, an advisory committee member for Women in AI

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Artificial intelligence in the world of beautyedit

The Asian Age

Artificial Intelligence can be simply defined as machines that imitate human behavior. With the help of Artificial Intelligence, the customer can find a skin or hair profile that is totally personalized.

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Artificial intelligence can diagnose PTSD by analyzing voices: Studyedit

ANI News

A new artificial intelligence tool can help diagnose post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by analyzing voices, a recent study has claimed. Our findings suggest that speech based characteristics can be used to diagnose this disease, and with further refinement and validation, may be employed in the clinic in the near future, said senior study author Charles R Marmar. (Artificial intelligence)

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AI, social media regulation find prominence in poll manifestosedit

Gadgets Now

Going by the poll manifestos published by major political parties, the use of digital technology is likely to get a boost under the new government that will come to power after the Lok Sabha election results on May 23. (Artificial intelligence)

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A $603 Million Deal Sheds Light on Cybersecurity Spaceedit

Bloomberg Quint

By Crayton Harrison

Quint is a multi platform, Indian business and financial news company. We combine Bloombergs global leadership in business and financial news and data, with Quintillion Medias deep expertise in the Indian market and digital news delivery, to provide high quality business news, insights and trends for Indias sophisticated audiences. (cyber security)

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India data center market to be worth $1.5 billion by 2022: Reportedit

Money Control 

According to a new market research published by MarketsandMarkets, the India Data Center Market size is projected to reach USD 1.5 billion by 2022 from USD 1.0 billion in 2018, growing at a CAGR of 11.4 percent during the forecast period. The market growth is driven deeper internet penetration, increase in digital data traffic, public cloud services, and higher expected growth for IoT.

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Govt to establish National Urban and Innovation Stack for Smart Cities to tackle implementation challenges at the ground leveledit

First Post 

Smart Cities is all about using Industry 4.0, Digital Technologies and IoT, whereas the commissioners of the cities or special purpose vehicle (SPVs) guys typically are urban people. They know how to dig roads, how to install lamp posts but they have never done cyberphysical integration in their life.

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Agriculture and internet of thingsedit

State Times 

In recent times Internet of things has emerged as one of the most reliable smart farming technologies. IoT (Internet of things) in an agricultural context refers to the use of sensors, cameras, and other devices to turn every element and action involved in farming into data

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Unilever reveals how digital transformation improves consumer relationshipedit

Infotech Lead 

Unilever is making investment in connectivity, Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) to connect its supply chain with partners and consumers. Marc Engel is he chief supply chain officer of Unilever.

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India can become global leader in automationedit

The New Indian Express 

Big names in the country’s IT sector prophesied the emergence of new technology and business infrastructure on the back of cloud and edge computing in the coming days, at the SPICON held in the City on Saturday. Around 150 delegates took part in this conference and discussed best industry practices when it comes to agility, automation and cloudification.

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Is Artificial Intelligence Taking Over Military?edit

Analytics India Mag 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been omnipresent and the latest in the block is Military. In recent times, AI has become a critical part of modern warfare. Compared with the conventional systems, military establishments churning enormous volumes of data are capable to integrate AI on a more unified process.

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Conversational AI goes mainstream nowedit

The Times of India 

By Sindhu Hariharan

2019 is on the path to be an inflection point for conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the technology moves from being considered to be a futuristic novelty to a value-add for enterprise marketing. As businesses embrace real-world applications of AI-based chatbots and voice-powered assistants, investments and acquisition action in the space has seen an uptick this year.

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IoT security market to reach $35.2 bn by 2023: Reportedit

Money Control 

According to a new market research report published by MarketsandMarkets, the global Internet of Things (IoT) Security Market size is expected to grow from USD 8.2 billion in 2018 to USD 35.2 billion by 2023, at CAGR of 33.7 percent during the forecast period.

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How to build artificial intelligence that everyone can trustedit

Qrius 

Experts from IBM Watson and Kellogg discuss how to remove bias and increase transparency in machine learning algorithms. Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Machines are getting smarter, faster, and are poised to play ever greater roles in our healthcare, our education, our decision making, our businesses, our news, and our governments. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Data access and data privacy key aspects of AI implementationedit

Money Control

The Data Privacy Framework must focus on striking a balance between digital economy and privacy without deterring the growth and use of technology Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are being widely used for various applications across sectors. The BFSI sector too is aggressively integrating AI, machine learning and deep learning algorithms into its existing products and services to process large amounts of data.

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Can Your Brain get Connected to a PC Yes, Says Elon Musk and His Teamedit

Analytics Insight 

Meet the modern day visionary Elon Musk. After disrupting the auto, solar and space industries, the maverick wants to leave an impression on the future of humanity or Artificial Intelligence itself. And in a bid to realise this aim he founded Neuralink in 2016. Registered as a California medical research company Neuralink has operated furtively since its inception. Be ready for brainmachine interfaces with ultrahigh bandwidth connecting computers and humans. (Artificial Intelligence)

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AI could change the way humans interactedit

The Economic Times 

In the future, artificial intelligence will probably reshape our economy, society and our lives. But achieving AIs full potential will not only require many technological innovations but research into some societal difficulties, including ethical issues, workplace disruptions, and changing human interactions. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Switzerland to monitor potential health risks posed by 5G networksedit

The Hans India 

Switzerland will introduce a monitoring system to assuage concerns about the potential health impact of fifthgeneration (5G) mobile frequency emissions and smooth the cuttingedge technologys rollout, the government said on Wednesday. (Internet of things)

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Siemens launches Atlas of digitalization to measure readiness of smart cityedit

Tech Observer 

Siemens launches Atlas of Digitalization to measure readiness of smart city. Siemens has launched a new webbased application which reveals the readiness and potential of six major cities to embrace digitalization and develop new ways of living, working and interacting. (Internet of things)

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How AI Can Do a Health Checkedit

The Economic Times 

By Alnoor Peermohamed

Tech-led fitness startups are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to alert users about potential lifestyle conditions early enough for accurate diagnosis, in the process perfecting a business model that focuses on prevention for the health conscious. Typically, a fitness app on your phone looks at an Instagram picture of what you ate to gauge the calories consumed and suggest the best workout next day.

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Analytics Insight Magazine Recognizes Top 100 Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Influencers in 2019edit

Analytics Insight 

Analytics Insight Magazine, a brand of Stravium Intelligence has named Top 100 Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Influencers in 2019 in its April issue. The magazine recognizes 100 Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Influencers impacting the landmark trends and innovative drive of the techsavvy world.

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AI can spur production of safe, clean fusion energyedit

The Hans India 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can speed up the development of safe, clean and virtually limitless fusion energy for generating electricity, claim researchers. A team of scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University are applying deep learning to forecast sudden disruptions that can halt fusion reactions and damage the doughnut-shaped tokamaks that house the reactions.

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60% Indian firms worried about Internet security: Reportedit

The Economic Times 

Nearly 60 per cent organisations in India are concerned that the Internet is getting increasingly unstable from a cybersecurity standpoint and they are unsure how to react, according to a new report from Accenture.

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Why no political party can disrupt tech sectoredit

MINT

By Leslie D’Monte

Bengaluru’s residents may be tech-savvy and vocal on social media but they are far from being armchair activists. Now millionaires and veterans of industry but once freshers in the startup world such as Infosys founders N.R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, Mohandas Pai, and Kris Gopalakrishnan, Wipro’s Azim Premji and Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw are not only known for their entrepreneurship and philanthropy but also their activism. (IoT, Nasscom)

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Why Indias trojan menace will only increaseedit

Live Mint

By Leslie D’Monte, Abhijit Ahaskar

Wipro and Microsoft are only cases in point. The world over, individuals, companies and governments are being increasingly targeted as we get more digital with a rise in smartphones and more connected devices underscoring the internet of things (IoT) trend.

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Tech companies introduce new initiatives for women keen to join back the workforceedit

The Economic Times

By Sanghamitra Kar

Technology firms including Accenture, Nutanix and Hinduja Global Solutions are putting in place new initiatives aimed at helping women keen on getting back to work after a mid career break, although the participation of women has remained low, especially in senior positions. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Science in polls, from feel good to feel strongedit

The Hans India

By Richard Mahapatra

With the Balakot episode and later the ASAT declaration, the ruling party has brought muscular science into the spotlight alongside oft repeated claims of ancient India scientific prowess. Scientific feats seem to be emerging as the feelstrong factor in the general elections, a leap from the feel good debate over ancient Indias scientific feats. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Keeping drivers alert and safe with AI based computingedit

The Financial Express

By BV Mahalakshmi

Edgetensor, a Texas based startup with a development center in Bengaluru, has developed a unique Artificial Intelligence (AI) based driver monitoring system for self driving cars. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Indian General Election 2019: How Big Data Is Influencing Voters Psychologyedit

Analytics Insight

By Smriti Srivastava

At times it really gets hard to understand which leader is good for us and we wish that we could read their and pattern. But what if we say leaders have access to your mind and they know what you want Surprisingly, it is true. This election has more to do with brain game than just playing politics. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Healthcare stakeholders say digital healths unicorns are overvaluededit

Business Insider

By Zoe Larock

This is an excerpt from a story delivered exclusively to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Health Briefing subscribers. Healthcare stakeholders are generally up beat about the future growth of digital health. But stakeholders underlying skepticism could point at the markets overvaluation, per a new survey of 250 respondents from health IT startups, insurers, providers, and investors conducted by venture capital firm Venrock. (Artificial Intelligence).

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Get Ready: Voice Assistants Are Coming to Your Conference Roomedit

Pc Mag

By Gadjo Sevilla

Voice assistants can improve productivity and reduce distraction during meetings by taking over rote tasks such as transcribing conversations, taking notes, and even setting tasks in your project management tools. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Edge Computing Finds Prosperity in the Hyperconnected Industrial Landscapeedit

IT News Online

By 2020, 1.7 billion Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices are likely to be connected to edge solutions. Further, we expect that at least 30 percent of the applications will be pushed to the edge within the next five to seven years.

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Developing AI is not an end in itself we have to find ways to reconcile data protection and new technologyedit

The Times of India

With artificial intelligence (AI) becoming the buzzword in technology, India and Sweden are looking to collaborate to harness the full potential of this new field. Swedens ambassador to India, Klas Molin speaks to Rudroneel Ghosh about the exciting possibilities: (Artificial Intelligence)

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Cyber threats are induced with heterogeneous and complex technologiesedit

Smartcity Elets Online

With the expansion of technology and magnitude of complexity, increases the risk of cybersecurity breach, says Pankit Desai, Cofounder and CEO of Sequretek. In this interview with Elets News Network, Desai talks about how the threat of cyber attack is looming and the solutions provided by Sequretek to curb this challenge.

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Artificial Intelligence to help Indian Navy to deal with different threatsedit

The Financial Express

By Huma Siddiqui

This combination can be undertaken for the complete Fleet units simultaneously for reorientation and create an impenetrable integrated air defence shield. Indian Navy, Artificial Intelligence, modern naval warfare, Deep learning, data science, Kulshreshtha, latest news on Indian Navy (Artificial Intelligence)

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Artificial intelligence comes to healthcare just in time to stem the tide of RN turnover and take advantage of Millennials online predilection, says Arenas David Leonard at AONEedit

IT News Online

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a core solution for the current tight labor market for nurses and is especially tailored to the trends seen in the younger generation of workers, who tend to interact in the job market using technology, David Leonard, senior vice president of growth for Arena, told attendees at the American Organization of Nurse Executives annual conference here last week. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Aircraft Sensors Market is Anticipated to Rise at a 6.4 % CAGR, Thanks to an Increase in Air Travel, Noted TMRedit

IT News Online

This makes it an integral part of the functioning of an aircraft, thereby propelling the global aircraft sensors markets growth. Moreover, the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) for several operations needed to analyze plane health condition and baggage tracking is likely to increase demand for aircraft sensors. Consequently, major companies are increasingly investing in IoT, thus propelling the markets expansion.

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AI is not Machines vs Humans but Machines for Humansedit

The Asian Age

There has been an interesting shift in the workforce over the years. Employees in any industry do not work just for money but they strive for work life balance and a conducive work environment. It cannot be argued that a happy employee keeps the customer even happier.

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AI is better than people at tracking biological neural networksedit

The Week

AI based automated process can accurately identify and segment neurons in minutes Data analysts have spent hours and hours processing minutes of data, but this algorithm can process a 30 minute video in 20 to 30 minutes (Artificial Intelligence)

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AI in Indian BFSI sector: Are we on trackedit

Money Control

By Usha Prasad

While the technology holds high potential, India is at a nascent stage in leveraging AI for BFSI sector, experts argue. In the last one decade, advancement in technology has had a positive impact on the BFSI sector, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the forefront of innovations. (Artificial Intelligence)

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AI Holds The Key To Detect And Treat Fatal Diseases Early, And Make Healthcare Cheaperedit

India Times

By  Gwyn D’Mello

According to the Journal of American Cardiology, 34 people die every minute to cardiovascular disease. Additionally, at least 1,300 Indians die of cancer each year according to the National Cancer Registry Programme. (Artificial Intelligence)

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AI assisted stock trading venue plans to use the technology for bigger tradesedit

Reuters

By John McCrank

Imperative Execution, a startup electronic stock trading venue operator, has found early success using artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce price movements after trades, and now it plans to use the technology to help brokers get larger trades done. (Artificial Intelligence)

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A Look at Indias Electronics Maker Movementedit

EET India

By Partha

And then there was a little dull period during the PC and internet boom, when the Internet of Things was still not born as a standalone technology. During this dull period, Electronics engineers in India gravitated towards lucrative, less risky, and fast growing software coding/programming jobs. Their hands were occupied with computer keyboards instead of soldering irons and wires

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Why this is Indias big data electionedit

The Times of India 

This election season, you may have noticed a trend in the kind of political videos popping up on your feeds. And posts related to polls you havent participated in but are there for your reading anyway. You might have also noticed ads from election candidates in your vicinity. And when you want to find out whats trending Theres a pattern there too, right (Artificial Intelligence)

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These are the six business trends that will shape Banking in 2019edit

Money Control 

Business model innovation and open banking figure among the top trends in banking in 2019.The last few years have seen several nonbanking companies such as technology majors, digital upstarts and FinTechs steadily expand their foothold in the financial services space. 1A recent study revealed that FinTechs now constitute about 33 percent of the financial services revenue globally.

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Opinion | Think before getting machines to take moral decisions for usedit

Live Mint 

Anantha Nageswaran & S. Raghu Raman Should Artificial Intelligence (AI) be programmed to avoid the mental shortcuts that humans takeIf technology magazines are to be believed, Artificial Intelligence (AI) would have to make moral choices in the very near future.

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Internet Of Thoughts: You Might Gain Knowledge By Simply Thinking About Topics In The Futureedit

Republic World 

Our brains may someday be able to directly connect to vast cloudcomputing networks in real timeOur brains may someday be able to directly connect to vast cloudcomputing networks in real time, allowing us to gain a Matrixstyle instant access to the worlds knowledge by simply thinking about a specific topic, scientists claim. (Artificial Intelligence)

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India is undergoing a digital transformation in each industry sectoredit

Smart City Elets Online 

By Saurabh Saxena with Jyoti Bhagat

India has been undergoing a digital transformation in a rapid mode, says Saurabh Saxena, Country Director India, Micro Focus. In this interview with Saurabh Saxena with Jyoti Bhagat of Elets News Network, he talks about this industry wise digital transition, spinmerge with HPE, cybersecurity as a challenge among other areas.

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How can data science help patients fight diseasesedit

The Economic Times 

Saving a human life takes a village in the metaphorical sense. Many different types of doctors, physicians, scientists, pharma, healthcare companies come together to make this happen.

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How a Bengaluru startup is helping factories gain a sixth senseedit

Factor Daily 

By Anand Murali

Although the primary focus is on such systems, the companys solution will also function on machines already equipped with sensors that generate similar data points. In these cases, Asquareds internet of things (IoT) solutions act as an additional data point source for analytics.

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Global Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Market 2019 Competitive Landscape and Key Players Strategies 2025edit

New Found Times 

This study is titled Global Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Market 20192025 which carefully examines several vital factors such as market share, market revenue, market dynamics and competitive scenario active in the target market for the period between 2019 and 2025.

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Getting Real About Artificial Intelligenceedit

Huffington Post 

Whatever abstract visions we do have in mind, the truth is that artificial intelligence and machine learning are no longer the future, they are already part of our present, our everyday lived reality. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Discovering the disruptive technology for the everyday lifeedit

Ele Times 

The term technology has a broad meaning and can be hard to clearly define when it comes to understanding how it directly affects the public at large. But affect us it does, and will continue to do so in immeasurable ways as our world becomes increasingly intertwined with innovations and advancements that would have been inconceivable just a decade ago. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Businesses are turning to AI for IT operations: Viewedit

The Economic Times 

Padraig Byrne Last year, Australias two largest supermarket chains suffered nationwide technical issues, forcing the companies to close stores until the issues were fixed. The result: Lost revenue and frustrated customers. The reality is that IT teams are dealing with increasing amounts of data and a variety of tools to monitor that data, which can mean significant delays in identifying and solving issues. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Brewing Craze of Artificial Intelligence Adoption Across the Industry is Worth Watchingedit

Analytics Insight 

Deriving success from artificial technology is one such bug buzzing continuously in the mind of business leaders. The adoption of technology across the industry is imminent and its increasing craze is becoming more and more interesting. The success of the company has become directly proportional to the scale at which AI has been employed in the business strategies and transformative ideas.

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Auto Mechanics and Automation: How will the Industry Adaptedit

Motoring Junction 

Heather Redding is a content manager for rent, hailing from Aurora. She loves to geek out writing about wearables, IoT and other hot tech trends. When she finds the time to detach from her keyboard, she enjoys her Kindle library and a hot coffee. Reach out to her on Twitter.

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All technology is finally about customersedit

Money Control 

We have adopted a Digital First strategy deploying a combination of technologies in areas of database, cloud, mobility, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning to augment speed and accuracy at every touch point of our customer service value chain and to reduce human intervention in repetitive, low value transactions.

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AI Test Pinpoints More Cancers Targeted by Astra, Glaxo Drugsedit

Bloomberg Quint 

Using artificial intelligence to pinpoint tumor cells with reduced ability to repair their own DNA can help identify tens of thousands of patients who would benefit from treatment with drugs from AstraZeneca Plc and GlaxoSmithKline Plc, researchers said. Analyzing genetic tests with a machine-learning algorithm helps target cancers that are vulnerable to treatment with drugs called PARP inhibitors, according to a study from scientists at Harvard Medical School in Boston and the U.K.’s University of Cambridge.

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AI robot could lend hand to your household choresedit

Express Computer 

Scientists have developed a robot that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to master intricate human tasks, and could one day help you fold laundry or make a cup of coffee at home. Robots may have a knack for super-human strength and precision, but they still struggle with some basic human tasks.

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AI features to watch out for in 2019edit

Geospatial World 

In 2018 there was a drastic change in tools and applications based on artificial intelligence, those changes not only affected the internet industry but also other industries like healthcare, legal, agriculture, and manufacturing industries. AI is playing a crucial role in the development process of the worlds top companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon etc. (Artificial Intelligence)

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AI can track neurons faster than humansedit

The Hans India 

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) based automated process that can track and map active neurons as accurately as humans can, in a fraction of the time. The technique, described in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, interprets video images, addressing a critical roadblock in neuron analysis.

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AI Built By Elon Musk Deals Crushing Defeat To Worlds Best Players Of This Strategy Gameedit

India Times 

With multiplayer games, bot have always been the amateurs way to practice, with pros always preferring hone their skills against human players capable of strategy, deceit, and surprise. As it turns out, artificial intelligence can do that too now, and better than humans. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Open to tie-ups in EV space: Ashok Leylandedit

The Financial Express

Commercial Vehicle Major Ashok Leyland may look at partnerships in the electric vehicles (EVs) segment in future in a bid to cut huge costs involved in developing new technologies in this space, a top company official said. In the traditional internal combustion engine segment, the Hinduja group flagship firm, however, would like to go on its own, having built a strong portfolio of engines over the years.

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The National Cyber Security Alliance Welcomes Three Prominent Industry Leaders to Board of Directorsedit

IT News Online

The new members, Proofpoint, Uber and U.S. Bank, are deeply committed to supporting NCSAs mission to educate and empower our global digital society to use the internet safely and securely. Together, they will work with NCSA to continue to create and implement far reaching awareness and education efforts to empower everyone to learn about and practice good cyber security in the workplace and at home.

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Evolution Of AI In Video Games: Transition From Cheating To Smartsedit

Analytics India Mag

By Anirudh VK

The field of video game artificial intelligence, which borrows heavily from concepts in machine learning today such as control theory, procedural content generation, data mining, and on the go learning techniques, has recently risen in popularity. These technologies, however, have been in use for over 40 years. Only, they were not referred to as AI in the truest sense but includes various techniques that are used today by ML programmers

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AI in BFSI market to grow at more than 40%: Reportedit

Money Control

Banks cover more than 50% of the artificial intelligence in BFSI market. According to Global Market Insights report, artificial intelligence in BFSI Market for Machine learning technology is estimated to witness lucrative growth from 2018 to 2024. The integration of the intelligent algorithms for risk mitigation and compliance, anti money laundering, and fraud detection applications is the primary factor that augments the demand for the technology.

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79% Indian firms dont have counter measures for hacking: Studyedit

Gadgets Now

The IBM Ponemon study found that globally, 77 per cent of respondents indicated they do not have a cyber security incident response plan applied consistently across the enterprise. Studies show that companies who respond quickly and efficiently to contain a cyber attack within 30 days save over $1 million on the total cost of a data breach on average.

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Miko: Your child’s new robotic best friend-cum-tutor is here!edit

The Week

By K. Sunil Thomas 

Launched recently, the artificial intelligence-powered Miko 2 is billed as being emotionally intelligent and intuitive. It comes from Emotix, a start-up founded by three IIT Bombay graduates who say the robot helps modern parents in ‘playful learning’ by initiating long conversations with kids and imparting knowledge based on their academic curriculum.

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Just how personal is personal? Importance of delivering digitally-transformed customer experiencesedit

ET Rise

customers better. But there’s a challenge too how to gather, store, manage and analyse all of this data to provide better products and services and ultimately create the best customer experience? This is where we are seeing artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cloud services come into their own, helping businesses across the region use this information to build the personalised, data-driven and secure customer experience that’s not just a possibility, but an absolute necessity.

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How the world’s first Black Hole image was capturededit

Digit

Bouman, who was a PhD student in computer science and artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined the team of researchers some six years ago and has since been responsible for the image creation algorithm. She is, according to numerous reports, instrumental in the creation of the image.

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How electric vehicles improve overall air quality and lower carbon emissions?edit

Devdis Course

Is it possible for electric vehicles to improve air quality and climate outlook? Recent research has thrown light on the efficacy of electric vehicles. The study published in the journal Atmospheric Environment provided evidence that making a switch to electric vehicles would improve overall air quality and lower carbon emissions.AI

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Cybersecurity is now a boardroom issueedit

The Hindu

By Yuthika Bhargava

The past year-and-a-half has been an inflection point in cyber security with the battle against lack of awareness among businesses and the public sector largely being won, mainly following the two global ransomware attacks — WannaCry and NotPetya — according to Maninder Singh, corporate VP, cyber security services, HCL Technologies

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Creepy Eerie Future Techedit

Hindustan Times

Think about this. All the innovation the world has ever seen. From the dawn of mankind. All of it put together. It pales in insignificance compared to the innovation the world has seen in just the last five years. Completely dwarfed. That’s because we are in the single greatest phase of breakthrough leading edge technology the world has ever seen.

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AI robot could lend hand to your household choresedit

The Indian Express

These robots flourish in highly structured, predictable environments — a far cry from the traditional home, where you might find children, pets and dirty laundry on the floor. “We’ve often described these industrial robots as moving statues,” Gealy said. If an AI is going to make mistakes and learn by doing in unstructured environments, these rigid robots just would not work.

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Your neighborly Chaiwallah has something to cheer!edit

Entrack

By Shikha Prasad

Something really fascinating may be happening to your Chaiwallah across the lane.Next time you wander in, don’t be surprised to see a tie clad serious looking fellow sitting in his tapri the entire day counting empty tea cups. This isn’t all. The same executive may enquire about the daily routine of stall owner, his/her literacy levels, family constitution, aspirations, criminal antecedents, and even food habits! And no, the executive is not from government. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Why are kids need to keep pace with big tech revolutionsedit

The Financial Express

By Vineet Nayar

Carrying on as before is not an option; we are moving towards the next big tech revolution, with AI and robotics. India has huge ambitions, and to keep pace, its children need to be educated well. We need a disruptive approach that will break through the ennui of business as usual and establish quality education for all a norm, not based on privileged access only.

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Three of Every Four Phones to have Dedicated AI Processors by 2022: Counterpointedit

News 18

According to the report, sales of AI driven smartphones is expected to increase over five times since 2018, to stand at 1.25 billion units by end 2022. According to the report, sales of AI driven smartphones is expected to increase over five times since 2018, to stand at 1.25 billion units by end 2022. (Representative Photo: AFP Relaxnews) (Artificial Intelligence)

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Spys Eye: Technology for securityedit

CNBC TV18

By DC Pathak

Defence Technology is making striking contributions to the task of neutralizing the visible enemy more effective but in security which deals with the unseen adversary technology tools have to play closely with the human controllers in an ongoing fashion. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Someday, You Can Connect The Brain To Cloud Networkedit

The New Indian Express

Our brains may someday be able to directly connect to vast cloud-computing networks in real time, allowing us to gain a Matrix style instant access to the world’s knowledge by simply by thinking about a specific topic, scientists claim. According to a research published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, exponential progress in nanotechnology, nano medicine, artificial intelligence (AI), and computation will lead this century to the development of a “Human Brain/ Cloud Interface” (B/CI).

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Precision Medicine: A new era in medical scienceedit

Orissa Post

Here is your guide to know about Precision Medicine, the latest technique that is changing the way we know modern healthcare. What is it: In a complex modern world where health issues aided by free movement of people and lifestyle changes continue to create new challenges, one size fits all approach to prevent and treat diseases are getting obsolete. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Opinion | Public policy shouldnt be shaped in an ethical vacuumedit

Live Mint

As new technologies, such as AI or Internet of Things, become more pervasive, policy will have to correspondingly incorporate an ethical outlook on how these impact society. In India, for example, AIs effect on employment and human dignity will become critical. There are many unseen ethical dimensions to AI.

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Opinion | How companies can make the most of botsedit

Live Mint

For business enterprises, this presents a complex challenge, as catering to the evolving needs and expectations of consumers while remaining competitive, has become harder than ever. Many organizations are turning to robotic process automation (RPA) to manage complex repetitive tasks and allocating substantial resources for its effective deployment.

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Open AI’s Dota 2 AI beats pro team twiceedit

Deccan Chronicle

In a gaming competition, a neural network, which was trained by AI research organisation Open AI, managed to beat the reigning world champion e-sports team in the complex strategy game Dota 2 twice. The competition, which was held in San Francisco, saw the AI compete against a team of humans consisting of five top Dota 2 pros from team OG.

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Only 4% organisations confident of information security implications of their current strategy: Reportedit

The Times of India

By Jaideep Shenoy

A meager 4% of organizations are confident that they have fully considered the information security implications of their current strategy, and that their risk landscape incorporates and monitors relevant cyber threats, vulnerabilities and risks, noted a recent ASSOCHAMEY joint study. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Managing creativityedit

The Economic Times

By Edward Tenner

The problem with efficiency is that algorithms let us really learn from experience, they let us codify experience, they let us benefit, recognize patterns. However, if somebody relies completely on a system like that, no matter how brilliantly engineered, sooner or later some glitch is going to bite back. (Artificial Intelligence)

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IoT: Industries bet big on the power of connectivityedit

The Financial Express

By Srinath Srinivasan

Internet of Things (IoT) is a buzzword in tech circles today due to its ability to lend itself to a wide range of applications smart homes, connected cars, wearables, etc. Every year, April 9 is observed as IoT Day. Mark Weiser, chief scientist at Xerox PARC in the 1980s, pioneered the technology. Then Weiser had said, The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it

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Invento and Making Humanoid Robots Mainstreamedit

Tech Story

By Shruti Jani

With the emergence of computers in the late 1960s technology soon became the next big thing mankind invented. The invention of technology fueled the generation of computers, software, hardware, the internet and life as we know it today. The gambit of the word technology has now become further and wider than expected and can of course not be pinpointed to a set number of things. But one the vertical the development of tech has fueled is Robotics.

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Industries bet big on the power of connectivityedit

The Financial Express 

True to his statement, today IoT exists behind many applications without actually showing itself, thanks to thousands of sensors which gather data which is processed at the backend, enabled by the cloud. Some of the biggest tech corporations in the world are investing in IoT as part off their digital transformation portfolio.

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Indian IT firms go for big push to AIedit

Mail Today 

Chatbots, voice-based AI solutions and cognitive robotic process automation (RPA) have now become the order of the day. Big services players like Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Cognizant and HCL Tech, which embarked on the AI and automation journey less than five years ago, see upwards of 30 per cent of their total revenues coming from these digital segments.

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How Flipkart is enhancing its supply chain with robotics, machine learningedit

Live Mint 

Supply chain for ecommerce is tight. Sorting plays a very critical role from the speed as well as liability perspective, because we have sellers all over the country. Robotics can help us increase the throughput and as it is modular, we can deploy more bots if we need higher throughput during sales days, says Pranav Saxena, head of robotics and automation at Flipkart Internet Pvt. Ltd.

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Engaging with Industry 4.0edit

The Times of India 

The fourth (Industry 4.0) is about high speed digital networks, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is about creating new age corporations with cyber physical systems and internet of things (IoT). With huge availability of IT and engineering graduates, a conducive environment for startups, India is better placed than many countries to be a part of industry 4.0.

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Cyber security certificateedit

The Times of India 

“While the demand for cybersecurity professionals is growing at an exponential rate, the availability of talent is still scarce. The relevance of cybersecurity shall increase manifold, especially in the view of increasing number of cashless transactions and mobile banking.

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Brains may connect to Cloud directly in futureedit

The Asian Age 

According to a research published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, exponential progress in nanotechnology, nanomedicine, artificial intelligence (AI), and computation will lead this century to the development of a Human Brain/Cloud Interface (B/CI).

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Are you taking enough steps to secure data Top hacker attacks businesses should look foredit

The Hans India 

Rapid technological developments in recent years have presented businesses with a wealth of opportunities when it comes to modernizing the way they operate. From cloud environments to the Internet of Things to cryptocurrencies, there has never been a more exciting nor crucial time for companies looking to revisit their infrastructure.

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AI, chatbot usage by customer service teams set to riseedit

The Financial Express 

According to Salesforce 2019 State of Service report, in India, 93% of decision makers say their companys customer service must transform in order to stay competitive.AI is seen by decision makers and agents alike as a strategic advantage to customer and employee experience. (Artificial Intelligence)

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How the onset of Blockchain and AI module is rebooting the startup and venture capital spaceedit

The Economic Times

By Gaurav Sachdeva

India has over 170 startups focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and they collectively raised over USD 210 million in funding in the period 201617, subsequently there was 120 per cent funding growth for AI startups with USD 150 million investments made in this field in 2018

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How effective is the antivirus app on your smartphoneedit

Live Mint

By Prasid Banerjee

According to guidelines from cyber security firm Sophos, users should keep their phones updated, use encryption and install apps from trusted sources only, among other things, to keep their smartphones safe.

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From Smart Water Pumps to Drones: Technology is Changing Indian Farmsedit

Krishi Jagran

By Alok Kirloskar

India has developed its own world-class engineering capabilities in water management systems by leveraging disruptive technologies such as the Internet of Things, AR/VR and 3D printing. These are the new-gen pumping systems that are capable of meeting the diverse challenges in the water supply to farms

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From AI to Immunotherapy, Scientists Are Innovating to Eliminate TBedit

The Swaddle

By Liesl Goecker

On one hand, you want to screen people actively [with x-rays]; on the other hand, you don’t have enough trained professionals to do that, says Dr. Pooja Rao, the co-founder of Qure.ai, a Mumbai based start up trying to solve that gap by developing an artificial intelligence that can detect abnormal chest x-rays and refer patients for confirmation tests

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Artificial Intelligence Comes with an Unsettling Ability to Predict Mortality of Humansedit

Analytics Insight

By  Smriti Srivastava

Have you ever thought that the death of a human can be predicted Now with the wonders of artificial intelligence, it has become possible. Recently, a team of scientists trained an AI system to examine general health data of 10 years in the UK. Next, they asked the AI system if a particular person is prone to premature death due to chronic disease.

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AI can potentially combat human traffickingedit

The Asian Age

As part of the recent study, researchers tried to understand how artificial intelligence can help in the fight against human trafficking. A group of computational researchers, experts in artificial intelligence (AI) and other members of the technology community are joining forces with policy experts, law enforcement officials, activists and survivors to help put the pieces together

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5 Things That AI Does Better Than Humansedit

Tech Story

By Rohan Mathawan

It is evident that AI is getting better than humans at various tasks, from music making to playing computer games. According to many experts, artificial intelligence will soon be outsmarting us at our own inventions.

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Does your cybersecurity needs upgrade These hints might helpedit

The Economic Times

Many companies only realize the importance of cybersecurity after they have faced a crisis. If your company needs to upgrade its cybersecurity, these clues might help.

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Data Analytics Professionals Continue to Outearn Software Engineers by 26%: Annual Analytics India Salary Study 2019edit

Business Standard

Analytics India Magazine chronicles technological progress in the space of analytics, artificial intelligence, data science & big data by highlighting the innovations, players, and challenges shaping the future of India through cutting edge reports, articles, meetups and conferences.

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Cryptominers still most active threat to firmsedit

Business Standard

While some of the big cryptomining services such as Coinhive have shut down operations, cryptominers are still the most prevalent malware aimed at organisations especially on Cloud environments, a new report by Israel based cyber security firm Check Point said on Wednesday. (Cybersecurity)

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Artificial intelligence can help in fight against human traffickingedit

Business Standard

As part of the recent study, researchers tried to understand how artificial intelligence can help in the fight against human trafficking. A group of computational researchers, experts in artificial intelligence (AI) and other members of the technology community are joining forces with policy experts, law enforcement officials, activists and survivors to help put the pieces together.

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AI: deep learning vs shallow thinkingedit

Deccan Herald

By R Marshall

In his essay “Don’t believe the hype: the media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy which appeared in the January 13, 2019 issue of the Guardian, Cambridge academician John Naughton writes that much of the narrative surrounding the benefits of ‘machine learning’ (one particular manifestation of the Artificial Intelligence technology) is pure nonsense, artfully crafted by tech giants that own and control the technology but faithfully parroted by mainstream media.

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AI bot could lend hand to your choresedit

Deccan Chronicle

Scientists have developed a robot that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to master intricate human tasks, and could one day help you fold laundry or make a cup of coffee at home. Robots may have a knack for super-human strength and precision, but they still struggle with some basic human tasks

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6 Technology Trends for Banking in 2019edit

Bfsi ELETS Online

Not long ago, application programming interfaces (APIs) were little more than simple lines of code facilitating communication between applications at enterprises, including banks. Today, they are integral to inventive revenue models and evolution of new digital outreach modes, and are in many cases, the key to ensuring compliance with gamechanging regulations. (Internet of Things)

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Upskilling is future of ITBPM industryedit

Money Control

By Neeraj Tandon

Technologies and processes such as cloud, recruitment process outsourcing (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things, analytics, social media and digital marketing are already considered mainstream areas for technology investments.

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Tech Firms Raise Ai Ethics Concernsedit

Mail Today

Ethical AI’ has become a corporate buzz phrase. The moves are meant to address concerns over racial and gender bias emerging in facial recognition and other AI systems, and address anxieties about job losses to the technology and its use by law enforcement and the military.

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IoT — from challenge to opportunityedit

The Hindu Business Line (Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune)

By Debjani Ghosh

Just as Alexa and Google Assistant have been dominating the connected homes space, Industrial Internet can be equally lucrative and widespread in its outreach. Particularly in India, we are seeing meaningful traction in verticals such as industrial manufacturing, automotive and retail. There’s a strong possibility that industrial IoT will surpass the consumer applications by 2020.

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International IoT Day: The role of IoT in shaping the IT landscape in Indiaedit

Express Computer

This dairy farm in Bhilawadi has proven that the Internet of Things (IoT) can deliver value to Indian farmers residing in the remotest parts of the country. It is also a unique use case for value driven adoption of IoT wherein a unique set of problems were linked to one solution IoT.

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India has perfected automated processes across industries: Salesforce Asia Pacific AI studyedit

The Economic Times

By Priyanka Sangani

India ranks at number three within the Asia Pacific region on artificial intelligence (AI) readiness as per a study done by Salesforce, following Singapore and Hong Kong. India is one of few global economies to have implemented and perfected automated processes across many different industries, it has a large number of AI startups.

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India among top cyberattack target countries: Studyedit

Smart City Elets Online

Smart cities have gathered the biggest chunk of attacks on Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, says a study by Subex, a telecom analytics solution provider. The study also mentions that India is one of the top countries targeted for cyber attacks, and China is one of the top countries of origin on cyber attacks.

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How AI revolutionizing clinical decision support systemedit

E Health Elets Online

Clinical decision support systems are meant to improve quality of decision making process in healthcare. There is ample research being conducted about application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in clinical decision support in the areas of dermatology, pathology, radiology and imaging.

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Business Leaders in the AI Eraedit

The Times of India

By Dr. Nitin Upadhyay

Whether we agree or not the sole purpose of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) is to supplement, complement, augment, improve, and in full capacity replace human intelligence. Since the modus operandi does not change as per the technology business fails to realize the impact of technological advancements in society and the ecosystem.

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AI helps in staying a step ahead of cyber crooksedit

The Hindu Business Line (Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune)

By Vinson Kurian

Artificial intelligence (AI) is known to mainly address static objectives such as facial and speech recognition. But cyber criminals are fleet-footed and dynamic. So where does this leave us? According to Vikas Arora, IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software Leader, IBM India/South Asia, in the world of cyber security, one thing is clear — change is constant.

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Push for IoT in India: How Samsung plans to make Indian homes smart in futureedit

Times Now News 

With Internet of Things (IoT) and smart homes becoming buzzwords across the globe, Samsung has been slowly investing both time and money to ensure it can establish itself as the leader in the sector. But even as it faces stiff competition in more mature markets such as the US and Europe, its in India where it has become the defacto market leader by the virtue of being the only brand with a complete IoT powered smart home ecosystem in the market.

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Our focus is to ensure that poor are able to access curative care across hospitalsedit

Express Healthcare 

What was the major achievements and challenges according to you in the first 157 days of implementation of PMJAYWe have been able to issue more than two crore ecards to beneficiaries in less than six months into the schemes implementation. In the same time, more than 16 lakh beneficiaries across the country have availed free treatment worth Rs 2,000 crores for serious illnesses. (Artificial Intelligence)

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How Is Sensara Driving The Concept Of Hybrid TV Powered By Artificial Intelligenceedit

Analytics India Mag 

By Shrishti Deoras

Television technology has seen significant growth in the last few years to the extent that technologies such as artificial intelligence are now seamlessly been integrated with TV. Redefining the way people interact with television, this Bengalurubased startup is improving the way people interact with televisions at home in affordable ways.

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Future of App Development is multiexperience: Gartneredit

Money Control 

As user application touchpoints increase in frequency, change in modalities and expand in device type, the future of app development is multiexperience, a recent survey from Gartner highlights.Development platform vendors are expanding their value proposition beyond mobile apps and web development to meet user and industry demands, said Jason Wong, research vice president at Gartner. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Ethical hacking may not guarantee stable jobs right nowedit

The Times of India 

With cybercrimes on the rise in India, increasing security awareness has become significant. As per CISCO 2018 Asia Pacific Security Capabilities Benchmark report, India deals with 250500,000 cyber threat alerts each day. Ethical hacking that involves penetrating into systems or networks to detect threats and vulnerabilities that might lead to loss of data, has turned out to be a popular choice among companies.

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Cybersecurity spending grows 9% to $37 billion: Canalysedit

Infotech Lead 

Cybersecurity technology spending grew 9.1 percent to $37 billion in 2018 driven by the creation of hybrid and complex environments, the latest Canalys report said. Top cybersecurity vendors 2018Web and email security products grew 8.2 percent, followed by endpoint security, and vulnerability and security management solutions, both growing 7.3 percent.

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BJP Manifesto 2019: Focus On Building AI And Robotics, Indias First Manned Mission To Space Among The Promisesedit

Republic World 

By Tanmay Patange

We compile the list of major promises made by the Modi government focusing Science and Technology sector for the next five yearsBJPs focus will remain primarily on improving the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and robotic research mission (Artificial Intelligence)

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Apple Wants To Add Smelling Sensors To The iPhone So That It Can Tell If You Smell Like Shitedit

Mens XP 

By Akshay Bhalla

No, this is not a late April Fools joke or a prank by Apple. According to a new patent filing submitted by Apple, future devices such as the iPhone and Apple Watches may have smell recognition capabilities. (Artificial Intelligence)

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AI must be accountable, EU says as it sets ethical guidelinesedit

Reuters 

Companies working with artificial intelligence need to install accountability mechanisms to prevent its being misused, the European Commission said on Monday, under new ethical guidelines for a technology open to abuse. (Artificial Intelligence)

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90% security professionals say their environments damaged by a cyberattack in last 2 yearsedit

CRN 

The study identifies the true extent of cyber attacks experienced by critical infrastructure operators professionals in industries using industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT). It found that 90 per cent of respondents stated their environments had been damaged by at least one cyber attack over the past two years, with 62 per cent experiencing two or more attacks.

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65% of Manufacturing Environments Run Outdated Operating Systems, says Trend Microedit

Express Computer 

To help mitigate the impact of Industry 4.0 threats, Trend Micro recommends manufacturers remember the basics of cybersecurity, such as restricting user access and disabling directory listings, as well as identifying and prioritizing key assets to protect

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10 Exciting Computer Vision Companies to Watch Out in 2019edit

Analytics Insight 

By Kamalika Some

This technology has advanced in greater proportions, and recent progress includes medical image analysis, pollution monitoring, facial recognition, gesture analysis, and enhanced security and surveillance application. Computer Vision today is revolutionizing industries such as insurance, manufacturing, healthcare and more. (Artificial Intelligence)

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What is 5G and how it will change your lifeedit

NewsBytes

We are pretty sure you’ve already heard something or the other about 5G, which is the next generation of mobile communication. It promises faster and more stable connectivity and is currently in the process of being laid out in all major countries, including India.

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Vodafone Idea, Airtel bet big on machine learning; readying networks for 5Gedit

The Economic Times 

By Danish Khan

Vodafone Idea Ltd. (VIL) and Bharti Airtel are embracing technologies such as machine learning to automate their networks and transform them into “self-healing networks” to offer better customer experience. Both telecom operators are also cloudifying their respective core networks to be ready for 5G technology.

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How New Street Tech is transforming the finance sector through blockchainedit

Business Standard 

It’s said that everyone gets a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make it big in his/her life. But for 28-year-old Anjali Mehta when that opportunity came in the form of an overseas job in 2017, lack of financial support let her down. She applied for a Rs 1-lakh loan in two banks to fund her trip to Dubai, but by the time the money came, it was too late. This, she laments, was only because the financial sector in India is still non-inclusive and works in a traditional manner.

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90% security professionals admit cyber attack in last two years: Reportedit

Elets Smart City 

A study has found that 90 percent of critical infrastructure security professionals have admitted their environments had been damaged by at least one cyberattack over the past two years, with 62 percent experiencing two or more attacks. The findings of the study, ‘Cybersecurity in Operational Technology: 7 Insights You Need to Know’, were released by Tenable Network Security on Friday. The report identifies the true extent of cyberattacks experienced by critical infrastructure operators – professionals in industries using industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT).

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Five actions to turbocharge India’s public healthcareedit

The Indian Express 

India has the world’s second largest population which went from 760 million in 1985 and doubled in size by 2015. This rapid rise in population has not seen an appropriate increase in health services for the population. Budgetary allocation to public health is only 1.2 per cent of the total health expenditure which is far lower than the WHO recommendation of 5 per cent. This lack of funds hits public healthcare infrastructure, lack of experienced medical staff to manage the burgeoning population.

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Artificial intelligence is no laughing matteredit

The Telegraph

A robot walks into a bar, but can it be funny? It cannot, according to scientists and linguists who arrived at this conclusion this April Fools’ Day. The realization is not entirely a novel one though. Humour has become one of the last bastions that artificial intelligence is yet to wrap its head around. The world has been forced to sit up and take notice of — and be alarmed by — the steady progress of AI.

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The fear of AIedit

Business Standard

Fear-mongering about Artificial Intelligence has become commonplace as AI adoption has spread. In mid-February, there was a storm when an open-source AI developer postponed putting one of its products into public domain due to concerns of misuse.

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Why artificial intelligence adoption across the industry is imminentedit

Financial Express

Getting palpable value from artificial intelligence (AI) is at the top of the minds of business leaders. However, the widespread excitement does not always translate into a meaningful strategy focused on AI. Adoption of AI across industries from manufacturing to services is imminent. The success of companies will be dependent on the scale at which they adopt AI, and how successfully they are able to transform the business to leverage its benefits.

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Global Artificial Intelligence in Security Market Report Forecast by Development, Trends, and Forecast (2019 – 2024)edit

Speaking Times

Artificial Intelligence in Security market report provides a comprehensive overview of current trends and new product development in the global Artificial Intelligence in Security market. Featuring global and regional data and over top key players profiles, this report provides the ultimate guide to exploring opportunities in the keyword industry internationally.

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How Cloud Is Playing An Important Role In Medicineedit

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Today, there are more than 7 billion people on Earth. A few decades ago, no one could have thought of how much we have evolved and how much technology has developed. Years from now, there will be a lot more tech advancements in human life. Imagine a future, where a medical device simply samples your vitals and upload your health information, doctor analyzes the same basis your health records, you download a prescription of precision medicine from the doctor, order your medicine online, and get the delivery at home. This future of healthcare is here, where we are entering the digital age with remarkable potential for precision medicine to save and improve lives. The key driver of ...Cloud TechnologyHealthcare

Wireless tech to check leaks in New Town pipesedit

The Times of India 

By  Suman Chakraborti

A national workshop on ‘smart water management in developing countries’ was organized by the Indian Water Works Association, Kolkata centre, at the Biswa Bangla convention centre in New Town on Saturday, where attendees discussed how innovative technologies could be effectively used in water supply management.

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BIF asks TRAI to do fresh valuation drill for spectrum pricingedit

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Broadband India Forum, an association of the telecom network and broadcasters has questioned the TRAI methodology of calculating reserve price for spectrum, alleging this has resulted in spectrum prices being unreasonably higher than global price lines.

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When bots will be the docs new assistantsedit

Live Mint 

By Shrija Agrawal and Prerana Deshpande

India went from landlines to expensive mobile phones to cheap mobile phones to affordable smartphones in 20 years. The qualified talent pool and resources are available. What India needs to go the last mile is political will. As Dr. Devi Shetty puts it: Its like we have the perfect vehicles but no roads on which to drive them. Someone must build the roads.

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What Is The Difference Between Augmented Analytics And Explainable Artificial Intelligenceedit

Analytics India Mag 

According to the Augmented Analytics Market by Software, Service (Training and Consulting, Deployment and Integration, and Support and Maintenance), Organization Size (SMES and Large Enterprises), Deployment Type, Vertical, and Region Global Forecast to 2023, the global augmented analytics market size is expected to grow from USD 4.8 billion in 2018 to $18.4 billion by 2023, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 30.6% during the forecast period.

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Triggering innovation in the classroom with digital solutionsedit

The Indian Express 

It doesnt end here; these solutions could also be backed by an artificial intelligence (AI) powered learning engine to provide a customised/selfpaced learning for each student. As a result, it understands and improves the way students receive, comprehend data and retain the knowledge. AI powered apps are device independent and allow teachers and parents to track the learning journey of the ward throughout the session and introduce relevant interventions to make the process better.

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The Role of AI in Big Data Concernsedit

Analytics Insight 

Artificial intelligence isnt trying to supplant radiologists or other employment that can benefit from big data, with algorithms. Rather, its an efficiency device for radiologists, that causes them to keep over patient care. Radiologists examine more than 100 examinations, each investigation with several pictures in a long 1012 hour workday. Artificial intelligence can improve precision regardless of this substantial work burden.

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Technology is ready to change our livesedit

The Economic Times 

The idea of the smart city is fully based on efficient use of civic systems with the use of modern technologies like IoT, AI, cloud computing and ML. The communication system has become superfast, transportation has evolved to electric and driverless vehicles, civic services has transformed with online systems to save energy, time and valuable resources.

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Smart Cities Predicted To Deliver Over $20 Trillion In Additional Economic Benefits By 2026edit

Accommodation Times 

The Internet of Things (IoT), a fundamental component of most smart cities, has, in particular, a potential economic value of USD 3.9 trillion to USD 11.1 trillion annually by 2025 as per the estimates of the McKinsey Global Institute. In the GCC region, a separate report conducted by A.T. Kearney showed that the value of the IoT solutions market during the same year will amount to USD 11 billion, creating a potential economic value of almost USD 160 billion.

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Robotic futureedit

The Statesman 

The underlying aspect is nothing but a series of coding and this is currently the hottest market to work in. As graduates, you will have the required head start and the paychecks can reach any limit depending on your skills. AI is the future of computing and if you want to work in a booming field, this is your answer. You can already see artificial intelligence at work every time you perform a search on Google.

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Indias Leaked Medical Data Could Have Been Sold or Damaged: Bob Diachenkoedit

News 18 

News18 spoke to Bob Diachenko, the cyber security researcher that discovered this vulnerability, who revealed that the entire set of highly sensitive data could have been sold, stolen or even destroyed. (Internet of things)

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Indias bid to harness AI for healthcareedit

Factor Daily 

By Anand Murali and Jayadevan PK 

In the first week of March, two data scientists from Bengaluru Monish Kaul and Nikhil S Narayan made their way to Xian, the capital of Shaanxi Province in central China. At the World Artificial Intelligence Symposium where mainly researchers from China and southeast asia presented papers, full time startup employees Kaul and Narayan were unlikely emissaries.

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Gartner Says the Future of App Development Is Multiexperienceedit

CIOL 

Cloud hosted artificial intelligence (AI) services are the most widely used technology to support multiexperience application development (61 percent of respondents), followed by native iOS and Android development (48 percent) and mobile backend services (45 percent).

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Business as usual no longer an option for the energy industry: ABBs Nuguriedit

Business Standard 

In an interview with Business Standard, Venu Nuguri, ABBs group senior vicepresident, power grids South Asia, Middle East and Africa, said the biggest opportunity for artificial intelligence was to move from automation or rule based systems towards autonomy where sophisticated machines, like robots, smart cars, and smart grids perform tasks by taking decisions with less human supervision required.

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Artificial Intelligence: Rise, Impact on Broadcast and Productionedit

ELE Times 

The world of broadcast and production can be a minefield of contradictory challenges. Reduce bit rates, but maintain visual quality; apply precise subtitles, but broadcast in real time; create highlight content, but transmit it immediately after the main event. According to Futuresource Consulting, these and many more headaches can be alleviated by the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies.

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AI becoming the fastest growing workload in data centresedit

Express Computer 

By Sandhya Michu 

Prakash Mallya, Vice President, and Managing Director, Sales and Marketing Group, Intel India, explains how the new offerings will boost up the computing performance that will pave way for emerging technologies like AI, ML, 5G, and cloud. Some edited excerpts… (Artificial Intelligence)

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5G: A dangerous generationedit

Down To Earth 

By Akshit Sangmola

A host of industries have been waiting for the arrival of 5G for quite some time now. Development of artificial intelligence (AI) based technologies and Internet of Things (which includes smart wearables and virtual reality headsets) has been slow due to lack of superfast data transfer. One example is autonomous vehicles. Automakers have already developed driverless smart cars.

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22 year old led global tech startup develops EI platform to check fake newsedit

The Indian Express 

We are delighted to launch the Logically platform that will democratize Artificial intelligence, and guide people away from echo chambers and filter bubbles empowering everyone to access authenticated news with balanced perspectives, nurturing news literacy, stimulating civil discourse, critical thinking and a harmonious community atmosphere to improve lives, Lyric Jain, the 22 year old founder and CEO of Logically said in a press statement.

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Cybercriminals using popular TV shows to distribute Malware: Kaspersky Labedit

Digit 

In the past, several cybersecurity firms have already claimed that hackers are actively using sophisticated ways to attack peoples devices, and now, at a time when binge watching is a prevalent trend globally, these cybercriminals are infecting devices with malware by using the names of popular TV shows.

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Era of instant informationedit

Business Standard 

In the world of industry though, additional information is improving business decisions and enhancing efficiency. Phrases like internet of things (IoT) and connected devices are used fairly liberally but their real impact is on the information that they generate.

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Focus is on responsible technology, innovationedit

Live Mint 

Machines are taking over our world and robots do benefit us all but is this all fact or fiction According to N.S. Nappinai, Supreme Court lawyer and cyber law expert, it is time to do a reality check and shed some light on the darker side of machines and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Indias cloud market to hit $7B by 2022: Nasscomedit

The Economic Times 

With increased adoption of futuristic technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), the Cloud market in India is poised to grow threefold to $7.1 billion by 2022, according to a Nasscom report on Tuesday.

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NITI Aayog collaborates with private sector to help MSMEs adopt artificial intelligenceedit

SME Futures 

As per news reports, NITI Aayog and ABB India, leading technology solutions provider brought together entrepreneurs, policymakers and representatives of state governments to deliberate on how the Indian economy can digitally evolve with the help of emerging technologies like AI, big data and digital connectivity. Artificial Intelligence)

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Now, Reliance Jio buys into Artificial Intelligence (AI) spaceedit

Zee Biz 

Reliance Industries Ltd on Wednesday announced that its subsidiary Reliance Jio has acquired Mumbai based Haptik one of the world`s largest conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms. Now, Reliance Jio buys into Artificial Intelligence (AI) space

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Whats so funny about AI humouredit

The Economic Times 

So far, artificial intelligence (AI) has been on track to better humans from menial or complicated tasks to chess and the performing arts. But the one thing AI has not been able to do is spontaneously laugh at itself or us. The difference between it and us, therefore, is merely a chuckle.

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Government Bodies float tenders for 500 EV charging stationsedit

ET Auto  

By Deepanshu Tomar 

Government bodies like Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), Rajasthan Electronics and Instruments Limited (REIL) and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has floated tender for over 500 electric vehicle charging stations in the last two months.

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Dept of Space, ISRO refuse to free up 28 GHz band for 5G rolloutedit

The Economic Times 

By Muntazir Abbas

The government’s plans to use more spectrum to aid 5G rollout starting next year have hit a temporary roadblock, with the Department of Space (DoS) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) refusing to free up the 28 GHz band, the coveted spectrum for the next-generation wireless technology.

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Data privacy is now an integral component of strategy, businessedit

Live Mint 

By Prasid Banerjee

Data privacy is often seen today as a compliance issue. However, according to Barry Cook, privacy and group data protection officer at VFS Global, there’s more to the subject. VFS Global is the company that handles visa- and passport issuance-related tasks for many governments worldwide.

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What the post-digital era has in store for usedit

Live Mint

By Abhijit Ahaskar

Digital is the way forward. Siddharth Pai, founder of Siana Capital, says it is no longer a question of whether or not you will do something in the digital world. It’s just a question of when you will do it, and how you will do it.

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Indian IT Bets On AIedit

Business Today 

By Rukmini Rao

Though the term ‘digital’ is yet to be standardised, most companies use it as an encompassing term to include automation and AI. Even though IT services companies are yet to break up services lines and business, signs of automation and AI becoming turnkey elements for both revenue and operating margin have started becoming clearer.

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Artificial Intelligence can help in treating brain tumours: Studyedit

Times Now

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based (AI) method for analysis of brain tumours, paving the way for individualised treatment of tumours.

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How Artificial Intelligence is reforming the manufacturing industryedit

Analytics Insight

The manufacturing sector has been a zealous user of up-to-date industrial sciences like robotics and mechanization for years. Therefore, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the next tread for the industry to enhance engineering design, productivity, speed up shop floor operations and reduce production cost.

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Is Explainable AI The Next Big Evolutionary Trend In Artificial Intelligence?edit

Analytics India Mag 

Advancements in technologies over the years have created explosions in the field of artificial intelligence. Today in this modern computing era, AI is not only redefining jobs, but it’s redefining careers. AI  has some other branches that many are not aware of (except the techies), and explainable AI is one of them.

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Enterprise startups use cutting-edge technology to solve diverse problemsedit

Live Mint

By Abhijit Ahaskar & Nandita Mathur

Emotix is a robotics company focused on solving consumer problems by creating emotionally intelligent solutions. Founded by three IIT Bombay post graduates in January 2015, Emotix’s products leverage proprietary artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and internet of things (IoT) solutions.

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‘Everyone wants to collect data, but a few firms have found a meaningful use’edit

Live Mint 

By Abhijit Ahaskar

I think the fundamental change that happened from one page of industry to the other is that the participants are looking for more productivity. Today we live in a data driven society and data is something which is giving the insights and when those insights are applied in a particular business case or particular problem solving method, it definitely gives an RoI.

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India’s bid to harness AI for healthcareedit

Factor Daily

By Anand Murali

Their paper titled “Siamese Bayesian Networks for AI Based Differential Diagnosis,” proposed a new method to improve the accuracy of artificial intelligence based diagnosis. The authors show that their algorithm has a 40% improvement over manual differential diagnosis of disorders and a 10% improvement over classical artificial intelligence based approaches for diagnosis.

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India will miss the bus if it doesn’t adopt 5G tech nowedit

Live Mint

By Abhijit Ahaskar

Being surrounded by multiple gadgets and operating them separately can be a nightmare. Internet of Things (IoT) has addressed that by allowing users to control one device with another. While 4G has been a major facilitator for IoT so far, the spurt in number of devices on the network will be huge.

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Where tech meets businessedit

Mint

By Leslie D’Monte

Digital Transformation was the overarching theme of the first edition of the Mint Digital Innovation Summit 2019—a platform where technology, business, and culture converge—held in Bengaluru this March. The Summit brought together business leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs and change-makers who are passionate about addressing major global issues by turning ideas into solutions.

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How IoT is shaping the future of home automation industryedit

Analytics Insights

At some point, you might have missed putting an alarm for your early morning meeting, and unfortunately failed to see a person. What if your phone was smart enough to schedule a calendar directly from your email and set an alarm by itself to remind your daily routine? Ever thought of your smart home devices had learned your daily schedules and plan to wake you up by switching on the warm room lights, geyser, setting a room temperature, making a cup of coffee and even streaming your favorite playlist to settle your mood.

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What is 5G And why are people talking about 6G alreadyedit

Computer World 

5G networks will boost wireless throughput by a factor of 10 and may replace wired broadband. But when will they be available, and why are 5G and IoT so linked together Josh Fruhlinger Apr 02nd 20195G wireless is an umbrella term to describe a set of standards and technologies for a radically faster wireless internet that ideally is up to 20 times faster with 120 times less latency than 4G, setting the stage for IoT networking advances and support for new highbandwidth applications.

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NB-IoT Tech May be Next Battleground for Airtel, Jioedit

The Economic Times  

The narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) is an evolving technology standard that is designed to deepen network coverage and lower power consumption by devices, with smart cities expected to drive growth, along with verticals such as smart meters, automotive tracking and utilities.

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Industry 4.0 integration can bolster industrial manufacturing in Indiaedit

Consultancy 

Earlier this year, consultants at global management consultancy the Boston Consulting Group elucidated how special emphasis on digital retail, AI development, cybersecurity and 5G will help accelerate Indias Industry 4.0 integration. Intueri has now offered its strategy on how individual firms can ride the digital wave.

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India woos global geospatial industry with human capital, seeks investmentedit

The Economic Times 

By Santanu Bose

Geospatial technology is a term used to describe the range of modern tools, including satellite, location and remotesensing technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and 3D printing for mapping and analysis of an area of land and related activities. Driven by AI, Big Data, IoT, robotics, satellite, mapping, and location technologies, geospatial is a key driver for building smart cities, driverless cars, etc.

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Harnessing the power of AI for inclusive growth in Indiaedit

Egov Elets Online 

By Vivek Ratnakar 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a favoured technology in recent times, transforming sectors ranging from financial services to retail to transportation. The Government of India has shown keen interest to leverage AI for inclusive growth and recognises the fact that India can play a crucial in the AI revolution.

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Demand for Digital Services will see stronger growth in 2019: ISGedit

Money Control 

Enterprises will continue to put heavy emphasis on automating as much as possible, which will fuel continued demand for robotic process automation (RPA), new IT service management (ITSM) tools and services, artificial intelligence, selfservice functions for employees and customers, and other forms of automation, the report said.

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Deep Dive: Revamping The NBFC Tag, Tata Capital Is Upping Their Tech Game With AIedit

Analytics India Mag 

Capitalising on the chatbot wave, Tata Capital recently unveiled TIA first of its kind voice bot within the Tata Capital mobile app for personal loans. Powered by artificial intelligence, TIA is designed to voice assist a customers personal loan journey, check loan eligibility and help the customer through the loan approval process.

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Counting The Chickens…edit

Business World 

By Tushar Kanwar

The conversations this year were dominated by two major themes: 5G and folding phones. 5G was everywhere at MWC with the leading players offering their opinion on how the next generation in wireless mobile tech, with its faster speeds and higher bandwidth, will change consumers’ lives.

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Cloud mkt to cross $7bn by 2022: Nasscomedit

The Times of India 

The Indian software as a service (SaaS) market, on the other hand, is expected to grow at 36% per annum and touch $3.3-3.4 billion by 2022. This boost is expected on the back of lower cost of workforce, abundant talent availability, mature sales eco-system, adoption of newer technologies like AI and machine learning to build products.

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Cloud computing to shape the next wave of growthedit

Deccan Chronicle 

Cloud as a concept has been around for two decades but has picked up steam with the growing presence of hyperscale cloud providers in big data, analytics, artificial intelligence and IoT. Today, the cloud is a compelling proposition for the Indian SMEs, enterprises and government. In light of this the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) today, unveiled its report titled Cloud Next Wave of Growth in India.

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APAC Banks Are Laggards In Regulatory Change Readiness: Studyedit

CXO Today 

The survey highlights if banks are aligned to the right operating model, technology such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machinelearning and robotic process automation can help deliver a stepchange in efficiency. Technology can transform many of the manual processes banks rely on today, particularly those related to meeting regulatory requests and gaining useful data insights to meet business objectives.

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A Startup now uses Finnish prisoners to train AIedit

The Economic Times 

Datalabeling is just one among many examples, including safety drivers who monotonously sit behind the wheel of selfdriving cars and content moderators who mindlessly examine Facebook posts and YouTube videos to clean up after imprecise algorithms.

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Cybersecurity only represents 2% of total IT spend last year: Reportedit

Money Control 

According to Canalys estimates, worldwide cybersecurity spending exceeded USD 10 billion for the first time in Q4 2018. Despite the high priority many organizations give to protecting their data assets, endpoints, networks, employees and customers, cybersecurity still only represented 2 percent of total IT expenditure last year.

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AI Enabled Mechanisms to Stimulate Customer Experience, Predict Industry Dignitariesedit

Analytics Insight 

By Smriti Srivastava

The organizations are planning to deploy more and more AI/ML enabled interfaces into the customer experience. Following the aforementioned technologies, IoT (Internet of Things), Speech recognition and augmented virtual reality along with chatbot mechanism, will also participate at a considerable level to add value to the drive.

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Vodafone Idea, Airtel bet big on automation to improve 4G; transforming networks for 5Gedit

The Economic Times 

Airtel is making a lot of investment in the area of automation and orchestration and is also working with a lot of partners, its newly appointed chief technology officer, Randeep Sekhon told ET.Our real journey is to make a self healing network, which means it should be able to predict a fault and should be able to fix it before it starts to impact the customer experience, he added.

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Industry specific use cases spur the demand for AI: Reportedit

Money Control 

Growing enterprises across industries are witnessing a paradigm shift in terms of technologies. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already revolutionizing major industries, including fintech, an exclusive study by Markets and Markets highlights.

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FinTech startups all set to seize the opportunity in tier2 cities in Indiaedit

Money Control 

Many financial institutions are offering these services using their online platform but there is an opportunity for disruption leveraging the latest technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Blockchain etc.

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Apollo Hospitals adopting a combination of disruptive, traditional technologies: Arvind Sivaramakrishnanedit

Express Computer 

We have partnered with Microsoft, and under this partnership, we have formulated a machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithm to predict the Cardiovascular disease risk scores for individuals Sivaramakrishnan stated.

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7 Energy Startups From India That Are Harnessing The Power Of Analytics & AIedit

Analytics India Mag 

It has been two years since we covered a list of startups using analytics and big data in the energy space. Since then the energy sector in India has grown aggressively and there have been many startups emerging in the space that are exploring artificial intelligence, analytics and the emerging technologies to offer newer and better products.

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While businesses recognise the value of data, protection still a challenge: Researchedit

The Hindu Business Line 

By LN Revathy

With the rapid change in industry dynamics and the advent of newer technologies, it has become imperative for organisations to focus on the practical application of emerging technologies such as AI and IoT, to accelerate their digital transformation journey.

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L&T launches strategic unit L&T-Nxt to focus on AI, Internet of Thingsedit

Business Standard 

Construction to engineering major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has announced a five-year strategic initiative — L&T-Nxt — that will focus on artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), geo-spatial enterprises, and cyber security.

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Why AI Makes A Good Servant, Not Masteredit

The Times of India 

If self-driving cars don’t cause accidents, and computers diagnose diseases faster than doctors, shouldn’t we use artificial intelligence (AI) to make our lives better in other ways also? Paula Boddington, author of ‘Towards a Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence,’ cautions against expecting too much from AI.

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What does applying ‘AI for social good’ can change in real world challengesedit

Devdis Course 

Are you an optimist or a pessimist when it comes to Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Do you think it will bring apocalyptic scenarios where the disruptive forces of technology take over the world and make us humans redundant or the servants of technology? Or do you think it presents opportunities for solving the world’s most pressing challenges?

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We are in dire need of skilled cybersecurity professionals: Rakesh Kharwal, MD, Cyberbitedit

Egov Elets Online 

Cyberbit, headquartered in Israel, is a company which is a subsidiary of a defence manufacturer. Elbit Systems is the parent company of Cyberbit. Elbit is known for simulation and technology. We do a lot of business globally and in India as well. Cyberbit provides cyber range simulation platform and provides detection, response, automation, and orchestration products across IT and OT networks.

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The role of emerging tech for governments of the futureedit

Express Computer 

By Mohd Ujaley

The panel discussion on ‘Technology for transforming government and public sector’, broadly covered the various opportunities offered by emerging technologies like cloud, artificial intelligence, mobility solutions for government organisations and how states are leveraging them. In his opening remarks, Srikanth RP, Group Editor, Express Computer and CRN India, asked the panellist how they are using technologies like AI to improve governance.

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Manufacturing—based innovation will see creation of Wealth: Saraswatedit

The Indian Express

On the changing nature of innovation, which has shifted towards the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Saraswat said You ve to now look at how Artificial Intelligence and data analytrcs can improve productivity to be globally competitive for Innovation 4.0. But when we apply disruptive technologies, we have to apply it in a balanced manner as it may have an adverse impact.”

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IoT Smart City could be enhanced by Smart Outdoor Lightingsedit

ELE Times 

In the meantime, they also adopt the world’s first smart interactive light post, wired power line transmission, wireless NB-IoT, LoRa, and Zigbee smart street light control system. Being the most excellent, energy-saving and smart LED street lights of the new generation, the smart road devices can be perfectly matched with the smart city.

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India to Create 28 CoE to Promote AI, Blockchain and other Emerging Technologiesedit

Indian Web2 

Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), under the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, is set to create 28 Centres of Excellence (CoE) across the country in emerging fields like Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, augmented reality & virtual reality (AR & VR), blockchain and others.

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AI pilot project for predictive tools for cancer soon: DBT secyedit

 The Indian Express 

By Anuradha Mascrenas

Artificial intelligence (AI) has many applications in healthcare, where it can be used to get an understanding of predictive models of health, energy and agriculture. Dr Renu Swarup, secretary of the Department of Biotechnology, Union Ministry of Science and Technology, told The Indian Express that the first AI pilot project for predicting modelling and diagnosis of cancer will be rolled out soon.

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Worldwide cyberattacks on the rise, India bucks trendedit

DT Next

Ransomware attacks were up everywhere except India, which saw a 49 pc reduction, and the UK. India has an uphill task in combating malware where attacks rose by 53 pc in 2018. Threat data indicates an escalation in the volume of cyberattacks.

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Shanghai becomes worlds first district with 5G coverageedit

Express Computer 

Shanghai has claimed that it has become the world’s first district using both 5G coverage and broadband gigabit network as China seeks to establish lead over the US and other countries in the race to develop next generation cellular mobile communications. 5G is the next generation of cellular technology with download speeds that are 10 to 100 times faster than 4G LTE networks.

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Need for legal framework, new global norms before using robotics, AI in defence: Lieutenant General P J S Pannuedit

The Indian Express 

Lieutenant General P J S Pannu was speaking at the inauguration of a seminarcum exhibition on Military Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the Military Institute of Technology (MILIT), Girinagar, near Pune. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Cloud, IoT are sitting ducks for hackersedit

Live Mint 

By Abhijeet Ahaskar

This proliferation of personal devices at workplaces has increased the risks for companies. According to Checkpoint, cybercriminals can spy on users and capture their login credentials while they log in to corporate systems containing sensitive data via their smartphones. Internet of Things (IoT) is another area that is growing very fast with little regard to security.

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Artificial Intelligence is flying drones (very, very slowly)edit

Deccan Herald 

At the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Madrid in October, the autonomous drone, which navigates using artificial intelligence, raced through a complicated series of turns and gates, buzzing and moving like a determined and oversized bumblebee. It bobbed to duck under a bar that swooshed like a clock hand, yawed left, pitched forward and raced toward the finish line.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Despite the high price tag, internetenabled cars might be exactly what the slowing industry needsedit

Live Mint 

The connected mobility solution on the MG Hector is also Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPV6) ready for 5G. Airtel was chosen as the telecommunication partner because of the strength of its pan India 4G network, as well as the highspeed internet connectivity that it enables.

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The beginning of the end for diesel carsedit

Money Control 

On the face of it, the shift wont be easy. The painful fact is the infrastructure for CNG or electric vehicles leaves a lot to be desired. There are less than 1,500 CNG stations and the government has plans to increase it to 10,000 over the next 10 years. Infrastructure for electric vehicles is even worse.

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Swiggy piloting electric vehicle deliveries in 10 cities across Indiaedit

The News Minute 

While electric vehicles are considered the most sustainable form of transportation, Swiggy claims that they also lower the running cost of the vehicles by up to 40%, leading to higher effective payouts for Swiggys delivery partners who will own the said EVs.

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Shared mobility, choosing right vehicle segment can ensure success of EVs in India: Olaedit

News Nation 

Commercial and public transport systems have more compelling economics of using electric vehicles (EVs) over private cars, given the low operating costs of these environment friendly vehicles, a report by Ola Mobility Institute (OMI) said.

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Hyundais new smartphone app can control EV performanceedit

Auto Car India 

Hyundai Motor Group has announced the development of a new performance adjustment technology that can be controlled via a smartphone. The tech, which allows users to customise primary performance functions of electric vehicles through a smartphone application, is an industry first innovation.

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PURE EVs long range, high performance electric two wheelers to hit Indian roads soonedit

Zee Biz 

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad incubated startup, PURE EV has developed long range, high performance electric two wheeler which has been designed keeping in mind the conditions of Indian streets and traffic environment. The launch of these electric two wheelers can be expected next month, all across the country.

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EBike Sales Come to a Halt in Apriledit

The Economic Times 

“April was a washout,” said Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV) director general Sohinder Gill. “Only three models were certified by government agencies towards the end of the month. But there were no sales under FAME-II. In May too, the industry will end up selling a few hundred units… It is only in August that sales may gain some pace.”

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All electric cars to have green number platesedit

The Times of India 

The Centre on Monday asked state transport departments to ensure that all battery operated vehicles, both existing and new, have green number plates immediately. The road transport ministry in August, 2018, had introduced the new number plate for all battery operated or electric vehicles (EVs).

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The Future of Traffic Management is Intelligentedit

Metrorail News 

IoT proliferation has played a pivotal role in the realization of smart cities, and eventually on relevant technologies, traffic management systems being no exception. IoT based intelligent traffic management systems are expected to soon pick up steam to meet demand from an increasing number of smart city projects, coordinate with ambulance drivers, and track traffic violators.

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Private car and taxi registrations hit 5-yr low; shared mobility the in thingedit

The Times of India 

“Many drivers are already facing trouble repaying loans. Despite several agitations, nothing has changed. When the earnings aren’t enough, why should someone buy new vehicles? In fact, the market is saturated because of oversupply of vehicles,” said K Radhakrishna Holla, president of Bangalore Tourist Taxi Owners’ Association (BTTOA).

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Hyderabad: State government plans charging points for e-vehiclesedit

Deccan Chronicle 

In order to encourage the use of electric vehicles, the state government has decided to identify suitable locations to set up electrical charging points across the city. The government has asked the nodal agencies to target locations near malls, multiplexes, stadiums, convention centres, function halls and offices. The idea is to charge the vehicle while you work, shop, or watch a movie.

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Electric cars emit higher CO2 than diesel cars, says new studyedit

The Financial Express 

The study criticises the European Union legislation which allows battery-powered vehicles to be included under calculations done for fleet emissions. This results in labelling electric vehicles with ‘zero’ CO2 emissions which is not true even by a long margin. This legislation ignores the CO2 generated in the production of electric vehicles.

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Ready for electric vehiclesedit

The Hindu Business Line 

With the country taking steps towards establishing the eco system for EVs, it has become imperative for vehicle manufacturers to come up with their plans and for auto component makers to redraw theirs, to suit the new order. How are automakers placed to usher in this revolution And, if you have listed auto and auto component stocks, are your holdings EVproof

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Maruti’s plan to phase out diesel vehicles puts suppliers on edgeedit

MINT 

Those affected are the key engine parts suppliers to diesel powertrains used by India’s largest carmaker in its diesel vehicles, at least four people with knowledge of the matter said. These companies are undergoing a churn in their order books and production plans following Maruti’s decision, the people said, requesting anonymity.

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Maruti, Suzuki gear up for shared mobilityedit

Live Mint 

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd and parent Suzuki Motor Corp. are scaling up their bets in the shared mobility industry by developing a multipronged strategy to exploit this rapidly growing market and offset a potential impact on sales of personal vehicles, said two people aware of the plans

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Indias EV industry likely to see higher interest from PE, VC investorsedit

Business Standard 

The country’s electric vehicle (EV) industry is expected to see higher interest from private equity and venture capital (PE, VC) investors. Venture Intelligence, that tracks these things, says PE, VC investment in the EV space was $23 million (Rs 160 crore) in 2018, in two deals, compared to $3 million (Rs 21 crore) from three deals in 2017.

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Experts await clearer policy for EVsedit

The Navhind Times 

As Niti Aayog convenes global mobility summit this weekend, Indias automobile industry and pollution experts await a clearer policy and roadmap for electric vehicles. Several companies have electric vehicles ready in their international portfolio, but havent launched them in Indian market.

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We see a very good EV opportunityedit

DNA

The company is focusing on auto engineering and sees a good opportunity in electric vehicles going forward, says Vinit Teredesai, chief financial officer (CFO), KPIT Technologies. In an interview with Swati Khandelwal, he also said that slowdown in global companies has not directly impacted the company and is confident of meeting the guidance.

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The future of mobility is electricedit

The Economic Times

By Anirban Ghosh

A NITI Aayog report released in 2018 said India can save 64 per cent of anticipated passenger road based mobility related energy demand and 37 per cent of carbon emissions in 2030 by pursuing a shared, electric and connected mobility strategy. This, according to the report would result in a reduction of 156 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe) in diesel and petrol consumption for that year.

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Shared mobility, choosing right vehicle segment can ensure success of EVs in India: Olaedit

Express Computer

Commercial and public transport systems have more compelling economics of using electric vehicles (EVs) over private cars, given the low operating costs of these environment friendly vehicles, a report by Ola Mobility Institute (OMI) said.

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New way of seeing objects makes self driving cars safer on the roadedit

The Week

Scientists have developed a simple, cost effective method to allow self driving cars to see 3D objects in their path.The laser sensors currently used to detect 3D objects in the paths of autonomous cars are bulky, ugly, expensive, energy inefficient and highly accurate.

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Google Maps Now More Customized For Electric Vehicle Owners: Lists Availability Of Charging Ports Real Time, With Their Locationedit

Republic World

By Rahul R

If you drive Electric Vehicles (EV), then Google Maps would now display if a charging station is free or not, along with displaying all major EV charging points in your route. In addition to this, you should also be able to view vital information related to the EV charging station such as the speed of the charging ports

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Electrify two, three-wheelers first to kickstart EV adoption: Olaedit

The Morning Standard

The Softbank-funded cab service provider also says that the e-mobility pilot project in Nagpur has encouraged it to deploy over 10,000 electric three-wheelers in 2019, and one million electric vehicles for daily commutes across cities by 2022

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SBI green car loanedit

The Statesman

On the occasion of World Earth Day, State Bank of India launched Indias first “green car loan” (electric vehicle) to encourage customers to buy electric vehicle. The bank will offer loan at 20 basis points lesser than the interest rate on the existing car loan schemes, said a release issued by the bank.

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Shared mobility, choosing right vehicle segment can ensure success of electric vehicles in India: Olaedit

Business Standard

Commercial and public transport systems have more compelling economics of using electric vehicles (EVs) over private cars, given the low operating costs of these environment friendly vehicles, a report by Ola Mobility Institute (OMI) Tuesday said.

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Rise In EVs Leading To More Than 70% Demand Surge Of Lithium YoY, Says A New Reportedit

India Times

By Sathak Dogra

Also read: Major Indian Businesses Are Pledging To Bring Electric Vehicles Into Their Fleet To Fight Climate Change Lithiums mining does cause problems to the nearby regions, contaminating the nearby water bodies and leaving the landscape marred by discarded salt. However, it is not the troublesome component in the modern day batteries as the mineral is found in abundance and in theory, can even be generated from seawater in the near future.

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Niti Seeks Ministry Help for EV Charging Infra at Fuel Pumpsedit

The Economic Times

By Sanjeev Choudhary

Government think tank Niti Aayog has asked the oil ministry to help set up electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure at 1,000 fuel stations across the country, but industry executives said any such move will require redesigning of stations and a viable business model.

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Future of EV in Indiaedit

CNBC TV18

Pollution and noise-free electric vehicles are said to be the future of the automobile industry. Why does Mahindra electric, despite being in the business for a decade, has only sold 14000 electric vehicles up till now? In this episode of Tech@Work we dive deeper into the EV market with Mahindra electric CEO

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Hydrogen: towards cleaner and sustainable transportedit

Deccan Herald

This amount is in the same range as that of the subsidy corpus allocated for EVs for five years. Allocating a budgetary amount for HCNG infrastructure for the next five years would help in transitioning to a cleaner, hydrogen-based economy. Road tax waivers and government subsidies for installing fueling stations could also help bring about a notable transition to hydrogen-fueled vehicles.

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SBI cuts rates for electric car loansedit

The Times of India

A statement issued by the bank said that this was in keeping with the government’s objective to ensure that 30% vehicles on the road run on electricity by 2030. SBI has already announced 100% migration towards electric vehicles by 2030 to reduce the institution’s carbon footprints. The bank also became the first major Indian organisation, along with Wipro, to join the Climate Group’s EV100 initiative for accelerating the rollout of electric vehicles worldwide

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Revolt Electric Motorcycle to offer 156 km riding range!edit

Car Blog India

By Tarun Kochar

The reports further state that the bike might carry a price tag of Rs 1.20 Lakhs. Governments new FAME II scheme for electric vehicles in India, will further reduce the prices to Rs 95,000.

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FAMEII subsidy: Carmakers voice resent over exclusion of private vehiclesedit

Money Control

By Swaraj Baggonkar

Two months after FAME II, car manufacturers are now voicing their disappointment over certain exclusions in the second phase of the electric vehicle incentive scheme rolled out by the government. FAME II (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles) has been in force since the start of April.

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AV Industry is in Need of Regulationedit

EET India

By Nitin Dahad

Many engineers Forrester spoke to said sensor technology needed for production ready AV systems is still nascent. One director of automated driving programs said the challenge in going from Level 4 to Level 5 automation is that the sensor technology doesn’t exist.

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New courses to develop the startup ecosystemedit

The Times of India

To promote research and entrepreneurship, IIT Delhi on Saturday announced a number of plans, including a minor degree on entrepreneurship, a programme for faculty members to start companies, and two new centres on cyber physical system and on electric vehicles’ research.

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OMJAY to make EVs in state soonedit

Orissa Post 

OMJAY EV Limited is to begin producing Electric Vehicles (EVs) in the state from July 2019. The state government has accorded it the necessary clearances for manufacture of EVs, Jay Prakash Didwania, the chairman of Bharats Group that owns OMJAY EV, has said.

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From smart bins to nerve simulators, IIT students roll out the best of ideasedit

The Times of India

By Mohammad Ibrar

Tapan Kumar Nayak, the group leader behind the nervous system control project, said the idea was to help patients suffering from neurological diseases and assist in their recovery. “The device transmits signals from one individual to the muscles of another individual and helps with their movement; thereby assisting paralysed patients,” the researcher at the Kusuma School of Biological Sciences at IIT-Delhi added.

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Electric car is ‘faster than F-16 fighter jet’edit

Mail Today 

A £2 million ($2.5million) all electric hypercar with a staggering 1,900 horsepower has hit the streets of New York. The Pininfarina Battista reaches 60mph (100km/h) quicker an F1 car, passes 180mph (290km/h) before an F-16 fighter jet does and will keep going all the way to a top speed of 217mph (350kmh/hr) courtesy of its electric motors being fed by a 120 kWh battery.

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Automakers invest heavily in e-vehicles despite low demandedit

News 18 

Officials said their companies are charging ahead with a flurry of new electric vehicle (EV) models, citing rising regulatory requirements globally. Last year, only about 2 percent of U.S. auto sales were comprised of full electric or plug-electric hybrid models, with Tesla Inc accounting for more than a third of those sales.

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50% local sourcing likely for companies to book EV ride under FAMEIIedit

The Economic Times 

An interministerial steering committee led by Niti Aayog chief executive officer Amitabh Kant has decided that only companies that meet the 50% localisation threshold will be eligible for the incentives that will be available under the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (FAMEII) scheme to boost electric mobility as well as the Make in India initiative.

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Sky Is The Limit For Hyderabadedit

The New Indian Express 

The state government also introduced 40 new electric buses recently and plans to replace all the diesel buses in city into fleet of electric buses in the coming future. The city’s roads are also set for improvement with the formation of Hyderabad Road Development Corporation Ltd. Moreover, road network and traffic conditions are also set to improve in the city with the Strategic Road Development Plan being implemented in the city.

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Carmakers are betting on alliances to rev up sales and mitigate risksedit

Live Mint 

This is not the only reason for such alliances. Amid such skyrocketing growth forecasts, there is the conundrum of stiff competition and technological changes such as BSVI emission norms and electric vehicles. Besides, the pace of new launches to woo customers requires strong research and development, and deep pockets.

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Indias First AI Based Electric Motorcycle Gets ARAI Approved Range Of 156 Km; Launch In Juneedit

India Times 

The recent venture by Micromax chief Rahul Sharma seems to be in full swing to make its first electric two wheeler readily available in India soon. The progress has reached a point where the motorcycle has attained its approvals from Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) and that too in record time. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging Market to Reach $1.4 Bn, Globally, by 2025 at 22.4% CAGR: Allied Market Researchedit

IT News Online

The research offers a detailed analysis on changing market dynamics, key investment pockets, major segments, and market competition. According to the report, the global Wireless electric vehicle charging market generated $21.8 million in 2017 and is projected to reach $1.4 billion by 2025, registering a CAGR of 22.4% from 2018 to 2025.

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Say goodbye to a sedentary lifestyleedit

The Financial Express

By Sudhir Chowdhary

At a time when electric vehicles are one of the most burning conversations in today’s times, comes a piece of innovation from Hero Motors Company, the parent company of Hero Cycles which is India’s largest manufacturer of bicycles. This new e-bicycle is called Lectro EZephyr, and has been designed in house by Hero Global Design Centre Manchester (UK)

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New way to develop fast charging batteries foundedit

Orissa Post

The new research has the potential to improve battery performance for consumer electronics, solar grid storage and electric vehicles, said the team from New York based Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the journal Nature Communications.

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FAMEII schemes focus on localisation fails to enthuse two wheeler makersedit

Business Standard

By T E Narasimhan 

Two wheeler makers in particular have been left un-enthused by the scheme that went into effect on April 1. The second phase of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric, or FAMEII, has curtailed the scope of incentives and made electric two wheelers costlier, says Sohinder Gill, director general, Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV). Not one electric two wheeler has been sold since the launch …

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Electric Auto Rickshaws To Get ARAI Support Local Chariots Join The Electric Revolutionedit

Drive Spark

By Rahul Jaswal

The ARAI Director, Rashmi Urdhwareshe said, With the governments push to render 30 per cent of all vehicles in the country to electric ones by 2030, it is essential that consistent and active steps are taken in that direction, starting right away. While ARAI also assists other auto firms to bring in their electric vehicles, we are now focusing on the three wheeler segment, where efforts are being made to convert the auto rickshaws into electric models.

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Another Layer of Confusionedit

Business Today

By Sumant Banerji

Stringent stipulations in the subsidy scheme for electric vehicles in India has put the domestic industry in a bind. Stringent stipulations such as minimum top speed and range, acceleration, energy consumption and localisation in the delayed but ambitious subsidy scheme for electric vehicles in India has put the domestic industry in a bind.

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Major Indian Businesses Are Pledging To Bring Electric Vehicles Into Their Fleet To Fight Climate Changeedit

India Times

By Sarthak Dogra

The transition to electric vehicles in India is being fast forwarded by private firms operating in the country. In fact, after the constant push by the government and the efforts of the auto makers, adoption of EVs by such private players is acting as the biggest promoter of this switch to a zero emission transportation within the country. (Electric Vehicles)

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Future Thats Electrifyingedit

The Economic Times

By Shivika Sahdev 

Low emission electric vehicles (EVs) are crucial to locking in the benefits of enhanced mobility, and consumers are switching from internal combustion engines to cleaner battery power at an accelerating pace. (Electric Vehicles)

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Future automobiles: Ecars, emobility and virtual commissioningedit

Business Today

By PB Jayakumar

Digitization can help in optimizing existing plants and that process is evolving in the automotive industry. The future of automobiles and transportation is dramatically going to change globally in near future, reshaping the 120 year old technologies used in mobility industry, say experts. (E mobility)

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Your Car Knows It Alledit

Business Today

With all that tech packed into your smart vehicle, you will not be able to hide your anger. If you own a high end car, it may already have the ability to know a few things about how you are feeling. With sensors and cameras everywhere, some vehicles can detect when the driver is feeling sleepy. Then the steering wheel buzzes to wake her up; the vehicle can even change course to make it to the nearest coffee shop. (Artificial Intelligence)

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50% local sourcing likely for companies to book EV ride under FAMEIIedit

The Economic Times

By Yogima Sharma

The steering committee, which held its first meeting on April 1, has finalized the missions approach to make domestic industry competitive at the global level.A committee led by Amitabh Kant has decided that only companies that meet the 50% localisation threshold will be eligible for the incentives. (Electric Vehicles)

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Keeping drivers alert and safe with AIbased computingedit

Express Computer 

Distracted driving is the prime reason for fatalities on the road, necessiating a Driver Monitoring Solution (DMS) that can alert the driver on time and prevent fatal accidents. Edgetensor, a Texasbased startup with a development centre in Bengaluru, has developed a unique Artificial Intelligence (AI) based driver monitoring system for selfdriving cars. (Artificial Intelligence)

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10 Drivers of EV Market in Indiaedit

Mercom India

By Nitin Kabeer

The Indian government launched the National EMobility Program in March 2018 to achieve 100 percent emobility by 2030. Since then, the country has taken several policy initiatives to propel the growth of electric mobility in the country. (Electric Vehicles)

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With driverless cars late, a startup tries remotecontrol trucksedit

The Economic Times 

For four days in February, Ben Shukman showed up to his office at Phantom Auto in Mountain View, California, sat down in front of a bank of computer screens with a steering wheel in a darkened room, and began driving. As the 25yearold turned the wheel in Silicon Valley, an empty truck 2,500 miles away in Atlanta picked up semi trailers and towed them around a warehouse lot. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Waiting for some clarity on FAME-2 before EV rollout in Indiaedit

The Financial Express

It is a very important market forus, just like Yandex has done in Russia with Captur, we will like to put our vehicles in the ride sharing market, which will be different from Uber and Ola. These will be self driving cars. We are looking for partnership with some of the companies in Bengaluru and will update in coming future on the venture.

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International News News India, Newsbaronsedit

News Barons

It is estimated that far in excess of 120 million vehicles will be produced in 2035.The specialty chemicals company LANXESS sees great application potential for its technical plastics under the brands Durethan (polyamide) and Pocan (polybutylene terephthalate) in the New Mobility growth market.

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A growing solution to global warmingedit

The Telegraph

By Ashok V. Desai

Many countries are investing heavily in renewable energy, but none is giving attention to growing more wood for bio fuel. If Indian officials were not so busy attending international conferences, they would go and look at the Melia dubia plantation of near Bangalore (Electric Vehicles)

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Switching to electric vehicles may improve air quality, lower emissions: Studyedit

The Economic Times 

Researchers from the Northwestern University in the US quantified the differences in air pollution generated from battery powered electric vehicles versus internal combustion engines

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In quest for electric supercars, engineers head to startupsedit

The Economic Times 

Startup carmakers are better able to compete with large established players thanks to advances in virtual engineering and the prevalence of consulting firms that specialise in software and IT systems. (E mobility)

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GoZero Mobility to expand India retail presenceedit

The Financial Express 

Gozero Mobility, The British electric bicycle company that has its India headquarters in Kolkata, on Monday announced its pan-India expansion plans. CEO Ankit Kumar said, “The e-bike industry has a huge potential in India.

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BEST to start 80 e-buses soonedit

The Times of India

BEST will soon introduce 80 electric buses on wet-lease as Bombay high court approved the proposal. BEST general manager Surendra Kumar Bagade told the BEST committee that the undertaking will receive a Rs 40-crore subsidy from the Union government. BEST will not have to spend crores as investment in the purchase of buses.

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A variety of stakeholders must contribute to realising Indias EV goaledit

Consultancy 

As a number of different stakeholders work towards meeting Indias Electric Vehicles (EV) goals for the next decade, global professional services firm Deloitte recommends that the development of detailed business models is the best way to generate coherence among all the activities in this regard.

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SMEV Seeks to Delink Localisation from Subsidy Incentives Under FAMEII schemeedit

News 18

The Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles urged the project implementation and sanctioning committee (PISC) to delink localisation and ex showroom prices of e-bikes from subsidy under the FAMEII scheme.

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FAME-II to impact electric 2-wheelers most?edit

The Statesman

Electric two-wheeler segment is expected to face a rough road in the initial phase of the FAME II scheme with the exclusion of lead battery powered such vehicles, as per a Crisil impact note. The Central government late last month laid out the eligibility criteria for electric buses, passenger vehicles, three-wheelers and twowheelers to avail the incentives under the “Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles in India” (FAME-II) scheme.

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Electric Car Price Tag Shrinks Along With Battery Costedit

Bloomberg Quint

By Nathaniel Bullard

The crossover point — when electric vehicles become cheaper than their combustion-engine equivalents — will be a crucial moment for the EV market. All things being equal, upfront price parity makes a buyer’s decision to buy an EV a matter of taste, style or preference — but not, for much longer, a matter of cost

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Auto lovers vroom with glee as vintage fest displays wheels of yoreedit

The Times of India

While cars today are getting redundant and cities choking due to their exhaust fumes, just recognizing the journey from the horse cart to the electric vehicles that were seeing today gives one the resilience in looking at the evolution of transportation, said architect Dean Dcruz

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EV manufacturers want localisation criteria dropped under FAME IIedit

The Hindu Business Line

By Mirza Mohammed Ali Khan

It has written to the Department of Heavy Industries, NITI Aayog, Department for Promotion of Industry and Industrial Trade and Ministry for Road Transport and Highways requesting and recommending proposals pertaining to minimum conditions for claiming electric two-wheeler incentives under the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (FAME) II scheme

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Electric Vehicles body seeks to delink localisation from subsidy incentivesedit

The Economic Times

SMEV had requested an increase of around Rs 10,000 in the subsidy for one year to offer these city speed Libattery ebikes at prices similar to the petrol ones. SMEV had requested an increase of around Rs 10,000 in the subsidy for one year to offer these city speed Libattery ebikes at prices similar to the petrol ones.

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FAMEII scheme to impact electric 2wheeler segment most: Crisiledit

The Economic Times 

The central government late last month laid out the eligibility criteria for electric buses, passenger vehicles, threewheelers and twowheelers to avail the incentives under the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles in India (FAMEII) scheme.

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Copper producers gather; electric cars seen driving demand growthedit

The Economic Times 

Despite these challenges, the industry is planning for substantial growth in the next decade thanks to an expected boom in production of electric vehicles, which use twice as much copper as internal combustion engines.

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BSVI to have minimal impact on autocasting industryedit

Money Control 

The auto industry is set to change significantly with BSVI emission norms and thrust on electric vehicles. We expect the new emission norms to affect the autocasting industry only slightly as these norms will only have a more nearterm impact, while the effect of electric vehicles will be felt in the mediumtolong term, the report said.

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$59 Million Fund to Accelerate Research in Batteries and Electric Vehiclesedit

Saurenergy 

Funded through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, this funding opportunity seeks projects to address priorities in advanced batteries electric drive systems, and energy efficient mobility systems amongst other areas of interest. (Electric Vehicles)

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Uber, ahead of IPO, sees some time before selfdriving cars dominate the roadedit

Reuters 

Uber Technologies Inc expects it will be a long time before one of its biggest investments, selfdriving cars, is ready for widescale deployment, a senior scientist said on Monday, as the ridesharing firm gears up to go public. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Auto sector to see uptick in hiring this fiscaledit

The Economic Times 

By  Rica Bhattacharyya & Lijee Philip

Hiring is picking up in the space of connected technologies (AI and automation related). Skills around digital IoT, 5G connectivity, coding and ADAS (Advance Driving Assistance System) will be the key focus areas in future, said Kiran Kumar, founding member and the chief of sales at PeopleStrong.

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Bengaluru: Private firms chip in to build infrastructure for e-vehiclesedit

The Times of India

By Christin Mathew Philip

The less number of environment friendly electric vehicles (EVs) in the city is largely attributed to the shortage of public charging stations. While the transport department scrapped its proposal to set up 100 charging stations and Bescom failed to scale up the number, private companies have installed the facility at various tech parks, malls and other areas.

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Govt’s EV push under FAME II addresses wrong end of problem: Rajiv Bajajedit

Business Standard  

By Shally Seth Mohile

Putting the cart before the horse is how Bajaj Auto’s Managing Director Rajiv Bajaj describes the government’s plan for accelerating the adoption of electric cars. His criticism of the policy is based on one point: If there is no demand, what’s the point of speeding up manufacturing? “The scheme for incentivising electric vehicles (e-vehicles) under FAME II (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles) isn’t optimal, as it glosses over the fundamental issue of demand generation,” said Bajaj.

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FAME-II to impact electric 2-wheeler segment most: Crisiledit

Live Mint

Electric two-wheeler segment is expected to face a rough road in the initial phase of the FAME II Scheme with the exclusion of lead battery-powered such vehicles, as per a Crisil impact note. The central government late last month laid out the eligibility criteria for electric buses, passenger vehicles, three-wheelers and two-wheelers to avail the incentives under the ‘Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles in India’ (FAME-II) scheme.

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India could achieve high penetration of EV by 2030: Niti Reportedit

Express Drives 

India could achieve high penetration of electric vehicles (EV) by 2030 on the back of success of FAME II and other measures, according to a Niti Aayog report. The penetration of EV vehicles could reach around 80 percent in case of two-wheelers and 30 percent for private cars, the report — India’s Electric Mobility Transformation: Progress to Date and Future Opportunities — by the Niti Aayog and the Rocky Mountain Institute. The report quantifies direct oil and carbon savings that vehicles incentivised under the FAME II would deliver.

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The autonomous car revolution is hereedit

Deccan Chronicle 

By Jayant Murali 

Driverless cars used to be the sort of thing you’d see in reel life, but today they are becoming real in real life. Though driverless cars were once the reserve of science fiction, you can now buy a Tesla electric car or Lexus, BMW or Mercedes with an advanced autopilot mode, or head to Pittsburgh and hail a driverless Uber taxi.

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Connected cars: Feeling bored? Now talk to your caredit

Financial Express

By Vikram Chaudhary

In a few months from now, a certain gentleman in Delhi will step into his car and leave for office. As he ‘tells’ his car to find him a route, his car will download the latest traffic maps and show him the fastest route. As he is about to reach office, his car will show him available parking slots. In the evening, as he leaves, his car will suggest him places to hang out on the way back home, as also the route.

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With AI-enabled electric vehicle, Micromax drives into the two-wheeler segmentedit

The Hindu Business Line 

After earning its stripes in the mobile phones market, Micromax has now set sights on the mobility segment. The company’s founder, Rahul Sharma, on Thursday launched an electric vehicle brand called ‘Revolt Motors’ (under Revolt Intellicorp Pvt. Ltd).

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The Future Is Here Already Electric Cars Outsell Petrol/Diesel Cars By 8.4 Percent In Norwayedit

Drive Spark 

Electric vehicles outsold fossil fuelpowered cars for the first time in Norway. History making statistics have been revealed by media reports stating that 58.4 percentage of all cars sold in Norway in March 2019 were allelectric models. Only 41.6 percentage of overall car sales were taken up by fossil fuelpowered cars. (Electric Vehicles)

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New spec criteria may increase cost of electric 2W & 3Wedit

The Economic Times 

By Shruthi Mishra

According to the latest notification under Rs 10,000 crore FAME II scheme, vehicles that meet the criteria of speed, range, acceleration, energy consumption and warranty can only avail of the subsidy benefits.

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New FAME 2 specifications put all EVs out of subsidy rangeedit

The Times of India 

The latest FAME2 notifications — with clarifications issued on March 28 — will be available for electric/hybrid cars only if they are less than “15 lakh in price and used as taxis; will not cover any electric car available in India right now — either mass market or premium.

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India needs to evaluate BESS as a storage tech: USISPFedit

The Economic Times 

In conjunction with this, India is also planning to potentially connect millions of electric vehicles to the grid by 2030 and bring more discipline to grid operations.

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Govt may blacklist Tata Motors for delaying Ebus deliveriesedit

Business Today 

Tata Motors in March 2018, had won a contract for supplying 40 electric buses each to the cities of Guwahati, Kolkata, Jaipur, Jammu & Kashmir, and Lucknow, the deadline of which according to the report has been missed. (Electric Vehicles)

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From the Model T to mobility’s next big inflection pointedit

The Hindu Business Line 

The story resonates, of course, because we know what consumers circa 1900 thought mobility was supposed to mean, and we know from about 1920 onward what mobility in fact came to mean. And still does. Indeed, the extent to which Ford’s (and his contemporaries’) automobile paradigm has endured is remarkable.

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Fast Electric Car Chargers ready but batteries still arentedit

The Financial Express 

Automakers and energy companies are spearheading the global rollout of these ultrafast charging pumps to lure consumers away from gas guzzlers and toward vehicles powered by electricity. Thousands of soupedup stations are being installed along highways from Shanghai to Germany and California, with the capacity to charge enough for 20 miles (32 kilometers) of driving range in one minute.

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Volkswagen tests highly automated driving in Hamburgedit

Geospatial World 

The eGolf configured by Volkswagen Group Research have eleven laser scanners, seven radars and 14 cameras. Up to 5 gigabytes of data are communicated per minute during the regular test drives, each of which lasts several hours. Computing power equivalent to some 15 laptops is tucked away in the trunk of the eGolf.

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Volkswagen to cooperate with Siemens for Industrial Cloudedit

Geospatial World 

In addition, Siemens and machinery and equipment suppliers will make applications and apps from the MindSphere Internet of Things system available in the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud. Volkswagen and Siemens intend to develop new functions and services for the Industrial Cloud together with machinery and equipment suppliers; these will then be available to all future partners.

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IOT, Industry 4.0 changing the game in logistics: Viewedit

The Economic Times 

The usage of IOT and digital technology must be judiciously selected. As one dives deep into the changing business dynamics in Industry 4.0, there must be realisation of where reality lies. Will IOT and Industry 4.0 really reduce monotonous work or further complicate lives.

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Electric car may die but your data is kept aliveedit

The Economic Times 

The report says data stored on the electric car is not automatically erased when it is hauled away from an accident site or auctioned. Tesla has recently paid thousands of dollars in rewards to hackers who exposed vulnerabilities in its systems.

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Limited impact from push towards electric vehiclesedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Fleet replacement, encouraged by better operating economics of higher axle vehicles and pre-buying before the Bharat Stage VI (BS VI) emission norms, will drive commercial vehicle (CV) sales this fiscal, said Jatinder S Gujral, CEO, Setco Automotive. Setco is a leading supplier of clutches to commercial vehicle manufacturers and has a sizeable after-market presence.

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Toyota offers royaltyfree licences on 24,000 patents to promote emobilityedit

Auto Car Professional 

The royaltyfree patents are advanced technologies found in electrified vehicles, particularly those used in hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) that have helped Toyota realise enhanced performance, reduced size, and cost reductions. More specifically, the patents included are for parts and systems, such as electric motors, power control units (PCUs), and system controls.

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Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soonedit

Bloomberg Quint  

Clean-energy visionaries have long argued that the world needs a better battery capable of selling skeptical consumers on electric cars and running the grid on renewable power. And yet the battery of the future—at least for the coming decade—will almost certainly be the battery of the past. The humble lithium-ion battery has built up such a commanding lead in the market that competing technologies may struggle to catch up. That lead will only widen as a wave of planned new lithium-ion factories comes online in the next five years.

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India’s First Connected Car Is On The Way, Hyundai’s Next SUV Will Come With Built-In E-Simedit

India Times 

By Sarthak Dogra

Car makers have been racing to come up with connected car offerings in their vehicles in India. Hyundai recently tried to lead the way, with its announcement around its upcoming subcompact SUV – Venue, calling it India’s first connected car. Now, the company has partnered with Vodafone-Idea to be the backbone of these connectivity features.

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Fastest Electric Car Chargers Are Waiting for Batteries to Catch Upedit

Bloomberg Quint 

The viability of electric vehicles depends in part on a manufacturing plant in eastern Australia, where gleaming white cabinets the size of large refrigerators are loaded onto shipping crates. They’re among the most advanced car chargers available, promising to deliver a full tank of juice in minutes.

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Bengaluru Electricity Supply Board pushes for solar-powered electric vehicle, 112 charging stations to come upedit

Times Now

Banglore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) has come up with a new initiative of charging power electric vehicles (EV) with the help of solar energy in order to ensure that clean transport is driven by clean energy.

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5 Trends That are Taking the Automotive Sector by Stormedit

Tech Story

Long gone are the days when automobiles with basic features were loved by everyone. The automotive sector has witnessed a drastic evolution post-2016 with various advancements in technology. New features like IoT, cloud computing and others have transformed the traditional cars into connected vehicles.

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Novel solution to recycle world’s batteriesedit

Daily Post 

“Rechargeable battery waste, particularly from lithium-ion batteries, will become an increasingly menacing environmental challenge in the future as the demand for these through their usage in electric vehicles and other gadgets increases dramatically,” said Pulickel Ajayan, a scientist at Rice University

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E-buses gaining traction on Indian roadsedit

The Hindu Business Line 

The electric revolution on Indian roads has been a long time coming. But it needed a push from the government, which has come with Fame-II (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India, Phase II). Fame-II decided to focus on public transport and has thrown in ?10,000 crore as subsidies to buy 7,000 buses over three years.

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Ambassador India To Be Relaunched By PSA As EV Brandedit

Motorbeam 

It has been learnt that the Ambassador will be launched in India as an EV brand only. The car giant already has several electric vehicle concepts, one of which could likely trickle down to the PSA Ambassador EV. (Electric Vehicles)

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MG Motor readies for India innings with connected car Hectoredit

Live Mint 

Adding more power to the car will be an artificial intelligence (AI)based voice assistant that works on the cloud. Developed by Nuance for MG India, it has been designed for Indian accent learning. As a result of inbuilt AI and machine learning (ML) algorithms, the system will learn and get better every day with usage.

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BMW Group and Microsoft launch Open Manufacturing Platformedit

Auto Car Professional 

The partners says that it (OMP) is expected to support the development of smart factory solutions that will be shared by participants across the automotive and broader manufacturing sectors. The goal is to significantly accelerate future Industrial IoT (Internet of Things) developments, shorten time to value and drive production efficiencies while addressing common industrial challenges.

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How Electric Mobility Will Be The Next Disruption In The Transportation Industryedit

Business World 

As an industry, transportation has observed several key disruptions since the evolution of the civilization. From horses to carts to the emergence of automobiles, the transportation sector has undergone many transformations, with each change bringing about newer efficiencies and cost savings. And yet again, transportation as a discipline stands at the cusp of disruption.

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EVs: How And Why The Future Of Indiaedit

Business World 

When thinking about the electric vehicle in the context of India, it’s critical to realize that it’s not just about the car. In fact, the electric car will likely play a very minor role in the future electric vehicle story of India. Lest we forget, India has nearly 12x as many two wheelers and three wheelers on roads when compared to four wheelers.

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Can the electric vehicles revolution in India be driven by tech venturesedit

The Financial Express 

electric vehicles revolution, electric vehicles revolution in India, mobility mix, Delhi government, EV powerhouse. India has been lagging behind in battery production, and the nation has depended on imports.

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Introduction to Telematicsedit

Tech Story 

All these features and benefits are the reason how telematics has played a major role in the advancement of fleet management. The transformation is rapid and highly beneficial. With the widespread of IoT and Artificial Intelligence, telematics continues to improve and gets better by the day.

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A shot in the arm for electric mobilityedit

The Hindu Business Line 

The recently announced Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles Phase II (FAME 2.0), a three-year Rs 10,000 crore initiative by the Centre, is a laudable effort by the Department of Heavy Industries.

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Tata Power, IGL join hands to set up EV charging stations, solar plantsedit

The Economic Times  

The MoU will explore possibilities of cooperation in setting up large scale Solar Group Captive Power Projects under the Captive Policy of Government of India for IGLs own consumption and setting up of commercial scale charging and battery swapping stations for electric vehicles with the allied power management solutions, the companies said in a statement.

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What it means: India signs MoU with Bolivia for development of lithiumedit

Over Drive 

Domestic production is also set to see a boost, from the automotive perspective. The arrival of hybrids and electric vehicles from as early as 2020 onwards, will force manufacturers to look at local production.

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When will Delhi see electric buses on its regular routesedit

Citizen Matters 

A year later, the first set of global tenders for 375 buses have just been issued, following a pilot project in the latter half of 2018. In the meantime, we have heard of several other cities launching ebuses, though any major citywide transition or significant breakthrough in terms of adoption is yet to be reported. (E mobility)

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To plug charging infrastructure gap, e-scooter manufacturers turn to detachable batteriesedit

The Hindu Business Line 

By Mirza Mohammed Ali Khan

Okinawa’s Ridge+ (Rs 76,499, ex-showroom), an upgraded model of its Ridge scooter, also comes with a detachable lithium ion battery. Indigenous e-scooter manufacturers are slowly moving away from lead acid batteries and adopting lithium ion batteries, with the government’s subsidy under the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles (FAME) programme helping them

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JSW Energy calls off electric vehicle plansedit

The Hindu Business Line 

The company’s effort to bring in a joint venture partner to close the Bhushan Power deal looks bleak, as the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code has no provision to get a new partner at the final stages. Apart from buying the stressed asset, JSW Steel has announced plans to invest Rs 30,000 crore in brownfield projects over the next two financial years.

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Clean Mobility: How Indian states fare on policy frontedit

Smartcity ELETS Online 

To maintain the lead share of Karnataka as a preferred destination for attracting investments in manufacture of electric vehicles, the Government of Karnataka has announced subsidy on electric vehicles for the sector to bloom under a comprehensive and welldesigned Electric Vehicle and Energy Storage Policy 2017.

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Electric cars on Indian roads by 2030: India to get lithium for batteries from Boliviaedit

Wio News 

Bolivia, known to have the largest reserves of Lithium, is all set to become a major partner for providing metalused in making batteries of electric vehicles, laptops and smartphonesto India. This forms an important part of Indian govts policy to have electric vehicles rolling in the country by 2030 as a measure to promote environment friendly practises.

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Making selfdriving cars safer on roadsedit

Deccan Chronicle 

Findings of the study were discussed in Design, Automation and Test meeting. Typically autonomous vehicles learn about the world via machine learning systems, which are fed huge datasets of road images before they can identify objects on their own.

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The Most Needed Skills & Trends for Employers & Employees in 2019edit

People And Management 

Technical Professionals: as technology is no longer limited to an IT business, a technology professional may consider the major advances in computing, security and automation that opens new avenues, where jobs exceed the available skills. In computing, Cloud-based services, Edge and IOT are the three steps that bring computing power closest to the point of interaction.

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Business School Trends that will Dominate the Futureedit

People And Management 

Shocking reports have revealed a vast skills gap in India, with several surveys suggesting that more than 75% of graduates are not employable in any sector based on industry standards. This has sparked growing concern about the mismatch between universities and the needs of the job market.

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Utilizing Education Technology To Enhance Indias Employabilityedit

BW People 

Investing in reskilling and upskilling will be central to any sustainable effort at addressing the skill gap in India. A recent article highlighted how Indias systematic skill gap will potentially result in an opportunity cost of approximately $1.97 trillion.

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Usher business leadership through digital twinedit

The Times of India 

A recent study predicts the availability of 20 billion connected devices by 2020. Moreover, with the presence of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Big Data Technology, organizations now not only can easily integrate digital information with the operational data of a physical object but also can execute analytics and intelligence for better understanding, predicting and optimizing the lifecycle and performance of the object.

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How nTalents.ai AIbased Interviewing Platform Is Taking Away The Bias In Hiring Processedit

Analytics India Mag

Bengaluru based nTalents.ai has made automated interviews for corporate sales team recruitment a reality, with their easy to use online interview platform. Incubated at IIM Bangalore, the startups uses AI and other deep learning capabilities to make hiring easy for their numerous corporate clients. (artifical intelligence)

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Digital Transformation Are you ready for it?edit

People Matters 

Managing such voluminous data require sophisticated systems and curation tools. Humanly, this cannot be managed. With more advancements in technology, more data are expected to be created and consumed. IoT (Internet of Things) enables the creation and communication of data between devices and machines.

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This is what great leadership looks like in the digital ageedit

Qrius 

The World Economic Forum’s 2018 Future of Jobs report suggests that, by 2022, no less than 54% of all employees will require significant reand upskilling. Of these, about 35% are expected to require additional training of up to six months, while 9% will require reskilling lasting 6-12 months and 10% will require additional skills training of more than a year.

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Data Science Hiring Scenario In India: Hear From The Hiring Managersedit

Analytics India Mag 

As the industry keeps evolving in the various technological advancements, the need for reskilling and keeping updated with eh latest trends becomes imperative. This is also important for the candidate to be most updated with the latest happenings in recruitment sector.

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Global Industry 4.0 Needs Indian Education 2.0edit

The New Indian Express 

Not only has it got the uphill task of scaling up to the demands of the 4th IR but also needs to do it in an ecosystem burdened with varied forms and style. This will easily be the world’s largest effort to build a talent pool of students and faculty for survival and leadership roles.

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Were offduty, will not reply to email: WeWorkedit

The Times of India 

By Namrata Singh

In the fast times that we live today, striking a balance between work and life in general is often looked at in a desirous manner. We are all looking for that window of opportunity wherein no unread emails beckon us nor a deadline hangs over the head.

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Automation, robots could wipe out almost half of all jobs in 20 yearsedit

The New Indian Express 

Automation, robots and globalization are rapidly changing the workplace and governments must act fast and decisively to counter the effects or face a worsening of social and economic tensions, the OECD warned. Almost half of all jobs could be wiped out or radically altered in the next two decades due to automation, the Paris-based group said in a report on Tuesday.

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Nasscom will Push for New-age Skills Adoption: Nasscom chairmanedit

The Economic Times

Nasscom last year started the FutureSkills platform, opening up opportunities for the member companies to get their employees trained in emerging technology skills. The platform offers training in areas such as internet of things (IoT), robotic process automation (RPA), virtual reality, big data analytics, cloud computing and 3D printing.

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Keep updating skills to create a niche for yourself, says Venkaiah Naiduedit

Business Standard 

We are in midst of 4th Industrial revolution. The technology is changing exponentially. The new age technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and 3D Printing, are changing the ways we live and work. You, as innovator entrepreneurs and global professionals, will be required to outpace this change.

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UPSC in the age of artificial intelligence and accelerated growthedit

The Times of India 

If we move to the second issue of emerging technologies, here we could be drawing a winning hand provided we open governance to accept and imbibe them. New technology has power to change the way we gather the data and also to read it better. If Artificial Intelligence gains better access in governance, the role of a civil servant will change dramatically as he can put it to use for more informed decision making.

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Skilling People Key To Fighting Unemploymentedit

The Economic Times

Ramachandran Kannan, Founder, AssessPeople and a human resource leader said, “Being able to think critically, problem solving and innovation are cornerstones of the modern job markets. It is in such a context that the government and companies need to include and invest in outbound programmes that involve practical learning approach which would help new talent pool, especially freshers, to develop newer skills.”

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OECD explains risks of automation and its impact on future of workedit

Devdis Course

These technological advancements deliver the promise of better and more convenient lives to many, but also disrupt the way of work. 14 per cent of existing jobs could disappear as a result of automation in the next 1520 years, with another 32 per cent set to change radically, according to a new report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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Top 8 supply chain technology trends in 2019edit

CIO

AI supports the shift to broader supply chain automation that many organizations are seeking, said Titze. For example, AI can enhance risk mitigation by analyzing large sets of data, continuously identifying evolving patterns, and predicting disruptive events along with potential resolutions.

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How the business of chowkidars is changingedit

Business Today

By Goutam Das

But, will this industry be as people intensive even in the future. The business of chowkidars is changing. Exponential technologies such as drones and Internet of Things (IoT) are expected to change how corporates protect their assets and people. Nevertheless, Rituraj Sinha, Group Managing Director of SIS sees an opportunity in technology. Companies such as his now sell solutions, not just chowkidars.

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Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and machine learning: How companies can get smarteredit

The Financial Express

By Dilip Kumar Khandelwal

Artificial Intelligence, Block chain, machine learning, global economy, Indian companies, global GDP, World Economic Forum Out of the fast changing roster of emerging technologies, business leaders need to keep a sharp eye on Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Block chain.

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AI and IoTs role in staffing industryedit

Express Computer

By Abhishek Agarwal

Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things are changing the face of recruitment and staffing industry by making the process highly social and cognitive! Tech savvy recruiters make the best out of the available technological inventions to hire the right candidate for the right job role without wasting away their crucial time in the basic tasks and heavy paperwork.

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5 Things To Know Before You Start Your Data Science Careeredit

Analytics India Mag 

As we know that change is the only constant. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are evolving in an exponential way and are not constant. We cannot compare the present scenario with a few years back. It is very important to keep on the track of learning with the growing technology to be in the rat race.

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The unemployment-unemployability gulf and how it is being bridgededit

The Hindu Business Line 

According to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), over 60 per cent of the 8 lakh-plus engineers graduating every year remain unemployed. On the other hand, 39 per cent employers encounter challenges in attracting quality talent. To fulfil the needs of companies and to tide over the unemployment crisis, engineering colleges and technology institutes have begun engaging with the companies on a real-time basis.

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We need to invest in understanding, leveraging the new technologies’edit

The Hindu Business Line

By TE Raja Simhan

They are bringing about a huge transformation among businesses and the society alike. While AI has a positive impact on businesses, it is also seen as a threat to jobs. S Gopalakrishnan, co-founder, Infosys, and chairman, Axilor Ventures, spoke to BusinessLine about the impact of AI on jobs and building a career around the technology.

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The growing need for cyber security insurance in BFSI sectoredit

Money Control

Sushant Sarin, EVP & Head, Commercial Lines & Reinsurance, Tata AIG General Insurance, talks about how the BFSI sector is adopting cyber security insurance.New regulations, emphasis on data protection and increasing cyber attacks are driving banks and financial institutions to seriously look at cyber security insurance as the plan B when an attack strikes.

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Skill gap in cyber security hobbles IT industryedit

The Hindu Business Line

By Varun Aggarwal

Cyber attacks on Wipro, Infosys and Capgemini have brought to the fore the challenge of filling the skills gap in the cyber security space in India, even as demand continues to outweigh supply. This in turn has led to a sharp increase in the pay package of such professionals, who end up earning two to 10x the average salary of an IT engineer.

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Robotic automation can help cos increase HR efficiencyedit

The Times of India

 By Anurag Malik

In most cases, this means repetitive tasks involving loads of paperwork, time consuming processes and potentially a lot of inefficiencies. This is where robotics process automation (RPA) kicks in automating repetitive, rule based processes and dramatically reducing human involvement in these tasks. Thereby, freeing up time to focus on more value added tasks to support the organisations growth.

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Reskilling will lead to productive IT work forcesedit

The Economic Times

The increased need for driving competitive advantage in the digital era has IT leaders pushing the reskilling of employees, who must adapt themselves with new tools as well as business processes that support and drive business strategy. (cyber security)

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Work from home and be your own boss: Five options that you can pickedit

The Times of India

By Shipra Singh 

Working tip: Identify what you do best, specialize in it and look for clients in need of those services. This can make you the goto person in that industry. Keep upskilling to increase your earnings.

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Women Engineers programme introduced to address gender imbalance in technologyedit

The Times of India

By Rajlakshmi Ghosh

To address the gender imbalance in technology and groom deserving women engineers, Google supported initiative titled Women Engineers (WE) programme has been introduced. Women in Software Engineering (WISE), a diversity programme produced promising women engineers, selected from tier II colleges in the past.

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India must re-engineer skill ecosystem’edit

The Hans India

As technological breakthroughs alter the nature of work globally, it is critical for India equip its workforce with employable skills, stimulate a sustainable development process and transit into a formal economy, according to a knowledge paper by industry body FICCI and consulting major PwC.

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The right skills for a new worldedit

The Csr Journal

By Dr. Moin Qazi

The missing link that underlies the growing unemployment is skill development, which is the key ingredient to robust economic growth. With the dilutions of the old iron bowl of employment protection, the idea of lifelong secure employment has now been shattered. The 201617 annual report of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship says that less than 5% of the total workforce in India has undergone formal skill training.

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Skill training for tribal youth in five districtsedit

The Hindu

Nearly 5,000 tribal youths will be given skill training in the first phase of a programme taken up as part of the one family, one job proposal announced in the budget. The Scheduled Tribe Development Department is implementing the programme in a phased manner. In the first phase, tribal youth in five districts Kozhikode, Palakkad, Kannur, Wayanad, and Malappuram who have passed class 10 will be given training and placement.

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We need a reskilling revolution to succeed in the era of Globalisation 4.0edit

The Print

By Borge Brende

With millions of jobs expected to be displaced by 2022, measures like education reform, lifelong learning & reskilling initiatives will ensure benefits reach both individuals and businesses.

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This Russian News Robot Is So Bad, Its Proof Some Human Jobs Wont Be Taken By Botsedit

India Times 

One constant fear with the advance of artificial intelligence, is that the robots will come to take all our jobs. No worker, teacher, driver, or other will be safe. Then again, if the bots are as bad as this robotic news anchor, I think were safe for a long long time. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Blockchain and cryptocurrency jobs rise in Indiaedit

The Tech Panda 

India has seen significant rises in blockchain and cryptocurrency jobs this year, according to a study by Indeed. According to the platform, the rise has been notable for cities such as Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Gurugram, Chennai, and Noida. The site noted that blockchain jobs are competing with those in artificial intelligence. (Artificial Intelligence)

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India must reengineer skill ecosystem as newage technologies play out: FICCIPwCedit

Sia Sat 

Industries are focusing on newage technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, bionics, the Internet of Things, 3D printing and biotechnology, which build on and amplify one another. We as a society should have a clear view of what the future, driven by megatrends and our own actions, will look like.

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Blockchain bonanzaedit

The Hindu 

The Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution is evolving integration of artificial intelligence, internet of things (IOT), automation, genetics, robotics, 3D printing, biotechnology, nanotechnology, cloud computing, and more, that are driving newer prospects for job opportunities and growth.

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Banks woo IT talent with fat paychecksedit

The Financial Express 

The hiring mix is significantly shifting towards tech this year owing to the increased focus on technology which is directly linked to our growth in digitised offerings, he said. Vempati added that with the increasing focus on artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and internet of things (IoT), the bank is settingup skill-specific teams as part of creating agile solutions for customers.

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Batteries Not Includededit

Forbes

By Samar Srivastava

Leapfrogging technologies can be problematic eliminating intermediate steps often results in messy policy and slower adoption. It’s a problem electric vehicle (EV) makers and consumers globally have grappled with. Chetan Maini, vice chairman of Sun Mobility, which is working on developing a network of battery swapping stations, says it is very important for the government to be technology agnostic.

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These are the industries most likely to be taken over by robotsedit

Business Insider 

Bridgewater Associates, the most successful hedge fund in the world, recently highlighted a 2016 study by McKinsey & Company that analyzed what industries are most susceptible to automation. Jobs with lots of manual labor in a predictable environment could see higher automation in the years to come, while jobs involving managing human employees are likely safe for now.

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More education means less employmentedit

The Times of India

By Mahesh Vyas 

IT companies and the financial markets are not as aggressive in hiring talent anymore as online and offline retail enterprises are in hiring labour to pack and deliver consumption goods. This shift in demand in favour of lower skill labour implies that the premium for education in labour markets is declining.

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Creating entrepreneurs and change makersedit

 The Times of India

Our classrooms must become learning labs that are microcosms of the real world to prepare students for challenges in the new job market, writes Ajay BatraOur classrooms must become learning labs that are microcosms of the real world to prepare students for challenges in the new job market, writes Ajay Batra (Future of Jobs)

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Big Data Analytics Support to IT Staffingedit

CIOL 

From knowing interests of a potential employee to evaluating buying behaviour, Big Data analyses all aspects and help IT companies get the right employeeThe amalgamation of AI, IoT, and Programmatic has given a new shape and dimension to modern businesses, and Big Data Analytics is the real catalyst for making this amalgamation possible.

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Why BJPs startup push is better for Indians looking for jobs than Congress Nyayedit

The Print

By Swadesh Singh

Congress led opposition is using one NSSO report to highlight unemployment woes in 2019 elections when job scenario world over has drastically changed. Employees operate sewing machines at a garment factory in Kolkata | Taylor Weidman/Bloomberg (Future of Jobs)

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Advance digital tech fast disrupting low, midskilled jobsedit

The Economic Times 

The AIMAKPMG report focusses on the ongoing digitisation and its transformative impact on Indian business and society and is aimed at helping companies formulate their digital strategies. Different sectors such as IT, manufacturing, healthcare and financial services are observing an increase in efficiency and productivity through the deployment of digital platforms. (Artificial Intelligence)

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The ideal social media expert of the future will be a one person armyedit

CNBC TV18

India is the most populous democracy in the world. India is also inching towards becoming the second largest smartphone country. In many ways the internet and social media have defined the political narrative of this country. Very few people have been levers to this era of change. It is safe to count Ankit Lal, a social media strategist with Aam Aadmi Party and the author of India Social as one of its key drivers and early adopters. (Future of Work)

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Most Demanding B.Tech Courses in Indiaedit

Elets Online

Lets admit it; mechanical engineering is a core stream of engineering education that is preferred by many students. This course helps you develop the capability of working efficiently and developing technical and leadership expertise. Some of the universities also allow the students to choose a specialization of their choice at the beginning of the third year. Career prospects after this course include:

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Rise Of Machines: Why India need not be afraidedit

The Hans India

At a time when India is worried about the lack of adequate jobs, it is but natural that eyebrows will be raised on innovations that tend to perform humans tasks. This is similar to our apprehensions in the past about computers taking over workers upon mass adoption. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Macro Trends | The poor are dropping out of the workforceedit

Money Control

By Manas Chakravarty

The State of Working India 2019 report, recently published by Azim Premji University, has some interesting data on joblessness among men with different educational backgrounds, which could give us clues about unemployment trends among the poor and not so poor.

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Opinion | The rise of the precariat and need to rethink jobsedit

Live Mint 

This precarious form of work that used to be endemic among lower socioeconomic classes is now a predominant feature of most rungs of the economy. Surely, those at the top are better protected, but it is the large and rising middle that is newly experiencing the effects of this major transformation in economies globally over the decades. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Opinion | Lets look at employment through a livelihood lensedit

Live Mint 

However, in sociology, many scholars have noted a shift from traditional salaried work (which arrived on the scene in the Western world post the Industrial Revolution and, even more so, with the rise of the middle class from the 1950s onward) to more precarious forms of work.

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Automation Anywhere predicts it will be worlds largest digital employer by 2020edit

The News Minute

Automation Anywhere expects to deploy more than three million bots by 2020, a 200% increase from today. Automation Anywhere, the global leader in robotic process automation (RPA), announced unprecedented ecosystem growth in the first quarter of 2019, with more than 2,800 customer entities and 1,600 enterprise brands using the companys intelligent RPA platform.

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AI in the Work Placeedit

EET India 

This is a story about AIs doing such a kickass great job expanding employment for humans that some of their meat based co workers have given their virtual colleagues their own honorary cubicles.

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AI field is too white and too men: Researchersedit

Deccan Chronicle 

While artificial intelligence and machine learning is expected to have a huge impact across all industries, researchers, in a report, warned that the AI industry is facing a huge “diversity crisis”. According to the report, AI Now Institute found that women and people of color are deeply underrepresented.

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Veeam is the bright beam for cloud data managementedit

CIO

By Yogesh Gupta

We believe that software today should be light and easy to install, whereas the legacy in this space has been A sale after ticking 87 pages of supportability matrices and meeting the data backup team of, say, seven people. My view is putting one person at the center and re-skilling other six in data analytics to take the insights back to the company.

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Three years and a pivot towards audioedit

Factordaily

By Pankaj Mishra

First, the news: we are stopping our long form text stories on Factor Daily from next week. We will, instead, concentrate on podcasts, becoming an audio first storytelling platform. Servicing our intent in this direction, last week we kick started The Playbook podcast and in the week before, launched the third season of The Outliers, our popular podcast. (Future of Work)

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Lack of industry exposure makes Indian engineers unemployableedit

The Times of India 

The report revealed 60% of engineering faculty do not discuss how to apply engineering concepts in the industry. Varun Aggarwal, cofounder and Chief Technological Officer (CTO), Aspiring Minds, says, On a large scale, the primary problem of Indian engineering institutes is the rote learning temperament.

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Introducing: The 100 people transforming the world of businessedit

Business Insider 

Emmanuel Aidoo, head of digital asset markets at Credit Suisse, is using blockchain to transform banking Emmanuel Aidoo, head of digital asset markets at Credit Suisse, is using blockchain to transform banking (Future of Work).

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How Automation Will Influence The Job Market for Womenedit

She The People 

Gender gap is a bitter reality of the corporate world. But how do technology and automation influence the numbers further Do things change differently for men and women with automation As per a research Women, Automation, and the Future of Work, by Institute for Womens Policy Research (IWPR) traditional women oriented jobs are at a higher risk of being automated. (Future of Work)

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Workplace trends emerging in 2019edit

The Statesman 

Organisations across the board are embracing changes and advancements to streamline and enhance work experience 1for both current inbound teams alike Whether its a growing startup or the industry leaders, we see organisations across the board are embracing changes and advancements to streamline and enhance work experience for both current inbound teams alike.

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Top jobs on LinkedIn: Software engineers, business analystsedit

Business Today 

Professional network LinkedIn recently came up with the second edition of its India Workforce Report for the second half of 2018, which says that the data guys are in demand across industries Data crunching, at times, validates perception. Many have talked about the growth of data related jobs because of the rise of exponential technologies the likes of Artificial Intelligence.

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Bridging skill gap in service industryedit

The Times of India 

With an aim to bridge the talent gap in the hospitality industry, a partnership has been inked between Sommet Education, a hospitality education group based in Switzerland, and British multinational hospitality company InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG).

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Why The ‘Skills Allowance’ Trend Is Here To Stayedit

Business World

Most companies mandated in-house training courses are created to cater to a large group rather than being tailored to meet individual needs. Employees often attend these courses half-heartedly to meet minimum criteria etc. However, giving a skill allowance puts the employee firmly in the driver’s seat. It affords them greater control over how they can shape their career.

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4th industrial revolution will add unpredictability to future of work: Indiaedit

The Economic Times 

India has said the fourth industrial revolution will add unpredictability to the future of work, requiring peoples opportunities and wellbeing to be localised and reexamined. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that tremendous labour market disruption lies ahead.

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90% of Indian engineers lack key skills: Reportedit

The Economic Times 

Now a report by talent assessment firm Aspiring Minds shows a grimmer picture of the ability of Indian IT engineering graduates Agencies hackers agencies Only 10%, the report claims, have adequate coding skills.

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Tremendous labour market disruption lies ahead, warns UN chiefedit

Devdis Course 

As the ILO marks its centenary amid unprecedented technological transformation and disruption in the labour market, India has said the fourth industrial revolution will add unpredictability to the future of work, requiring peoples opportunities and wellbeing to be localised and reexamined. Anxiety about the impact of technology on the world of work is not new.

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Career opportunities for millennials: Checkout off-beat, lucrative jobsedit

The Indian Express

By Shubika Bilkha

Cyber Security: Increased digitization has led to a growth in cyber crimes. With growing vigilance about personal security or organisational level security, the world of cyber security has emerged as a lucrative career opportunity. Specializations within it such as ethical hacking, advanced threat research and more also provide a wonderful career opportunity.

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Strong push to logistics sectoredit

The Times of India

By Jagriti Kumari

The market expands across tier-II and III cities, especially from trade centers such as Coimbatore, Guwahati, Jaipur, Lucknow and Ludhiana. With the inclusion of AI and other technologies, the efficiency of the entire industry is expected to grow and would lead to a 10% decrease in indirect costs. This would further leading to a growth of 5-8% in exports,” he adds.

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Latest jobs 2019 notifications: Apply Nowedit

Telangana Today

Four years of post qualification experience in the field of Library & Information Science is a must. Knowledge of library automation software and one year course in computer applications is desirable.

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Five policies to deal with the loss of jobs to automation (UBI is not one of them)edit

Qrius 

A universal basic income is not viable and we need a more comprehensive and adaptive solution, writes Henning MeyerThe potential threat of technological unemployment is one of the most hotly debated economic issues of our times: in boardrooms and trade union offices but also increasingly amongst policymakers.

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Facing the employability challengeedit

The Times of India 

While artificial intelligence, cloud computing, data analytics and IoT have been identified as top technology trends impacting business, there is a skill shortage in these areas. Given the above context, companies today look for graduates who have technical aptitude, problem-solving mindset, learnability and behavioural skills. They should be strong in fundamental concepts of algorithms, data structures etc.

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Artificial intelligence can take your job, so political leaders need to start doing theirsedit

The Print 

AI should be an election issue, because there is virtually no job that wont be affected by AIdriven automation. Over the next decade up to 40% of jobs could be replaced by automation. Thats according to a forecast from the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Biggest issue for voters is jobsedit

Telangana Today

By Asit K Biswas , Cecilia Tortajada

Meanwhile, many entry level jobs are being automated with robots and artificial intelligence. This is also the case for repetitive manufacturing jobs. Such trends are likely to accelerate in the future, reducing the country’s capacity to generate employment.

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Banking on an autonomous future: Viewedit

The Economic Times

It sounds like fantasy, but it is the promise made by the newest wave of business technology innovation autonomous technology. Combining the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous technology delivers the capability for IT systems such as a database, to self-manage, self-repair and self-secure across a wide range of functions and applications.

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Can AI create more jobs than it destroysedit

Egov Elets Online

Amidst the buzz and excitement around Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is simultaneous discussion on the possible consequences of AI. One of them is concerns of job loss. A very real issue, the fear of losing a job to a robot is making the policy think tank NITI Aayog to emphasise on the importance creating new employment to absorb those rendered redundant by automation.

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Become ethical hacker, cybersecurity expert: Know education, starting salary, other detailsedit

Zee Biz

According to Cybersecurity Ventures, there will be 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs opening by 2021. The market values will cross $6 trillion by 2021. Manish Kumawat, Director at Cryptus Cyber Security Pvt Ltd, says there is no prerequirement to become a Cyber Security Professional.

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Artificial Intelligence The future of BFSI technologyedit

Money Control

With the next two years being critical for adoption of AI in the sector, the next decade will surely see AI playing a significant role in the BFSI sector. Over the last two decades, technology has been rapidly going digital. Starting with BI, now the movement is towards analytics and AI. Banking is regulated, so it is taking a little longer for AI to completely be adopted. (Artificial Intelligence)

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World Internet of Things Day 2019: IoTs are becoming big but so are privacy risksedit

Hindustan Times

By Kul Bhushan

According to IoT India Congress 2018, Indias Internet of Things (IoTs) can be best defined as the technology that adds smart to daytoday appliances. From Amazon Alexa powered smart speakers to WiFi enabled smart fridges, IoTs are becoming increasingly popular in India

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Why Is It Becoming So Difficult To Get A Jobedit

BW People 

Earlier you as an experienced candidate never had to engage in a job search and manage it like your job; it only meant application to jobs available through job alerts sent by portals (newspaper appointment ads have vanished totally in this digital age) or use your network of references and ex-bosses. (Artificial Intelligence)

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The 3 Valuable Qualities Every Good Data Scientist Must Possessedit

Analytics India Mag 

Data science is one of the most impactful areas of the postmillennial world. If the last decade gave us a glimpse of what data can help achieve, the coming decades will prove this to be the tip of the iceberg. Becoming a data scientist requires multidisciplinary skills ranging from coding, programming, data wrangling, knowledge of machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, analytics tools, statistical algorithms and techniques to data visualisation, domain knowledge and soft skills.

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Leaders confident about dealing with current disruptions: Studyedit

The Economic Times 

The study had over 5,500 responses from Csuite executives, HR personnel and employees in India. According to the study, thriving employees are almost two times more likely to work for an organisation that enables quick decision making.

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Booming logistics sector raises hopes for tech workforceedit

The Times of India 

The e-commerce boom, grant of infrastructure status, the digital revolution and unprecedented growth of mobile phone ownership in India have collectively given a strong push to the logistics industry in India. Additionally, automation and implementation of new-age technology such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytics have also played a vital role in the massive transformation of the sector.

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Booming logistics sector raises hopes for tech workforceedit

Times of India

By Jagriti Kumari 

The e-commerce boom, grant of infrastructure status, the digital revolution and unprecedented growth of mobile phone ownership in India have collectively given a strong push to the logistics industry in India.workforceWorkplace
Creating better workplacesedit

ET Realty

Organisations today need to create spaces that attract the best talent, adjust to shifting workforce demographics and promote employee wellbeing. The answer to such new demands is simple: technology and innovation. The workplace is changing. The way we work is evolving to meet the new demands of a global marketplace driven by advancing technology, where agile businesses are disrupting the status quo. New technologies are transforming the entire corporate world, and allied services need to change the way they operate in this environment.

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How data sciences enable lifelong learningedit

Business Today 

One company that has built a next generation enterprise learning product is Degreed. The company connects employees in an enterprise to learning resources such as courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts among others; it assesses the skills one has and those that would be required for a chosen domain. (Future of Work)

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Do You Change Your People Or The Way Your People Workedit

Business World 

How can we as business leaders prepare for these changes In my view, new technologies require new skills, and importantly, new ways of working. Just employing people with different skills, or upskilling existing employees is not the answer. In order to succeed, organizations need leaders with a different approach and key things that need to be borne in mind are

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Can Re-skilling In Technology Re-start Women Engineers’ Careers?edit

Business World 

There is no doubt that bringing more women into the workforce would help the Indian economy. According to the World Bank, India could boost its growth by 1.5 percentage points to 9 percent per year if around 50 percent of women could join the work force. The Indian IT sector is a major contributor to the country’s GDP and as such must focus on ensuring the most robust and diverse talent pool possible.

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YOUR EMPLOYER ALREADY KNOWS IF YOU ARE ABOUT TO QUIT THE COMPANY!edit

Analytics Insights

Do you know how many resumes does IBM receive on an average day? An astounding 8,000! Yes, it is true that the giant receives more than 8,000 resumes a day, which makes it No. 1 on the job-search site Glassdoor for Gen Z applicants. It is not the only way that the technology giant, employing roughly 350,000 workers knows which resource is looking for career change. Disruptive it may sound, but IBM artificial intelligence technology is now 95 percent accurate when deployed to predict which workers are planning to leave their jobs. This sounds creepy, doesn’t it!

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Create A Workplace Culture That Celebrates Its Employees Every Day And Helps Stay Ahead Of Competitionedit

BW Businessworld 

Since its inception in 1979, Kronos was a company nurtured by its founders to help customers better manage their workforce with technology that tracks the time their employees work to ensure they are paid correctly, scheduled based on their skills, preferences, seniority, and availability; adding value to their professional growth and helping organizations stay compliant with complex labor regulations. 40 years since its inception, Ain made it his organizational goal to not just let Kronos be a place of work, but a place that people loved to come to work.

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HR Trends For 2019edit

BW Businessworld 

By Margaret D’souza

We are in a day and age where we have Siri in our pockets and Alexa in our homes, but what about Artificial Intelligence in the workplace? Professionals around the globe have started pursuing new technology to help them increase their personal productivity by letting AI take care of the day’s most mundane tasks. This year we moved a step closer to leveraging tech in HR. Every single debate, forum or conference focused on the need and rise of AI and Analytics. HR software providers now focus on AI and Analyics capabilites as a differentiating factor. They have moved on from mere dashboards, reporting to bots, applications that help in various processes. It’s not ...Artificial Intelligencehuman resource

10 soft skills that really matter at workedit

The Hans India 

A decade ago, these roles were completely unheard of but now we are already talking about reskilling and upskilling to stay relevant and take on these emerging jobs. Naturally, future employees will need to develop new skills to keep themselves abreast with the changes taking place around them.

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With Artificial Intelligence taking over the corporate world, there is huge demand for professionals in this domainedit

The Statesman 

You can already see artificial intelligence at work every time you perform a search on Google. Even your smartphones and wearables come with some amount of AI included. Google maps, online shopping, voice assistants — anything and everything involve AI. The corporate world is investing in this technology and the demand for professionals is quite high.

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AI will not take over human jobs: Paul Daughertyedit

Live Mint 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming the face of brands, Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Accenture, recently said.AI is the most important technology trend today. It is not a right, but a human obligation. AI should be leveraged to create opportunities for organizations as well as society, highlighted Daugherty, while speaking at an interactive session in Mumbai.

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How key emerging technologies are fundamentally changing the way we live, work and playedit

Live Mint 

By Mahesh Makhija

A slew of emerging technologies is shaping our lives, arguably at a rate of change never seen before in history. Enabled by cheap computing power and access to large data sets, machines are already doing a better job than humans in several areas.

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Future Of Jobs Crisisedit

Business Today 

By Prasanto K Roy 

Goutam Das, a business journalist, has not minced words in his first book that explores Indias employment crisis and asks some vital questions: Why have governments failed to create more jobs which pay well Why are Indian companies not creating enough jobs Why do small companies remain small (Future of Jobs)

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DATA STORY | 80% of Indian engineering graduates not employable, says surveyedit

Money Control  

Approximately 80 percent of Indian engineering graduates are not employable in the current knowledge-driven economy, according to a survey. The survey titled “National Employability report engineers annual report 2019” has been conducted by employability solutions company Aspiring Minds. It is based on sample of more than 170,000 engineering students from over 750 engineering colleges.

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Artificial Intelligence Should Make You Enthusiastic-Margret Regan, President And CEO, The Futurework Instituteedit

BW BusinessWorld 

By Prabodh Krishna

In a special presentation on the topic Game Changers 2030, implications for standing in the future of DEI, a globally renowned scholar Margret Regan, President and CEO, the Futurework Institute has elaborated common but sensitive issues related to the importance of AI. She introduced her AI robot Jibo, who according to her ‘helps to stay her healed and informed for entire day’s. People have to start getting friendly with AI as this will be the phenomenon that will decide the future in the coming decade. Regan also said that there will be more informed and enhanced people in the future. Regan had also shared insightful information about AI-enabled robot programs and devices like ROSS ...AIFuture of Work

India is digitising fast but the pace is leaving many behindedit

Business Insider 

That opportunity is dependent on reskilling the workforce, digital adoption of private companies and the policies implemented by the government. India is digitising faster than all other countries except one and its not China. Between 2014 and 2017, India has grown 90% in terms of digitisation, second only to Indonesia, which showed a growth of 99%.

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How AI Powered Tools Can Shape Your Resumeedit

Analytics India Mag 

By Akshaya Asokan

Here is where the usability of artificial intelligence comes into play. As a tool which can analyse through scores of content on the web and making valuable suggestions accordingly, more online platforms are now looking at AI for building the perfect resume.

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AI Wont Destroy Jobs, It Will Create Careersedit

Analytics India Mag 

By Anirudh VK

Artificial intelligence and automation are one of the most adopted emerging technologies in the corporate sector today. Due to its ease of deployment with cloud service providers and plugandplay libraries, AI is quickly moving into being close to humans in many areas.

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6 in 10 employees worried about automation displacing them from their jobsedit

The Economic Times 

Artificial intelligence, big data, and blockchain the topmost disruptive technologies this year. BCCLjobsbccl3Employees fear automation will take away their jobs. (Representative Image)Artificial intelligence, big data, and blockchain the topmost disruptive technologies NSE 0.73 % this year, shows the TechGig Developers Survey 2019 of over 1,100 IT professionals by TimesJobs.

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How Artificial Intelligence Will Ensure Agility IT Staffingedit

Business World 

The coming years will witness an exponential rise in the use of new technologies like IoT, data analytics, machine learning, image analysis thus, producing large amounts of data. The need to leverage this data is already a big challenge facing most of the industries, and the same will grow substantially with time.

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Women should prove mettle in IT: Entrepreneur Fariba Rawhaniedit

The New Indian Express  

By Merin Mariya

After the introduction of the internet, information is now available on your fingertips. Now we are experimenting with Artificial Intelligence and robotics. Opportunities are boundless, technology has opened a way to advance humanity and opened a way to foster education and health care too, said Fariba

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Tech firms scramble to make AI unbiasededit

Express Computer 

Biased automation tools could push disadvantaged communities further to the margins. Imagine, for example, an AI recruitment tool that considers women to be less intelligent. If a job portal employs such a tool, it is more likely to recommend males to an organisation planning to hire new people.

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How automation will affect the job market in Indiaedit

Live Mint 

A recently released report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) dwells on automation and employability India has an unemployment crisis. Over and above that, what this report suggests is that India also has an employability crisis

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Digital tech can transform 45 million jobs, create 65 million new jobs by 2025: Reportedit

Express Computer 

The study said up to US$ 150 billion each of benefits can be accrued in sectors, including agriculture, education, energy, financial services, healthcare, logistics and retail if they embrace digital technologies (Artificial Intelligence)

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Upskilling for the futureedit

The Asian Age 

“No matter what part of the world you are looking, there is a major gender gap in the STEM fields because they are traditionally dominated by men. ‘Indian Girls Code’ focuses on girls because we also want to make it known that our girls in our country are also equipped with the future skills,” says Aditi who founded the initiative in 2014 and is currently running six to seven programs under this initiative.

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Relevance of HR in an organizationedit

Business World 

Retaining the brightest: When you own the entire talent management process, it becomes imperative to have an endtoend strategy right from providing a seamless onboarding experience, to employee engagement activities, reskilling and upskilling, driving diversity & inclusion, designing a competitive compensation structure and resolving internal conflicts, all towards the goal of not only ensuring employees stay, but they stay happy.

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McKinsey report: India 2nd fastest digitising economy in the worldedit

Op India 

The digitisation is also expected to add about 6065 million jobs by 2025 in many sectors of the economy. However, it is also suspected to bring about a lasting change in the nature of jobs and as a result, redeployment, reskilling may be required as the country might be staring at a potential loss of 4045 million jobs because of automation of jobs.

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Will jobs actually be top of mind when India casts its vote this summeredit

The Economic Times 

Rising global trade barriers, automation and intensifying farm to nonfarm transition make things difficult. A bigger problem is the demand supply mismatch and Indias employability crisis where graduates are poorly skilled. Demographic dividend turning into a demographic curse has been a constant worry. So, will jobs be top of mind when the Indian voter steps into the voting booth this summer

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Reducing gender inequalities in education means better outcomes for businesses & societyedit

The Economic Times 

In the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution, when the in-demand skills in the job market include Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning, these gender gaps in STEM studies, if left unchecked, will broaden gender disparities across the industries. Currently, there is a significant gender gap among the AI professionals, with only about 22 per cent of them being female and 78 per cent being male

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Here is all you need to know about one of the highestpaid jobs in the IT industryedit

The Hans India 

With so many data leaks and cyber attacks hitting the IT industry, its no wonder that companies are doubling their cybersecurity efforts. In fragile moments where security is at the stake, there is one role that has become really coveted and is one of the most sought after positions in the IT industry. As companies strengthen their security measures, the Chief Information Security Officer is about to become one of the most popular jobs.

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Chartered Accountants Job at Risk due to Automationedit

Tax Scan 

According to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), some 25.6% of UK certified and chartered accountants are at risk of losing their jobs to automation, reported Accountants Today reports. The survey also revealed that additionally, 48.17% of finance officer jobs are also at risk of automation.

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Why business school must focus on data science and machine learningedit

The Financial Express 

By Jitendra Das

With integration of data science and machine learning in regular courses, business schools can deliver most relevant education to tomorrows leaders. In manufacturing, advanced analytics is used by operations managers on historical data and processes to identify relationships among discrete process steps and inputs, and then optimise the factors that prove to have the greatest effect on yield. (Artificial Intelligence)

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The robots are coming and womens work faces the greatest risk of automationedit

The Print 

By now, youd be hard pressed not to have read something about how automation and technology are going to transform employment around the world. The UKs Office for National Statistics (ONS) is adding to the debate with a new country specific analysis.

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Tech firms scramble to make AI unbiasededit

The Quint 

Biased automation tools could push disadvantaged communities further to the margins. Imagine, for example, an AI recruitment tool that considers women to be less intelligent. If a job portal employs such a tool, it is more likely to recommend males to an organisation planning to hire new people.

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No dearth of job opportunities for qualified Indians in Finlandedit

The Times of India 

By Shivangi Mishra

Some of the most opted courses by Indian students in Finland include AI, robotics, cyber-security, aviation and logistics and supply chain management with a strong interest in business and engineering programmes. “Most meritorious students receive internships and job offers even before finishing the college.

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HR Technology Is Changing The Traditional Workplace For Better Productivityedit

Business World 

Many have started calling this recent period of technological shifts within the business ecosystem as the fourth industrial revolution and the effects are for everyone to see. Today, technologies like AI, automation, robotics, and digitalization have redefined the existing parameters of operation and, in addition to lowering costs, have made processes more datadriven and efficient.

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How HR leverages artificial intelligence, analytics to recruit, retrain, rewardedit

Live Mint 

By Nandita Mathur

Human resources, or HR, powered by artificial intelligence (AI) is the new driver of business growth today. It is not surprising, then, that both HR leaders and managers are leveraging AI to augment decision-making and interactions with employees. “The age of the intuitive HR leader is gone. Today, you have to use data while making a selection.

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Emerging tech job trends: Startups hunt for people with right skills, attitudesedit

Zee Biz

Trained professionals are required in the area of emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and green technologies as these are highly skilled areas. Right talents help technology based startups grow from strength to strength.

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Digital economy can create over 60 m jobs by 2025edit

The Hindu Business Line 

By Narayanan V

At a time when technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) are seen as rendering millions jobless, a recent report from McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) says that digital economy has the potential to unlock productivity and create 60-65 million jobs by 2025.

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Industry News: Education

Is Education Being Disrupted by Digital Technology – An India Approachedit

People And Management 

What started off as enlightenment under a tree, today means having Cerelac whilst watching cartoons on the IPad. Over the past couple of decades, the magnitude of changes experienced by us gives a sneak peek into the future disruptions that will only accelerate with time.

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Transformative power of technology in education sectoredit

Express Computer 

Mukherjee stated that increase in the number of devices due to mobility and IoT can be difficult to manage, especially in crowded campuses. Arubas 802.11ac WiFi network and HPE Smart Rate Gigabit switching supports demanding teaching and learning apps, which is important especially in high density environments.

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Future tech innovation depends on todays childrenedit

The Indian Express 

Think of an augmented reality game that lets kids visualise the future when IoT takes full shape. They can see connected cars ordering grocery supplies and setting the temperature of bedroom on the way to home. It can excite them to explore more about connected devices, killing two birds with one stone. In a different scenario, children could compete in a virtual quiz against their friends and classmates.

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WANTED: Industry-ready engineersedit

The Hindu

But, what matters to students is the system that is currently in place in colleges, rather than the industry scenario, which is only the next step. “The All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE) is seriously looking to revamp engineering education; it has recommended colleges to start courses on data science engineering, computer science and artificial intelligence engineering, while strictly discouraging the spurt of the usual ECE, EEE courses,” he adds.

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TechDriven Higher Education in India: Are We Addressing Ethical Issuesedit

India CSR 

A number of ethical issues to be addressed for sustainable higher education planning and delivery using technology Last two decades have witnessed significant increase in adoption and integration of technology in all levels of education, including higher education.

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Arts and science courses make a comeback as lure of engg is diminishingedit

The Times of India 

As the lure of engineering courses is fast diminishing over the past couple of years and IT and other corporate companies have started preferring nonengineering majors for jobs, the applications for admissions to undergraduate arts and science courses in Madurai has grown manifold this year.

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The role of Artificial Intelligence in transforming educationedit

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The aptitude, learning curve, retention, and engagement of every student are different. Though educators often cannot address students individual needs, AI tools can. AI can also prepare customized education plans and material based on ones attributes.

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Cyber security mooted as separate subject in school curriculumedit

The Statesman

“We are trying to include the stream of cyber security from midschool level,” informed Mr Sen, while speaking at the ‘cyber security conclave’ organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce and supported by the state IT and E department today

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Learning hubs to enhance school qualityedit

Deccan Chronicle

This is in continuation of initiatives like learning outcome based teaching; capacity building of teachers; physical emotional safety and wellness of students; supportive infrastructure aligned towards inclusion and mainstreaming of sports and co-curricular activities. Moreover, artificial intelligence (AI), early childhood care education and yoga too are being included in the curriculum.

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How To Use Artificial Intelligence In Educationedit

Analytics Insight

By Sandra Larson

Artificial intelligence is one of the most powerful technologies that we have access to. It’s being used across all sorts of different industries in all sorts of contexts, and the field of education is no different. In fact, AI could have a greater impact on education than it could in almost any other industry, in part because it could power the next generation of education technology.

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AICTE mandates to set up Incubation Centres in technical institutesedit

The Indian Wire 

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has regulated all the technical institutes including engineering colleges and universities to organise an incubation centre in the campus. The initiative has been taken to boost up the startup culture and help young entrepreneurs to prepractice their mind on the fresh ideas.

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Higher education system in India grim, needs more investment, reforms: NITI Aayogedit

The Indian Express 

Four per cent of GDP has been spent by India on overall education while China is spending around 565 billion dollars, out of which 145 billion dollars is spent on higher education, NITI Aayog official V K Saraswat said

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Use science, technology to change lives of peopleedit

SME Times 

He called upon institutions such as the IIIT Sri City to strive to become centers of excellence with global standards by offering a holistic and quality higher education to students. The Vice President while expressing concern over poor global ranking of Indian Higher Educational Institutions, stressed the need to completely revamp the higher education system.

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With autonomy, Mumbai colleges dial R for reformedit

Mumbai Mirror

By Rahi Gaikwad

The college is set to roll out add-on certificate courses such as bio-informatics, communicative English, basic and advanced computer skills, fundamentals of financial markets, basics in fitness training, cyber security and clinical data management. In addition, its entrepreneurship cell plans to start lecture series and internships aimed at fostering startups.

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With sustainability an issue, is MOOC meeting expectations?edit

The Hindu Business Line 

Five years back, the domestic market witnessed the entry of several global companies such as Coursera, edX, Udacity and Khan Academy amongst several others to impart free, quality online education with no application process or costs.

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Incubators mandatory for technical institutesedit

DNA

In an attempt to boost start-up culture and help young entrepreneurs, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has made it compulsory for all technical institutes — including engineering colleges and universities — to set up incubation centres. The move is part of a slew of new norms suggested by the apex body to be implemented from the new academic session.

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Incubators mandatory for technical institutes: AICTEedit

DNA

In the recent notification sent across all higher education institutions, including IT and business schools, the AICTE has directed them to arrange frequent interactions of students and faculty members with industrialists, entrepreneurs, alumni and other key stakeholders to inspire students to take up innovative projects that can later be fleshed out into startups.

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Higher education system in India grim, needs more investment, reforms: Govt officialedit

Business Standard

The situation of higher education in India is grim and needs to be reformed, a NITI Aayog official Monday said while emphasizing on the need to grow human expertise in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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Education can’t be treated as a businessedit

The Asian Age

By Archana Dalmia

If we are to continue to remain a democratic nation, we need to be promote education that is provided by the state alongside the growth of the private sector as well. Promoting a divide in the access of higher education will always lead to a domination of the moneyed classes and that is never good for the growth of a country and its people.

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Artificial Intelligence holds tremendous potential to transform educationedit

Wio News

By Jitendra K Das

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all around us. From digital assistants to algorithms that suggest what music to listen to, are all now a part of our everyday lives. While soon we may travel in self driven cars, the area where AI is poised to most profoundly affect our lives is education. It is no surprise, therefore, that the education sector is witnessing remarkable uses of AI based technologies.

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Engg counselling schedule to be released todayedit

The Times of India

By A Ragu Raman

This year’s engineering admission schedule will be released on Sunday, higher education minister K P Anbalagan said after meeting chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Saturday. The announcement cleared the air on the participation of Anna University in engineering counselling following the resignation of its vice chancellor MK Surappa from Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions committee.

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Can teachers get pupils to take charge of their learning curveedit

The Asian Age

Fast forward to their adult life and the distinction between these different sets of learners is clear as crystal. One group relies on external factors such as approvals and rewards and cannot find much motivation within themselves. The other group relies on their unique resources to find value within themselves they do not require leadership going forward.

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Bringing edtech solutions to the next half billionedit

The Financial Express

By Namita Dalmia

Today, there are about 260 million students in K12 schools and 30 million in higher education institutions. Further, there are 75 million children in the 36 year early childhood category, while at the other end of the age spectrum there are hundreds of millions of working professionals in need of constant up skilling due to the evolving nature of their jobs.

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Mumbai robotics lab helps children create prototypes for real world problemsedit

MID-DAY 

By Anju Maskeri

Making space for innovation Inside the air-conditioned room at Oshiwara’s On My Own Technology, a robotics lab, team Livewires is prepping for the First Lego League, an international competition that challenges kids “to think like scientists and engineers”. This year, the theme is Into Orbit, for which participants will have to choose and solve a space-related problem.

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Information And Communication Technology For Students And Educatorsedit

BW Education

By V S Kanchana

Information and communication technology (ICT) has become inevitable and it fundamentally changes the way of life across all spheres. People are the national wealth and education enhances their lives with prosperity and quintessentially makes them responsible and ethical citizens.

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Engineering Internship: A Step In Right Directionedit

BW Education

By T. Ananthapadmanabha

An internship allows a student to avail of an opportunity to explore the various fields of engineering while they understand where their passion lies. Engineering as a field that covers the various sectors, from artificial hearts to submarines, the choice is with the student where they would like to specialize. (Education)

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5 Reasons to Pursue B Tech Chemical Engineeringedit

Nyoooz

By Gayatri Chaudhary

Choosing an engineering discipline is among the most confusing moments in the life of a student. Engineering is a comprehensive career and has its roots in almost every sector of the economy. When it comes to selecting among the plethora of engineering branches, most students are slightly misinformed. Further, they are not even aware of specialized courses that most colleges and universities offer.

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Future of engineering education in Indiaedit

Hindustan Times

By Ashish Gupta, Manas Fuloria and Vineet Gupta

A recent report by MIT titled “The Global State of the Art in Engineering Education” states that the future leaders in engineering education will focus on “work-based learning, multidisciplinary programs and a dual emphasis on engineering design and self-reflection.” It lists three trends which will define the profile of leading programs.

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Apps to help you learn the easy wayedit

The Statesman

Education, English, Apps, AI technology, IITJEE, IAS Technology is playing an important part in the education process. (Representational Image: iStock)Modes of communication and education have evolved with time. At different epochs, both students and parents have had their share of challenges regarding correct and effective ways to study to learn optimum and imbibe most effectively.

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Skills in AI, automation must for engineering graduatesedit

The Times of India 

AI and automation will be all pervasive and it is important that these be a part of any skilling process. All domains will require upskilling or reskilling to be relevant in the current scenario. According to LinkedIn Emerging Jobs Report, around 6 out of 15 top emerging jobs have some element of AI in it. BlockChain is another major job creator as are machine learning and data science.

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Futuristic STEMedit

Daily Excelsior 

This is due to the fact that it churns out critical thinkers, problem-solvers, and next-generation innovators. Taking into consideration that India is one of the countries that produces the highest number of scientists and engineers, the growth of STEM has picked up significantly over the last few years. Governments across the globe are taking several initiatives to take education a step ahead.

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How e-learning platforms are transforming Indian education landscapeedit

News Nation 

At this scale, e-learning platforms are the only way forward. Professionals will need to equip themselves with relevant skills before their current skills become obsolete. Moreover, the government is adopting a series of measures to bring a technological revolution to accentuate e-learning which will ultimately lead to a major shift in the Indian education sector, experts added.

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AI Education: Machines are getting smarter by the dayedit

Geospatial World 

Experts researching the field of AI education believe that in the coming years machines will be able to surpass human intelligence. Adopting this type of education will equip students with the necessary technological capacity for the workplace

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Miko: Your child’s new robotic best friend-cum-tutor is here!edit

The Week

By K. Sunil Thomas 

Launched recently, the artificial intelligence-powered Miko 2 is billed as being emotionally intelligent and intuitive. It comes from Emotix, a start-up founded by three IIT Bombay graduates who say the robot helps modern parents in ‘playful learning’ by initiating long conversations with kids and imparting knowledge based on their academic curriculum.

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Skills in AI, automation must for engineering graduatesedit

The Times of India

By Shivangi Mishra

As we move towards a high level of digitization and automation, we need to create virtual learning environments for our students. Most educational institutes have started to focus on developing new skill sets in emerging technologies such as AI, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Machine and Deep Learning, etc. for students and engaging with industry practitioners for the same.

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PE/VC investments in AI space grows fivefold to $359 million in FY19edit

Business Standard

By T E Narasimhan 

Apart from funding, a major challenge is the availability of adequate skilled personnel, say experts from the education sector. The All India Council for Technical Education has added AI, the Internet of Things and Machine Learning among mandatory studies in some of the higher education programmes.

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Can A Developer focused Education Help Prepare The Next Generation Of Talent In Indiaedit

Analytics India Mag

By Disha Misal

To solve this problem, today the country is taking initiatives valuable to upskill in terms of developer talent. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced that it is going to include artificial intelligence as an elective course for class 8, 9 and 10. This will help this new age of artificial intelligence to progress even better, because students will be introduced to it in the school itself.

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Are our colleges readying new age engineers?edit

The Week

Whether at the undergraduate or postgraduate level, colleges and universities are offering courses in robotics, AI and ML, blockchain technology and management, VLSI and embedded systems, data science, deep learning, and Internet of Things (IoT), among others.

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Education and modern technologies, their positive and negative impactedit

India Today 

The future of education is all about personalizing learning, allowing children to learn at their own pace and learning Education is no more based on the rote method of learning. The education space has slowly but surely seen a change. The future of education is all about personalizing learning, allowing children to learn at their own pace and learning style.

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BJP to focus on quality higher educationedit

The Times of India 

BJP has promised to set up 50 Institutions of Eminence (IoE), increase in the number of seats by 50% in the centrally funded professional institutions of higher learning like engineering, law and management and setting up of 200 new Kendriya Vidyalas to expand affordable school education.

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The Evolution of Indian School Educationedit

Digital Learning Elets Online 

Over the decades, the school education system of the country has undergone a seachange. The steadily increasing use of technology has inspired childcentric approaches and garnered governments attention on developing a system shaped up in alignment with globallevel evolution of school education system. How all this has led to imparting of holistic education is worth exploration, writes Akash Tomer of Elets News Network (ENN). (Artificial Intelligence)

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Data Science courses to bridge skill gapedit

The Times of India 

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, will offer an interdisciplinary four-year Bachelor of Science programme in Data Science and Engineering (DSE) from the academic year 2019-20. “Modern research is moving towards technology. For instance, Biotechnology is a combination of various branches of Science and technology such as molecular biology, bio-engineering and biomedical engineering.

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Restore past glory of higher education: Governoredit

The Times of India 

Governorcumchancellor Lalji Tandon said here on Thursday that at a time when there is no dearth of funds for development of higher education in the state, slackness on the part of university and college authorities would not be tolerated. Stern disciplinary action would be taken against those who fail to discharge their duties sincerely or cause hindrance to development initiatives of the state government or the Raj Bhavan, he asserted.

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Digital Skills missing from Formal Education Systemedit

The Statesman 

One will notice that this is due to the lack of quality jobseekers. What is being taught in the formal education system of India is often not in tandem with what recruiters are looking for.

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Skills And Jobs Must Match To Meet High Aspirations Of Indias Youngedit

India Spend 

About 78 million Indians are entering the labour market annually but most deal with challenges in acquiring the right skills for good employment opportunities, says KP Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (Artificial Intelligence)

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Time has come for India to re-establish itself as a knowledge and innovation hub: Venkaiah Naiduedit

The Economic Times 

Commercialisation and poor governance are the root cause of the problems being faced by educational institutions in the country, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu Wednesday said and asserted that the time has come for India to re-establish itself as a knowledge and innovation hub.

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Why should one opt for an ROI based higher educationedit

Jagran Josh 

Higher education in India is considered as an investment, where an individual dedicates time, resources and money to improve their professional skills and earn a lucrative salary. An estimated 5.53 lakh Indian students are studying abroad in 86 countries as per government data.

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No dearth of job opportunities for qualified Indians in Finlandedit

The Times of India 

Ever expanding IT and Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector will require 53,000 young professionals, writes Shivangi Mishra Ever expanding IT and Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector will require 53,000 young professionals (Higher Education)

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AICTE modifies promotion rules under Career Advancementedit

The Times of India 

However, after receiving several complaints from teachers about their inability to attend these sessions in the midst of taking regular classes, AICTE has decided to bring changes in the mandatory training programmes required for the Career Advancement Scheme (CAS).

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Delhi: Entrepreneurship curriculum begins rolling out at 24 schoolsedit

The Indian Express 

The curriculum was first publicly discussed by Education Minister Manish Sisodia in December 2018, when he had said that the aim of the new curriculum would be to create an entrepreneurial mindset in students so that they become job creators instead of job seekers.

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Education must help in developing society grounded in ethics: Venkaiah Naiduedit

Business Standard 

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said education must lay the foundation for developing a society that is strongly grounded in ethics and moral values to ensure peace and contentment in life.

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How Artificial Intelligence can transform Educationedit

CIOL 

By Ashok Pandey

Artificial Intelligence: intelligence but artificial. So what! Its helping us in numerous ways. And sometimes provides better analytics to make wise decisions. It’s no more fictional, we now living in a world where machines are intelligent and are easing our lives.

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Helping make engineers future-readyedit

The Financial Express 

Wiley, The Global education major, has announced a series of blended learning programmes in India under umbrella brand WileyNXT. These programmes are designed in consultation with the Wiley Innovation Advisory Council (WIAC), a group consisting of senior industry leaders and academia.

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Can early STEM education build a strong foundationedit

The Financial Express

Maths classes in STEM curricula encourage students to use concepts like algebra to find the shortest distance between an ice cream store and their homes, paying for a candy and counting the rest of the money, sharing a box of cookies, and other such activities that highlight the practical importance of concepts taught in the classrooms.

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Use Of AI And VR In The Indian Education Sectoredit

Analytics Insight 

Further, according to an official, the CBSE board will launch artificial intelligence (AI), early youth care instruction and yoga as new subjects in school educational modules from the upcoming scholarly session. The decision to launch the three subjects was taken at a recent meeting of the board’s governing body. The CBSE is launching artificial intelligence as a discretionary sixth subject at Class IX from the session 2019-2020 onwards

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Government-Industry-Academia Collaboration Key to Quality Higher Educationedit

Digital Learning 

The Government, Industry and Academia are three different worlds. All three have different purposes and approach. However, the rapid pace of change across the globe has compelled them to function in sync with each other to address some of the major challenges of higher education landscape, observes Akash Tomer of Elets News Network.

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State of IoT Securityedit

The Financial Express

Interest in critical infrastructure is increasing among hackers. So far this year, smart cities have gathered the biggest chunk of attacks on IoT deployments.

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