April 5, 2019

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Industry News: Information and Communications

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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Industry News: Future of Mobility

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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Industry News: Future of Work

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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Industry News: Education

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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