April 9, 2019

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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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Industry News: Information and Communications

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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Industry News: Future of Mobility

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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Industry News: Future of Work

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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Industry News: Education

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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