May 31, 2019

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Science publisher IEEE bans Huawei but says trade rules will have minimal impact on membersedit

Tech Crunch

By Rita Liao

The IEEEs ban on Huawei following new trade restrictions in the United States has sent shock waves through global academic circles. The organization responded saying the impact of the trade policy will have limited effects on its members, but its hard at this point to appease those who have long hailed it as an open platform for scientists and professors worldwide to collaborate.

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Lokmanya NagarSitabuldi Metro to start in Augustedit

The Times of India

By Ashish Roy

Talking to media persons after holding first trial run of the Metro between Lokmanya Nagar and Subhash Nagar on Thursday, MahaMetro managing director Brijesh Dixit said, Initially five stations Lokmanya Nagar, Subhash Nagar, Institution of Engineers, Rani Jhansi Square and Sitabuldi (EastWest) will be operated.

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Chinese computer research body to cut ties with division of U.S. based IEEEedit

Reuters

The CCF said on Thursday it would suspend dealings with the publications division of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a day after the latter confirmed it will bar Huawei staff from participating in certain aspects of the peer review process for its research papers.

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Adoption of ICT solutions can eliminate 20% of worlds greenhouse gas emissions IEEEedit

CIOL

According to Charles Despins, IEEE Senior Member and CoChair, IEEE Sustainable ICT initiative and Vice President of research, partnerships and faculty affairs at cole de technologie suprieure (ETS) at the Universit du Qubec, Information and communications technology (ICT) (and the socalled digital revolution in a broader sense) are a double edged sword in terms of building a sustainable future.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Why cyber security should be an ongoing processedit

The Statesman

By Sonit Jain

Considering the fact that the global cyber security spend, which currently amounts over $120 billion, is expected to exceed a whopping $300 billion dollars by 2024, most businesses are doing their best to secure their digital frontiers.

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Using AI, ML to predict droughtedit

The Economic Times

This is what led Hyderabad based startup Vassar Labs to take steps to solve this crisis. The startup offers technology based solutions in crucial sectors such as agriculture, water management, education and smart city planning, using new age technologies such as machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT).

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Time travel feature in flash storage drives may fight ransomware attacksedit

Live Mint

By Leslie D’Monte

The paper explains how we leverage properties of flash based storage that currently exist in most laptops, desktops, mobiles, and even IoT devices said Coats, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering (ECE), in a press statement.

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Still figuring your companys digital strategy This will helpedit

The Economic Times

Weve adopted the MIT Center for Information System Research definition of digital: Digital strategy is business strategy that is completely dependent upon specific sets of technologies. These technologies could include data analytics, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud, or customer experience related technologies such as mobile, web and social media.

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Personalized Entertainment And Polarized Elections: Brought To You by AIedit

Huffington Post

By Nandana Sengupta

Hyper personalization through algorithms can lead to a more polarized world, if we dont take the time to think about this effect. Have you noticed how theres always new content to watch on the internet that really speaks to you How it almost feels tailormade for your consumption.

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Opinion | Get set to be pitched into the heart of the actionedit

Live Mint

By Mehul Kapadia

2018 FIFA World Cup had a Video Assistant Referee (VAR) assessing every goal or potential penalty without impacting the live drama. The next leap for India would be the adoption of Augmented Reality, VR and Internet of Things to deliver an allaccess pass experience. This would be invaluable to fans, players and brand sponsors

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On new Modi govts digital agenda securing cyber space and a crackdown on cyber crimeedit

The Print

By Amrita Nayak Dutta

Subsequently, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had set up a Joint Working Group (JWG) for a public private partnership on cyber security at the National Security Council Secretariat, as part of a provision of the National Cyber Security Policy of 2013, which has been criticised by experts as a paper tiger.

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NITI Aayog Decides Indexing to Rank Indian States Based on AI Adoptionedit

Analytics Insight

By Smriti Srivastava

The government body NITI Aayog is planning to develop an AI Readiness Index which will rank the Indian states as per their capacity to adopt artificial intelligence either for public delivery or to operate over its innovative potentials.

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IoT platform to bridge gaps: TCSedit

Free Press Journal

Tata Communications expects to address issues hampering development of the internet of things (IoT) ecosystem in India through its marketplace, which started Wednesday. “There is lack of standardisation, interoperability and connectivity in the available IoT technologies today. These factors, along with security concerns, tend to slow its adoption in the market.

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IITGoa, US analytics company sign MoUedit

The Times of India

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Goa, has signed a five year MoU with US based marketing analytics services firm Express Analytics, where both parties will collaborate in the field of data science and analysis, including in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology.

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Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Environment Is A Trillion Dollar Market, & IBM Intends To Seize It: Vikas Aroraedit

Analytics India Mag

By Srishti Deoras

For instance, Bombay Stock Exchange (India), the oldest stock exchange in Asia and now the fastest exchange in the world, has selected IBM Security to design, build and manage a Cyber Security Operations Center to safeguard the company’s assets and protect stakeholder data.

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Global energy & utilities companies are underestimating full potential of AI: Capgemini Researchedit

The Economic Times

By Debjoy Sengupta

While overall adoption of AI has matured in the sector, with 52% of respondents having deployed a number of use cases, only a small 15% of executives said their company was deploying multiple intelligent automation use cases at scale.

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Fashion Flair: Worlds First Fashion Collection Developed Using Smartphone Artificial Intelligenceedit

CIOL

Huawei launches Fashion Flair, a new smartphone based approach to fashion design that combines the power of smartphone Artificial Intelligence (AI) with creative human flair to generate unique fashion designs of any style.

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Emerging Technologies are Becoming More Compellingedit

CIOL

By Ashok Pandey

Recently, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Smartphone generated creative fashion designs, the driver less car is now a reality; these and many other tech innovations are easing our daily lives personal and business both. Business is utilizing emerging technologies to enhance their overall efficiencies, make better decisions and solve some complicated challenges.

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Building Artificial Intelligence That Can Build Artificial Intelligenceedit

Analytics Insight

By Priya Dialani

In May 2017, researchers at Google Brain declared the formation of Auto ML, an artificial intelligence (AI) that is equipped for producing its own AIs. All the more as of late, they chose to give Auto ML its greatest challenge to date, and the AI that can construct AI made a child that beat the majority of its human made partners.

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Banks need to develop more mobile based apps for retail banking operationsedit

The Financial Express

Then, based on this data, they have to select their target customer. After customer selection, banks need to develop software applications based on AI and robotics, which can be useful for performing complex tasks relating to transactions such as small value loans, appraisal, KYC related issues, loan monitoring, etc.

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Artificial Intelligence Empowering Patent Fillingedit

Inventiva

With the advent of Artificial Intelligence in every imaginable sphere that matters, it is hardly surprising that innovators are now in a rush to build their Intellectual Property portfolio in AI. The popularity of Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, neural networks and all other things related to Intelligent machines has been on the rise for quite some time now.

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Are marketers ready for the AI waveedit

DNA

Outcome of AI should remain consistent with our and customers values and expectations Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the buzzword we keep hearing everywhere we look. Marketers are also susceptible to the infectious AI wave. It is the future of data driven marketing that is poised to push efficiencies, effectiveness and redefine outcomes beyond what was humanly possible earlier.

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AI Cameras Might Help Curbing Fake Image Circulationedit

Giz Bot

By Vishal Kawadkar

Picking a fake photo is a tough task and even after recognizing the details, some pictures manage to fool the experts. Wouldn’t it be really convenient if the process of picking fake pictures started from the source, the camera Well, that’s what a new study from New York University Tandon School of Engineering suggests.

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A water crisis looms over India. This startup may have some answersedit

The Economic Times

By Garima Bora

In 2014, new technologies like IoT, Big Data and machine learning were slowly starting to make their presence felt across industries, but technology-ridden support systems for agricultural and water crisis at that time didn’t appear to be ready for the consumers.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Tariff fixed for electric vehicle charging stationsedit

The Times of India

By Rajinder Nagarkoti 

The Central government has already framed a National Electric Mobility Mission Plan, which aims at promoting hybrid and electric vehicles in the country. The UT administration is working on promoting such vehicles. Two years ago, a team of the transport department had visited Nagpur, which was the first city in the country to have vehicle charging stations, to study the setup.

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India to acquire reserves of strategic minerals to power the countrys move into EVsedit

The Economic Times

By Rakhi Mazumdar

Indias move to acquire reserves of strategic minerals like lithium and cobalt to power the country s move into electric vehicles is all set to become a reality with three state owned metal and mining companies due to ink a joint venture agreement early next month.

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E-vehicles will bring in a silent revolutionedit

Bangalore Mirror

It’s very exciting to be in the two-wheeler space right now, just because of their sheer numbers, compared to four-wheelers. We no longer need to educate people about Electric Vehicles (EV).

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EV Growth closes $200M fund to cover Southeast Asias Series B funding gapedit

Inventiva

East Ventures has long been known as one of Indonesias longest serving and most active seed stage investors, but now it has officially moved up the food chain after it announced a final close of its growth fund at $200 million.

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Charging points for e-buses to be ready by November 1: Govtedit

Hindustan Times

By Sweta Goswami

The first phase of setting up charging infrastructure at depots for 1,000 electric buses will be completed by November 1, the Delhi government said on Thursday. The government expects to roll out Delhi’s first 37 electric buses by December before the model code of conduct for the Delhi assembly election kicks in.

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Budget 2019: Assocham seeks incentives for electric vehicles, abolition of MAT, cut in corporate tax rateedit

The Financial Express

Among the prominent points made included abolishing minimum alternate tax (MAT), reduction in corporate tax rate and tax incentives for electrical vehicles.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Redesigning job rolesedit

The Asian Age

Skills which wouldn’t typically be found in the same role earlier are now being combined to create more multidimensional profiles. Hence, the traditional resume formats are now becoming irrelevant. Job seekers will need to amplify the appeal of their resumes by highlighting the relevant job skills that they possess.

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The Future of Self Service Is CustomerLed Automation: Gartneredit

CIOL

There is often a lot of discussion about how enterprises continue to invest in artificial intelligence (AI) to save time and money, but we often overlook the next generation of customers being equally amenable to conducting their personal experiences the same way, said Anthony Mullen, senior research director at Gartner.

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Smart farming is the future of agricultureedit

Geospatial World

By Megha Datta

Could you please elaborate on how emerging technologies like IoT and Blockchain can be utilized in farming, and how can these be adopted on a mass scale in developing regions. Smart farming is the future of agriculture. The impact that technologies such as IoT and Blockchain can have on farming, even as the worlds population touches 9.6 billion by 2050, cannot be overemphasized

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Industry News: Education

Seats in state engineering colleges likely to go vacantedit

The Times of India

By Yesha Bhatt

Last year AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) also offered that some colleges and institutes be merged to make sure less seats across the country remain vacant. Such a merger would also mean students availing the best of both faculty and infrastructure (if one college has good faculty and other has better infrastructure) at once.

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Gujarat govt to implement 10% EWS quota in medical, engineering colleges soonedit

Business Today

As per reports, there will be an increase of nearly 6,509 seats in all spheres of medical education, which includes general medicine, dental, ayurvedic and homeopathy. Meanwhile, for 73 Engineering colleges in the state, the number of seats will go up to 43,270 from 42,617.

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Education 4.0 will be the future of learning in Schools and Universitiesedit

The Statesman

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is in the process of completely changing the scenario of the world through different innovations and developments in the society in general and the industry in particular; AI, Robotics, IOT being some of the well recognized emerging technologies in the world today.

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AI tech detects cheating in school assignmentsedit

Bangalore Mirror

Scientists have created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can accurately identify whether a student wrote their assignment on their own or got it penned by a ghostwriter

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