June 25, 2019

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Should make space tech useful for common manedit

The Times of India 

The lecture was organized by Rotary Club of Cochin East in association with the Institution of Engineers (India) and Kerala Brahmana Sabha. Late G Viswanathan, who passed away in 2013, was associated with all the three organizations in various capacities. The inaugural GV memorial lecture in 2014 was delivered by diplomat Venu Rajamony.

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Faculty Development Programme on Robotics & Artificial Intelligenceedit

The Hans India 

This FDP will be a 5day handson training programme, which is sponsored by the MEITy under the Ministry of ICT of the Government of India, is being organised jointly by the Electronics & ICT Academy at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Patna and the Department of ECE along with the Professional chapters of IEEE, ISTE, and IETE at VNRVJIET.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Upskill to the cloud, all are moving thereedit

The Times of India

There’s also the private cloud, where existing in-house IT infrastructure take on characteristics of the public cloud, and that again is being widely adopted. Many of the traditional IT infrastructure vendors — such as HP and IBM, as also new ones like Nutanix — provide private cloud solutions.

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RBI Increases Focus On Cybersecurity As Indias Digital Payment Craze Peaksedit

Analytics India Mag 

Despite high internet usage and smartphone penetration, India has lagged behind in implementing cybersecurity best practices. This includes the security of websites and government databases. The negative effects of this has been held off by the lack of intent for individuals to exploit the weaknesses.

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Internet Connected Devices Are Huge Threat For Children Say Researchersedit

News 18 

Forget screen addiction as there is a new threat to keeping children safe in the digital era: Internet of Things (IoT) devices. According to researchers, children need protection when using programmable Internet computing devices in a digital world where everyday objects contain sensors and stream data to and from the Internet.

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India may increase IT resources in this countryedit

Gadgets Now 

The aim of the visit by the delegation was to promote unique strengths in emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and big data analytics, and encourage collaboration with the Indian IT industry in the areas of IoT ecosystem, industry 4.0 and smart cities, said the business chamber FICCI, which organized the trip.

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How Mastercard is using artificial intelligence to stop fraud and reduce false declinesedit

The Economic Times

Two areas where technology has struggled to tackle a related and growing challenge has been around the rise of fraudulent transactions and customers experiencing false declines, which is a frustrating and embarrassing occurrence. How are you using technology, and especially, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to stop fraud and reduce false declines

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Heres how artificial intelligence will benefit pharma sectoredit

The Financial Express 

Data in pharma industry includes electronic health records, biomedical signal data, patient statistics, imaging data, discovery related literature, experimental data, genomic data, proteomic data, and records on clinical studies.

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Healthcare startups digitizing medical services in Indiaedit

The Asian Age 

Additionally, the company has implemented its newage proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tool, which is able to report accurate stock projections to medical establishments. In this way, these establishments are able to save up to 30 per cent in their procurement cost, helping them to make healthcare affordable and within reach for those in need.

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Deepfakes: Do You Believe Everything You Seeedit

The Quint 

Deepfake technology is becoming more and more common with each passing day and given the spread of Artificial Intelligence, its getting easier and more accessible at the same time. The technology is not only becoming more sophisticated, its getting more easily accessible as well. Creating deepfakes now is as easy as processing thousands of photos of a subject through a software.

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Creating a smart way to manage wasteedit

The Hindu Business Line 

He realised that almost three-fourths of the complaints through the app related to uncleared garbage or overflowing garbage bins. That was the trigger for his venture, Antariksh, whose aim is to use IoT in waste management and involve all the players in the ecosystem – citizens, conservancy workers and conservancy administrators – in a smart way of clearing garbage.

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Connected devices now prevalent in 40% households across the globe, says studyedit

Live Mint 

By Nandita Mathur

About 40% of households across the globe now have at least one IoT (internet of things) device, bringing with it increased cybersecurity risks, according to a research by Avast, digital security products company, in collaboration with Stanford University.

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Budget should have nuance and bold movesedit

The Economic Times 

The impending fourth industrial revolution, particularly involving the potent alliance of technologies and solutions such as artificial intelligence, Big Data and Internet of Things (IOT), is expected to catalyze a stream of innovation across the country impacting every sector and touching the lives of every Indian, particularly given the fact that nearly 650 million Indians now possess mobiles and that more than 800 million people are expected to possess smart phones by the year 2022.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Why the govt is pushing EVs to fight climate changeedit

MINT

By Malyaban Gosh

NITI Aayog, the government think tank tasked with devising a mass electric energy-based transport system in India, has devised a plan to stop the registration of internal combustion engine (ICE)-driven three-wheelers by 2023 and twowheelers under 150cc by 2025

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Ride-hailing enters new growth lane as bike mobility takes offedit

The Times of India 

While the two startups are betting on the self-drive model, another player, Rapido, is building a bike taxi business, which will compete with Ola and Uber once there is regulatory clarity in the segment. (EV)

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Electric vehicles up to 67% less emission intensive than conventional carsedit

The Economic Times 

WoodMac said in a report that an EV can only displace up to half of the GHG emissions of an ICE gasoline car based on the existing electricity generation mix in developing economies.

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2 wheeler makers object to EV transition timelineedit

The Indian Express 

The Aayog asked the twoand three-wheeler makers to suggest within two weeks concrete steps towards transition to electric mobility keeping in mind 2025 deadline. Strongly objecting to NITI Aayog’s proposal to transition to electric vehicles (EVs) for three-wheelers and two-wheelers, Bajaj Auto and TVS Motor Monday said the policy has not been made with adequate study and diligence.

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Industry News: Future of Work

How upskilling can make the return to work easieredit

Live Mint 

By Sweta Taneja

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is disrupting almost every industry, resulting in increased demand for new skills. By 2022, about 54% of all employees across the world would need significant re and upskilling, says the Future of Jobs Report 2018 released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2018.

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Right time to plan a career in Artificial Intelligence, Data Sciencesedit

The Hans India 

Growing adoption of Artificial Intelligence and big data analytics: New technologies are now making it easier to perform increasingly sophisticated data analytics on a very large and diverse datasets. This is evident as the report from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) shows; many companies are using some form of advanced analytics on Big Data, for Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics and Data Mining tasks.

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India needs better math talent to lead today’s AI-driven worldedit

The Times of India 

India invented the zero, but math is seen to have suffered a decline here for several reasons. The first is a global phenomenon. In the 1970s, there was a big separation between pure and applied math, says Nalini Anantharaman, chair of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in the University of Strasbourg, France, and last year’s winner of the Infosys Prize in Mathematics.

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In some companies, artificial intelligence is replacing the bossedit

The Indian Express 

An icon in the Cogito artificial intelligence program and what it means, at the MetLife call center in Warwick. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)By Kevin RooseWhen Conor Sprouls, a customer service representative in the call center of insurance giant MetLife talks to a customer over the phone, he keeps one eye on the bottomright corner of his screen.

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From Upskilling to Multi skilling The Tech Training Landscape has Evolvededit

CIOL 

Then there is the matter of the intrinsically connected nature of all emerging technologies. Cloud and mobility are linked to data and analytics which are connected to IoT & Edge and AI and Machine Learning and so on. Organizations now need the professionals who can work across disciplines and harness the power of more than one technology to deliver true path breaking innovation.

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Digital Transformation (DX) As A Strategy To Retain Topnotch Talentsedit

BW People 

The latest technologies such as Big Data Analytics, Robotics, Predictive Modelling, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Computing, and Blockchain are a proven boon to the businesses that make sluggish growth by sticking to outdated techniques and practices. According to Gartner, adopting digital initiatives topped the priority list of CIOs in 2019.

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Augmented Intelligence & not just AI: Right fit for hiringedit

People Matters 

If you are thinking of AI as a solution that can fully automate the recruitment process and eliminate manual intervention, think again. The right fit for effective staffing processes in not just artificial intelligence, but rather Augmented Intelligence.

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Industry News: Education

What Budget 2019 could do to transform the education and skill development sectoredit

The Indian Express 

The education and skill development sectors would need to be enabled to make the required changes so that the persons coming out of the system are not just employable, but can also adapt.

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Budget 2019: FICCI suggests raising fund allocation on educationedit

Zee Biz 

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) suggested to raise fund allocation in several aspects of school and higher education in the upcoming Union Budget 2019. FICCI suggested to raise fund allocation in several aspects of school and higher education in the upcoming Union Budget 2019.

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A Campus first recognition towards sustainabilityedit

Careers 360 

AICTE has recently launched the Clean & Smart Campus Award for encouraging cleanliness and promoting Smart use of technology in its approved institute. AICTE aims to recognize the efforts of its stakeholders primarily students, to embrace technologies such as IOT, robotics, cloud and automation to remodel an existing campus into a smart campus.

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