June 27, 2019

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Industry News: Information and Communications

New AI enabled tool may help detect heart attacksedit

Business Standard

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) based system that can better predict heart attacks and other cardiac events as compared to conventional risk models. Risk determination is an imperfect science, and popular existing models like the Framingham Risk Score have limitations, as they do not directly consider the condition of the coronary arteries.

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IoT In Logistics Market Detailed Analytical Overview by 2022edit

Weekday Times 

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network which connects objects via embedded electronics, sensors, and network connectivity. IoT in logistics Market is a multibillion dollar market. It is enabling companies to take critical business decisions, optimize their production, reduce production cost and minimize the raw material cost.

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How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Us Fight Climate Change And Make The World Betteredit

India Times 

“Technology alone is not enough,” they write, led by University of Pennsylvania’s David Rolnick “Technologies that would reduce climate change have been available for years, but have largely not been adopted at scale by society. While we hope that ML will be useful in reducing the costs associated with climate action, humanity also must decide to act.”

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DoT, MeitY eye EU Toolbox to address 5Grelated concernsedit

The Economic Times 

There is also a Cybersecurity Act in the EU that is coming into play and the Indian government has also shown a keen interest in it. Cybersecurity Act, which provides a framework for certification, was proposed in the 2017 in EU. This is expected to ensure safe and trustworthy digital platforms.

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Do You Want to Transform your Business Try Intelligent Automation!edit

Analytics Insight 

Automation is totally transformed the way businesses are being performed in nearly every sector of the economy. No matter what industry, todays savvy business owners are operating, a constant business goal to stay a step ahead of the competition.

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Data storage rules out of contentious ecommerce policyedit

Money Control 

The draft national ecommerce policy released in February this year also dealt with data protection. In light of the increasing importance of data protection and privacy, the National Ecommerce Policy aims to regulate crossborder data flow, while enabling sharing of anonymised community data (data collected by Internet of Things devices installed in public spaces like traffic signals or automated entry gates), said the draft document.

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Artificial Intelligence could be a boon for Alzheimers patients: Heres what you need to knowedit

Times Now News 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can prove to be essential for healthcare providers to detect and manage Alzheimer’s disease or a related form of dementia, from which 44 million people suffer worldwide. In the study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, the team introduced supervised Machine Learning (ML) as a modern approach and new value-added complementary tool in cognitive brain health assessment and related patient care and management.

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AI, IoT fuel new chip designs, and India is at the centre of itedit

The Times of India 

The semiconductor world and companies like Google are looking at India talent to create the new kinds of chips they need in todays digital era Google, Facebook, Amazon, Alibaba, Apple, Samsung and Microsoft are all accelerating efforts to design chips (Internet of things)

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After shedding over 1 lakh employees in last 2 years, telcos may hire 33,100 in H1 FY20edit

Money Control 

However, industry revenue is expected to rise in FY20 and recruiters say that hiring will happen across levels. Few areas where employee strength could increase include content, digital marketing, machinetomachine (M2M), internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), among others.

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10 things you should know about IoTedit

CIOL 

Things not people: While the full form is Internet of Things, its focus is on things rather than people. That means things on their own may transmit the relevant data on a continuous basis via the Internet on a central server. Sensors may be placed on any device. In a forest any device may transmit data related to wildlife, weather etc.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

The Niti Aayog mandate has the potential to make India an evehicle hubedit

Down To Earth 

Down to Earth speaks to Manu Sharma, general manager of Hero Electric about the recent Niti Aayog announcement to run allelectric vehicles on Indian roads by 2030Recently, premier governmental think tank, Niti Aayog asked two and threewheeler makers to suggest within two weeks, concrete steps towards a transition to electric mobility.

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On The Moveedit

Business Today 

By Rukmini Rao

Using IoT technology to track battery strength, Yulu replaces the lowcharge twowheelers with charged ones from the nearest available charging station. This not only eliminates the time taken for charging but also the downtime of each vehicle. The company has created Yulu Zones every 200 metres in highdensity areas to ensure adequate availability and also track demand and supply.

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New fuel pumps should marry younger EVs for a longer lifeedit

The Economic Times 

But oil firms are trying hard to hide the crease on their foreheads. They are betting a massive policy push to popularize electric vehicles (EVs) will not materialize, EVs will remain unaffordable, and the facilities needed to charge EVs will never gain scale.

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How start-ups can turbocharge the EV revolutionedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Kapil Shelke, CEO and Founder of Pune-based Tork Motors, which calls itself ‘India’s first electric motorcycle manufacturing start-up with proprietary drive train technology’ said: “It is (the government mandate) definitely a great opportunity for start-ups like us because we have spent a good amount of years building this robust technology.

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Delhi govt launches Urban Mobility Labedit

Millennium Post 

The lab was launched by the Transport, Minister Kailash Gahlot, and Vice Chairperson, Dialogue and Development Commission (DDC), Jasmine Shah, in the presence of several stakeholders from government, industry and civil society. Delhi government is committed to reduce vehicular pollution through the introduction of electric vehicles in Delhi, Kailash Gahlot, minister of transport, the government of NCT of Delhi said.

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Delhi government, Rocky Mountain Institute launch electric vehicle pilot for freight transportedit

CNBC TV18 

Over 30 companies have participated in this last-mile urban delivery project with the goal of inducting up to 1,000 electric vehicles in the city under the pilot over the next 12 months. A joint initiative by the Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi (DDC-Delhi) and Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), the project will document and analyse the performance of electric vehicles for urban deliveries.

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Auto firms have neither any wishlist, nor any suggestion for Budget 2019edit

Business Standard 

As the Union government prepares to present the Budget, industry, which is usually vocal before the Budget, is quiet. Facing subdued sales, the automobile industry is worried about recent government regulations such as shifting to electric vehicles. Unlike every year, most chief executive officers of auto companies have neither any wishlist, nor any suggestion.

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A multi-year roadmap with milestones is the keyedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran on Wednesday said migration to electric vehicles (EVs) needs to be planned to ensure that the entire ecosystem is ready through a multi-year road map, echoing views of industry leaders who have called for a calibrated approach towards electric mobility.

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Industry News: Future of Work

The 3 Drivers Of Work In Future Technology, Mobility & Communityedit

BW People 

With the advent of technology and constantly evolving management practices, the traditional Indian offices have evolved too. Everything related to a workspace has been disrupted by various experiments – from closed cabins to cubicles to an open floor with everyone working together. In a modern workspace, colleagues become friends, companies become sample audience for pilot studies and an office becomes a plug and play environment.

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Tax sops for job creation, greater push towards skilling the need of the houredit

The Hindu Business Line 

Currently, a majority of the Indian workforce is in the unorganised sector so there is also demand to make the sector more organised. “Lowering the regulatory norms can help in bringing more workforce into the organised sector. There is a 18 per cent GST on HR staffing so we would expect it to be lower.

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Robots on track to wipe out a tenth of manufacturing jobs by 2030: Reportedit

Business Standard 

While automation should boost the economy as a whole, it is likely to create greater inequality as employment losses are concentrated in certain industries and countries.

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How robots hurt jobs in emerging economiesedit

Live Mint 

Automation can spur productivity in emerging economies but lead to displeasure and insecurity in the short run, says study Automation, a growing part of daily life, can make work easier but has also raised concerns about potential disruption and job loss. According to one World Bank estimate, twothirds of jobs in developing countries could be lost to automation.

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20 m jobs may be lost to robotsedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Robots are on track to wipe out almost a tenth of the world’s manufacturing jobs with the brunt borne by lower-income areas in developed nations, Oxford Economics says. While automation should boost the economy as a whole, it is likely to create greater inequality as employment losses are concentrated in certain industries and countries.

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Industry News: Education

Budget 2019: Why transforming education, skill development should be key focus for Modi govt 2.0edit

ABP Live 

Budget 2019: Transforming the Education and Skill Development sectors should be the key policy direction in the upcoming budget. With the changing landscape of manufacturing and services owing to industry 4.0 and increasing automation using cognitive technologies, the expertise and skill requirement has evolved.

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Tryst Of Kid With Codingedit

BW Education 

Learning to code at an early age improves kids logic by 75%. It helps in balancing right and left part of their brain. It helps them to become a creator and as research suggests that by 2020 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics will touch 800 Million jobs and the world will split into creators and consumers, its time to decide whether we want our kids to be creators or consumers of technology.

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