Analytics India Mag 

Plans to encourage adoption and skilling in technologies AI, IoT, Big Data, 3D printing and virtual reality Reducing Indias overdependence on electronics imports by encouraging actual manufacturing the country

BW CIO World 

In India and globally, Symantec is the acknowledged leader in cybersecurity. A Symantec report published in January 2019 reveals that globally India is the third least honest country on the Internet. The report reveals that over half of Indian adults have lied online. This means half of the Indian adults have lied on their social and professional networking sites as well as on other platforms.

Fortune 

The budget was in many ways futuristic with integrated funding for research, building the framework for commercialisation of space power, and focusing on the skills of the future by acknowledging the relevance of AI, IoT and Big Data, this budget scripted a new language for meeting the aspirations of a New India.

CIOL 

Fog Computing is an emerging network architecture for data transfer to distributed devices in an Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. Cloud computing operates through infrastructure set up on the internet through data centers whereas fog computing is carried out closer to the end users networks. When cloud computing descends, it becomes fog computing, so to speak. Loosely speaking, fog is cloud brought closer to the edge.

The Economic Times 

India requires a uniform, comprehensive tower policy to rollout future technologies such as 5G, Internet of Things, Virtual Reality and Artificial intelligence. Karnataka needs to double the number of towers and BTS count in order to connect the unconnected and to ensure seamless network connectivity.

Deccan Chronicle 

The research compared how adults and children responded to the same task when done in the presence of both their peers and humanoid robots. The findings published in the journal Science Robotics showed that while adults regularly have their opinions influenced by peers, they are largely able to resist being persuaded by robots

Business Standard 

Microsoft is said to be working with Indian farmers in Andhra Pradesh to dispense advisory services in areas like crop sowing, land management, fertiliser application and similar others. The local arm of another multinational company, IBM India, last week signed a “statement of intent” with the agriculture ministry to take up a pilot project on the utilisation of AI and weather technology-driven solutions in agriculture. This project would operate in one district each of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra. (IOT)

Times Now News 

And finally, there are the multiple futuristic challenges that no modern State can ignore, most importantly we must strengthen our cybersecurity responses. As future wars are more likely to be fought and won with cyber capabilities, than bombs and missiles per se, we need to raise geek brigades of cyber warriors who not only aggressively defend the attacks on our critical infrastructure but also on our military platforms (as was alluded to, some years ago, by the IAF).