July 15, 2019

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Businesses in India tapping AI to improve cybersecurityedit

Fortune 

Organisations are increasingly counting on artificial intelligence to help cybersecurity analysts, who cannot cope with automated, machine speed attacks, says a new report. According to the report, one in five executives said their company experienced a cybersecurity breach in 2018. In 20% of the instances, the loss amounted to more than $50 million. (cyber security)

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69% firms think they cant respond to cyberattacks without artificial intelligence: Reportedit

Zee Biz 

With the number of enduser devices, networks, and user interfaces growing as a result of advances in the cloud, IoT, 5G and conversational interface technologies, organisations face an urgent need to ramp up and improve their cybersecurity, a report said.

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Budget 2019: Startups cheer Nirmala Sitharaman’s focus on ‘new-age’ AI, IoT skills to meet demand for tech talentedit

The Financial Express 

Moreover, the increased significance of deep technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), internet of things (IoT), etc., globally for faster technology development, adoption, and customer satisfaction has augmented the need for developing a special workforce equipped with the understanding of such technologies.

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Apollo Hospitals doctor explains Robotic neck surgeryedit

The Echo of India 

He said, Robotic surgery has the advantage of higher magnification (ten times the normal), 3D vision, less tissue damage, less bleeding and early recovery after the operation. This approach can also be used for the removal of other neck masses like parathyroid adenoma, branchial cleft cyst, parapharyngeal, space tumours, parotid/ submandibular gland tumours and neck dissection for head and neck cancers.

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Now There Is An AI Model That Fights Against AI Generated Fake Newsedit

Analytics India Mag 

AI has given humans a lot to think about. While we have benefited from great innovations, there are also some people who are using it to create chaos. As if the existing problem of fake news was not rampant enough, now some people are using artificial intelligence to generate fake news which are just as undetectable and harmful.

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Govt Exploring Use of Artificial Intelligence in Public Health: Harsh Vardhanedit

The Wire 

The Union health ministry is working towards using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a safe and effective way in public health. Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said in Lok Sabha on July 12 that to address gaps in Indias AI ecosystem and realise its economic impact, the central government has prioritised building AI technology capabilities.

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Creating a home away from homeedit

Deccan Herald 

Suresh Rangarajan, founder of co-living space, Co Live, says, “We have adopted technology at a large scale in access control management engine (IoT based proprietary access control technology), centralised security monitoring ( IoT based video surveillance), Smart home operating and networking assistance.

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Analytics, AI, IoT help transform industriesedit

Live Mint 

By Leslie D’Monte

According to him, its the infusion of artificial intelligence (AI) in applications and adoption of advanced analytics using AI and Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are helping the move from a mobile-first, cloud first world to a new world that is going to be made up of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge, he adds.

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AI can spot depression via sound of your voiceedit

ET CIO

To help identify depression early, scientists have now enhanced a technology that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to sift through sound of your voice to gauge whether you are depressed or not. Computing science researchers from University of Alberta in Canada have improved technology for identifying depression through vocal cues.

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5G in the IoT: How the next generation of wireless technology will transform the IoTedit

Yahoo News 

5G and NBIoT to challenge LTE5G and NBIoT to challenge LTE Business Insider Intelligence5G is very nearly here, and these lightning fast networks will change how telecommunications shapes business and offer new and transformative possibilities in the IoT space.

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IIT-M’s model detects cancer with deep learning, microwaveedit

The Hindu 

These are “inverse” problems because you observe the way waves scatter off an unknown object and reconstruct what it is made of, its shape and other characteristics. The innovation used by this group in solving the inverse scattering problem is “deep learning,” which is a popular technique involving neural networks. Their article has been published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Give more time for switch to electric vehiclesedit

The Asian Age 

India’s first ethanol-powered motorcycle was unveiled last week, so too an electric car by an international manufacturer based in India while a new electric scooter also hit the market. Electric vehicles (EVs) are clearly gaining traction, but not at a rate that could possibly meet the overambitious conversion target set by Niti Aayog, which said most recently that 2023 and 2025 should be the cut-off dates for threewheelers and two-wheelers under 150 cc to go electric.

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EV push may lead to ethanol blending in fueledit

Business Standard 

The Centre and the NITI Aayog’s plan to cut emissions and slash oil import bills by emphasising on adopting electric vehicles is likely to increase ethanol blending in fuel. The NITI Aayog’s proposal to sell only e-vehicles after 2025 has led to domestic manufacturers of vehicles, which run on petrol mixed with ethanol, to find ways to concur with the central government’s environmental agenda, without disrupting existing capacities and product mix.

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Getting India EV-readyedit

Business Standard 

Since the announcement of the National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP) 2020 by the government, the one country that is alluded to with unfailing regularity in policy corridors, company’ boardrooms and various other forums and deliberations is China and for obvious reasons. The country is the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles (EVs) after Norway.

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EV courses, fresh tieups to power Skill India engineedit

Hindustan Times 

By Saubhadra Chatterji

The recent Economic Survey, too, pitched for making India an electric vehicles hub and boost employment in the automobile sector. According to the Survey, Indias market share in electric cars is just 0.06% while China has 2% share of the global share.

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Centre’s push for EVs may make internal combustion engines stutteredit

The Hindu 

The Union government’s push for electric vehicles (EV) in the Budget and the Economic Survey may adversely impact the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) auto industry, which is already under stress, in the medium to long term. The two wheeler segment could be affected in the immediate future.

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Budget boost for Electric Vehicles will give India a first mover advantage: NITI Aayogs Rajiv Kumaredit

The Indian Express 

In most other industries, we have been followers. But in this case, we can take the lead and crack the world markets by expanding exports of electric vehicles. Electric mobility is a sector which will drive economic activity in [the] coming years.

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Industry News: Future of Work

EV courses, fresh tieups to power Skill India engineedit

Hindustan Times 

By Saubhadra Chatterji

The recent Economic Survey, too, pitched for making India an electric vehicles hub and boost employment in the automobile sector. According to the Survey, Indias market share in electric cars is just 0.06% while China has 2% share of the global share.

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How Artificial Intelligence is solving different business problemsedit

The Financial Express 

Tech Mahindra has implemented an AI-based facial recognition to register the attendance of employees, thereby reducing the work load of an HR associate Various businesses and companies are employing AI to handle business problems differently Various businesses and companies are employing AI to handle business problems differently As soon as the words “AI” and “music” are used in the same sentence, one comes across skepticism.

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Growth Of Industrial Automation In Manufacturing Is Propelling Economy And Employabilityedit

Business World 

The size of the industrial automation industry in India is estimated to be $2 billion while its growth rate is approximately 11.6%. At its estimated rate of growth which itself is expected to increase after 2023 the size of the industrial automation industry in India will grow to almost $7 billion by 2030.

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The Week 

In a bid to utilise India’s demographic dividend, the government will focus on imparting new-age skills to the youth in areas like artificial intelligence, internet of things, big data, 3D printing, virtual reality and robotics. “These skills will prepare our youth to take up jobs overseas,” Sitharaman said after the budget.

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Industry News: Education

TCS iON, AICTE collaborate to equip students with career skillsedit

DQ India 

Students of more than 10,000 AICTE approved institutions will receive free access to TCS course that will help them up their employability quotientTCS iON, a strategic unit of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced a collaboration with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), a nationallevel apex advisory and regulatory body for technical education, to provide students with a custom curated digital learning course to equip them with career skills

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Multiple agencies to boost edu accreditationsedit

The Times of India 

With just 20% of higher education institutions and programmes on engineering, management, pharmacy and architecture in India accredited, the ministry of human resource development is moving to bring in multiple agencies for giving a boost to the accreditation process.

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HRD ministry launches Study in India programme to attract students for higher education in Indiaedit

First Post 

To attract foreign students to higher education in India, the Ministry of Human Resource Development has launched a programme called Study in India. Union Minister for Human Resource Development Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank in a written reply in Rajya Sabha on Thursday said that the programme is under implementation.

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India Lags Peers in Tech Skillsedit

The Economic Times 

India lags global counterparts in technology skillsets in sectors as varied as telecom, healthcare, manufacturing and automotive, according to a report by Silicon Valley-based e-learning firm Coursera. Insurance, healthcare and telecom also lag in skillsets across domains, including business and technology, and data science, insights from the ‘Global Skills Index: 2019’ report showed.

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Future Ready Education For Aeronautic Engineers Of Tomorrowedit

The Times of India 

Today, over and above UG and PG courses, the college also offers scope for research through the Ph. D programme in aeronautical engineering. Majority of students are placed at NASA, ISRO, DRDO, NAL, HAL, ADA, IAF and other prestigious private companies like Infosys, Quest Global, Satyam Mahindra, InfoTech etc. Few ME aeronautical engineering students have also been directly recruited by NASA.

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