July 25, 2019

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ESSS 2019 brings together global embedded technology communityedit

Express Computer

ESSS 2019 primary partners were Green Hills Software, WindRiver, ETAS, exida, Tasking, ANSYS, FTD, etc. The industry and professional bodies who supported ESSS included IESA, CLiK, SIATI, ARAI, AeSI, IEEE, ISA, etc.

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Godavari diversion will cause problems: Expertsedit

The Times of India 

The irrigation and engineers opinions were compiled by the Institution of Engineers (IEI), and the Telangana state centre and the recommendations were sent to the state government a couple of days ago. The association has taken views from experts during a round table conference on Godavari waters diversion to other basins in the first week of this month.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

WiFi to 5G Cellular: Top 10 wireless technology trends for 2019edit

The Economic Times 

5G is still immature, and initially, most network operators will focus on selling highspeed broadband. However, the 5G standard is evolving and future iterations will improve 5G in areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and lowlatency applications, Jones added.

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Opinion | Rise of the edge and the data centres of tomorrowedit

Live Mint 

Enterprises looking to capitalise on this data opportunity and make the most of advanced technologies such as AI and IoT must have the infrastructure to meet the need for realtime processing and lowlatency responsiveness

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Only 50% of Organizations Believe They Can Stop Cyber Attacks: Surveyedit

Express Computer 

Less than half of organizations have a privileged access security strategy in place for DevOps, IoT, RPA and other technologies that are foundational to digital initiatives. This creates a perfect opportunity for attackers to exploit legitimate privileged access to move laterally across a network to conduct reconnaissance and progress their mission, according to a CyberArk study.

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Is This the AI We Should Fearedit

The Wire 

Scientists working on artificial intelligence (AI) have traditionally pursued the goal of constructing intelligent machines, with human intelligence used as a benchmark. However, philosophers like John Haugeland (author of AI: The Very Idea, 1985) have contested that the goal is to build machines with minds of their own.

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Inside The Tiny Country Where Robots Grow The Foodedit

Huffington Post 

The Netherlands high population density compared with other countries has been a driving force behind the automation of its agricultural sector, said Janneke de Kramer, a food and farming robotics specialist at Wageningen University, the countrys main agricultural research institution.

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A Quantum Leapedit

Business Today 

Cota will use a transmitter placed indoors and receivers placed in the gadgets that need power it could include IoT sensors as well. Ossia says its Cota technology will soon power devices at any distance, even when they are in motion and not necessarily within the line of sight.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Walking the Talk on EVsedit

Business Today 

By Sumant Banerji

In April, the government had approved the second edition of the FAME Scheme (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles), increasing the outlay nearly six-fold to 110,000 crore for a period of three years. The scheme offers subsidies for buying e-vehicles but caps them at 7,000 e-buses, 5,00,000 e-3 wheelers, 10,00,000 e-2 wheelers and just 55,000 e-cars.

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Indias rush to switch to EVsedit

Over Drive 

The Modi Sarkar is in a real hurry to usher in electric vehicles or EVs in our country. Reports suggest that it may stop the sale of the internal combustion engine (ICE) powered threewheelers by as soon as 2023 and twowheelers with ICE engines of less than 150cc capacity, by 2025!

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GST Council may reduce tax on EVsedit

The Hindu 

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, at its 36th meeting on Thursday, is likely to reduce the tax rate on electric vehicles, ease tax issues for the solar sector and deliberate on the tax rate on lotteries.

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A tough road ahead for EV manufacturersedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Once sufficient adoption takes place, enabling economies of scale in manufacturing in the process, EVs will be far cheaper than the current fossil fuel-powered ones and will also be easier to maintain as they have fewer moving parts. But for EVs to make economic sense, they must be able to get power at affordable rates. Power accounts for a significant part of the running cost of an EVs.

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Trucks connect to the networkedit

Business Standard 

By Peerzada Abrar

The dramatic change in Khan’s fortunes took place after his fleet owner introduced him to a voice-assisted multilingual trucking app for drivers made by Bengaluru-based logistics firm, BlackBuck. The app, called BlackBuck Inaam, is improving the earnings of thousands of truckers by using data science and a host of technologies such as telematics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT).

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Industry News: Future of Work

Is India running out of time to cash in on its booming young workforceedit

Business Standard 

With those risks looming, India isn’t doing enough to revamp its education system to prepare the youth for better-paying, high-skilled jobs, going by a recent World Bank report. The world’s sixth-biggest economy, and until recently the fastest-growing major one, is ranked 115 out of 157 countries in the Human Capital Index, which measures the investment in education and health care for young people.

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When your coworker is an AI driven robotedit

Live Mint 

By Swetha Taneja

Those who work with bots and artificial intelligence say automation isn’t a threat but instead augment human capabilities to make people more innovative and productive With the advent of technology, one thing is certain: all repetitive, heavily process-oriented tasks will become irrelevant for people, who will be replaced by machines

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IT majors increasing focus on reskilling employeesedit

Money Control 

This is despite that demand for a skilled workforce is only 10 percent of the total workforce required, he said. Shah explained that as companies take on more digital transformation projects, jobs that require knowledge of emerging technology skills such as IoT, automation and machine learning are on the rise.

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Are engineers more employable nowedit

The Times of India 

By Rajlakshmi Gosh

The recent market demand for emerging technologies (such as AI, IoT, Blockchain, Robotics, Data Sciences, Cyber Security, etc), live project based summer internships and an optimistic IT and electronics market are fueling the growth of employability opportunities.

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Industry News: Education

Ministry of Human Resource Department keen on exploring partnership opportunities with edtech companies to train Indias education institutionsedit

Your Story 

The edtech startups and companies will present how their solutions will impact education outcomes, cognitive skill development, and aptitude building to the Expert Committee at the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) headquarters on August 7, 2019.

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Update syllabus to help kids understand smart technologiesedit

The Quint 

Smart technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation can cause great harm to people if students are not taught in the classroom how to critically engage with those technologies, says an academic.

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