August 21, 2019

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Robotic controllers prepare a docking port ahead of August 21 spacewalk: NASAedit

The Indian Express

This would be the fifth spacewalk of the year. The space agency said that the Canadarm2 robotic arm will be extracting the International Docking Adapter-3 (IDA-3) from the trunk of the Space Dragon cargo craft during the sleep shift of the Expedition 60 crew.

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Payment firms turning focus on Data Containerization, IoT among new techedit

Money Control

Artificial intelligence is also going to play a big role in analysis of the data we receive and use accordingly. Selfhealing kind of networks is also going to play a big role whether you do it through a cloud or other methods ie., basically you will never be down and always ready. But the major thing that is going to drive all of this is IoT which very few people pay notice to, he added.

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Latest Bluetooth Flaw Allows Hackers To Carry Out KNOB Attackedit

Analytics India Mag

By Harshjit Sarmah

What Is KNOB Attack Recently, a group of researchers from the Center for IT Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA), discovered a severe vulnerability that could affect over a billion Bluetooth enabled devices, including smartphones, laptops, smart IoT devices and industrial devices. The flaw is assigned as CVE 20199506 and is tagged as KNOB (Key Negotiation of Bluetooth).

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Internet of Things Market Growth to Propel Owing to Rising Penetration of Broadband Services & Internet Till 2022edit

IT News Online

The global Internet of Things (IoT) Market size was valued at USD 605.69 billion in 2014. Expansion of technology along with rising investments is anticipated to drive the overall market over the next seven years. Remarkable progress in the telecommunication, as well as increasing penetration of broadband services and internet, has furthermore propelled the industry growth.

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How Robotic Automation has Improved Various Industriesedit

Tech Nuter

Robotic automation is a pretty large field that deals with so many different sectors such as space, medicine, manufacturing, automotive and accounting, among others. With each type of field comes a different kind of robot that has been specially built with the capabilities to work and complete tasks in the said sector.

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How new digital transformation technologies will convergence with SelfService Industryedit

Inventiva

Today IOT sensors can be used to track an elderly persons daily habits and register change. For example, a sensor under a pillow can monitor sleep patterns, A sensor on a pill bottle can keep tabs on how many times the bottle is opened, etc.

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Embracing A New Era Of Automation In Manufacturing With Industry 4.0edit

Analytics Insight

By Vivek Kumar

Industry 4.0 is a wide term and does not refer to any specific technology. It covers the various transformations businesses are witnessing in today’s industrial landscape. Among the technologies behind the changes are cyber-physical systems, IoT, cloud computing, and cognitive computing.

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Climate, green technologies, skill, cyber, digital and science tech thrust areas of PM Modis France visitedit

The Times of India

Informed sources told ANI on Tuesday that significant talks on climate change, financing, and collaboration for green technologies, specific roadmap and open partnership in new areas like digital and cyberspace, and skill development will be the key thrust of the visit and agreements in this regard will be inked.

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Be smartedit

The Pioneer

What is IoT? It is an ecosystem of connected physical devices/objects that are accessible through the internet. IoT is a system of interrelated devices, digital products, objects, people or animals that are provided with unique identifiers (UIDs) and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring any human interaction.

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Automation & Business Successedit

Business World

BW Businessworld in association with Avaya India and Avaya’s partner SEC Communications organised a roundtable discussion in Bengaluru inviting select few C-level executives from a broad range of industries to understand the role of automation in driving digital transformation in the modern enterprise.

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Artificial Intelligence Might Soon Take Over Architecture and Design McKinsey Globaledit

Steel Guru

Artificial Intelligence has always been a topic of debate is it good for us Are we walking towards a better future or an inevitable doom According to an ongoing research program by McKinsey Global Institute, every occupation includes multiple types of activities, and each has a different requirement for automation. Almost all occupations have a partial automation potential.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

The Times of India Governments decision to backtrack from earlier policy moves to disincentivise internal combustion (IC) engine vehicles to give a boost to electric vehicles will do a world of good to the embattled auto industry which is in the midst of a prolonged slump.edit

The Times of India

Governments decision to backtrack from earlier policy moves to disincentivise internal combustion (IC) engine vehicles to give a boost to electric vehicles will do a world of good to the embattled auto industry which is in the midst of a prolonged slump.

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This is worlds largest electric vehicle that needs no chargingedit

The Economic Times

Switzerland based construction equipment manufacturing company Kuhn Schweiz has designed the world’s largest electric vehicle – a 45-ton dump truck that lets you load up to 65 tons of cargo. Interestingly, the manufacturer claims that this e-dumper does not consume energy.

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Govt may put brakes on EV push amid auto industry slowdownedit

Times Now News

Government departments which were working on a package to promote electric vehicles have been asked to put on hold several initiatives to discourage the sale of ICE vehicles Representative Image Key Highlights.

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Charging Stations in UK Surpass Number of Fuel Stationsedit

Steel Guru

There are now almost 1,000 more public places to charge electric cars than there are forecourts to pump petrol in the UK 9,300 EV charging locations compared to 8,400 fuel stations. The crossover happened more than a year before Nissans 2016 prediction of August 2020 a result of the accelerating adoption of EVs (electric vehicles) amongst UK motorists.

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The AI In Transportation Report: How automakers can use artificial intelligence to cut costs, open new revenue streams, and adapt to the digital ageedit

Business Insider

By Ayoub Aouad

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one technology automakers can turn to in order to adapt to this changing landscape. AI will create significant opportunities for automakers to both reduce production costs and introduce new revenue streams, including selfdriving technology, predictive maintenance, and route optimization.

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Delhi Metro trains to go driverless soon! DMRC plans automation for Pink and Magenta Line; detailsedit

The Financial Express

By Nikita Prasad

Delhi Metro lines to be planned in automation phases: Delhi Metro Pink line and Delhi Metro Magenta lines are planned to be operated in the UTO mode in a phased manner. DMRC will be operating it in stages from Grade of Automation 2 or GoA2 to GoA3, and finally to GoA4, which are completely unattended train operations.

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AI based tech upgrade in UP buses to curb accidentsedit

The Economic Times

The Uttar Pradesh government is trying out anti-collision devices on state transport buses to bring down high accident rates. As a pilot project, six buses plying on Lucknow-New Delhi and Lucknow-Gorakhpur routes have been fitted with these Artificial Intelligence (AI) based equipment that gives alerts to the driver to avoid collision.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Technology is making HR less human more superhumanedit

People Matters

Newage technologies such as , Blockchain, Cognitive (Machine Learning [ML], Robotic Process Automation [RPA], Natural Language Processing [NLP], bots, neural nets and AI), Digital Reality (AR,VR, IoT, and others), Cloud, and Analytics are opening new vistas and possibilities for HR and equipping them with some superhuman powers to reshape the way the world works.

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Indias IT industry turns to flexi staffing to keep its bench from idlingedit

The Economic Times

By Ayan Pramanik

Two trends are making flexi hiring interesting, said Rituparna Chakraborty, cofounder of Teamlease and president, ISF. While companies are seeking faster deployment for certain niche skills, people with skills in artificial intelligence, machine learning and other emerging skills want to be part of a gig economy unlike a typical corporate structure, she said.

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Finance will need people who can work with robots as AI takes a 3rd of jobsedit

Business Standard

Job seekers with expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science are among the most in-demand candidates in finance, according to hiring sites Glassdoor, LinkedIn, Hired, and ZipRecruiter. It’s not only disrupters such as Square Inc or Stripe Inc hiring this talent; legacy financial companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, and Morgan Stanley are scooping these people up as well.

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Industry News: Education

Route to bolster IoT skillsedit

The Tribune

By Mubeen Jukaku

Nowadays, the increased pace of IoT (Internet of Things) adoption in the country has made many sectors like industrial manufacturing, energy, agriculture, utilities, transport, and logistics lead the market. The rise in the number of IoT devices in use has led to a significant increase in the number of IoT jobs as well.

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Call to include on trend topicsedit

The Telegraph

By Shubhankar Chowdhury

“An engineering institute can mention in the certificate that the student has graduated in mechanical engineering with specialisation in artificial intelligence or robotics. The institutes should offer the new topics as electives,” M.P. Poonia, the vice-chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), said on the sidelines of a conclave on “Impact of disruptive technologies on higher education” on Saturday.

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