BW CIO World

Such emerging technologies like IoT (Internet of Things) are highly important for the Smart Cities Mission. Governments have been trying to install IoT components in all the Smart Cities projects since the inception of the mission. The technology is very important for collecting information through sensors which are placed in these IoT devices

Business World

From a testing point of view, the need of throughput (number of items that will transport) and latency (the speed required to transport) that a large number of internet-enabled devices will put on networks, will require a thorough and deep level of testing. This will be significant to provide quality 5G service. Not only the service side, but testing solutions will also be required for IoT devices.

Infotech Lead

In modern-age computing powered by IoT and Analytics, database is not just an information repository, but a key driver of business growth. Cloud-based database infrastructure solutions are chosen over on-premise versions not only for cost savings, but also for their flexibility and performance feature.(

Deccan Chronicle

McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, released Cloud-Native: The Infrastructure-as-a-Service Adoption and Risk Report, covering new research on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) incidents in the cloud. According to industry analysts, IaaS is now the fastest growing area of the cloud due to the speed, cost and reliability with which organizations can create and deploy applications.

News 18

By Shouvik Das

Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has reported the discovery of a new spyware tool that seemingly affects a large number of Indian firms in the financial and research space. The tool, which is called Dtrack, is an evolution of a previously reported tool, ATMDtrack, which was said to be in widespread use to target automated teller machines (ATMs) across India.

The New Indian Express

Actor Mohanlal, who was the chief guest of the event, stressed the importance of cyber security awareness to prevent cyber crimes. “The cyber crimes are increasing at an alarming rate. On several occasions, absence of proper awareness to handle the cyberspace turn several into victims of cyber crime,” he said. Scott Warren of Squire Gaikokuho Kyodo said the interest shown by Kerala Police on cyber security was commendable.

Orissa Post

The Railway ministry, Department of Science & Technology and IIT-Kanpur have forged an association on a project on ‘Industry 4.0’, which includes a host of digital technologies like artificial intelligence, Big Data, machine learning and cloud computing. The project will be launched at Modern Coach Factory (MCF), Raebareli.

City Today

Programs like Kasisto and Money stream are using AI in financial services. Recently, banks are using artificial intelligence systems in order to organize operations, maintain book-keeping, invest in stocks and manage properties. In video games, artificial intelligence is routinely used to generate dynamic purposeful behaviour in non-player characters.

The Economic Times

By Shelley Singh

AI, Machine Learning, IOT are increasingly being used by companies. Fraudsters are also using them. Fraudsters are getting very good at using all those things, so what’s happening is the fraudsters are becoming sophisticated enough to decrypt supposedly encrypted data by running enough potential logins and passwords to figure it out.

The New Indian Express

By Medha Dutta Yadhav

Needless to add, global players are eyeing India and its digital economy. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway picked up a stake in Paytm, Japan’s SoftBank has a stake in Ola, Flipkart is now controlled by US retailer Walmart, Chinese tech firm Tencent has a share in both Flipkart and Ola, and Disney is in the process of getting its hands on Hotstar

Times Now News

As the Narendra Modi government goes bullish on emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud computing, Blockchain and data analytics, the daunting task ahead is to train millions of government officials so that these disruptive technologies can be optimised for the benefit of over one billion plus people.

Inc 42

How Artificial Intelligence Technology Is Changing The Landscape Of Digital Marketing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is now a big thing now in digital marketing. All digital marketing operations are now affected by AIpowered tools. From startups to large firms are opting for AIpowered digital marketing tools to enhance campaign planning & decision making

Live Mint

For example, remote work creates new requirements for ease of use, such as using phones more than laptops. Collaboration between dispersed workers requires unified communication tools to make it seamless. Artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics create new possibilities for personalized customer engagement. Then theres the continuing evolution of social networks.

The Economic Times

Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification’ (bit.do/fa4NX), to uncover underlying large-scale racial and gender bias in AI systems available in the market. These systems are sold by the likes of IBM, Microsoft and Amazon.

Analytics Insight

As the discussion about AI ensures an extreme change of the company, leaders are particularly inquisitive to know whether it will make it simpler for them. While a lot of them are energized, some of them dont need decision making made simpler. Their capability to settle on cool headed decisions without complex innovation is the very foundation of their notoriety for being great leaders.

CIO

Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI driven networks, today released the first edition of the State of Networking Automation Report (SoNAR). With this report, Juniper aims to identify key trends and challenges to support enterprises and service providers in achieving increasingly business critical automation objectives.

The New Indian Express

Rajnath expressed the need to incorporate the newage technologies of the Artificial Intelligence, robotics and cyber systems to equip Indian soldiers in a better way for future challenges

The Indian Wire

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with the President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid on the sidelines of the UNGA here, and both sides decided to deepen bilateral cooperation in the field of egovernance, cyber security and innovation

PC Quest

By Sunil Rajguru

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interconnected computing devices, digital machines, objects, sensors, actuators and Network Connectivity that enables these objects to transfer data over a network without requiring human to computer interaction. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a phrase that is becoming more and more common which estimates by 2020 there will be more than 24 billion IoT devices.

The Hindu

Former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, who has announced a new AI startup with USD 50 million fund, believes India has the potential to become a world leader in artificial intelligence but the key to this is integrating AI into the country’s education system in a massive way.

Bfsi Elets Online

Artificial Intelligence Often, lapsation occurs due to lack of customer understanding of policy or poor policy fitment with customer profile and needs. The key to decelerating lapsation rates, therefore, lies in better understanding customers propensity to lapse, based on their demographic and economic profile, risk appetite, life stage and other factors.

The Wire

A few years ago, an AI system might have required millions of words to attempt to learn a language, but today that same system could be processing 40 billion words as it trains, according to Roy Schwartz, who researches deep learning models at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and in the University of Washingtons computer science and engineering department.

The Financial Express

Artificial Intelligence And big data are going to be a game changer in the agriculture sector, and the government is aiming to collate about 80% of such data by 2020, agriculture secretary Sanjay Aggarwal said on Thursday.

Analytics Insight

The Internet of Things (IoT) has turned into a guide of digital transformation for some companies across industries. The disruptive innovation enables organizations to remain associated with their users to give a definitive customer experience. For instance, in view of the insights it can uncover, companies can come up with one of a kind, creative approaches to appreciate and impact customer movement including behavior and purchasing patterns.

The Financial Express

The scenario is such that 33 percent of small businesses lack centralized cyber security management in their organisations while ensuring safety on a specific computer system. Indeed, even as huge ventures have for the most part been the casualties of information breaks in view of the hugeness of the client information they approach, little and moderate size organizations (SMBs) are likewise seeing a gradual increment in such episodes yearly.

Careers 360

Technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence and data analysis are becoming a major part of the hospitality world. Educational establishments must ensure that their students are introduced to these technologies during their education. Their curriculums need to be regularly updated to adapt to these changes.

Infotech Lead

The worldwide robotics market revenue has touched $16.5 billion from 422,000 units (+6 percent) in 2018.Robot markets in 2019International Federation of Robotics (IFR) forecasts robotics shipments in 2019 will recede from the record level in 2018, but expects an average growth of 12 percent per year from 2020 to 2022.

The New Indian Express

Tribetailing allows retailers to use artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and social media analytics to gain information about consumers shopping history.

The Economic Times

The use and role of the internet are quite clear to everyone. Nowadays, answers to all our questions are available on the internet, but the concept of the internet has been taken ahead with the Internet of Things.

Analytics Insight

IoT is now often referred to any small, internet-connected device that can record specific data and transmit the recorded data to a central location or device for further interpretation. The sensors used are capable of recording audio, video, temperature data, location data, etc. In today’s time, the predominant applications of IoT include driverless cars and home appliances.

The Asian Age

2019 is undoubtedly the year that artificial intelligence (AI) captured the public imagination and people became aware of the potential for the nascent science. The vast promise to revolutionize areas like healthcare and transportation has been tempered by uncertainty regarding when these developments will be ready for widespread implementation.

The Hindu Business Line

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his historic ‘Howdy Modi’ rally in Houston this week has referred to ‘data’ as the new oil and the new gold. Indeed, the transformative potential of Digital India is becoming increasingly evident. India is a destination for artificial intelligence pursuits, with the availability of quality skilled resources.

Daily Pioneer

Simply speaking, an AI programme is a computer code that can learn from real world situations and tweak itself to perform more efficiently. This requires that it be fed large datasets to learn, find patterns and draw conclusions. There are multiple concerns that the Government has in unlocking data, some legitimate but easily solvable and others deeply embedded, which require a shift in culture.

Business Standard

Data governance, cybersecurity, encryption and surveillance along with technologies like cloud computing, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things are the core areas requiring policy focus for India.

The Hindu Business Line

Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a more accurate and detailed method for analysing images of the back of the eye, an advance that can help ophthalmologists better detect and track eye diseases like glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration.

The Economic Times

While data breaches threaten small companies with painful consequences, the survey by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky revealed that security measures taken by them to prevent such incidents are often insufficient.

The Economic Times

By Sanghamitra Kar

Companies largely miss cyber security incidents around Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), as awareness about the most common entry point to breaches targeting the cloud infrastructure is extremely low, McAfee has found. Among the 1,000 enterprise organizations that were surveyed worldwide, 99% missed IaaS mis-configurations, as per a recent report by the cyber security firm. According to industry analysts, IaaS is now the fastest growing area in the Cloud business due to the speed, cost and reliability with which organizations can create and deploy applications.

Times Now News

The new 5G technology will bring a paradigm shift in wireless communication. It will provide seamless coverage, high-speed data and low latency enabling speedy processing. 5G technology will connect and transmit information amongst billions of IoT devices. It is a disruptive change which brings along opportunities for India to leap-frog technologically and financially.

ETRealty

The use and role of the internet are quite clear to everyone. Nowadays, answers to all our questions are available on the internet, but the concept of the internet has been taken ahead with the Internet of Things. IoT is something which generates data on a device or a machine. But, if you are wondering how IoT and smart lighting are connecting with one another? T

Analytics Insight

By Smriti Srivastava

Whenever a person is detected with some medical condition in India, most of them tend to dodge the treatment process either due to lack of time to go through such lengthy procedures or inability to fulfill the demanded expenses. This, in turn, leads to a greater spread of diseases. However, with the advent of artificial intelligence, the scenario is about to change. The technology is becoming an integral part of the healthcare industry globally. In India, it is dramatically transforming the space of diagnostics. Multiple healthcare startups have been established in the past few years and some have already come out with AI tools to screen the disease through non-invasive methods with great accuracy in ...AIHealthcare

Express Computer

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cross-industry collaborations are creating new avenues for data collection and offering personalised services to users this year, according to a report. Among other technology trends that are picking up this year are the convergence of the smart home and healthcare, autonomous vehicles coming for last-mile delivery and data becoming a hot-button geopolitical issue, according to the report titled “14 Trends Shaping Tech” from CB Insights.

India Today

Artificial Intelligence is the new buzz-word that every tech company tries to throw at you as a part of product features. But it is actually there to make our lives simpler and more convenient. We see AI playing a helping hand in more and more things we do: from AI for prompt voice-assistant based responses to AI helping us type better with prompt and context-specific suggestions, to even keeping us safe and secure from the nasties of the Internet.

Analytics India

By Vishal Chawla

India has been giving great importance to the usage of artificial intelligence in the armed forces, especially the use of robotics and autonomous systems. Greater application of this technology could help the country’s defence forces by enabling soldiers with more capability in difficult conditions.

Gadgets Now

This study highlights the potential that AI techniques could have in the future to improve analysis and influence and influence clinical decision-making for patients with heart disease.

The Times of India

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is augmenting human lives like never before and is helping companies take the next big leap. As the AI ecosystem witnesses rapid expansion in India, Googles vice president Jay Yagnik, who leads large parts of AI at the company, speaks to timesofindia.com on the future of Artificial Intelligence, principles governing its fair use and increasing application in various sectors:

The Times of India

The cybersecurity market is forecast to surpass $124 billion in 2019, but despite soaring cybersecurity spending, the annual cost of cybercrime in 2019 is estimated at $1 trillion.

News 18

By Shouvik Das

Robotics and automation can be Indias next big industry boom in a scale that can match the famous boom in information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) services in 2000s, according to Raghunath Subramanian, president and chief executive officer of UiPath India.

Down To Earth

By Latha Jishnu

And yet the concerns have not cast their shadow over India since AI research is still in its infancy in the country. More data, increased connectivity and greater computer power have facilitated new breakthroughs and Artificial Intelligence patent boom.

The Quint

With China making headway in Artificial Intelligence (AI), defence experts feel that it is high time India started investing in research in the field, notwithstanding the ethical debate surrounding its uses in modern warfare.

India Tv News

India is high on the agenda of Russia based global cyber security solutions provider Kaspersky as industrial units in the country are expected to go in for greater automation and hence get exposed to bigger cyber threats that may disrupt the operations of critical infrastructure.

The Economic Times

With 75 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices expected to be in place by 2025, the world is at the cusp of experiencing a technology that will change the way live today. With 5G commercial networks being switched on, the first use cases are enhanced mobile broadband, which will bring better experiences for smartphone users, and fixed wireless access, providing fiber speeds without fiber to homes.

The New Indian Express

By Aihik Sur

A new kind of hacking threat targeting SIM cards of smart phones is on the rise. Cybersecurity officials say there is still no method to detect this threat, and that there could be millions of phones affected by it, unknowingly. The attack called ‘Simjacker’, discovered by UK-based Adaptive Mobile Security (AMS), happens when a spyware code is sent to a mobile phone which then hacks the SIM card, and ‘takes over’ the mobile phone.

Money Control

The report states that the new policy will also promote emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and machine learning for ensuring cybersecurity in the state. There is also a plan to introduce course curriculum in schools and colleges on cybersecurity for skilling youths and to ensure the security of mobility and cloud computing… the official said

The Hindu Business Line

By Kurmanath KV

What the cyber security experts discovered after taking a sneak peek into the flourishing knowledge-sharing networks is spine-chilling. Hackers operating underground are seen arming themselves for an attack on Internet of Things (IoT) devices as they see a proliferation of connected gadgets, both at homes and in the organisations in the near future.

Times Now News

A new Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool in a smartphone app can predict near term crop productivity for farmers and may help them protect their staple crops, such as maize, cassava and beans, in the face of climate warming, say researchers. The AI assistant called Plant Village Nuru is being used across Africa to diagnose crop diseases.

Hindustan Times

AI feeds off what we call machine learning, that is nothing but training a computer brain on a specific problem set. Almost like how the human mind learns from birth as it is exposed to the world. Robot And Human Hand Making Fist Bump On Grey Background.

Live Mint

With most makers of electric vehicles and their components planning their investments for India, they would be encouraged to accelerate their plans for local manufacturing with the announcements made by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Health Issues India

This is true, ProPublica reports, of five million Americans as well as millions worldwide. Concerning the vulnerability of such data, cybersecurity expert and consultant Jackie Singh explained to ProPublica its not even hacking. Its walking into an open door.

The Economic Times

US IT major IBM said that cybersecurity is going to be one of the biggest revenue opportunities for telecom operators in India which may offer security as a service to enterprises and smallmedium enterprises. Vaidyanathan Iyer, security software leader, IBM India and South Asia, told ET that the company is engaging with all three telcos in India for its security-related products through its major IT outsourcing deals and through separate arrangements.

Analytics Insight

By Vivek Kumar

The more information or data a company has about its customers, the better they can customize and personalize engagements with them. Artificial intelligence here can be helpful and successfully deployed to gain quick, convenient and intelligent customer experience at any point of the customer journey, resulting in higher customer experience ratings.

Wio News

Maybe we can get through the climate crisis without a global catastrophe, although that door is closing fast. And maybe we can cope with the huge loss of jobs caused by the revolution in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) without a social and political calamity. But can we do both at the same time

The Times of India

A survey by insurance broking and risk management company Marsh and Microsoft among 1,500 organisations about the threat of cyber security found that it outranks all other risks by a wide margin.

The Times of India

By Rajat Pandit

The Army now wants to harness the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to bolster its combat lethality and survivability, even as the 13-lakh force is testing its new integrated battle groups (IBGs) geared towards mobilising fast and striking hard across borders.

Analytics Insight

By Ken Lynch

Big data is the new wave thats taking over company operations by storm. Businesses that are able to leverage the volume, variety and velocity of big data can make better decisions, reduce operational costs, and keep up with evolving customer demands. Big data is being used in many different sectors.

ELE Times

To boost its artificial intelligence, the Indian Army is conducting a first of its kind brainstorming session at the field formation level in Hisar to interact with experts and industry representatives.

Money Control

He said the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in weather forecasting is growing. India needs to pay attention to different weather conditions, including extreme events like tropical cyclones, heat waves and heavy monsoon rains, on the country as a whole as these essentially impact the population, a top meteorologist has said.

The Indian Express

The UK government is investing nearly two billion pounds as part of its National Cyber Security Strategy, to make the United Kingdom the safest place in the world to live and do business.

Global News Clip

Regarding the implementation of IoT, insufficient interoperability among platforms tends to provoke major problems both at the technical and business levels. Typical issues are the impossibility of integration no interoperable IoT devices into nonhomogeneous IoT platforms as well as the inability of developing applications and services over several platforms and different domains.

The Times of India

Co-founder and former vice-chairman of Infosys Technologies Ltd Kris Gopalakrishnan said that artificial intelligence or machine learning (AI/ML) is increasingly utilized to build platforms to provide better healthcare solutions and in the automotive industry.

Deccan Herald

Fending off cyber-attacks in one of the greatest challenges faced by businesses and governments around the world, and given the sensitive nature of the client data they hold, they’re a serious concern for Fintech firms.

The Financial Express

According to a recent survey by IT security firm Sophos, phishing emails impacted one in two Indian organisations that were hit by a cyberattack. The global survey, The Impossible Puzzle of Cybersecurity, reveals IT managers are inundated with cyberattacks from different directions and are struggling to keep up due to a lack of security expertise, budget and up to date technology.

The Economic Times

The ‘connected experience’ is part of an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that links real-time information from cabin components, including the meal trolleys and overhead bins, to crews and passengers aboard the flight to create a more personalised — and digitally traceable — experience.

The Statesman

The ministry has sought a Baht 21 billion budget for fiscal 2020 and plans among other steps to set up 10,000 free WiFi hot spots in rural areas as part of the governments Thailand 4.0 drive. The establishment of an anti-fake news centre is also on the cards. In South Korea, which has a strong legacy of digital innovation, startups are already brainstorming on how they can solve tech savvy Seouls urban problems using AI/IoT.

The Rahnuma Daily

Among other technology trends that are picking up this year are the convergence of the smart home and healthcare, autonomous vehicles coming for last-mile delivery and data becoming a hot-button geopolitical issue, according to the report titled “14 Trends Shaping Tech” from CB Insights.

Live Mint

When I look back at our school lives, while our choices were more straightforward, we were neither trained to make a conscious choice between the business of life and technology nor asked to be brave and experiment with the newer or unknown forms of science.

CIOL

Industry 4.0 relies on a large volume of devices and masses of data to be successful. Businesses must process data into timely and valuable information if they are to integrate it into production processes. For example, there is little use in having sensors that can track real time maintenance issues if the infrastructure is not available to suitably analyse and act on those.

The Times of India

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday said that the government is keen to make India a $1 trillion digital economy that is dominated by digital payments & service, e-commerce, Internet of Things (IOT) and new technology powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).

Entrepreneur

Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, Big Data are all new and emerging technologies which are here to stay and have a significant role to play in home automation. Conservation and Efficiency is the mantra today.

Business Standard

Digitally empowered SMBs are leveraging a combination of digital services in connectivity and communications, payments, discoverability, productivity focused technologies, and are starting to expand into the world of artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and Internet of Things (IOT).

Pc Mag

Weve seen inklings of this for years. At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference this year, Microsoft warned that Russian state sponsored hackers may be trying to spy on companies by hacking into vulnerable office Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to corporate networks. Is that a paper jam, or has Moscow come knocking

The Indian Express

Rear Admiral Gupta made the remarks while speaking at the Capsule on Science Technology and Applied Research, organised for senior officers of the three armed forces, at the Military Institute of Technology

CIO

Nearly 80 percent of organizations now rank cyber risk as a topfive concern, however, only 11 percent expressed confidence in their ability to assess cyber threats, prevent cyberattacks, and respond effectively, according to this years Marsh Microsoft Survey.

CIO

Internet of Things devices complicate cybersecurity M&A due diligence One factor that can make evaluating cybersecurity risk during M&A particularly complicated is the growing number of Internet of Things devices. Industry reports estimate that the number of connected devices globally now exceeds 17 billion a number that does not even include smartphones, PCs/laptops, and tablets.

Forbes

In 2015, Forrester caused a storm to brew when it announced that artificial intelligence (AI) would replace one million B2B sales jobs by 2020. This bold headline, however, failed to capture the entire picture. Sure, if sales reps continue to rely on age-old practices like cold calling and distributing spray-and-pray marketing collateral, their days are surely numbered.

CIOL

The world has witnessed rapid development in the field of Artificial Intelligence, resulting in a great wave of technological advancements in all aspects of human life. Right from basic needs such as food processing to the complex process involving robotics, AI has become an inevitable part of our present and future. AI is also capable of a far more noble use in healthcare that goes beyond making life simpler and businesses costeffective.

The Economic Times

As various companies are waking up to the benefits of AI, the government too has realised the efficacy of incorporating emerging technologies. The interim budget presented in February 2019, by the government saw it announce that it will look at establishing a national centre for Artificial Intelligence (AI), in a bid to strengthen the Artificial Intelligence sector in India.

Forbes

The applied team is responsible for researching and building out the core of our AI system in the kind of products I mentioned above, which includes machine learning models and the underlying software systems that allow us to automate, scale and store all the data and models.

BW CIO World

India being among the fastest growing digital economies, is religiously adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) across sectors. Banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), manufacturing, healthcare, education, ad-tech are among sectors that are revolutionizing their business models, even as they increase efficiency and see a record-breaking growth in revenues using AI.

The Financial Express

With the growing prevalence of bandwidth-hungry applications and technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) in its many forms, and simple reliance on connectivity for everyone, it becomes clear why a sharper focus on the edge is inevitable.

The Hindu Business Line

“The UK and London have been major financial hubs making investments and attracting inbound investments and also serving as a base for a number of companies. We now look forward to take it to the next level by engaging start-ups, especially in the areas of fintech, cyber security and digitalisation,” he said.

Forbes

Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the impact and progress of AI highlighted the strong state of AI surveillance worldwide, the lack of adherence to common privacy principles in companies data privacy statement, the growing adoption of AI by global businesses, and the perception of AI as a major risk by institutional investors.

Business Standard

Self-controlled irrigation systems, soil and crop testing through IOT devices, using data analytics to improve crop yield, online marketplace for farm produce, and alternate credit for agriculture entrepreneurs are some areas where modern technology has delivered breakthroughs. Farmers also heavily rely on Whatsapp groups that give them information on weather alerts.

The Financial Express

Dell Technologies embedded and edge solutions business is growing massively in India, says the companys senior vice president and general manager for OEM & IoT Solutions, Bryan Jones. In a recent conversation with Sudhir Chowdhary, he highlighted the growing 5G, IoT and OEM market in India and how Dell Technologies is helping its customers transform in the space. Excerpts: (Internet of Things)

Devdis Course

The Telangana government has decided to declare 2020 as Artificial Intelligence year by organising various activities related to the emerging technology, Jayesh Ranjan, principal secretary, IT and Industries said here on Wednesday. The year 2020 is going to be celebrated in Telangana as AI year.

Express Computer

Digitalization is today well established among oil and gas organizations. By adopting artificial intelligence (AI), cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT), some have experienced exceptional performance gains. 20% to 30% of oil and gas companies have begun developing more aggressive ambitions based on disruptive business models.

The Times of India

Cybersecurity specialists and global VPN providers TOI spoke to said Indians are among the largest VPN users in the world and the user base has seen a marked increase in the past three years. What started off as an enterprise tool to help employees access corporate network from homes, has grown in use case with increased aspirations to access content not available in India, and rising concerns around how personal data is being used by companies, they said.

Money Control

We are one of the biggest users of 3D printing, IoT to make sure the maintenance requirements of machines go down you can predict a lot of things there, behaviour of lot of other equipment we use IoT on some of our data centres, etc. Machines that used to be dumb are now smart machines and you pick up lot of data from that, take actions to reduce costs significantly, ensure customer experience is very good and supply chain becomes the biggest competitive differentiator, said Sethi.

Live Mint

Good financial advice is the need of the hour and, while human deliberation is required for many aspects, the basics can be left to technology. Artificial Intelligence (AI) facilitates an objective approach and can crunch massive amounts of data. A full financial advice solution, therefore, is born only when you marry data and technology with a human touch.

Consultancy

Artificial intelligence (AI) is touted by many as the next big disruptor. In a bid to operate at the forefront of the gamechanging technology, countries are developing all kinds of policies that enables their governments and companies to become AI leaders, including the building a solid AI ecosystems, financial incentives, innovation and research and grooming AI talent.

Indian Retailer

In parallel with Industry 4.0, we are witnessing unprecedented changes in the retail landscape. Retail 4.0 is the term used to describe the transformation thats impacting the retail industry at a dramatic pace. The two drivers of Retail 4.0 are technological advancements and ever growing expectations of the customers.

Telangana Today

The slowdown happening across several sectors is likely to have an impact on the IT spending of the companies. However, new age tools like artificial intelligence and robotics could come to rescue of the companies, according to IT secretary Jayesh Ranjan.

Health Issues India

They [cybercriminals] are slowly realising that pharmaceutical companies house a treasure trove of highly valuable data such as the latest drugs and vaccines, the newest researches, as well as medical secrets, said Yury Namestnikov, who heads the Global Research and Analysis Team in Russia for Kaspersky, a cybersecurity firm which conducted the report.

Business World

Automation — threat or an opportunity? The human nature manifests itself in all areas of life. Fear is an intrinsic part of the human psyche. If the aliens were to land on our planet — for almost all of us the first question would be to know if they pose a threat. We see this in our popular culture too, in movies and all.

Analytics Insight

By Vivek Kumar

Today, technological advancements continue heightening and people are now living in the age of Big Data where they can glean huge sums of information which was too clumsy for a person to process earlier. In this context, the application of artificial intelligence has already been quite productive in several industries, from technology and banking to marketing and entertainment, among others.

The Hans India

India has initiated a project to digitally map the country with a resolution of 10 centimetres, using drones and technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and big data, a senior government official said on Monday. The herculean task was taken up by the Survey of India, part of the Department of Science and Technology, a few months ago and is planned to be completed in two years, the Department’s Secretary, Prof Ashutosh Sharma said.

Free Press Journal

The BFSI sector seems to be raring to go on the AI and automation front, harnessing the maximum advantage of market opportunities. Indian banks such as State Bank of India (SBI) and Bank of Baroda are already betting big on AI.

Global News Clip

IoT security is concerned with Low Power Wide space (LPWA) networking, the IoV, industrial IoT, wearable devices, and alternative industries. In the IoT system, various IoT devices generate and use large amounts of information. The pipe ensures transmissions security of extremely synchronal data, and thus the cloud and IoT platform gives support for a large vary of IoT applications.

Analytics Insight

By Priya Dialani

The technological revolution that organizations have experienced in recent decades hasn’t been without its issues. Exacerbated by the development in recent years of the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing, there’s an exponential development in the number of applications, services, and episodes that IT staff need to oversee.

The Wire

Film franchises such as The Terminator (beginning in 1984) and The Matrix trilogy (with its first film released in 1999) revolve around super smart machines revolting against their human overlords, waging war and — in the latter’s case — enslaving them. As our devices become smarter and we grow increasingly reliant on them, the question remains: are we, too, headed towards such a bleak future?

Live Mint

By Abhijit Ahaskar

Last September, visa outsourcing and technology services company VFS Global, deployed a chatbot—Viva—offering round-the-clock assistance to visa applicants headed to Australia. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), the chatbot can decipher patterns from previous interactions, what customers and VFS Global consider as useful information.

Money Control 

In the future, the areas with the greatest growth opportunities will include; Service outcome-based business models instead of just power generation and transmission. Internet of Things (IoT) devices and sensors that track and transmit data from and to the grid. IoT infrastructure spending by utilities is forecast to reach more than $2 billion by 2024, growing at a CAGR of 20.5 percent.

Live Mint 

According to Rakesh Nangia, managing partner, Nangia Advisors (Andersen Global), the use of artificial intelligence, machine learning, video conferencing, telecommunication application software and mobile applications in e-assessment process are a few measures which emerged economies have already adopted long back.

Elets Online 

Rahul Kapoor, Director, Smart Cities, talked about the massive role technologies like Data, AI, IoT are playing in the Smart Cities Mission of the Government of India. He stated, “Smart Cities Mission started a dialogue with technology and gradually technologies like IoT were deployed. However, these weren’t devoid of challenges.

CIOL 

Companies have increasingly started to hire mobile app development companies to create apps for improving user interaction and increasing customer retention. AI chatbots offer an equally, if not more, efficient alternative. For instance, long waiting time is one of the biggest reasons companies lose sales. Real-time chatbots can respond to user queries within seconds.

Business World 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in its most simplistic definition is the ability to mimic human intelligence to the level at which it becomes very difficult to distinguish between a human and a machine. Machine Learning (ML) is a method or an algorithm of letting an AI application figure out the steps needed to accomplish a specific task.

Analytics Insight 

The field of surgery is seeing a time of extraordinary change as a result of amazing recent advances in surgical and computer innovation. Robotic surgery could change treatment by giving exact, stable, and apt help to human surgeons. The best-known surgical robot, Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci, is intended to improve the clinical results of patients through insignificantly invasive surgery.

Analytics Insight 

Cybersecurity has always been a critical issue in the financial sector, especially for banks and lending companies. Cases of fraud have been prevalent in recent years, so companies will have to step up in terms of adopting the right tools for keeping their financial data from falling into the wrong hands. Cybersecurity packages have become even more sophisticated to better address new threats.

Business World

The rise of autonomous robots and vehicles is directly linked to advances in Artificial Intelligence. Affective computing focuses on systems which can even decipher emotions. These computers would use facial expressions, postures, gestures, speech, temperature of body etc to understand emotional state of user and adapt its response accordingly.

Analytics India Mag 

By Vishal Chawla

Businesses need predictability of functions and in this context, AI-powered recommendation systems have a prominent role to play in driving revenue growth. For example, AI can add value for sales through contextual recommendations using data in customer interactions across different channels. AI-driven processes can also be applied to a number of related areas at the same time.

Sia Sat 

More than two years after the infamous Wannacry ransomware crippled medical facilities and other organisations worldwide, the healthcare sector seems to be learning its lessons as a new report has revealed that attacks on medical devices declined to 19 per cent in 2019 from 28 per cent in 2018. The decline in the number of attacks against devices in healthcare facilities is, however, not observed everywhere, according to the findings by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.

Money Control

As technology advances, the security risk associated with technology also catches-up. Based on the increasing frequency of cyberattacks in the financial services domain, the regulators identify cybersecurity as one of the most persistent threats to the financial industry

ELE Times

EPFL scientists are also looking out ways and developing new approaches for improved control of robotic hands, especially for amputees, which combines individual finger control and automation for improved grasping and manipulation. This interdisciplinary proof-of-concept between neuro-engineering and robotics was successfully tested on three amputees and seven healthy subjects.

Devdis Course

New Zealand will provide NZ$10m over five years to support Pacific countries as they develop national cybersecurity strategies, secure infrastructure and data, enhance online safety, and implement robust cyber-crime laws across the Pacific.

India Today

By Kamljit Kaur Sandhu

The top officials of Natgrid gave a detailed presentation to the home minister in North Block. Sources said that the project has been aimed to solve the issue of “entity resolution” through artificial intelligence. Natgrid will not have a database of its own, rather it will have a collated database connected with software.

Money Control

Pegasystems, a digital transformation software company, announced the results of a global survey that found robotic process automation (RPA) and robotic desktop automation (RDA) to be highly effective in streamlining work – though achieving and maintaining those results isn’t as simple as it seems.

The Economic Times

With the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI), researchers have developed a neural network approach that can accurately identify congestive heart failure with 100 per cent accuracy through analysis of just one raw electrocardiogram (ECG) heartbeat. Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a chronic progressive condition that affects the pumping power of the heart muscles.

The Banking Finance

To aggregate and process these large amounts of data, there is a need to deploy localized data centre solutions closer to users, data, and objects to avoid latency issues and effectively manage the real-time capabilities required by IoT. This is called edge computing. The type of applications and trades will determine where the computer resources will be located, physically

Analytics India Mag

The US federal government’s AI expenditure will permit it to better leverage opportunities, carry strategic planning across various parts of the government and ensure collaboration opportunities with industry and academia, said Michael Kratsios, the US chief technology officer, recently.

Analytics India Mag

By Vishal Chawla

In a world where there is a shortage of skills in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, fostering innovation through conference and research meet-ups is important. Global gatherings of AI/ML researchers and practitioners around the world illustrate the power of collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas. For example, at the recent World Artificial Intelligence Conference in China, more than half of the participants were from outside the country.

ET CIO

Organisations worldwide are achieving their vision to industrialize artificial intelligence (AI) but many can do more to gain real business value, according to findings of a recent survey by technology services and digital transformation company Mindtree.AI

 Elets online

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen robust growth over a decade. AI which has a history of nearly 100 years is expected to continue its trajectory of high growth. In this article, we will look at a brief overview of AI, it’s market projection going forward and India’s planned initiative in the field of AI (as per NITI Aayog).

ET Health World

A landmark study published in the August issue of JAMA Ophthalmology (Journal of the American Medical Association), reports the feasibility of using a smartphone-based retinal camera with the world’s first, in-built automated, offline Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm, the MEDIOS-AI, designed by Bangalore-based Remidio Innovative Solutions, to implement sensitive and scalable screening models for DR.

The Financial Express

One of the most alarming and least understood is the race towards artificial-intelligence-enabled warfare. Both countries are investing large sums in militarised artificial intelligence (AI), from autonomous robots to software that gives generals rapidtactical advice in the heat of battle.

Business Standard

Internet of Things (IoT)enabled “smart” gadgets are now so ubiquitous that we often forget that our everyday coffee machines, TVs, lights, cars and virtual assistants are now capable of “talking” to each other — working behind the scenes to make our personal lives easier.

The Economic Times

Rajesh Sabapathy, Director Data Science, Optum Global Solutions proposes a list of 10 questions that teams tasked with tech projects should consider before kicking off cognitive automation projects for document processing.

The Hindu Business Line

Almost one in every three internet users in India have encountered cyber attacks in the first quarter of the current fiscal, according to a report from K7 Computing, a Chennai-based cyber security solutions provider.

Business Standard

Going by the survey trends, robotic process automation (RPA) and robotic desktop automation (RDA) to be highly effective in streamlining work—though achieving and maintaining those results isn’t as simple as it seems. The report found that RPA has become a buzz worthy solution for organisations under pressure to modernise their legacy IT infrastructure and stay competitive.

ANI News

Automation, digitisation and advanced analytics are changing the business landscape in India. While most business sectors are already on the maturity curve in the adoption of digitisation and automation tech, CPG and FMCG in India are the Johnny comelately sectors. Part of the reason has been the disbelief that technology can work in highly fragmented and traditional trade dominated markets like India.

The Hindu Business Line

Alan Pelz-Sharpe is the founder of Deep Analysis, an advisory firm focused on disruption and innovation in Information Management. Kashyap Kompella is the founder and CEO of rpa2ai Research, an industry analyst firm focused on enterprise automation and artificial intelligence.

The Hindu Business Line

Helping to bring about these changes are new technologies such as artificial intelligence, data analytics and machine learning. Together these seem to be visibly transforming the market dynamics and presenting new opportunities to industry. In fact, the concept of Industry 4.0, which largely means digitalising production, and using the Internet of Things (IoT), will make the management of large factories that much easier through remote control methods.

Gns News

For the formation of a task force under Principal Scientific Advisor K Vijay Raghavan to identify projects and initiatives to implement artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the government would soon launch a national AI programme. The mandate will include a national artificial intelligence centre. The centre would finally be able see light of the day as the finance ministry has cleared the NITI Aayog’s Rs 7,000-crore plan.

Manufacturing Today India

The top 10 technologies at the heart of smart manufacturing that are gaining maturity include Internet of Things (IoT), smart sensors, cloud, big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), industrial robotics, digital twins, 3D printing, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), and cybersecurity.

Telangana Today

With Indian IT managers being inundated with cyberattacks coming from all directions as cybercriminals exploit the weak links in security leading to supply chain or third party vendor compromises, 27 per cent of them consider Internet of Things (IoT) as threats while 21 per cent feel the internal staff are the top security risks, a new survey by global cyber security major Sophos said on Tuesday.

Bfsi Elets Online

In terms of the customer lifecycle, we start with a Prequalification standpoint where we discriminate customers in terms of riskiness and the likeliness of them to take an offer if given an offer. This essentially is a function of data and Analytics, says Subhrangshu Chattopadhyay, National Sales Head, CRIF India

Business Standard

Intelligent communication tools will let administrators manage and respond to emergencies quickly and provide residents with constant real-time inputs. There will be supporting machine-to-machine (M2M) and machine-to-machine-tohuman (M2M2H) communications in the smart cities with high internet access across wireline and wireless networks.

Geospatial World

The utility of data is ubiquitous and its monitoring, storage, processing and analysis would drive innovations in 5G, Cloud, AI and IoT, all of the technologies that are bedrock of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Data is also playing a big role in the realization of SDGs.

The Economic Times

With Indian IT managers being inundated with cyberattacks coming from all directions as cybercriminals exploit the weak links in security leading to supply chain or third party vendor compromises, 27 per cent of them consider Internet of Things (IoT) as threats while 21 per cent feel the internal staff are the top security risks, a new survey by global cybersecurity major Sophos said on Tuesday.

Infotech Lead

A report from the association said 2.4 million industrial robots operate in factories around the world – an increase of 15 percent. Automotive and electrical / electronics are the main industries that adopt robots. The International Federation of Robotics will reveal more details on Sept 18.

Live Mint

Cybercriminals are betting big time on fileless attacks due to their elusive nature. In fact, the use of fileless attacks went up by 265% in the first half of 2019, over the last year, according to Trend Micro’s mid-year cybersecurity report. Among other reports that corroborate the resurgence of fileless attacks, Ponemon Institute’s findings suggest that 35% of all cyberattacks in 2018 were fileless, while Carbon Black claims that fileless attacks accounted for 50% of all successful data breaches in 2018.

Money Control

“According to a recent report, the distributed architecture of a permissioned blockchain is an advantage that can help minimize the effect of cyber-attacks. Additionally, transparency in permissioned blockchain networks provides another level of cybersecurity protection

The Economic Times

Researchers discovered that modern machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence may augment the traditional way of diagnosing kidney disease. Pathologists often classify various kidney diseases on the basis of visual assessments of biopsies from patients’ kidneys; however, machine learning has the potential to automate and augment the accuracy of classifications.

Business Insider

Discussions, articles, and reports about the AI opportunity across the financial services industry continue to proliferate amid considerable hype around the technology, and for good reason: The aggregate potential cost savings for banks from AI applications is estimated at $447 billion by 2023, with the front and middle office accounting for $416 billion of that total, per Autonomous Next research seen by Business Insider Intelligence.

CIOL

Despite advances in AI and ML, there will always be some differences between human and technological execution. While healthcare providers need to adapt to AI, the technology can complement them in making more accurate clinical decisions or even replace human judgement in some functional areas. A technology-driven bot or machine can perform in a constrained environment but currently is not receptive to emotional quotients such as feeling, understanding, consciousness, and creativity.

Money Control

The digital wave that we are witnessing today is keeping retailers on toes. Brands are increasingly focussing on product enhancement, greater visibility, personalisation and resolution to build customer engagement and experience. With a view to serve a wide range of customers from varied backgrounds, today’s retailers are investing in modern technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), data analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI), chatbots, and more to provide and give customers what they exactly want, so as to avoid any friction in the purchase journey’s.

The Economic Times

While the private sector is leading the transformation with innovative interventions, the Indian government has taken a proactive role in setting up the foundational layers for this digital ecosystem to thrive on. Together they have made it possible to attain a newer status quo where emerging technologies are changing the way care is delivered, data is harnessed for decision making, and processes are improved through automation.

The Financial Express

eMegh, an IoT system, integrates the sonar river gauge with hooters at four most vulnerable locationsany alarming rise in water levels activates the hooters within 10 seconds and gives the administration, with realtime SMS, two hours to act before the flood hits.

The Week

Pant said that 5G technology will be connected to the internet of things (IoT) that will be installed in homes and industrial IoT will be operational in electric vehicles, healthcare systems, agriculture and drones, among others.

The Times of India

Technology is transforming healthcare in all aspects. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation technology are changing healthcare delivery and discoveries in medical technology are revolutionising diagnosis and treatment, said Dr Hari Prasad, a city based intensivist.

Data Center Dynamics

Edge devices can, of course, be combined with another fastgrowing technology, artificial intelligence. This allows Edge systems to continuously learn and improve their performance. A good example here would be automated handling systems in warehouses, learning how to arrange stock to best service the supply chain. Edge systems in this kind of environment can also help to minimize the holding of unnecessary inventory and reduce errors.

Forbes

While AR advances are unquestionably exciting, the industry is now grappling with a whole constellation of complexities. The adoption of AR brings an expanding landscape of new cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Consumers and businesses are grappling with big data breaches, and implementing effective cybersecurity measures is an essential necessity for modern businesses.

CNBC TV18

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine is generating great excitement and hope for treatment advances.AI generally refers to computers ability to mimic human intelligence and to learn. For example, by using machine learning, scientists are working to develop algorithms that will help them make decisions about cancer treatment.

The Times of India

By Annabel D’souza

Imagine the day when you will not have to check every room before you leave home to ensure all lights and appliances are switched off; or when your shower is ready at the right temperature as soon as you turn the key to enter the house. From motion-sensing lights to smart geysers and virtual assistants, smart home appliances have come a long way. And these appliances are achieving their full potential today through a disruptive technology called the Internet of Things

Telangana Today

The advent of technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning has changed the way every industry functions and healthcare has not been far behind. The technologies have got healthcare even more closer to the patients via instruments like telemedicine and doctor on demand. On the other hand it has made detection of diseases faster, easier and objective.

Bfsi Elets Online

Indian banks also leading in the area of Artificial Intelligence. For handling millions of customer queries mostly the banks have put in chatbots for answering routine queries like balances, interest rates, statements, product details, placement of request like cheque books, cards.

Money Control

The research, aimed at understanding the current cybersecurity landscape and how enterprises are gearing up to safeguard themselves from evolving cyber threats, found that almost half (48 percent) of corporate boards and 63 percent of business leaders of surveyed enterprises are actively involved in cybersecurity strategy discussions.

Analytics Insight

Advances in AI could help aerospace organizations enhance their manufacturing processes. However, there is constrained adoption of AI methods in the aerospace business and the principle explanation behind this is the absence of access to highquality data, increased dependability on easy models when compared with complex models and an absence of skilled workforce and partners to deploy it successfully.

Analytics Insight

Artificial intelligence can transform numerous regions of industry and society. For some businesses, investments in AI can increase competitiveness and decrease costs, yet they can likewise uncover vulnerabilities. All things considered, these technologies have been both commended and criticised.

The Statesman

Internet of Things (IoT): It would not be wrong to say in the present context that where there is any device or object, there is also the internet, and the amalgamation of both brings the IoT. It is the ability to transfer data between digitally connected devices enabling swift and effective machine to machine communication.

The Economic Times

At the bottom line, says Saldanah, are the Exponential Five technologies that leaders cannot afford to lose track of: AI, smart process automation, Blockchain, robotics and drones and special function technologies (virtual reality, 3D printing, Internet of Things, nanotech, energy storage, biotechnology and advanced materials et al).

Global News Clip

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is nothing but an application technology in which software capabilities of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are used for handling repeatable as well as high volume tasks. However, robotic process automation enables employees to program and configure computer software to interpret the huge number of applications in the company for processing transactions, manipulating data, and interacting with digital systems.

The Financial Express

Smart cities of future need to graduate to a new internet paradigm for safety of people whose lives are dependent on government computer infrastructure, most of which are vulnerable to cybersaboteurs.

Analytics Insight

IoT Merged with Data Analytics By the year 2020, we can expect to witness 20 billion active IoT devices which will subsequently collect more data for analysis. In big tech organization where IoT devices have already been embraced in big operations, the leaders are seeing beyond it to also implement the assisting technology to run capable data analytics.

UNI India

Dr Mithin Aachi, Sr Ortho & Joint Replacement Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, Secunderabad on Sunday said that Robot Arm assisted navigated knee replacement and Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning, definitely would dominate in future for patient care, there would be an exponential increase in their usage in the years to come.

The Financial Express

Enterprise information security spending in India is on pace to total $1.86 billion in 2019, an increase of 12.4% from 2018, according to Gartner. The growth of enterprise spending on information security in India will continue to grow unabated to reach over $2 billion in 2020, said Prateek Bhajanka, principal research analyst at Gartner.

The Economic Times

Gurvinder Singh, CFO, Mitsubishi Electric India Pvt Ltd, emphasised the need for a positive outlook and said, The shift in the industry has been brought by the introduction of smart manufacturing and technologies like the Internet of Things.

IANS Live

Artificial Intelligence (AI), 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) will be the key technology trends at IFA, one of the leading shows for home appliances and consumer electronics, industry officials said on Friday.

The Hindu Business Line

Artificial Intelligence (AI) creates transparency across 50 per cent of business: AI-enabled financial advisors can help you manage your money. Such systems will tell you it’s time to move your utility provider based on your usage and expenditure patterns. It could tell you that it is time to change your credit card to save on interest, and what the least expensive way is to send money overseas.

Deccan Chronicle

Artificial intelligence may improve kidney disease diagnosis. The algorithm examined a digital image of a patients kidney biopsy at the microscopic level and extracted information on glomeruli, the small blood vessels of the kidney that filter waste from the blood for excretion

News 18

The Sophos Cybersecurity report was published recently, offering insights into cyber attacks, causes and cybersecurity standards that are most frequently noticed in India. News18 met Sunil Sharma, managing director of Sophos India, to discuss the kind of threats that exist nationwide.

Express Computer

The top priority for the Pune Smart City Development Corporation Ltd (PSCDCL) is to see the data sets from all the departments IoT and related environment (CCTV, drone, social media, departmental data) are pooled and this cross functional data is leveraged for different functions

Infotech Lead

Spending on artificial intelligence (AI) systems will reach $97.9 billion in 2023 against $37.5 billion that will be spent in 2019. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the 20182023 forecast period will be 28.4 percent.

Trak

The tax assessment system of India is getting a makeover, and will now be run by artificial intelligence and machine learning. This development surely makes things easier, and will help India take one step ahead towards digitisation. It seems like Digital India is no longer a distant dream!

Gadgets Now

Both the countries noted that the increasing ubiquity of the Internet of Things (IoT) provides significant opportunities and benefits for their respective economies, including through the development of Smart Cities. Capitalising on these opportunities relies on security being built in by design.

The Hindu Business Line

By K V Kurmanath

Besides causing huge financial losses, cyber security threats could impact the lives of patients in hospitals. “Data is sick. Cyber security threats have emerged as a disease for the health sector,” said Stephan Neumeier, Managing Director of cyber security firm Kaspersky’s Asia-Pacific Region.

Global News Clip

Delivering real AI applications in digital financial retail is complicated from each scientific and technical perspective. BBVA and its center of excellence in analytics, BBVA information & Analytics, are delivering a brand new engine to forecast expenses and incomings of shoppers, based on deep learning techniques that take into account the uncertainty of the forecast and addresses privacy issues.

Tech Radar

So, why are businesses continuing to invest in traditional network security measures that dont appear to protect their data, and how should they use emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), to secure their networks

Business World

Prabhakar Shetty, Global Head Digital Manufacturing Services, L&T Services speaks about artificial intelligence being an agent of transformation or a disruptor for the manufacturing industry.

CIOL

Artificial intelligence shouldnt be feared, but revered in the cybersecurity community. In fact, many tech luminaries and billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, James Richman, Larry Page, and Satya Nadella, have been increasing their involvement and investments in the AI technology, according to Pure AIs: 7 Innovators Investing Heavily in Artificial Intelligence.

Analytics India Mag

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman this week announced that India will be using artificial intelligence and machine learning in the tax assessment process system from October 2019. In doing, so, India will become one of the first countries to adopt emerging tech on such a large scale in public tax assessment.

CNBC TV18

At the same time, dozens of countries and hundreds of firms and nonprofits are fed up with all this digital violence, and are working toward greater cybersecurity for all and even what might be called cyber peace.

Business Standard

As acronyms go, some are rarely seen together. A recent development though has led to mentioning AI and TB in the same sentence. The ministry of health of India has decided to explore the possibilities of using artificial intelligence to combat tuberculosis in the country.

FNB News

Blockchain is not the only technology changing the way things are done when it comes to food or agricultural supply chain. Combining blockchain with other technologies like IoT (Internet of Things), AI (Artificial Intelligence) makes the initiative impactful.

Nyoooz

If it seems impossible to monetize your IoT business operations without advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G connectivity, think again. There are many learned articles highlighting IoT use cases for business, and an awful lot of them extol the virtues of AI and 5G in this field.

Analytics Insight

A digital backbone is crucial to enable such productivity either by reaching the right beneficiary, optimizing the paperless process through automation or digitized payments. Currently, Digital India has become more data-rich than ever and has the potential to accelerate productivity specifically in innovative areas such as AI, robotics, big data, and IoT.

Business Standard

Today, most major internet businesses are extending credit to their users and partners through the data generated on their platforms. Ola and Uber are partnering with the State Bank of India to introduce credit options for their driver partners. Flipkart is learnt to have acquired an NBFC licence to lend to sellers while Future Bazaar is all set to introduce a “buy now, pay later” facility at its Big Bazaar stores.

Analytics India Mag

There could also be a number of challenges that tax authorities in India may face when using artificial intelligence. These can include the need to balance centralisation of tax assessment with on ground experience, uncertainties around being able to develop models which deliver a positive impact on performance, the varying range of choices in AI solutions, and the need for skills to leverage those advanced solutions.

Tech Radar

More than half (61%) of security professionals believe the risk of a security breach is the same or lower in the cloud compared to onpremise according to new research from Nominet. The firm surveyed nearly 300 Clevel security professionals from the UK and the US to compile its new Cyber security and the cloud report which marks a major tipping point in the perception of security in the cloud. (Cybersecurity)

FNB News

Blockchain is not the only technology changing the way things are done when it comes to food or agricultural supply chain. Combining blockchain with other technologies like IoT (Internet of Things), AI (Artificial Intelligence) makes the initiative impactful.

Inventiva

With the advent of Artificial Intelligence in every imaginable sphere that matters, it is hardly surprising that innovators are now in a rush to build their Intellectual Property portfolio in AI. The popularity of Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, neural networks and all other things related to Intelligent machines has been on the rise for quite some time now.

Analytics Insight

A digital backbone is crucial to enable such productivity either by reaching the right beneficiary, optimizing the paperless process through automation or digitized payments. Currently, Digital India has become more data-rich than ever and has the potential to accelerate productivity specifically in innovative areas such as AI, robotics, big data, and IoT.

Express Computer

In a significant development, a Hong Kong based health startup has used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to design a drug in just 21 days that showed potential treatments for fibrosis, a discovery that can speed up drug designing for various incurable diseases.

Silicon India

It is not only the Prime Minister who nurses this goal. His Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar recently warned that wars in the future will be fought in cyberspace. In this context, it is important to realise the importance of cyber security and what it means for the countrys defence and progress. As they say, every regiment needs a strong defence to be invincible.

BW CIO World

5G will also give a big push to Smart Cities project and 5G will bring the era of interconnected smart devices at a large scale which would lead to the transformation of machine to machine and IoT technologies for public services. 5G technology is expected to contribute $2.2 trillion to the global economy in the coming 15 years comprising of various sectors

The Pioneer

However, in case, if the customer does not get the services up to the mark, then he looks after another provider who meets up to their expectations. To lessen the growing complexities in the communication networks, the telecom companies can enhance their service quality with the help of automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) while reducing their operating costs.

Live Mint

One of the arguments frequently trotted out in favour of data localization is that it will help us improve our national competence in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The government seems to believe that by keeping data in country, we will finally have the training data that our data scientists require to give us the edge we desperately need in AI.

IT News Online

The September 2019 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BitSight titled, Better Security And Business Outcomes With Security Performance Management indicates that cybersecurity performance is critical to achieving commercial success.

BW CIO World

Over the past two decades, the Indian ICT industry has witnessed a phenomenal growth and rapid evolution of technologies. If it was proliferation of oneway pager in early 90s, today it is technologies such as web, mobile, social media messaging, video conferencing, IP based unified communications capabilities and AI driven chatbots

The Times of India

Many banks and insurance companies, he says, have got into tremendous trouble for selling their clients unsuitable products and investments. Now, those may be very profitable for the business and so a non-empathetic AI will recommend them. Today, a lot of businesses use AI to look for patterns in data and draw conclusions from them.

The Hindu Business Line

Top players in global tech companies have kicked off work to draw up global ethical standards related to data and artificial intelligence, with Microsoft’s president voicing a “sense of urgency”.

Deccan Chronicle

An interesting read on how IoT has become the favourite of millennials. Smart appliances not only automate mundane routine tasks for their users but also saves their pennies in the long run.

The Times of India

By Swati Rathor

ICICI Lombard General Insurance says it now uses an AI/ML solution that has brought down the approval time to one minute. Intelligent character recognition and optical character recognition technologies are used to extract data from documents that come from the hospital.

The Asian Age

A digital backbone primed by the India stack is crucial to enable this productivity whether it is through reaching the right beneficiaries, optimized paperless processes through faceless interactions, payments etc. As Digital India gets more data rich it will boost productivity, particularly in innovative areas such as AI, robotics, big data and IoT.

Analytics India Mag

By Ambika Choudhary

NewGen Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (NewGen IEDC) seeks to promote knowledge based and technology driven startups by harnessing young minds and their innovation potential in an academic environment. This scheme will be applicable in domains such as AI, computer vision, IoT, FinTech, nanotechnology and much more. The time period for this scheme is not disclosed.

Global News Clip

Smart agriculture is nothing but sustainable agriculture which makes use of innovative technologies such as cloud based services, Big Data, IoT, GPS, and many others. Technologies such as agricultural robots, MachinetoMachine, livestock biometrics, and infrastructural health sensors are growing being adopted by the agriculture sector to improve productivity, quality, profitability, and sustainability, and to reduce labor costs.

The Industrial Reports

Market Research Store has rolled out its recent Healthcare Cyber Security market report, which calculates the growth trend of the sector through former information and evaluates future opportunities based on comprehensive groundwork. The report Healthcare Cyber Security widely provides the 20192024 market segment, growth, trends, and forecast.

Express Computer

Like most robots, social robots use artificial intelligence (AI) to decide how to act on information received through cameras and other sensors. The ability to respond in ways that seem lifelike has been informed by research into such issues as how perceptions form, what constitutes social and emotional intelligence, and how people can deduce others thoughts and feelings.

The Economic Times

A high level panel on fintech has pitched for development of a marketplace model for peertopeer (P2P) lending, virtual banking to allow lenders to operate without branches, use of drones for field assessments and artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce frauds.

News 18

Indian cybersecurity research and software firm Quick Heal has published its annual threat report for 2019, disclosing its observation of trends in cyber attacks through 2019. In an interesting but unsurprising find by Quick Heal, the report states that four Indian metropolitans were the most affected by cyber attacks across the nation.

DNA

Significant opportunities can be explored to increase the levels of automation using artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive analytics and machine learning in their backend processes, it said. Following the deliberations of the committee, it was considered necessary to have a nodal agency to coordinate developments across ministries and regulators in the area of financial technology.

ANI News

The Digital India and New India mission has been offered an essential impetus by an Indian Ethical hacker, Khushhal Kaushik. His passion, drive and burning desire to go the extra mile, has helped him strengthen Indias stature in the global cyber security industry. Conventionally, western countries have always ruled the cyber security domain.

The Economic Times

By Prachi Verma

The iterations to improve every feature would continue. The teams artificial intelligence (AI) based solution is used in combination with drones that use swarm intelligence to collect data and analyse it in realtime. The project is being executed with data inputs from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). The drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), will have a software that will be compatible with standard drones available in the market.

The Financial Express

NASSCOM has set up the Data Security Council of India that is committed to making the cyberspace safe, secure and trusted by establishing best practices and standards in the cybersecurity space.(b) SEBI promulgated the Data Sharing Policy in October 2018, which aimed at simplifying the process of data sharing and formalisation of data protection measures to prevent data from misuse.

Devdis Course

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) (Fortinet.com), a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced a new report by Forbes Insights it commissioned titled Making Tough Choices: How CISOs Manage Escalating Threats and Limited Resources

Business Standard

A few days back, Ashok Kumar Pradhan, MD and CEO of United Bank of India, had said that there was a need for collective action against fraud. The bank had suggested the need for an umbrella organisation in the banking and financial services sector to protect against cyber frauds. Banks could pool in funds for the organisation to address the cybersecurity concerns, said Pradhan.

Business Standard

Do you have a low credit score? Did you miss paying your last credit card bill on time? Have there been occasions when your EMI cheques have bounced? Worry not. You can still get a loan from one of several new-age lenders who have devised their own artificial intelligence or AI-powered algorithms to assess customers’ credit-worthiness.

EET India

AI at the edge demands a lot of computational power to ensure adequate performance. Standard storage and memory components might deliver the needed performance but are ill equipped to handle the rough conditions at the edge. These applications are subject to temperature cycles from day to night and summer to winter, sustained shock and vibration, and increased levels of pollution that can severely hamper IoT devices.

Business Today

The failure of Supreme Court to ensure enactment of right to privacy and data protection law has grave consequences for Indias position on ecommerce, computing cloud, cyber jurisdiction, high computing capacity, artificial intelligence, mathematical algorithms, and analytics, which have the potential to make digital colonisation foolproof through data colonisation in what is being called the Fourth Revolution.

Analytics India Mag

By Harshajit Sarmah

Automation with time is becoming a go-term in several industries. From self-driving cars to social media posts, automation has become omnipresent. According to a report, Robotic process automation (RPA) software revenue grew 63.1% in 2018 to $846 million. It became the fastest-growing segment of the global enterprise software market. It is also slated to reach $1.3 billion in revenue by the end of 2019.

Express Computer

By Moumita Deb Choudhary

Develop world class infrastructure for IoT products The Government of Telangana has setup T-Hub, an incubator for startups and it has the necessary arrangements to mentor startups on the hardware and electronics related to many areas including IoT. T-Hub provides state of the art prototyping capabilities.

The Times of India

Through efficient use of Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning and data analytics, solar panels’ performance can be enhanced and maintenance costs can be reduced,” says Dr Mahendra Patil, Kolhapur-based professor of electronics and electrical engineering.

Times Now News

Researchers have developed a cheaper and more efficient method for the Internet of Things (IoT) devices to receive high-speed wireless connectivity.

Tech Radar

At the centre of these efforts lies realtime, cloud based process automation. By automating manual, time intensive processes, such as transaction matching or journal entries, data not only becomes more reliable, but people can also spend more time on consultative, analytical tasks; in turn adding more value to the business.

Silicon India

Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning is also an integral part of learning cybersecurity. This enables to create systems which help detect possible breaches. The increase in digitisation must lead to a transparent approach and access to much personal information available online. Cyber Security is shifting the Cyberspace to a more secure tomorrow for a safer digital world.

DQ India

The adoption of IoT communication protocols in intruder alarm systems will increase the average number of sensors connected to each system and could promote the wider deployment of wireless sensors in commercial installations. As a result, the volume of shipments of professional security wireless sensors will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 6 percent over the 2018-2023 period, IHS Markit forecasts.

Live Mint

By Abhijit Ahaskar

In the local market, we also have a number of multinationals that develop WiFi equipment in India. And also there are some Indian companies such as Micromax that are developing WiFi solutions here. How important is WiFi 6 in the IoT era as the number of connected devices on WiFi networks are set to grow. What kind of experience upgrade can we expect?

Forbes

Yet his skills have proven quite effective and valuable, as he has helped create AI chatbots for brands like Mattel and Call of Duty. And yes, as of now, he works on the QuickBooks Assistant, a text-based conversational AI platform. “I partner with our engineering and design teams to create an artificial personality that can dynamically interact with our customers, and anticipate their questions,” he said.

Express Computer

The enterprise and automotive Internet of Things (IoT) market is expected to grow to 5.8 billion endpoints in 2020, according to Gartner. The research firm forecasts that by the end of 2019, the use of IoT endpoints will reach 4.8 billion worldwide, up 21.5% from 2018. The utilities segment will remain the highest user of IoT endpoints due to its increased adoption in smart electricity meters.

Times Now News

Union health ministry’s central tuberculosis division has inked a pact with a research institute to explore cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology in combatting the disease. The pact was signed by the joint secretary in the health ministry, Vikas Sheel, and Dr P Anandan, CEO of Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence

DQ India

A similarly whopping growth has been observed in the number of machine learning or AI related patents/applications which have been filed in recent years. A recently published article revealed that patent applications based on machine learning have nearly quadrupled in the last few years, owing to the widespread use of the same in all major technological fields.

The Economic Times

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize healthcare. The greatest effects in terms of market size, the use of AI in areas such as administrative workflow and fraud detection, will be almost invisible to healthcare consumers, but customer facing AI will gradually become more prevalent, allowing people to use their phones to share images, blood pressure readings, and other information and receive automated advice.

QRIUS

Urban intelligence based on artificial intelligence and big data has a significant anticipatory role in maximizing the efficiency of infrastructures in the North; while transitions in southern cities depend on generating data and urban knowledge on everyday urban processes and systems (

Business Standard

By Debasis Mohapatra

Compared to this, the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sectorsaw sequential growth of 0.6 per cent, and retail and CPG vertical witnessed a growth of 0.4 per cent in Q1 of FY20. Revenue growth in the telecom vertical was at 0.5 per cent, while energy and utilities witnessed a growth of 0.9 per cent. The top six domestic firms include TCS, Infosys, HCL Technologies, Wipro, Tech Mahindra and L&T Infotech.

The Rahnuma

Emerging technology, like blockchain technology, Artificial Intelligence, virtual reality, drones, cloud computing are all on the table of the Narendra Modi government as it pushes ahead to realise the goal of better egovernance for citizens.

The Times of India

By Mamtha Asokan

The Convergence of AI and RPA in Banking has been fast evolving as all financial institutions have begun leveraging new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), deep learning and Natural Language Processing

Deccan Herald

India will soon become the first country to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the tax assessment process, as the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has promised to adopt faceless assessment system from October this year.

The Indian Express

The gauge is part of the eMegh project, an innovative IOT or InternetofThings based early flood warning system that forewarns over two lakh residents of Valsad and 21 villages located downstream about heavy rains in catchment areas and possible inundation.

Business World

The digital revolution of air cargo industry includes the use of disruptive technologies that are changing the global business landscape. IoT, wireless technologies (sensors and data loggers), blockchain and artificial intelligence are the technologies in trend which aim to bring the much needed transformation in the industry.

Times Now News

Like most robots, social robots use artificial intelligence (AI) to decide how to act on information received through cameras and other sensors. The ability to respond in ways that seem lifelike has been informed by research into such issues as how perceptions form, what constitutes social and emotional intelligence, and how people can deduce others thoughts and feelings.