September 4, 2019

News for the IET

Managing IoT Risks: Reinventing Securityedit

Info Risk Today

By Suparna Goswami

Security needs to be reinvented for the internet of things, says Robin Saxby, the former CEO and founder of Arm Holdings, a U.K.-based semiconductor company, who now serves as an “angel investor” for start-up companies. “For the internet of things, we need to rethink the whole [security] environment.” Saxby says in an interview with Information Security Media Group at the recent IoT India Congress in Bangalore. “With the internet of things, you’ve got the device; you’ve got wireless; you’ve got the cloud. So the opportunity for people to break in is huge and the reality is the [security] solution is not there.”

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News for other PEI

5 ways 5G will build the workplace of tomorrowedit

Deccan Chronicle

5G is the fifth generation of cellular network technologies and standards that defines the next era of mobile and wireless communication. Babak Beheshti, IEEE Senior Member and Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) breaks it down for us:

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Why the digital India needs protectionedit

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.

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Telecom players bat for and regulatory improvements ahead of the 5G auctionsedit

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

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Optimise Futureedit

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.

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Opinion | Its better to use incentives than diktats to develop AIedit

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.

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Nearly 2 in 5 Enterprises Have Lost Business Due to Cybersecurity Performance, New Independent Study Findsedit

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.

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Modern Technologies Need Modern Solutionsedit

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

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Lack of AI empathy is hurting companiesedit

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.

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It’s time for ethical rules around AI, say top tech playersedit

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”.

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IoT Mainstream lifestyle choiceedit

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.

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Insurance is using AI & ML to speed up assessmentsedit

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.

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How Indias ongoing digital transformation will drive the rise of its economyedit

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.

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How Indian Governments AIcentric Schemes Are Boosting The Startup Ecosystemedit

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.

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How Far Will Technology Take Agricultureedit

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.

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Global Healthcare Cyber Security Regions, Types & Forecast 20192024edit

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.

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Bioplastics to social robots, new tech to bring inclusivityedit

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.

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A sweeping reset is in the works to bring India in line with fintechs riseedit

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.

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1,852 Cyber Attacks Hit India Each Minute Last Year; Mumbai, Delhi Most Affectededit

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.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

We don’t need no private carsedit

Business Standard

India is moving towards that. Taxis are also gradually going electric. Energy Efficiency Services Ltd., which had finalised the purchase of 10,000 electric cars for government use, is now offering those e-vehicles to cab companies like Ola and Meru, as demand from government departments has been muted so far. The government’s incentive scheme (FAME) is also tilted towards support for electric public transport.

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Global electric-car sales fall for first time after China cuts subsidyedit

Bloomberg Quint

Monthly sales worldwide fell 14 per cent to about 128,000 plug-in passenger electric vehicles, Sanford C. Bernstein said in a report on Tuesday. Sales declined in China and North America, while rising in Europe. Growth in China, the biggest producer and market for electric vehicles, is slowing down as a reduction in EV subsidies and a cooling economy weigh on consumers’ buying decisions.

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EV-makers lure buyers with new pricing modelsedit

The New Indian Express

India’s electric two-wheeler players are taking to innovative pricing models to mitigate the impact of high costs in a highly price-sensitive market. While last year saw Ather Energy announce subscription plans for end-to-end after-sales services, rival Revolt Intellicorp has taken it a notch further by allowing customers of its two new electric motorcycles to pay for them in monthly instalments.

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Charging ahead Indias electric car revolution faces bumpsedit

The Economic Times

Among those most interested in new electric vehicles are drivers of Delhis ubiquitous motorised rickshaws, who hope the new vehicles could help them avoid rising fuel prices.

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Industry News: Future of Work

A digital ledger of certificatesedit

The Financial Express

Widespread digital transformation has changed the way organisations function across industries, with research being conducted into methods to integrate contemporary technology into traditional sectors. Some of the most influential technologies that have emerged have centred on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and automation.

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Industry News: Education

AICTE: Revising Curriculum in Tune with Changing Technologiesedit

Digital Learning Elets Online 

In the new curriculum, new areas like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Block Chain, Robotics, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, etc have also been incorporated, says Prof Anil D Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).

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20 UK vicechancellors are in India to explore higher education opportunitiesedit

India Today

A delegation of vice-chancellors of 20 leading universities in the United Kingdom is in the national capital to explore opportunities of mutual interest in the higher education sector with Indian stakeholders, including the government and the institutes.

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Like finance and logistics, blockchain can make an important impact on educationedit

The Financial Express

Digital transformation, artificial intelligence AI, machine learning ML, automation. Blockchain, finance, cybersecurity logistics, talent acquisition Blockchain is now a worthy contender to these technologies, possessing the potential to revolutionise multiple sectors

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